Epson FX PICA PITCH IS THE NORMAL PRINT WIDTH, Compressed Mode, CHR$(27)"P";, Figure 3-6.Pitch comparison, Figure 3-5.Pica and Elite letters

	Figure 3-5. Pica and Elite letters
3Ø LPRINT	CHR$(27)"P";
4Ø LPRINT	PICA PITCH IS THE NORMAL PRINT
WIDTH"

When you RUN it, you should get:

COMPARE ELITE PITCH WITH THE PICA BELOW

PICA PITCH IS THE NORMAL PRINT WIDTH

Figure 3-6. Pitch comparison

The 10 blank spaces in line 20 above print as 10 Elite spaces; the 10 corresponding spaces in line 40 print as Pica spaces. This means, as you can see in Figure 3-6, that the different width modes affect spaces as well as characters. The modes also affect tabs, which we will discuss in Chapter 9.

The ESCape “P”’ in line 30 turns Elite Mode off and returns the printer to Pica pitch. Notice that, because Pica is the factory-set default, it comes on whenever you turn the printer on (unless you’ve changed the pitch default by changing a DIP switch).

Compressed Mode

To see a third handy print pitch that is available on FX printers, replace your current program with this one:

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