Laserprinter; Star Laserprinter8 Hardware - Star Micronics 8 Series Applications Manual

This chapterintroducesboththe hardwareand softwareaspectsof the Star
LaserPrinter8's personality,from fonts and print engine to ASCII and
Escapesequences.
STAR LASERPRINTER 8 HARDWARE
Versatility
YourStarMicronicsStarLaserPrinter8 workswithpracticallyallcommcr-
cialsoftwareprogramsandcomputers.Withfeaturesthatgo beyondStar's
easy, affordable9-pinand fast,quality-printing 24-pindot matrixprinters,
the Star Laser Printer is the logical next step in the series of fine Star
Micronicsprinters.
Your Star LaserPrinter 8 produces pages that look close to typeset quality,
with up to 90,000 dots per square inch— no more NLQ (near letter quality)
compromises.
The Star LaserPrinter 8 produces eight of those pages a
minute,These numberstranslateto about five times more resolutionand
speed than the averagedot-matrixprinter.
Star'snewprinteris remarkablyversatile.Youcanprintcomplicatedforms
(widthwiseif you want) ... detailedgraphs ... your own customizedtype-
styles ... digitizedphotographs... other languages(includingArabic and
Japanese).
You can even print your letterheadand logo as you print your letter, and
reprint them directly onto a businessenvelope.You don't even need to
removethepapertrayto printtheenvelope: j ust slideit intothemanualfeed
slot.
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