The draft mode uses fewer dots per character for high-speed printing. This makes draft ideal for rough drafts and editing work.

Roman and Sans Serif are near letter quality (NLQ) fonts. Near letter quality takes a little longer to print but produces nicely formed characters suitable for most documentation requirements.

Characters per inch

For each of the three built-in fonts, you can choose a character size of 10 or 12 characters per inch (cpi), or proportional spacing.

The following printout compares the different types of spacing.

This is Roman printing in 10 cpi.

This is Roman printing in 12 cpi.

This is Roman printing in proportional.

In the 10 and 12 cpi modes, each character is given the same amount of space. However, in the proportional mode, spacing varies from character to character. Therefore, a narrow letter like the lowercase i receives less space than a wide letter like the uppercase W.

Condensed mode

In addition to the two pitches and proportional spacing, you can use the condensed mode to change the character size. In the condensed mode, characters are approximately 60% of the width of normal characters. Condensed printing is very useful for spreadsheets and other applications where you need to print the maximum amount of information on a page. Both 10 and 12 cpi can be condensed, but proportional spacing cannot.

The printout below compares normal 10 cpi with condensed 10 cpi.

T h i s i s 1 0 c p i R o m a n p r i n t i n g .

This is condensed 10 cpi Roman printing.

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Using the Printer