Star Micronics 4111 manual Hints Where to get fonts

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Downloadable fonts run the gamut from Egyptian hieroglyphics to those eye-catching decorative fonts known as display fonts. They also include the more exotic foreign-language characters, such as Arabic or Cyrillic, and symbol and mathematical fonts (sometimes with fractions).

How can you compare cartridge and downloadable fonts? When you use cartridge fonts you don’t have to take time to download them. They don‘t take any of your Star LaserPrinter 4111’sRAM memory either. But downloadable fonts offer many more choices. Downloadable fonts usually cost less too.

The printer always knows where its internal fonts are. For each emulation program, it also keeps track of cartridge and downloaded fonts in a part of its memory called the~ont table.

So with the Star LaserPrinter 4111you can have many fonts available at any one time — the internal fonts, the fonts on any cassettes you’ve plugged in, and any fonts you have downloaded. You can change fonts in mid-line to emphasize a word or two whenever you want. You can mix internal, cartridge and downloaded fonts in the same document.

3.2.4Hints: Where to get fonts

●You can print any downloadable font that works on the HP LaserJet HI. Several other companies sell downloadable fonts which are compatible with your Star LaserPrinter 4111The. Bitstream Corporation in Boston is one of the more popular; Conographic is another. Xerox includes a set of fonts with its Venm}a Publisher desktop publishing software, which you can use with your printer.

●The SoftCraft company now markets a Bitstream-developed product called “Fontware”. With Fontware you can generate bit-mapped fonts of any size from a library of outline fonts. In outline fonts each character’s profile is defined just once and the printer generates any font height from that profile, which saves printer memory.

●Don’t hesitate to ask your Star dealer where you can buy cartridge and downloadable fonts. If you really can’t find the one you need, you can design and download your own customized fonts. This is no easy job, but if you’re curious it’s described in chapter 4.

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