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Characters
Design grids
To design a draft character you use a grid that has nine rows and
eleven columns, as shown below.
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The grid on the left shows a design plan for a heart-shaped
character. Although there are nine pins in your printer’s print head,
note that you can use only eight of them in a single user-defined
character. The heart design above uses the top eight pins, but you
can also use the bottom eight by using the grid on the right as
explained later in this section.
You generally don’t want to use row one (below the heavy line on
the grid) except for characters that have descenders, like the letters
y and g. Also, while you can use all 11 columns for a character, it’s
best to leave the two right columns blank to provide space
between characters.
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