Enhancing Your Printing - Epson DFX-8000 User Manual

Enhancing Your Printing

You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with the DFX-8000
printer, from changing the number of characters printed per inch to
using special effects or adding emphasis to selected words and
phrases. This section gives you a sampling of the features you ina$
want to select with your software.
For software control of these features, see the instructions for your
application program or look up their specific commands in the.
Command Summary in Chapter
Print quality and fonts
The most fundamental changes you can make to printing on the
DFX-8000 are in the print quality and fonts.
The DFX-8000 has three levels of print quality: high-speed draft,
normal draft, and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). High-speed draft is
ideal for rough drafts and large documents or reports that you need
to print quickly. Normal draft is a bit slower, but offers higher
resolution characters. Finally, NLQ takes a little longer but produces
darker, more fully-formed characters suitable for presentation-
quality documents. For NLQ printing, the DFX-8000 offers two
fonts-Roman and Sans Serif.
The printout below shows the difference between high-speed draft,
normal draft, NLQ Roman, and NLQ Sans Serif so that you can
compare the different styles and densities.
4-2 Software and Graphics
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