Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Masataka Yoshikawa

Yukiyoshi Muto

Takao Kato

Yuji Kurokawa

Hiroyuki Kikukawa

A printer having a first memory for storing character data representative of lines of characters to be printed on a recording medium, a second memory for storing line-space data representative of a line spacing between the lines of characters, and a control device for activating a print head according to the character data stored in the first memory, and controlling the print head and a paper feed device according to the line-space data stored in the second memory, to underscore at least one of the characters of the printed lines. The position of the underscore is controlled such that a distance between the underscore and the underscored characters is varied depending upon the line spacing represented by the line-space data.

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Gifu, Japan

Masataka Yoshikawa