Printing Method - Hitachi PB Series User Manual

3–18 3.3 Setting Character Height and Character Orientation
3.3.1-3 Character orientation
The character orientation and printing direction can be specified.
The following settings are available.
Setting Feed direction
ABC
ABC 
The results of printing "ABC123" are as shown below:
Setting Printing results
ABC
ABC 
The difference between "Cancel" and "Space" is as follows:
Printings
[ • • AB • • CD • • ]
1
[ • • • 1 2 3 4 • • • ]
[ • • AB CD • • ]
2
[ • • • 1 2 3 4 • • • ]
• (Cancel): Characters positioned after this mark will not be printed.
(Space) : A space will be treated as a character.
3.3.1-4

Printing method

Two printing methods are selectable: "Single-scan" and "Interlaced"
The printing method will be selected automatically in accordance with the print
format setup.
When making interlaced prints, perform the following setup:
(i) Ensure that the setting on line number is two.
(ii) The particle use percentage should be 04.
3.3.1-5 Write start position
The printing start position can be specified.
The write position can be specified on either individual character basis or
individual scan basis.


A B C 1 2 3
A B C 1 2 3
Character orientation 0
"ABC " (left-justified)
A B
1 2 3 4
A B C D
1 2 3 4
Printing results
Character orientation 1
"ABC" (right-justified)
1 2 3 4
A B
1 2 3 4
A B
C D
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