HP 5961-0509 manual Pitch, Height

Pitch

Pitch describes the number of characters printed in a horizontal inch. Pitch only applies to fixed-spaced fonts, since the number of characters per inch varies for proportional fonts.

Figure 7-5 Pitch

Height

The height of a font is the measurement of the body of the type in PCL points. A PCL point is 1/72 inch in bitmap fonts, and approximately 1/72 inch in scalable fonts. The body of the type is slightly larger than the distance from the bottom of a descender to the top of an unaccented capital letter.

Figure 7-6 Height

This loose measure from near the bottom of a descender to just above the top of an unaccented capital letter is sometimes referred to as the “Em.”

EN Pitch 7-5