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FONTS
The style of printing that appears in your finished work consists of five
elements:
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the symbol/character set - the letters, numbers, and symbols avail-
able for use
. the fonts present in the Star LaserPrinter 8III - some fonts come
as standard equipment, while others are available in cartridges that are
installed in the font slots of the printer, you may also purchase fonts on
a disk and load them down (downloading) from the computer to the Star
LaserPrinter 8111's RAM (for mom information consult a software
dealer)
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font attributes - consisting of character spacing, pitch, point size,
style, stroke weight, and typeface
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the printer you select to emulate -
the Star LaserPrinter 8111 can
emulate three widely available printers, the
Hewlett Packard LaserJet
III (a laser printer),
Epson EX-800,
orlBM
Proprinter
(both dot-matrix
printers).
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the capabilities of your applications software.
The Star LaserPrinter 8111 comes equipped with four families of fonts. Any
one of them can be selected from the front panel for use as the base font in
any emulation.
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