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On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:56:34 +0000, danny burstein wrote:

> In <87d1024...@usenet.ankman.de> Andreas Kohlbach
> <a...@spamfence.net> writes:
> 
>>I seem to recall some newer fully formed character printers could do
>>bold by movie the paper just a little but and print the same character
>>"almost" over itself again. Didn't some matrix printers employed this
>>method too to print bold if their character set wasn't made up for this?
> 
> Available in the Decwriter II.
> 
> We used one with a TRS-80, and I still remember some of the codes:
> 
> "Escape", aka chr$(27), then "B" chr$(66) for Bold...
> 
> other options included underscore, shrunken text,
> and I think italics, too.

Not to mention the 'Near Letter Quality' dot matrix printers. I bought a 
Canon PW1080A printer in 1984 that had that. 9 pins (I think). The 
printer did a line using the 9 pins, then reversed the carriage and moved 
the paper up by a fractional amount. It then printed back the other way, 
filling in the gaps between the dots. There was a separate bold function.



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