Figure 5-1. Main columns and intermediate positions
Although each P-80 character is designed to be five or fewer col-
umns wide, dots can also be placed midway between
each
main col-
umn. This means that the dot pattern is printed twice, shifted one half
dot to the right. Figure
5-2
shows how the dots printed in these inter-
mediate columns actually overlap with those in the main columns.
You can see this difference between the dots
shown
in Figure
5-l
and
the overlapping dots in Figure
5-2.
(An example of a print mode using
overlapping dots is shown later in this chapter.)
Figure
5-2.
Overlapping dots
Print Pitches
There are two print pitches (or widths) available on the
P-80.
They
are Pica and Compressed. Pica is a standard character width used on
typewriters and prints
10
characters per inch. Compressed pitch prints
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