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Pointsi:e defines how big characters will print, such as 10or 12points high.
St]'ledefines whether characters print in upright or italic style.
Stroke weight defines how bold a typeface prints.
Finally.,t]p<face itself means the artistic design of a font. Your printer's
internaltypefacesinclude,Courier and LinePrinter.Withthe StarLaserPrinter
4111you can also use Roman, Prestige, H-Gothic, L-Gothic, Orator and
hundreds more typefaces, which you load into the printer from cartridge or
computer disk.
When you enable font .~[~tzippu)un?ete}-.~
on the control panel, it means you
start off with particular font attributes as defaults.
2.5 THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111 S UPERSET
Here's an important fact: you can set nearly every one of the above
parameters by sending your printer a corresponding Escape sequence com-
mand. Those Escape sequence commands will override any setting you make
from the control panel.
The main thing to realize about most printer commands, though, is that you
probably don't need to use them. Nearly all popular software packages
include printer drivers, which send commands to the printer so you don't
have to type them yourself. Some of those programs ask you to key in set-
up parameters about your printer. Other programs let you put printer
commands before or inside the document you want to print.
But maybe the software you use doesn 't have printer drivers for any printer
your Star LaserPrinter 4111 emulates: You still might not have to write printer
commands yourself.
Several companies sell programs that look after laser-printing commands for
such software. Ask your dealer about LaserControl, Printiorks ji)r Lasers,
PCLPakand RAM ResidentPrit?tmerge. T here's notmuch point inreinventing
the wheel.
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