Cognitive Solutions A799 manual Character appearance, Print zones, Width specifications

26 Chapter 3: Programming the PrinterRevision D 12/09

Character appearance

The appearance of text can be changed using the following print modes:

•	Standard	•	Rotated	•	Italic
•	Compressed	•	Underlined	•	Strike-through
•	Double-high	•	Bold	•	Scaled
•	Double-wide	•	Reverse	•	Shading
•	Upside-down

Width specifications

Standard		Compressed
• Characters per inch: 15.6		• Characters per inch: 20.3
•	Characters per line: 44	•	Characters per line: 56
•	Cell size: 13 X 24 dots	•	Cell size: 10 X 24 dots

Print zones

Print zones for 80mm paper

Specifications of print zone for 80mm paper:

•576 dots (addressable) @ 8 dots/mm, centered on 80mm

•Standard mode: minimum margins: 2.0mm (.079 inches)

•Top margin to manual tear-off: 17.8mm (0.70 inches)

•Top margin to knife cut: 19.0mm (0.75 inches)

Note: The application centers 44 standard character cells (13 X 24 dots), or 56 compressed character cells (10 X 24 dots), or 576 addressable bits of graphics across an 80mm wide receipt. Minimum print line height is 24 dots for text or graphics. Standard print line spacing is 27 dots (i.e., 3 extra row dots).

The A799 adds a 27 dot high font, so standard print spacing is 30 dots.

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