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From: jeffe@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (George J. Jefferson)
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Subject: Re: ENORMOUS fonts
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Date: 11 Apr 90 22:14:11 GMT
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In article <11037@portia.Stanford.EDU> thewho@portia.Stanford.EDU (Derek Fong) writes:
>I have an HP Deskwriter and was wondering if anyone had some large size fonts
>for the families listed below.  (i.e. I need 4X fonts.  So sizes like 48 and
>72 point, and 36 point would be extremely helpful.

The Deskwriter seems to make use of the largest available screen font,
even if it is not exactly 4x, and even if you have the chosen size installed.
ie if you have 12pt and 36pt installed and you print at 12pt the print
quality will be reasonably good (not as good as if you had 48pt but
much better than with just 12pt available)

The manual gives the impression that you need a screen font which is 
exactly 4x.

What this seems to say is that we need 1 large size of each font to
cover a range of printable sizes

Note that this is based on personal (untrained) observation. 
(I'm sure I'll be corrected if i'm wrong)

Does anyone know if other non-postscript printers handle fonts this way.
I'd heard that the IW LQ and LW SC can use 4x fonts but do they need
to be exactly 4x?