Part 1 Choosing a printer: what do you want from your printer?; printers and their operating methods; type quality; dot matrix printers; daisywheel printers; thermal printers; ink jet printers; laser printers; plotters; compatibility; paper handling; paper and other stationery; fonts and type styles; ribbons; using your printer as a typewriter; getting the best from your printer. Part 2 Connecting a printer: getting ready to print; parallel or serial?; plugs, sockets and cables; plugging in your printer; check - print heads, ribbons and paper; understanding your printer's controls; testing; default operating modes; trouble shooting. Part 3 Using control codes: how your computer talks to your printer; the ASCII code; EpsonFX-80 standard codes; control codes from BASIC; the IBM character sets; how to get a pound sign. Part 4 Printing from DOS: setting other MS-DOS PRINT options; using Ctrl/P; using MODE to set up a parallel printer; the PrtSc key - a DOS screen dump; using GEM output. Part 5 Wordprocessing: Wordstar 1512 express; microsoft word junior; Volkswriter deluxe printer spooling; Wordstar professional control codes. Part 6 Spreadsheets and other applications: printegrating with other applications: SuperCalc3 - the /Global command, printing graphs and charts; Lotus 1-2-3 and compatible programs; printing from Multiplan Junior. Part 7 Printing from BASIC: LPRINT; defining your own characters on the Amstrad DMP3000; a sideways envelope printer. Part 8 Versatile printing: printer buffers; acoustic hoods; local area networks; RS232-parallel convertors; designing a print station. Appendices: printer cables; the Epson FX-80 control code set; the ASCII character set.
