Paxar 9401 manual Character Width

9401/9402 System Administrator's Guide

Character Width

This chart shows character widths in magnifications 1-7 for each text font in 1/100 inches, 1/10 millimeters, and Dots. The values in this chart include default character spacing.

	Width Mag.	Standard	Reduced	Bold
	Units	Character	Character	Character
		Width Sample	Width Sample	Width Sample
1x	1/100 in.	8.85	4.17	14.06
	1/10 mm	22.49	10.58	33.72
	Dots	17	8	27
2x	1/100 in.	16.15	7.81	26.56
	1/10 mm	41.01	19.84	67.47
	Dots	31	15	51
3x	1/100 in.	23.44	11.46	39.06
	1/10 mm	59.53	29.10	99.22
	Dots	45	22	75
4x	1/100 in.	30.73	15.10	55.56
	1/10 mm	78.05	38.36	130.97
	Dots	59	29	99
5x	1/100 in.	38.02	18.75	64.06
	1/10 mm	96.57	47.63	162.72
	Dots	73	36	123
6x	1/100 in.	45.31	22.40	76.56
	1/10 mm	115.09	56.89	194.47
	Dots	87	43	147
7x	1/100 in.	52.60	26.04	89.06
	1/10 mm	133.61	66.15	226.22
	Dots	101	50	171

NOTE: OCRA-like 1x character width is

English 8.32

Metric 29.10

Dots22

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