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From: ttw@lambda.UUCP (Tony Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Compatibility: Laserjet II, II/D, III ?
Summary: some LJ III stuff
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Date: 1 Aug 90 18:22:52 GMT
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     The Laserjet III has Courier at 10cps and 12 cps built in
     as bit-mapped fonts. It also has a line-printer bit-mapped
     font. It also has two built-in scalable fonts from Compugraphics:
     CG Times and Univers. CG Times is similar to Times Roman and
     Univers is a family of its own (the French think Unives is
     great, many magazines are printed in Univers; it is NOT
     a clone of Helvetica.)

     The scalable fonts work from 1 point to 999.75 points in .25 point
     increments. I do not know what programs support this printer.
     Wordperfect 5.0 (and 5.1, I presume) give you the full range
     of scaling of both CG Times and Univers. MS Word 5.0 gives
     1 point to 125 point in 1 point increments. (A 777 point I
     is real big, I found out. )

     The Laserjet III will rotate images, not just its own fonts, to 
     portrait or landscape. It has no limitations on the number of
     fonts downloaded except memory. The image enhancement seems to
     be done after other processing. I can see real differences in
     large (18+ Point) printing.

     I don't know much else. I would like to know if there are any
     PD or shareware scalable fonts for the Laserjet III.