A Print Wheel Problem

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Author(s): Bill Jones
Publication: Update Magazine
Pub Details: Update July 1988
Date: July 1988
Pages: 6

The print character style of the previous issue looked pretty good to me, until a subscriber called about having trouble deciphering listings. The problem is one of discerning whether a character is a “i”, a “l” (el), or a “1” (one). This has always been a problem with type and some typewriters use the literal “l” (el) for the number “1” (one). I looked around town and found a print wheel that seems to give better identification of the “i” (eye), but alas, the letter “l” (el) and the number “1” (one) looks the same. Can you tell the difference- l1l1l1? I’ll try to solve this ident problem by using upper case “L” in listings, while looking for a print wheel that has better characters.