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Preparing Your Supply Layout
Once you know the basic elements you want for your format,
place them on a Supply Layout form. This helps you
determine the exact print location of each field. For your
convenience, blank Supply Layout forms for English and
Metric systems are in Format Design Tools. Information about
font sizes and magnification is also in the
Format Design Tools
Manual
and Section 6, "Prompts Reference."
1. Mark off the supply size used with this format design on
the supply layout form.
2. Pencil in the possible location of each field. As you place
the different fields, decide where you want the top of each
field and the top of the characters within each field.
3. Sketch in the bar code and the data for each field.
Fonts and Horizontal Field Location
You can choose whether you want to print using:
• 9425/9445/9465 fonts (character sets) and horizontal
field locations
• 9420/9440 fonts and horizontal field locations.
The alphabetic characters in the 9425, 9445, and 9465 printer
fonts (except OCR) are proportional. This means that each
letter uses only as much space as it needs (the letter I, for
instance, occupies much less space than the letter M). All ten
numeric characters in each font take up the same amount of
space, whether the number is a 1 or, for instance, a 0. This
makes numbers line up correctly when you print them in
columns.
The characters in the 9420 and 9440 printers are
monospaced. Every character takes up the same amount of
space.
The horizontal field location on the 9425, 9445, and 9465
printers starts at the dot nearest to the location you enter
(nearest 0.0052 inch).
Designing a Format
2. Designing a Format
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