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Enhancing Your Printing
You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with the
SQ-850 or SQ-2550, from changing the number of characters
printed per inch to using special effects or adding emphasis to
selected words and phrases.
This section gives you a sampling
of the features you may want to select with your software.
For software control of these features, see the instructions for
your application program or look up their specific commands in
the Command Summary in Chapter 9.
Character spacing
To add greater variety to your documents, the SQ-850 and
SQ-2550 have five pitches as well as proportional spacing. All
six can be selected with a software command, or by SelecType
or panel setting (see Chapter 3).
For many of the built-in fonts, you can choose a character
spacing of 10, 12, 15, 17 or 20 characters per inch (cpi), or
proportional spacing. The printout below compares the five
pitches.
This is 10 cpi printing.
This is 12 cpi printing.
This is 15 cpi printing.
This is 17 cpi printing,
This is 20 cpi printing,
As shown above, 15 cpi characters are only about two-thirds the
height of 10 and 12 cpi characters. This makes 15 cpi
particularly useful when you want to separate certain material
from the main text.
4-2 Software and Graphics