Instruction manual

Bitmap Font Information
Our bitmap fonts are either monospaced (each character occupies the same amount of space)
or proportional (each character is a different width). Use monospaced fonts for price fields and
data you want to list in a column. With proportionally spaced fonts, you may be able to place
more characters on a line. However, you may need to experiment with these fonts and adjust
field measurements in your format. The bitmapped fonts (either monospaced or proportional)
appear jagged when magnified.
The magnification range is 1 to 7.
Use the MONARCH® MPCL™ Toolbox (Soft Font Utility), available on our Web site, to convert a
bitmap font to Hex or Run-Length encoding for the printer. Select the point size and characters
to print. Bitmap fonts may image faster than a TrueType font, but you are limited to the point
size and characters you downloaded.
Monospaced Font Magnification
Monospaced characters occupy the same amount of space within a magnification. Use
monospaced fonts for price fields and data you want to list in a column. Decide how wide and
tall you want the characters to appear on the labels. The following two tables show the width
and height of each of the monospaced fonts after magnification.
This table includes the default (3 dots for Standard, 1 dot for Reduced, 3 dots for Bold) spacing.
Width Mag. Standard Reduced Bold
Units Character
Width Sample
Character
Width Sample
Character
Width Sample
1x 1/100 in. 8.37 3.9 13.3
1/10 mm 21.26 9.9 33.78
Dots 17 8 27
7x 1/100 in. 49.75 24.63 84.24
1/10 mm 126.37 62.56 214
Dots 101 50 171
Only the 1x width can be scanned with the OCRA-like font. Using a printhead with 203 dpi,
the character widths are as follows: 7.9 (English), 20.1 (Metric), and 16 (Dots).
To calculate other font widths, multiply the font dots (14 dots for Standard, 7 dots for Reduced,
24 dots for Bold) by the magnification and add the default spacing (3 dots for Standard, 1 dot for
Reduced, 3 dots for Bold) between characters.
Example
14 (Standard font dots) x 5 (magnification) = 70 + 3 (default spacing between characters).
There are 73 dots in the Standard font at 5x.
Standard
1x 7x
1/100 in. 10.8 75.9
1/10 mm 27.4 192.8
dots 22 154
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