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Univers
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Univers
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Univers
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With these most frequently used fonts in ROM, a page can be assembled
much faster than if the fonts had to be loaded into the printer for each printing
job.
Cartridge and downloaded fonts
Your Star LaserPrinter 8111 can use two other kinds of fonts, along with those
built into the printer.
Cartridge fonts, like the internal ones, are permanently stored on ROM
chips. The difference is that those ROMs are in removable cartridges. Your
Star LaserPrinter 8111 has slots for two font cartridges.
Each cartridge may hold anywhere from half a dozen to two dozen fonts, all
differing from the internal fonts in size, style, stroke weight or symbol set.
You’ll find that cartridge fonts open up a wider range of typefaces too, such
as Helvet and Letter Gothic. Generally, cartridge and internal font typefaces
are suitable for both text and headlines.
The third kind of font is neither built into your Star LaserPrinter 8111 nor
available just by slipping in a cartridge. You download this kind of font,
which means you use a computer program to send characters from a
computer disk to your printer’s memory. Any downloaded font (sometimes
called a “soft” or “installed” font) that you put into the printer’s RAM
disappears when you turn off the printer, so you have to download that font
again next time you want it.
Downloadable fonts run the gamut from Egyptian hieroglyphics to those
eye-catching decorative fonts known as disphy 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
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