Canon IR3300 manual Pitch cpi, Character Width Fix and PS

Pitch (cpi)

Pitch refers to the number of characters that are printed in one inch. The unit is cpi (characters per inch). As the number of characters per inch increases, the space between characters decreases; as the cpi decreases, the space between characters increases.

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Character Width (Fix and PS)

Each character has a different width from all the other characters in a font at a given point size. For example, “W” is a wider letter than “I.” There are two ways to go about printing letters of different widths: you can print all letters with the same spacing, regardless of their actual width; or you can change the spacing between letters to accommodate these different widths. Printing all letters with the same spacing is called “Fixed spacing”, while changing the spacing to accommodate different letter widths is called “Proportional spacing.”

Because the Fixed spacing method prints all letters with the same spacing, the number of characters which will fit into a given length is a fixed quantity which can be specified.

If the characters are printed with Proportional spacing, then the number of characters that will fit into an inch varies depending on the letters printed.

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Appendix

Some Basic Facts About Fonts 6-5