Character Pitch - Epson LQ-850 User Manual

Selecting Typestyles

Character pitch

For
each of the three built-in fonts, you can choose a character
pitch of 10, 12, or 15 characters per inch
draft you can choose proportional spacing
To select a pitch, press the
of the desired pitch comes on. Note that some font modules do not
offer all pitches. See the section on font modules in Chapter 7.
The following printout compares the three pitches:
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.
In 10, 12, and 15 CPI, each character is given the same amount
of space. The width of proportional spacing, however, varies from
character to character. Therefore, a narrow letter like i receives less
space than
a wide letter like W.
The following printout compares IO-pitch spacing with
proportional spacing:
This is 10 CPI spacing.
This is proportional spacing.
3-18
(CPI),
(PS).
PITCH
button until the indicator light
and for all except