Print Size and Character Width
To add greater variety to your documents, the FX has two pitches as
well as proportional spacing and condensed, double-wide and
double-high printing. All can be selected with a software command,
and condensed
can
be selected with SelecType.
Pitches and Proportional Spacing
The two pitches are pica and elite. Pica is 10 characters per inch (cpi)
and elite is 12 cpi. The printout below shows the difference between the
t w o .
Pica:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
Elite:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
Another mode is proportional. In this mode the width of the
characters varies. Therefore, a narrow letter like i receives less space
than a wide letter like W, as you can see in the printout below:
Pica:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
Proportional:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
The character tables in Appendix B list the widths of all proportional
characters.
Double-wide, double-high, and condensed
In addition to the basic pitches and the proportional mode, the FX
offers three other modes that change the size of your printing. These
modes are double-wide, double-high, and condensed.
The double-wide mode doubles the width of any size of characters.
This mode is useful for such purposes as emphasizing headings in
reports and making displays, but is usually not suitable for large
amounts of text.
D o u b l e - w i d e
p i c a
D o u b l e - w i d e e l i t e
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FX Printer Features
