Canon imageCLASS MF7460 imageCLASS MF7400 Series Reference Guide - Page 435

Before Using the Machine 1 Original and Paper 2 Copying 3 Sending and Receiving 4 Printing and Scanning 5 Network (imageCLASS 6 MF7480/MF7470 Only) Remote UI (imageCLASS 7 MF7480/MF7470 Only) System Settings 8 Maintenance 9 Troubleshooting 10 Appendix 11 Pitch (cpi) Pitch refers to the number of characters that are printed in one inch. The unit is cpi (characters per inch). As the number of characters per inch increases, the space between characters decreases; as the cpi decreases, the space between characters increases. Back Previous Next TOP Character Width (Fixed and PS) Each character has a different width from all the other characters in a font at a given point size. For example, "W" is a wider letter than "I." There are two ways to print letters of different widths: you can print all letters with the same spacing, regardless of their actual width; or you can change the spacing between letters to accommodate these different widths. Printing all letters with the same spacing is called "Fixed spacing," while changing the spacing to accommodate different letter widths is called "Proportional spacing." Because the Fixed spacing method prints all letters with the same spacing, the number of characters which will fit into a given length is a fixed quantity which can be specified. If the characters are printed with Proportional spacing, then the number of characters that will fit into an inch varies depending on the letters printed. Table of Contents Index 11-52