Changing The Pitch Of The Font - Star NX-2480 User Manual

Font name
Display highlights
H-Gotblc
]
H-Gothic ~
I SuperLetTerOuality Roman I
~
+~Roman
1
I
. When you have highlighted the font you want to use,
press [-] again to make the printer in ready
mode again.
Changing the pitch of the font
The font "pitch" means "how many characters can be
printed in one inch". 10-pitch, for instance, means "10
characters can be printed in one inch across the page."
There are two special modes on the NX-2480 Rainbow/
Colour: Proportional and Condensed proportional. In
these modes, you cannot say exactly how many charac-
ters will fit into one inch, because each character takes
up a different amount of space. The opposite of "propor-
tional" is "fixed-pitch" or "monospaced". Look at these
two examples:
Proportional Fixed-pitch
MMMMMMMMMM
NMMMNMMMMM
1111111111
1111111111
Even though there are 10 characters in each line, the
"M"S in the proportional column take up more space
overall than the "1"s.The space between letters is pro-
portional to the letter itself.
However, in the fixed-pitch column, although each "M"
also takes up more space than each "I", the space
between letters is fixed, no matter what the letter, so
that a row of 10 "1"stakes up the same amount of space
as 10 "M"s.
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