Epson DFX-8000 User Manual - Page 130

Selecting Typestyles Character spacing ln normal draft and NLQ mode, you can select proportional spacing or a character spacing: of l O or 12 characters per inch (cpi) with software commands, In high-speed draft mode, only 10 cpi printing is available. (Ten cpi is the printer's default character spacing.) ln the 10 and 12 cpi modes, each character gets an equal amount of space. In proportional mode, the spacing varies from character to character. A narrow letter like the lowercase i receives less space than the uppercase W. The printout below compares the different types of spacing: 10 cpi T h i s i s 10 CPI p r i n t i n g . ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTWWKYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12 cpi T h i s i s 12 CPI p r i n t i n g . ABCDEFGHI JKL<?OmZ abodefghi jklmnopqratuvwxyz proportional spacing This is proportional printing. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTWWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Using the Printer 3-45