Spacing Command

Inter-character spacing can be specified as either proportional or fixed.

 

EC ( s # P -

Primary spacing

 

EC ) s # P -

Secondary spacing

 

#

= 0 - Fixed spacing

 

 

1 - Proportional spacing

Default

=

0

 

Range

=

0, 1 (values outside the range are ignored)

When proportional spacing is specified and a proportionally-spaced font is not available (in the requested symbol set), a fixed pitch font with the current pitch specification is selected. If fixed spacing is specified but is not available, a proportional-spaced font is selected and the pitch characteristic is ignored.

For fixed-spaced bitmap fonts, both pitch and height (point size) are used for selection of font character size. However, for fixed-spaced scalable fonts, only pitch is used. For proportional bitmap and scalable fonts, only height is used for selection of font character size.

The user default primary and secondary spacings are implicitly set by selection of a user default font from the printer’s control panel (refer to the printer User’s Manual).

Example

To specify proportional spacing for the primary font, send:

EC(s1P

To specify fixed spacing for the secondary font, send:

EC)s0P

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