Enhancing Your Printing

You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with the SQ-850 or SQ-2550, from changing the number of characters printed per inch to using special effects or adding emphasis to selected words and phrases. This section gives you a sampling of the features you may want to select with your software.

For software control of these features, see the instructions for your application program or look up their specific commands in the Command Summary in Chapter 9.

Character spacing

To add greater variety to your documents, the SQ-850 and SQ-2550 have five pitches as well as proportional spacing. All six can be selected with a software command, or by SelecType or panel setting (see Chapter 3).

For many of the built-in fonts, you can choose a character spacing of 10, 12, 15, 17 or 20 characters per inch (cpi), or proportional spacing. The printout below compares the five pitches.

This is 10 cpi printing.

This is 12 cpi printing.

This is 15 cpi printing.

This is 17 cpi printing,

This is 20 cpi printing,

As shown above, 15 cpi characters are only about two-thirds the height of 10 and 12 cpi characters. This makes 15 cpi particularly useful when you want to separate certain material from the main text.

4-2 Software and Graphics