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just over 17 characters per inch. The smaller characters allow for

spreadsheets, or other work that requires compact printing, to be

squeezed on an 8½-inch page.

In Figure 5-3, you can see the difference in the two pitches. Pica is

the default, the pitch in effect when the printer is turned on.

1 inch

Pica

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZab

Compressed

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuv

Figure 5-3. Comparison between print pitches

Pitch Mode Combinations

Expanded is a print mode that can be used with either Pica or

Com-

pressed print pitches. You can add this mode to your program to print-

out for one line only or for longer passages. Expanded can also be used

with most of the other modes.

Expanded mode

Expanded mode doubles the width of the current pitch mode. It

does this by printing twice as many dots, twice as wide, as you can see

in Figure

5-4.

Pica A

Expanded A

Figure 5-4. Pica and Expanded letters

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