Specifications

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Character decoration
Determine the appearance of each character by combining the following four kinds of decorations.
The following precautions must be kept in mind when each kind of decoration is used.
Table 2.83
Decoration Remark
Reverse Since this greatly increases the printing duty, power consumption will increase
while printing speed decreases accordingly.
Bold The objective letter becomes thicker in the horizontal direction.
Light Since one of every two dots will not be printed, as a result of light printing, printed
letters, if their character size is smaller than x2, may be illegible.
Smoothing Applicable to letter sizes greater than double the original font size both in the
vertical and horizontal directions. However, this smoothing will not be applied to
other fonts, but only to the Mincho font (24-dot font).
Notes:
• Decoration of the enlarged font will be applied to the image that is the result of the enlarged
font.
• No decoration can be applied to OCR-B fonts.
• If more than one kind of the decorations is specified, they will be applied in the following
order:
Smoothing → Bold → Reverse → Light
Smoothing
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Figure 2.15