Print Size and Character Width

To add greater variety to your documents, the Apex80 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 12 cpi. The printout below shows the difference between the two

Double-wide and condensed

In addition to the basic pitches, the Apex80 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 is usually not suitable for large amounts of text.

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.

Condensed can be selected with SelecType, by setting a DIP switch (see Appendix D), or with a software command. Even if you turn condensed on with the DIP switch, you can still turn it off with SelecType or the software command.

Condensed pica gives more characters on a line.

condensed elite gives you even more.

4-2

Apex80 Printer Features