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For 80 wide reports printed in portrait mode font sizes of 8 through 11 should be used. A common problem for 80 column reports is often in the report length rather than the report width. For example a 12 point font may work well with 80 columns in terms of width, but 66 lines of length may cause an overlapping of printed lines because 66 lines of a 12 point font cannot be squeezed into the vertical space available.
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