Star Micronics 8 Series Applications Manual page 58

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To see how much memory is availablefor extra fonts, put the printer
offlineandpresstheTEST buttonto printa statussheet.Yourprinterwill
beep and show a front-panelmessageif you try to overloadits memory
by downloadingtoo many fonts. It then will continueprintingwith the
closestavailablefont to that requested.
As a generalrule,youcan includeat leasta dozendowrdoadablc fontsin
a document.Addedto theinternalfonts,thatshouldbeplenty—itdoesn't
make good design sense to mix many typefaces. A telltale sign of
amateurishlaser printingis too many fontsin one document.
To keep a wide varietyof extra fonts in memory,however,many Star
LascrPrintcr8 users (especiallythose sharingthe printeron a network)
preferto add the optionalboardwith the secondmegabyteof RAM.