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Character pitch
You can select a character pitch from the control panel. To select a
pitch, press the PITCH button until the indicator light next to the
desired pitch comes on.
The table below shows the character pitches available for each
font.
Script-C
0 0 0
0
0
Orator
0
0
0 0
Orator-S
0 0 0 0
OCR-B
0 0 0 0
In the
lo-,
12-,
15-,
17-,
or
20-cpi
modes, each character gets an
equal amount of space. In proportional mode, the spacing varies
from character to character. A narrow letter like the lowercase
i
receives less space than an uppercase W.
The printout below compares the different pitches:
This is
10
cpi
printing.
This is 12
cpi
printing.
This
is
IS
cpi
printing.
This is 17
cpi
printing.
This is 20
cpi
printing.
This is proportional printing.
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