Star Micronics 4111 3.2 HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111 STORES FONTS 3.2.1 Bit-mapped fonts, 3.2.2 Internal fonts

3.2 HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111
STORES FONTS
3.2.1 Bit-mapped fonts
StarMicronics has earned areputation for attractive, well-designed fonts on
itsprinters, and this laser printer continues the tradition.
The StarLaserPrinter 4111usesbit-mapped fonts. Each character is madeup
of apattern or “map” ofdots, just like characters on adot-matrix printer or
on your computer screen. Resolution makes the difference: to make each
character the StarLaserPrinter 4111usesten or twenty times as many dots as
adot-matrix printer or computer screen does.
Everysize ofprint youwant, plusevery italicor boldfaceversion, hasitsown
bit map and isnormally considered aseparate font. It takes agood deal of
printer memory to hold all the fonts you might want at any given moment.
Star LaserPrinter 4111fontscan be grouped into three categories: internal,
cartridge, and downloadable fonts.
3.2.2 Internal fonts
The Star LaserPrinter 4111hasseven built-in interml fonts that reside per-
manentlyin its read-only memory (ROM). That’s why these are sometimes
called “resident fonts”:
Courier 10pitch,
Courier 10pitch,
Courier 10pitch,
Courier 12pitch,
Courier 12pitch,
2pointmedium
2pointbold
2point italic
Opointmedium
Opointbold
Courier 12pitch, 10 pointitalic
Line Printer 16.6pitch, 8.5 point medium
Courier isthe face used onthe 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 alotof
characters intoevery inch of print (great for spreadsheets).
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