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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"
-