Print size and character width, Pitches, Double-wide and condensed – First Alert ACTION T-1000 User Manual
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Print Size and Character Width
To add greater variety to your documents, the printer has two pitches
and condensed printing. All can be selected either with SelecType or a
software command, and software commands also offer another option:
double-wide.
Pitches
The two pitches are pica and elite. Pica is 10 characters per inch (cpi) and
elite is 12 cpi. The printout below shows the difference between the two.
P i c a :
ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz
Elite: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNopqrstuvwxyz
Double-wide and condensed
In addition to the basic pitches, the printer offers two other modes that
change the size of your printing. These modes are double-wide and
condensed.
The double-wide mode doubles the width of any size of characters. This
mode is useful for such purposes as emphasizing headings in reports and
making displays, but it is usually not suitable for large amounts of text.
D o u b l e - w i d e
p
i
c
a
D o u b l e - - w i d e e l i t e
Pica and elite are reduced to about 60% of their normal width with the
condensed mode. This mode is particularly useful for printing wide
spreadsheets because condensed elite allows you up to 160 characters on
an 8-inch line.
Printer Features 3-3