50 User’s Guide
CHARACTER PITCH
Character Pitch
With the following commands, the size of printed characters can be
altered:
The size of the condensed print depends on which pitch is selected at the
time the command to set the condensed mode is sent.
Note 1:
None of these commands cancel the double width
mode.
Note 2:
For certain applications it is necessary to know the
number of characters that fit in one line.
Expand characters (double width print) for one line only with the
following command.
Expand your characters to double height with the following command.
Character Pitch Decimal Hex ASCII Comp
Begin 10 CPI 27 80 1B 50 ESC P F
Begin 12 CPI 27 77 1B 4D ESC M F
Begin Condensed mode 27 15 or 15 1B 0F or 0F ESC SI or SI F
Stop Condensed mode 18 12 DC2 F
Selection Current pitch Resulting pitch
After DC2 17.1 CPI 10 CPI
(condensed mode off) 20 CPI 12 CPI
After ESC SI 10 CPI 17.1 CPI
(condensed mode on) 12 CPI 20 CPI
Double width Decimal Hex. ASCII Comp.
Double width printing for one line only 27 14 1B 0E ESC SO F
Double height Decimal Hex. ASCII Comp.
Start double height 21 119 49 1B 77 31 ESC w 1 F
End double height 27 119 48 1B 77 30 ESC w 0 F
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