Character Appearance; Width Specifications; Standard; Compressed - CognitiveTPG A799 Programming Manual

26 Chapter 3: Programming the Printer

Character appearance

The appearance of text can be changed using the following print modes:

• Standard

• Compressed

• Double-high
• Double-wide
• Upside-down

Width specifications

Standard
• Characters per inch: 15.6
• Characters per line: 44
• Cell size: 13 X 24 dots

Print zones

Print zones for 80mm paper

Specifications of print zone for 80mm paper:
• 576 dots (addressable) @ 8 dots/mm,
centered on 80mm
• Standard mode: minimum margins:
2.0mm (.079 inches)
Note: The application centers 44 standard character cells (13 X 24 dots), or 56 compressed character cells (10 X 24
dots), or 576 addressable bits of graphics across an 80mm wide receipt. Minimum print line height is 24 dots for text or
graphics. Standard print line spacing is 27 dots (i.e., 3 extra row dots).
The A799 adds a 27 dot high font, so standard print spacing is 30 dots.
• Rotated • Italic
• Underlined • Strike-through
• Bold • Scaled
• Reverse • Shading
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Compressed
• Characters per inch: 20.3
• Characters per line: 56
• Cell size: 10 X 24 dots
• Top margin to manual tear-off:
17.8mm (0.70 inches)
• Top margin to knife cut:
19.0mm (0.75 inches)
Revision D 12/09