Paxar 9474 User Manual
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C h a r a c t e r s - p e r - I n c h
The 9474 fonts (except for OCR) are proportional. Each letter or
number uses only as much space as it needs. The letter I, for
instance, occupies much less space than the letter M.
The chart below shows the alphabetic characters-per-inch for
each font for both the letter M (fewest characters-per-inch) and
the letter I (most characters-per-inch). The characters-per-inch
count for your fields will be somewhere between these extremes.
You’ll need to print a sample tag to see the actual size of the
fields.
P a r a l l e l C h a r a c t e r s
Value/Font
Characters/Inch
Character Height (in.)
I
M
1/Standard
21.3
12.0
0.10
2/Reduced
64.0
24.0
0.07
3/Bold
19.2
7.1
0.20
OCR-A
10.1
10.1
0.10
The height of each character is the same within the font set. If
you rotate the characters (with the top of the characters toward
the left or right side of the stock) you will get the characters per
inch shown in the table below.
S e r i a l C h a r a c t e r s
Font
Characters
per Inch
Standard
10
Reduced
14
Bold
5
OCR-A
10
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