I posted a question about my printing problem on comp.sys.apple2.programmer yesterday and not much later in the day I had two replies from Bill Buckels and Hugh Hood pointing me to useful information that solved the problem.
I was trying to generate a report for Mapper in ZBasic on my ImageWriter II. The idea was I would print the page header in a larger font (9 CPI) and then use a smaller font (17 CPI) to squeeze in 136 columns on the report.
I managed to print the header in the larger font and switch to the smaller font for the body of the report. Here is where I ran into a problem. When I switched to the smaller font and printed a line of 136 characters it wrapped at 80 characters.
In order to make sure the problem wasn’t something with ZBasic, I wrote an AppleSoft test with the same results.
I posted my question, and very shortly had my answer.
A few short adjustments to my Applesoft test program and it worked well. Right after I switch to the printer with PR#1 I print a control-I 255N which sets the width of 255 characters. With the lines I was printing ending in semi-colons I just had to add a return to finish the line.
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