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Enhancing Your Printing

You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with your printer, from changing the number of characters per inch to using special effects on selected words and phrases. This section gives you a sampling of the features you may select with your software.

For software control of these features, see the instructions for your applications program or look up their specific commands in Chapter 9.

Print quality and fonts

The most apparent change you can make to print quality is to change fonts.

Your printer has three levels of print quality: high-speed draft, normal draft and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). High-speed draft printing is ideal for rough drafts and large documents that you need to print quickly. Normal draft printing is a bit slower, but offers higher resolution characters. NLQ printing takes a little longer, but produces darker, more fully-formed characters suitable for presentation-quality documents. For NLQ printing, the printer 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 characters so you can compare the different styles and densities.

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Draft printing is fast.

NLQ Roman is clear and typewriter-like.

NLQ Sans Serif is crisp and distinctive.

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