User's Manual

Print Size and Character Width

To add greater variety to your documents, the printer has two pitches

and condensed printing. All can be selected either with SelecType or a

software command, and software commands also offer another option:

double-wide.

Pitches

The two pitches are pica and elite. Pica is 10 characters per inch (cpi) and

elite is

cpi. The printout below shows the difference between the two.

Pica:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz

Elite: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNopqrstuvwxyz

Double-wide and condensed

In addition to the basic pitches, the printer offers two other modes that

change the size of your printing. These modes are double-wide 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 it is usually not suitable for large amounts of text.

Double-wide

pica

Double

--wide elite

Pica and elite are reduced to about

60%

of their normal width with the

condensed mode. This mode is particularly useful for printing wide

spreadsheets because condensed elite allows you up to

160

characters on

an 8-inch line.

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