Effect

Prints and formats text and numbers to a printer connected to the standard MSX parallel port.

Notes:

• Contrary to PRINT, you can't shorten LPRINT to "L?" Doing this will cause a very hard to find problem. The listing will look fine, but it will still cause a "Syntax error".
• In case you have done that you can list the lines to the screen and push the RETURN key on top of the lines to fix these errors.

Syntax

LPRINT USING <ItemFormat>; <Item>;<Item>...

Parameters

<Item> can be a character string, an expression, a variable or a value to print. All four items types can be mixed freely.

Items must be separated by ";". If the last item does not end to ";" CR+LF combination is printed.

A comma can replace a ";" to separate the items. In case of "," they are separated by tabulator instead of a space.

<Item> can be omitted to print an empty line.

USING <ItemFormat>; is optional. <ItemFormat> is a string that defines how the next items to be printed must be formatted. When USING is used the type of following usable items depends on the specified format.

<Item> and <ItemFormat> are exactly same as with PRINT instruction. Please see documentation there.

Example

10 ' Initialize Epson compatible printer and select NLQ Sans Serif font:
20 SCREEN ,,,,1:LPRINT CHR$(27);"@";CHR$(27);"k1";

Related to

LFILES, LLIST, LPOS(), PRINT, SCREEN, SPC(), TAB()

Compatibility

MSX-BASIC 1.0 or higher