Character Spacing - Epson LQ-1050X User Manual

Character Spacing

To add greater variety to your documents, the printer has three cpi
spacings, as well as proportional spacing. Each one can be selected
with a software command.
See Chapter 8 for a table that shows which character spacings
are available for each font. You cannot combine normal draft
mode with proportional spacing, and SuperDraft mode is
available only in 10 cpi printing.
The printout below compares the three spacings:
As shown above, 15 cpi characters are only about two-thirds the
height of 10 and 12 cpi characters. This makes 15 cpi particularly
useful when you want to separate certain material from the main
text.
In fixed cpi spacing each character is given the same amount of
space. The width of proportional characters, however, varies from
character to character. For example, a narrow letter like i takes less
space than a wide letter like W. The width of each proportional
character is given in the Appendix.
T h i s i s 1 0 c p i p r i n t i n g .
This
is 12 cpi printing.
This is 15 cpi printing.
Software and Graphics
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