Star Micronics 4111 manual Bit-mapped fonts, Internal fonts

3.2HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111 STORES FONTS

3.2.1Bit-mapped fonts

Star Micronics has earned a reputation for attractive, well-designed fonts on its printers, and this laser printer continues the tradition.

The Star LaserPrinter 4111uses bit-mappedfonts. Each character is made up of a pattern or “map” of dots, just like characters on a dot-matrix printer or on your computer screen. Resolution makes the difference: to make each character the Star LaserPrinter 4111uses ten or twenty times as many dots as a dot-matrix printer or computer screen does.

Every size of print you want, plus every italic or boldface version, has its own bit map and is normally considered a separate font. It takes a good deal of printer memory to hold all the fonts you might want at any given moment.

Star LaserPrinter 4111fonts can be grouped into three categories: internal, cartridge, and downloadable fonts.

3.2.2Internal fonts

The Star LaserPrinter 4111has seven built-in interml fonts that reside per- manently in its read-only memory (ROM). That’s why these are sometimes called “resident fonts”:

Courier	10 pitch,	2 point medium
Courier	10 pitch,	2 point bold
Courier	10 pitch,	2 point italic
Courier	12 pitch,	Opoint medium
Courier	12 pitch,	Opoint bold
Courier	12 pitch, 10 point italic
Line Printer	16.6 pitch, 8.5 point medium

Courier is the face used on the most common electric typewriters. Courier is not printed with proportional spacing. The Line Printer font, designed originally for mainframe computers, is small and designed to pack a lot of characters into every inch of print (great for spreadsheets).

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