P 190
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4.1 PRINTING MODES
The P 190 printer has two printing modes which can be selected by means of control characters:
normal and reverse.
FIGURE 7
Normal mode Reverse mode
The basic character matrix is 6 x 10 points. Characters may be printed in various formats. The following
table shows the size of the characters for the respective formats, depending on whether the printer is
the 24 or 40 column model.
Character size (L x H mm)
Print format 24 column 40 column
Normal 1,7 x 2,6 1,1 x 2,6
Double height 1,7 x 5,2 1,1 x 5,2
Double width 3,4 x 2,6 2,2 x 2,6
Expanded 3,4 x 5,2 2,2 x 5,2
For further details on the selection of printing modes, please refer to the paragraph covering control
characters (paragraph 4.3).
PRINTER FUNCTIONS
Paper outfeed direction