HP 5961-0509 manual Pitch Command, 10PCL Font Selection

Pitch Command

The Pitch command designates the horizontal spacing of a fixed- spaced (bitmap or scalable) font in terms of the number of characters per inch. This characteristic is ignored when selecting a proportionally-spaced (bitmap or scalable) font, but is saved in the font select table and available when a fixed-spaced font is selected.

EC ( s # H - Primary pitch

EC ) s # H - Secondary pitch

#= # = Pitch in characters/inch

Default = 10

Range = 0.00

The value field (#) is valid to two decimal places.

If a pitch is specified that is not available, the next greater available pitch is selected. If no greater value is available, the closest available lesser value is selected.

The factory default primary and secondary pitches are ten characters per inch.

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

The range of valid pitch selections for a fixed-spaced scalable font is 576 to .10 characters/inch, however, not all valid pitches are available, since the pitch value is actually converted to a corresponding point size (height) value which is scaled by the printer. The effective pitch ranges are thus limited by height constraints.

The lower end of the pitch range is limited as a result of the font height limitation of 999.75 points. For example, the smallest available pitch for the internal Courier typeface would be about 0.12.

The upper end of the pitch range is similarly limited by the minimum recommended font height of 4 points. For Courier, this translates to a maximum recommended pitch of 30 (30 cpi), while for Letter Gothic the maximum recommended pitch is 36. When requested pitch values are outside of HP’s recommended limits, unsatisfactory results can occur.

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