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Typestyles, Character fonts

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Typestyles You can produce a wide range of typestyles by combining different character fonts, widths, and other enhancements. You can select typestyles using the control panel, DIP switches, software commands, or your application program. Character fonts Your printer has 10 built-in character fonts. The draft font uses fewer dots per character for fast printing. This makes it ideal for rough drafts and editing work. (When you select the draft font, you can also use DIP switches to select an even faster high-speed draft mode. See DIP-switch functions in this chapter. ) All other fonts are letter quality (LQ) fonts. Letter quality fonts produce fully-formed characters for presentation-quality documents. To select a font, press the FONT button on the printer's control panel until the light next to your desired font comes on. The font remains selected until you select another. With Epson's new ESC/P 2 printer control language, the Roman and Sans Serif fonts are scalable. The minimum size of each font is 8 points and the maximum size is 32 points. You can increase the size of the font in 2-point increments. Scalable fonts allow you to print in varying sizes with the appropriate software. The sample below shows characters of the following point sizes: 8, 10.5, 16, 22, 24, 28, and 32. Roman AAA A A A A Sans serif A A A A A A A Using the Printer 3-19

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Typestyles
You can produce a wide range of typestyles by combining different
character fonts, widths, and other enhancements. You can select
typestyles using the control panel, DIP switches, software
commands, or your application program.
Character fonts
Your printer has
10
built-in character fonts.
The draft font uses fewer dots per character for fast printing. This
makes it ideal for rough drafts and editing work. (When you select
the draft font, you can also use DIP switches to select an even
faster high-speed draft mode. See DIP-switch functions in this
chapter. )
All other fonts are letter quality (LQ) fonts. Letter quality fonts
produce fully-formed characters for presentation-quality documents.
To select a font, press the
FONT
button on the printer’s control panel
until the light next to your desired font comes on. The font remains
selected until you select another.
With Epson’s new ESC/P 2 printer control language, the Roman
and Sans Serif fonts are scalable. The minimum size of
each font is
8 points and the maximum size is 32 points. You can increase the
size of the font in 2-point increments.
Scalable fonts allow you to print in varying sizes with the
appropriate software. The sample below shows characters of the
following point sizes: 8,
10.5, 16, 22, 24, 28,
and
32.
Roman
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
Sans serif
A
A
A
A
A
A
A
Using the Printer
3-19