Epson Apex-80 - Manual (Page 44)

Print Size and Character Width
To add greater variety to your documents, the Apex80 has two
pitches and condensed printing. All can be selected either with
SelecType or a software command, and software commands also offer
another option: double-wide.
Pitches
The two pitches are pica and elite. Pica is 10 characters per inch (cpi)
and elite is 12 cpi. The printout below shows the difference between the
two
Double-wide and condensed
In addition to the basic pitches, the Apex80 offers two other modes
that change the size of your printing. These modes are double-wide and
condensed.
The double-wide mode doubles the width of any size of characters.
This mode is useful for such purposes as emphasizing headings in
reports and making displays, but is usually not suitable for large
amounts of text.
Pica and elite are reduced to about 60% of their normal width with
the condensed mode. This mode is particularly useful for printing wide
spreadsheets because condensed elite allows you up to 160 characters
on an 8-inch line.
Condensed can be selected with SelecType, by setting a DIP switch
(see Appendix D), or with a software command. Even if you turn
condensed on with the DIP switch, you can still turn it off with
SelecType or the software command.
Condensed pica gives more characters on a line.
condensed elite gives you even more.
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Apex80 Printer Features