Thischapterintroducesboththehardwareandsoftwareaspectsof theStar
LaserPrinter8’s personality,from fonts and print engineto ASCII and
Escapesequences.
STAR LASERPRINTER 8 HARDWARE
Versatility
YourStarMicronicsStarLaserPrinter8workswithpracticallyallcommcr-
cialsoftwareprogramsandcomputers.WithfeaturesthatgobeyondStar’s
easy,affordable9-pinandfast,quality-printing24-pindotmatrixprinters,
the Star Laser Printer is the logicalnext step in the series of fine Star
Micronicsprinters.
Your Star LaserPrinter 8 produces pages that look close to typeset quality,
with up to 90,000 dotsper square inch— no more NLQ (near letter quality)
compromises.
The Star LaserPrinter8 produceseight of those pages a
minute,Thesenumberstranslateto aboutfivetimesmore resolutionand
speedthantheaveragedot-matrixprinter.
Star’snewprinterisremarkablyversatile.Youcanprintcomplicatedforms
(widthwiseif you want)... detailedgraphs... yourown customizedtype-
styles... digitizedphotographs... other languages(includingArabic and
Japanese).
Youcan evenprintyourletterheadand logo as youprintyourletter,and
reprintthem directlyonto a businessenvelope.You don’teven need to
removethepapertraytoprinttheenvelope:justslideitintothemanualfeed
slot.
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