Star Micronics 4111 Printer User Manual


 
The Star LaserPrinter 4111is ideal for desktop publishing. The pages it
produces make perfect photocopy or instant-printmasters. And allthe main
desktop publishingsystems,includingAldus Corporation’sPageMaker and
Xerox Ventura Publisher, work splendidly with the Star LaserPrinter 4111.
With “page makeup” programs like these you will be able maybe for the
first time to deliver communications with the impact of top-notch
graphics.
1.1.2 Font options
You can print with an amazingly wide variety of type fonts and sizes. The
Star LaserPrinter 4111comes with two built-in bit-mapped fonts and two
built-in scalable fonts, which can be printed from 3 points to 999.75 points
in size (a point is about 1/72of an inch).
These fonts are:
CG Times Font
Univers Font
Courier Font
Line Printer Font
Besides these, you may be able to use optional cartridges and disks to give
your Star LaserPrinter 4111a variety of extra fonts, such as these:
Prestige fonts
Letter Gothic fonts
H Gothic fonts
Roman fonts
Presentation fonts
Optical Character Reader fonts
Line drawing
Bar codes
You can load your Star LaserPrinter 4111’smemory with fonts stored on
computer disks. Literally hundreds of fonts are marketed by font-supply
companies. Some fonts are even obtainable from computer “user groups” or
“electronic bulletinboards”. Fonts you get this way are inthepublicdomain,
which means you don’t need to pay a licence fee to use them.
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