Operation Manual

Character Pitch
Character pitch
With these commands you can alter the size of your printed
character.
.
Character pitch
Decimal Hex. ASCII Comp.
Begin 10 CPI (Pica)
27 80
IB 50 ESC P
F
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Begin 12 CPI (E lite) 27 77
113 40
ESC\1 F
Begin Condensed modl' 27 1 ~ or 15 IB OF or OF F.SC 51 orSI F
Stop Conden~ed molil' 18 12
DC2 I·
The size of the condensed print depends on which pitch is selected
at the time the command to set the condensed mode is sent.
Selection Current pitch
Resulting pitch
After DC2
17.1 CPI
lOCPI
(condensed mode of{)
20CPI 12CPI
After ESC 51 10CPI 17.1 CPI
(condensed mode on)
12CPI 20CPI
Notes:
1. t\;one of these commands cancel the double width mode.
2. For certain applications you may need to know the number of characters that
fit in
one line. The table in Chapter 4 shows the maximum number of
characters
per line for each character pitch
Expand your characters (double width print) for one line only.
Double width
Decimal Hex. ASCII Comp.
Double width printing for 27 14
18
OE ESC SO
F
one line only
Note: You are also able to specify the area of double width using the commands
in Chapter 3.
5-2 Epson FX Mode Standard Features