Line Spacing And Line Feeds; Line Spacing; Changing Line Spacing - Epson FX-80 User Manual

Chapter 7
Line Spacing and Line Feeds
Up to this point in the manual, there has been no discussion of the
way the printer moves a page so that lines of text are not typed on top
of each other. In this chapter you willleam how to change the distance
that the paper moves; the movement is called a line feed, and the
distance is called a line space. The ability to change line spacing is vital
to printing graphics, as you will see in later chapters.
Line Spacing
Each line feed must move a specific distance, but that distance need
not remain the same for every application (or even every line). In the
next three sections, we cover the codes that you can use to change the
size of a line space.
Changing line spacing
The standard distance of a line feed is 1I6th of an inch, which gives
6 lines per inch. This distance is equivalent to 12 rows of dots in the
standard character matrix (Figure 7-1).
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