First Alert T-1000 3-2Printer Features, Quality and Fonts, NLQ Roman is clear and typewriter-like, NLQ

Quality and Fonts

The most fundamental changes you can make to printing are in the print quality and NLQ fonts.

The printer has two levels of print quality: draft and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). Draft printing is fast, making it ideal for drafts and other preliminary work. NLQ printing takes a little longer, but it produces more fully-formed characters for presentation-quality documents.

The printout below shows the differences between draft, NLQ Roman, and NLQ Sans Serif so that you can compare the different styles and densities:

D r a f t p r i n t i n g i s e x t r e m e l y f a s t .

NLQ Roman is clear and typewriter-like.

N L Q S a n s S e r i f i s c r i s p a n d d i s t i n c t i v e .

The buttons on the control panel give you an easy way of changing the print quality and NLQ font, but if you prefer to print in NLQ Roman most of the time, you can select it with a DIP switch (see Chapter 5). You can also choose the print quality and NLQ font with software commands.

3-2 Printer Features