Tally Genicom T5023+ - Manual (Page 29)

Programming interface (General) Print effects
T5023/5023+ - Programming Guide 19
Font size / character density
The width of a printed character is expressed in ’characters per inch’ (cpi) and is
often called ’character density’, for example
10 characters per inch = 10 cpi
The document printer can print in the character widths 10, 12 and 15 pitch. Each
individual character is then the same width.
Example :
The font size can also be influenced by proportional type, as well as by elonga-
ted or condensed print.
Proportional type
With proportional type each character takes up a different amount of space ac-
cording to its size (for example, ’I’ takes up less space than ’B’ or ’t’ less than ’g’).
Texts in proportional type are normally shorter than in normal print.
Example :
Elongated print
With elongated print, each character is represented in double width. It is possi-
ble, for example, to highlight page headings in a text.
Example :