Enhancing Your Printing
You can choose the print quality and
NLQ
fonts with software
commands or DIP switches. However, high-speed draft can be
selected only by setting DIP switch
2-2.
(See the section on setting
DIP switches in Chapter
3.)
Note: High-speed draft is available only when
10
cpi
printing is
selected:
The
only print enhancements that can be combined with
high-speed draft are underline and double-wide. If other
enhancements or character sizes are selected, high-speed draft is
ignored and replaced by normal draft.
Character spacing
To add greater variety to your documents, the
DFX-8000
has two
fixed character spacings and proportional spacing. Each one can be
selected with a software command.
For two of the built-in fonts, normal draft and
NLQ,
you can
choose a character spacing of
10
cpi
(characters per inch),
12
cpi,
or
proportional spacing. The printout below compares the two types of
character spacing.
This is 10
cpi
printing.
This is
12
cpi
printing.
In
10
and
12
cpi,
each character is given the same amount of space.
The width of proportional spacing, however, varies from character
to character. Therefore, a narrow letter like
i
receives less space
than a wide letter like
W.
The width of each proportional character
is given in the Appendix.
Software and Graphics
4-3
