Enhancing Your Printing
You can obtain a wide variety of printing effects with the
DFX-8000
printer, from changing the number of characters printed per inch to
using special effects or adding emphasis to selected words and
phrases. This section gives you a sampling of the features you
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want to select with your software.
For software control of these features, see the instructions for your
application program or look up their specific commands in the.
Command Summary in Chapter
9.
Print quality and fonts
The most fundamental changes you can make to printing on the
DFX-8000
are in the print quality and fonts.
The
DFX-8000
has three levels of print quality: high-speed draft,
normal draft, and
NLQ
(Near Letter Quality). High-speed draft is
ideal for rough drafts and large documents or reports that you need
to print quickly. Normal draft is a bit slower, but offers higher
resolution characters. Finally,
NLQ
takes a little
longer
but produces
darker, more fully-formed characters suitable for presentation-
quality documents. For
NLQ
printing, the
DFX-8000
offers two
fonts-Roman and
Sans
Serif.
The printout below shows the difference between high-speed draft,
normal draft,
NLQ
Roman, and
NLQ
Sans
Serif so that you can
compare the different styles and densities.
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Software and Graphics
