Star Micronics LC24-300 user manual Changing the pitch of the font

Font name	Display highlights
H-Gothic	[H-Gothic ~
Super Letter Quality Roman	~ + ~Roman I

. If you are using an optional font, the word “Option” will be added to this list. This means that you have selected the font contained in the optional font.

. When you have highlighted the font you want to use,

press [~] again to make the printer in ready mode again.

Changing the pitch of the font

The font “pitch” means “how many characters can be printed in one inch”. 10-pitch, for instance, means “10 characters can be printed in one inch across the page.” There are two special modes on the LC24-300 Colour: Proportional and Condensed proportional. In these modes, you cannot say exactly how many characters will fit into one inch, because each character takes up a dif- ferent amount of space. The opposite of “proportional” is “fixed-pitch” or “monospaced”. Look at these two examples:

ProportionalFixed-pitch

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

11111111111111111111

Even though there are 10 characters in each line, the “M”S in the proportional column take up more space overall than the “1”s.The space between letters is pro- portional to the letter itself.

However, in the fixed-pitch column, although each “M” also takes up more space than each “I”, the space between letters is fixed, no matter what the letter, so

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