User`s manual

2 Glossary

character weight The degree of lightness and thickness of printed text. For

example: Bold refers to a heavy or thick character weight.

Medium, normal, or book weight refer to the character weight

used in this sentence.

control sequence Two or more bytes that instruct the printer to perform a special

function. A control sequence begins with the control sequence

introducer, CSI, in an 8–bit data environment. A control sequence

can also be an escape sequence, however, because the 8–bit CSI

control character can be represented by the 7–bit escape

sequence, ESC [.

compressed Refers to a typeface with a smaller than normal character width,

but no change to character height.

cpi characters per inch: a measurement of monospaced fonts

indicating the horizontal character density. For example, 10 cpi is

10 characters produced in a one–inch (horizontal) space.

CSI Control Sequence Introducer: A non–printing control character

(decimal 155, hex 9B) that is always the first byte of a control

sequence in an 8–bit data environment. See also Control

sequence.

decipoint One tenth of a point. A unit of measurement equal to 1/720 inch.