FX Menu
Item
Explanation
Font
Selects the font.
Settings (default in bold):
Courier
, Prestige, Roman, Sans serif, Script, Orator S, OCR A, OCR B
Pitch
Selects the pitch (the horizontal spacing) of the font in fixed pitch, measured in cpi
(characters per inch). You can also choose proportional spacing.
Settings (default in bold):
10cpi
, 12cpi, 15cpi, Prop.
Condensed
Turns condensed printing on or off.
Settings (default in bold):
Off
, On
T.Margin
Sets the distance from the top of the page to the baseline of the first printable line. The
distance is measured in inches. The smaller the value, the closer the printable line is to the
top.
Settings (default in bold):
0.40 ...
0.50
... 1.50 inch in 0.05-inch increments
Text
Sets the page length in lines. For this option, a line is assumed to be 1 pica (1/6 inch). If you
change the
Orientation
,
Page Size
, or
T.Margin
settings, the page length setting
automatically returns to the default for each paper size.
Settings (default in bold):
1 ...
66
Lines
CGTable
Use the character generator (CG) table option to select the graphics character table or the
italics table. The graphics table contains graphic characters for printing lines, corners,
shaded areas, international characters, Greek characters, and mathematical symbols. If
you select
Italic
, the upper half of the character table is defined as italic characters.
Settings (default in bold):
PcUSA
, Italic, PcMultilin, PcPortugue, PcCanFrenc, PcNordic, PcTurkish2, PcIcelandic,
PcE.Europe, BpBRASCII, BpAbicomp, Roman-8, PcEur858, ISO Latin1, 8859-15 ISO
Country
Use this option to select one of the fifteen international symbol sets. See the
Font Guide
for
samples of the characters in each country’s symbol set.
Settings (default in bold):
USA
, France, Germany, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Spain1, Japan, Norway, Denmark2,
Spain2,LatinAmeric
Auto CR
Specifies whether the printer performs a carriage-return/line-feed (CR-LF) operation
whenever the printing position goes beyond the right margin. If you select
Off
, the
printer does not print any characters beyond the right margin and does not perform any
line wrapping until it receives a carriage-return character. This function is handled
automatically by most applications.
Settings (default in bold):
On
, Off
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