Canon imageCLASS MF7470 - Manual (Page 435)

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MF7480/MF7470 Only)
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Pitch (cpi)
Pitch refers to the number of characters that are printed in one inch.
The unit is cpi (characters per inch). As the number of characters per
inch increases, the space between characters decreases; as the cpi
decreases, the space between characters increases.
Character Width ( Fixed and PS)
Each character has a different width from all the other characters in
a font at a given point size. For example, “W” is a wider letter than “I.”
There are two ways to print letters of different widths: you can print
all letters with the same spacing, regardless of their actual width;
or you can change the spacing between letters to accommodate
these different widths. Printing all letters with the same spacing is
called “Fixed spacing,” while changing the spacing to accommodate
different letter widths is called “Proportional spacing.”
Because the Fixed spacing method prints all letters with the same
spacing, the number of characters which will fit into a given length
is a fixed quantity which can be specified.
If the characters are printed with Proportional spacing, then the
number of characters that will fit into an inch varies depending on
the letters printed.