Star Micronics SB-10 user manual Pica pitch, Codes used to activate pica printing, Elite pitch

specifications. You can also use pitch size to integrate different kinds of text into a printed page. The following are descriptions of the available draft-quality pitch sizes.

Pica pitch

As we have said, pica printing yields 10 characters per inch and 80 characters per line. Pica is commonly used in business letters, thesis papers, reports, -and in general, wherever it’s important that your document be easy to read or scan.

The pica pitch is the default setting in the draft mode, but you can change the default to elite, either by turning off DIP switch 1-6 or by sending the correct codes to the printer. We’ll show you how to do this in a moment, but first, take a look at what draft-quality pica printing looks like using all the “accent” features available with your printer:

SUBJECT:		ORDERING			STATIONERY			SUPPLIES
I would		like	to	place		an	order	for	stationery
supplies		from	your		mail		order	catalog.
Enclosed		is	my	order		form	and	a check		f-or $247.
Please		process		th-is		order	as	soon	as	possible.
Thank	you.

Figure 4-6. Pica printing in the draft mode.

If you use either the elite pitch or the condensed pitch and wish to return to pica, you can reactivate this setting in one of two ways:

aTurn on DIP switch 1-6 (if you had previously turned it off), or *Enter the following codes through your word processor:

Table 4-6. The codes used to activate pica printing.

ESCAPE CODE	DECIMAL CODE	HEXADECIMAL CODE
<ESC>P	27 80	1B 50

Elite pitch

As we mentioned earlier in the manual, the elite setting will print

12 characters per inch and 96 characters per line. Elite is often used for longer documents, but it’s also found in formal and informal correspondence, and has many other uses as well. Though you may not notice much difference between the elite and pica pitches, elite allows you to fit more text on the page.