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Quick Forms now supports the HP LaserJet series of printers. There
is one technicality however. The LaserJet uses a separate 'Font' for
each variety of typestyle, and the selection that comes with your Laser
Printer is usually very limited.
Quick Forms 'requires' the PC-8 (or PC) family of Fonts to be
resident in your printer, whether internally, in a Font Cartridge or as
a Soft Font. This is because only the PC-8 family has all of the IBM
Extended Character Set, which includes all the line drawing characters
necessary in creating a form. To determine what fonts are resident in
your printer, take your printer Off Line and push the PRINT FONTS
button. The PC-8 family will be designated with a "10U". The earlier
HP models did not come with the PC-8 family. Starting with the LaserJet
II this was made standard.
Here are the different models and what they support.
LaserJet Requires a cartridge for PC-8
LaserJet + Requires a cartridge for PC-8
and 500 +
LaserJet II PC-8 included, but only in 10 Pitch (no italics)
LaserJet IID PC-8 included, with 10 and 12 Pitch (no italics)
LaserJet 2000 PC-8 included, with 10 and 12 Pitch (no italics)
LaserJet III PC-8 included, with 10 and 12 Pitch
and italics (no bold italics). Also has
Roman-8 'scalable' fonts.
HP Font Cartridges 92290S1 & 92290S2 have the PC-8 family of fonts.
While Quick Forms was originally designed for dot matrix printers,
the print 'quality' to be had from a laser printer can't be beat. This
brings up another dilemma. What about Double Width, Double Height and
Double Width & Double Height characters? First of all, the fonts used
by Quick Forms must be 'fixed spacing'. This means that each character
takes up the same horizontal space, which is necessary to making a form.
Double Width and Double Height characters are sort of an odd-ball size.
There are two printer drivers included, HPLASER.PRT & HPLASERX.PRT.
If your laser printer can emulate an Epson printer, then set it to
that mode and choose an Epson Printer for Quick Forms. If not then
choose one of the HP Printers.
HPLASER.PRT Try this driver first. For Double Width, Height and
Double Width & Height, Quick Forms will ask your printer
for the proper size fonts. If they are not found, then
they will not be printed as such. Change any of these fonts
in your form to standard size (i.e. instead of double
width, make it Normal Bold).
HPLASERX.PRT The X stands for experimental. If you have Roman-8
'scalable' fonts (standard with the LaserJet III), Quick
Forms will substitute a size approximately 1 1/2 times
the size you are using for Double Height. A size 2 times
this size will be substituted for D-Width D-Height. Double
Width is not used. These fonts are, however,
'proportionally' spaced. That is, each character is a
different width (i.e. a "W" will take up a lot of space,
while an "i" will take up very little). For this reason
you will have to experiment with positioning on the paper.
NOTE: When using these 'scalable' fonts, you should only use
them on a separate line, or on the 'right side' of any
tables or charts that you may have made. Also, since they
are not a part of the PC-8 family, the characters of the
IBM Extended Character Set will be different.
Roman-8 Fonts are designated as "8U"