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Character A graphical representation of data.
Character cell The invisible rectangular space occupied by a
character, including the white space around the
character. Used as a unit of spacing. The height of a
cell is equal to the current line spacing, and the width of
a cell remains constant even with changes in the
current character spacing.
Character Library The collection of all the glyphs for all fonts.
Character Location The location of a character in a font. The location of a
character is the same in all fonts.
Characterset A protocolinstructing the printer how to constructa set
of printable characters, including symbols, punctuation,
numbers, diacritical markings, and alphabet characters.
Each character is assigned a unique address in
memory.
Character weight The degree of lightness and t hickness of printed text.
For example: Bold refers to a heavy or thick character
weight. Medium, normal, or book weight refer to the
character weight used in this sentence.
Code Point A value between 0 and 256 that defines the location of
a character within a character set.
Command sequence Two or more bytes that instruct the printer to perform a
special function. The first character in the sequence isa
Special Function Control Character (SFCC), which
alerts the printer that the string is a command
sequence. (
See also
SFCC.)
Compressed A font attribute referring to a typeface with a smal ler
than normal character width, but no change to
character height.
cpi characters per inch: a measurement of monospaced
fonts indicating the horizontal character density. For
example, 10 cpi is 10 characters produced in a one-
inch (horizontal) space.