Selecting Typestyles

Character pitch

For each of the three built-in fonts, you can choose a character pitch of 10, 12, or 15 characters per inch (CPI), and for all except draft you can choose proportional spacing (PS).

To select a pitch, press the PITCH button until the indicator light of the desired pitch comes on. Note that some font modules do not offer all pitches. See the section on font modules in Chapter 7.

The following printout compares the three pitches:

T h i s i s 1 0 C P I p r i n t i n g .

This is 12 CPI printing.

This is 15 CPI printing.

In 10, 12, and 15 CPI, each character is given the same amount of space. The width of proportional spacing, however, varies from character to character. Therefore, a narrow letter like i receives less space than a wide letter like W.

The following printout compares IO-pitch spacing with proportional spacing:

This is 10 CPI spacing.

This is proportional spacing.

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