I worked on Mapper today in kind of an indirect fashion. When I was working on Mapper before, I was having a problem with setting up the printer to print more than eighty columns. I’ve been writing Mapper with ZBasic.
You can set the printer up for different size type fonts. The standard setting for the ImageWriter II is 12 cpi. I set the font to 9 cpi and got larger print. I set the printer to 17 cpi and got smaller print. That much was good, unfortunately the printer won’t let me print beyond the eighty columns.
I decided to make sure the problem was not something ZBasic was doing. I wrote a small program to attempt the same printing that I was doing in ZBasic, except I tried it in AppleSoft. I had the same problem. I can get it to print bigger type and smaller type, but not beyond the eighty columns.
I have double checked the dip switch settings according to the ImageWriter II manual and everything checked out OK.
When I run the program, it prints 80 columns and jumps down to the next line and keeps on printing. At 17 cpi the printout is about 5″ wide, but still eighty columns.
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