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Star LaserPrinter
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T& chapterintroducesboththehardwareandsoftwareaspectsof the Star
LaserPrinter4’s personality,from fonts and print engineto ASCII and
Escapesequences.
1.1 STARLASERPRINTER4 HARDWARE
1.1.1 Versatility
YourStarMicronicsStarLaserPrinter4workswithpracticallyallcommer-
cialsoftwareprogramsandcomputers.WithfeaturesthatgobeyondStar’s
easy,affordable9-pinandfast,quality-printing24-pindotmatrixprinters
the Star Laser Printer is the logicalnext step in the series of fine Star
Micronicsprintem.
YourStarLaserPrinter4 producespagesthatlookcloseto typesetquality,
withupto 90,000dotspersquareinch—nomoreNLQ(nearletterquality)
compromises.The Star LaserPrinter4 produces four of those pages a
minute.Thesenumberstranslateto aboutfive timesmore resolutionand
aboutthreetimesmorespeedthanthe averagedot-matrixprinter.
Star’snewprinteris~markablyversatile.Youcanprintcomplicatedforms
(widthwiseif you want) ... detailedgraphs... yourown customizedtype-
styles ... digitizedphotographs...
other languages(includingArabic and
Japanese).
You can even print yourletterheadand logo as youprint yourletter, and
reprintthem directlyonto a businessenvelope.You don’t even need to
removethepapertraytoprinttheenvelope:just slideitintothemanualfeed
slot.
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