Characters Per Inch; Condensed Mode - Epson FX-1050 User Manual

The draft mode uses fewer dots per character for high-speed printing.
This makes draft ideal for rough drafts and editing work.
Roman and Sans Serif are near letter quality (NLQ) fonts. Near letter
quality takes a little longer to print but produces nicely formed
characters suitable for most documentation requirements.

Characters per inch

For each of the three built-in
or 12 characters per inch (cpi), or proportional spacing.
The following printout compares the different types of spacing.
This is Roman
This is Roman printing in 12 cpi.
This is Roman printing in proportional.
In the 10 and 12 cpi modes, each character is given the same amount of
space. However, in the proportional mode, spacing varies from character
to character. Therefore, a narrow letter like the lowercase i receives less
space than a wide letter like the uppercase W.

Condensed mode

addition to the two pitches and proportional spacing, you can use the
In
condensed mode to change the character size. In the condensed mode,
characters are approximately 60% of the width of normal characters.
Condensed printing is very useful for spreadsheets and other applications
where you need to print the maximum amount of information on a page.
Both 10 and 12
The printout below compares normal
T h i s i s 1 0 c p i R o m a n p r i n t i n g .
is condensed
This 10 cpi Roman printing.
3-12
fonts, you can choose a character size of 10
printing in
cpi can be condensed, but proportional spacing cannot.
10 cpi.
10 cpi with condensed 10 cpi.
Using the Printer