Print Size And Character Width; Pitches And Proportional Spacing - Epson EX-1000 User Manual

Print Size and Character Width

To add greater variety to your documents, the EX has two pitches as
well as proportional spacing and condensed printing. All four can be
selected either with SelecType or a software command, and software
commands also offer one other option: doublewidth printing.

Pitches and Proportional Spacing

The two pitches are pica and elite. Pica is 10 characters per inch (cpi)
and elite is 12 cpi. The printout below shows the difference between the
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Pica: ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
Elite: ABCDEFGHIJKLhopqrstuvwxyz
Another mode is proportional. In this mode the width of the
characters varies. Therefore, a narrow letter like i receives less space
than a wide letter like W, as you can see in the printout below:
Proportional:
The character tables in Appendix B list the widths
characters.
Double-width and condensed
In addition to the basic pitches and the proportional mode, the EX
offers two other modes that change the size of your printing. These
modes are double-width and condensed.
The double-width mode doubles the width of any size of characters.
This mode is useful for such purposes as emphasizing headings in
reports and making displays, but is usually not suitable for large
amounts of text.
D o u b l e - w i d t h
D o u b l e - w i d t h
5 - 2
Pica: ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
all proportional
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p i c
e l i t e
EX Printer Features
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