Parallel Characters
Value/Font Characters/Inch Character
Height (in.)
IM
1/Standard 21.3 12.0 0.10
2/Reduced 64.0 24.0 0.07
3/Bold 19.2 7.1 0.20
5/OCR-A 10.1 10.1 0.10
6/UPC HR1 19.2 13.7 0.10
7/UPC HR2 32.0 19.2 0.08
Rotated Characters
Font Characters/Inch
Standard 10
Reduced 14
Bold 5
OCR-A 10
Character Width (in Dots)
The dots per character is the same for all characters. The
examples below show the difference between parallel characters
and serial characters.
Serial Characters
Parallel Characters
5-2 Quick References