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Enhancing Your Printing
You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with your printer,
from changing the number of characters per inch to using special
effects on selected words and phrases. This section gives you a
sampling of the features you may select with your software.
For software control of these features, see the instructions for your
applications program or look up their specific commands in
Chapter 9.
Print quality and fonts
The most apparent change you can make to print quality is to
change fonts.
Your printer has three levels of print quality: high-speed draft,
normal draft and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). High-speed draft
printing is ideal for
rough drafts and
large documents that you
need to print quickly. Normal draft printing is a bit slower, but
offers higher resolution characters. NLQ printing takes a little
longer, but produces darker, more fully-formed characters suitable
for presentation-quality documents. For NLQ printing, the printer
offers two fonts: Roman and Sans Serif.
The printout below shows the difference between high-speed draft,
normal draft, NLQ Roman, and NLQ Sans Serif characters so you
can compare the different styles and densities.
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Draft printing is
fast.
NLQ Roman is clear and typewriter-like.
NLQ
Sans Serif is crisp and distinctive.
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