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Enhancing Your Printing
Both 10 and 12 cpi printing can be reduced to about 60 percent of their
normal width using the condensed mode. This mode is particularly
useful for printing wide spreadsheets because condensed 12 cpi printing
allows you to print up to 272 characters on a 13.6-inch line.
The condensed mode can be selected with a software command, or by
using SelecType (see Chapter 3). Even if you turn the condensed mode
on with SelecType, you can still turn it off with a software command.
Condensed 10 cpi gives you many characters on a line,
Condensed
12 cpi gives you even lore characters on a line,
Widening or narrowing the characters also widens or narrows the
spaces between words. Because word processors usually create a left
margin by printing spaces, you
may
need to
change
the left margin and
the number of characters on a line to keep
the
margins correct if you
change character widths.
Special Effects and Emphasis
The printer offers two ways of emphasizing text and also allows you to
use underlining, superscripts, subscripts, and italics. These features can
be controlled directly by software commands. Many application
programs can also produce some of these effects. See your application
program manual for details.
Emphasized and double-strike printing
Emphasized and double-strike printing can give words and phrases
added prominence. In emphasized mode, each character is printed twice
as the print head moves across the paper, with the dots in the second
pass printed slightly to the right of the first pass. This process produces
darker, more fully formed characters.
4-4 Software and Graphics