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Design grids – Epson Y465ss127mo User Manual

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Design grids

To design a character you use a grid that is 24 dots high-one dot for each

pin on your printer’s print head. The width of the character matrix depends

on the character set you are using. For draft characters, the grid is nine dots

wide. For Letter Quality it is 29 dots wide, and for proportional characters it

is 37 dots wide, with the dots for both Letter Quality and proportional

spaced more closely together than those for draft.

The illustrations below show the two design grids. The line at the side

labelled cap height indicates the top of a standard capital letter, and the line

labelled baseline indicates the baseline for all letters except those with

descenders (the bottom parts of letters like j and y). The bottom row is

usually left blank because it is used for underlining.

Draft pica

Letter quality Proportional

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