Chapter 3: Programming the Printer26
Revision D 12/09
A799-PG00001D
Character appearance
The appearance of text can be changed using the following print modes:
• Standard
• Compressed
• Double-high
• Double-wide
• Upside-down
• Rotated
• Underlined
• Bold
• Reverse
• Italic
• Strike-through
• Scaled
• Shading
Width specications
Standard
• Characters per inch: 15.6
• Characters per line: 44
• Cell size: 13 X 24 dots
Print zones
Print zones for 80mm paper
Specications of print zone for 80mm paper:
Compressed
• Characters per inch: 20.3
• Characters per line: 56
• Cell size: 10 X 24 dots
• 576 dots (addressable) @ 8 dots/mm,
centered on 80mm
• Standard mode: minimum margins:
2.0mm (.079 inches)
• Top margin to manual tear-off:
17.8mm (0.70 inches)
• Top margin to knife cut:
19.0mm (0.75 inches)
Note: The application centers 44 standard character cells (13 X 24 dots), or 56 compressed character cells (10 X 24
dots), or 576 addressable bits of graphics across an 80mm wide receipt. Minimum print line height is 24 dots for text or
graphics. Standard print line spacing is 27 dots (i.e., 3 extra row dots).
The A799 adds a 27 dot high font, so standard print spacing is 30 dots.
