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Whileyou are feeding lines, if you also press the On Line switch, the
paper willfked to the top of the next page. This isexplained later.
Whenpower ison,always usethePaper Feed switch insteadofthe platen
knob to feedpaper. Turn the platen knob only when power is off.
PrintPitch switch
Thisswitch operatesoff-lineto selecttheprint pitch: thespacingbetween
characters. The indicators to the left light (green)to indicate the selected
pitch.
The printer powersup in pica pitch. To change to another pitch, press
theOn Line switch togo off-line,then press thePrint Pitch switchrepeatedly
until the indicators showthe pitch you want.
In Standard mode (when DIP switch 1-6is ON), the pitch selections
cycleas follows:
Pica (10characters per inch)
Elite (12characters per inch)
Condensedpica (17 characters per inch)
Condensedelite (20 characters per inch)
Proportional pica
Proportional elite
This is pica (10characters p= inch) .
Thisiselite(12charactersperinch).This is condensedpica (17 characters per inch).
Thisismdensedelite (20charactersperinch).
This is proportional pica.
This is proportional elite.
Figure 2-2.Print pitches selectable from tfre control panel
Samples of these pitches are shown in Figure 2-2. Note that with
proportional pitch different letters occupydifferent widths. (For example,
“i” and “1”are narrower than other letters.)Proportional pitch is attractive
and spaceefflcient, though not alwaysconvenient whencolumn alignment
isrequired.
Note that youcannot selectcondensed proportionalpitch on the control
panel.Youcanmake thisselectionby theprintercommands <S1s <ESCs
“p” 1– seeAppendix B.
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