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Figure 3-2. The three pitches of the LX-80

The dot pattern of each character is carefully designed so that in pica mode no dot overlaps another. The reason is that in normal high-speed printing of pica the pins cannot fire and retract and fire again quickly enough to print one dot overlapping another.

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