Star Micronics 8 Series manual Versatility

This chapterintroducesboththe hardwareand softwareaspectsof the Star LaserPrinter8’s personality,from fonts and print engine to ASCII and Escapesequences.

STAR LASERPRINTER 8 HARDWARE

Versatility

YourStarMicronicsStarLaserPrinter8 workswithpracticallyallcommcr- cialsoftwareprogramsandcomputers.Withfeaturesthatgo beyondStar’s easy, affordable9-pinand fast,quality-printing24-pindot matrixprinters, the Star Laser Printer is the logical next step in the series of fine Star Micronicsprinters.

Your Star LaserPrinter 8 produces pages that look close to typeset quality, with up to 90,000 dots per square inch— no more NLQ (near letter quality) compromises. The Star LaserPrinter 8 produces eight of those pages a minute,These numberstranslateto about five times more resolutionand speed than the averagedot-matrixprinter.

Star’snewprinteris remarkablyversatile.Youcanprintcomplicatedforms (widthwiseif you want) ... detailedgraphs ... your own customizedtype- styles ... digitizedphotographs... other languages(includingArabic and Japanese).

You can even print your letterheadand logo as you print your letter, and reprint them directly onto a businessenvelope.You don’t even need to removethepapertrayto printtheenvelope:just slideit intothemanualfeed slot.

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