Star Micronics 8 Series Printer User Manual


 
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To see how muchmemoryis availablefor extra fonts,put the printer
offlineandpresstheTESTbuttontoprintastatussheet.Yourprinterwill
beepand showa front-panelmessageif youtry to overloadits memory
by downloadingtoomany fonts.It then willcontinueprintingwith the
closestavailablefontto thatrequested.
Asageneralrule,youcanincludeatleastadozendowrdoadablcfontsin
adocument.Addedtotheinternalfonts,thatshouldbeplenty—itdoesn’t
make good design sense to mix many typefaces.A telltale sign of
amateurishlaserprintingis toomanyfontsin onedocument.
To keep a widevarietyof extrafontsin memory,however,many Star
LascrPrintcr8 users(especiallythosesharingthe printeron a network)
preferto add theoptionalboardwiththe secondmegabyteof RAM.