How The Star Laserprinter 4111 Stores Fonts - Star Micronics 4111 Applications Manual

3.2 HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111
STORES FONTS
3.2.1 Bit-mapped fonts
Star Micronics has earned a reputation for attractive, well-designed fonts on
its printers, and this laser printer continues the tradition.
The Star LaserPrinter 4111 uses bit-mapped fonts. Each character is made up
of a pattern or "map" of dots, just like characters on a dot-matrix printer or
on your computer screen. Resolution makes the difference: to make each
character the Star LaserPrinter 4111 uses ten or twenty times as many dots as
a dot-matrix printer or computer screen does.
Every size of print you want, plus every italic or boldface version, has its own
bit map and is normally considered a separate font. It takes a good deal of
printer memory to hold all the fonts you might want at any given moment.
Star LaserPrinter 4111fonts can be grouped into three categories: internal,
cartridge, and downloadable fonts.
3.2.2 Internal fonts
The Star LaserPrinter 4111 has seven built-in interml fonts that reside per-
manently in its read-only memory (ROM). That's why these are sometimes
called "resident fonts":
Courier
10 pitch,
Courier 10 pitch,
Courier 10 pitch,
Courier 12 pitch,
Courier 12 pitch,
2 point medium
2 point bold
2 point italic
Opoint medium
Opoint bold
Courier 12 pitch, 10 point italic
Line Printer 16.6 pitch, 8.5 point medium
Courier is the face used on the most common electric typewriters. Courier is
not printed with proportional spacing. The Line Printer font, designed
originally for mainframe computers, is small and designed to pack a lot of
characters into every inch of print (great for spreadsheets).
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