Epson FX-185 User Manual - Page 70

Figure 3-5. Pica and Elite letters 3Ø LPRINT CHR$(27)"P"; 4Ø LPRINT WIDTH" PICA PITCH IS THE NORMAL PRINT When you RUN it, you should get: COMPARE ELITE PITCH WITH THE PICA BELOW PICA PITCH IS THE NORMAL PRINT WIDTH Figure 3-6. Pitch comparison The 10 blank spaces in line 20 above print as 10 Elite spaces; the 10 corresponding spaces in line 40 print as Pica spaces. This means, as you can see in Figure 3-6, that the different width modes affect spaces as well as characters. The modes also affect tabs, which we will discuss in Chapter 9. The ESCape "P"' in line 30 turns Elite Mode off and returns the printer to Pica pitch. Notice that, because Pica is the factory-set default, it comes on whenever you turn the printer on (unless you've changed the pitch default by changing a DIP switch). Compressed Mode To see a third handy print pitch that is available on FX printers, replace your current program with this one: 53