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Printer Fonts

Printer and computer fonts are generally used for entertaining and higher quality looks. The term font refers to the typeface used and what size that typeface is used at. Some of the basic typefaces are generally now included with the computer operating system, such as Times new roman available in bold, italic or underline.

Originally computer printers required a special graphic font referred to as a bitmap font for each of the different typefaces available. Bitmap fonts required much more memory and generally were not stored on printers. If an individual wanted to load additional fonts onto his or her printer they could buy fonts as software referred to as soft fonts which used a special utility to load them to the printer or alternatively could purchase cartridges to load various amounts of fonts on at a time.

Today there are few if any printer manufacturers which produce printers which require printer cartridges and now utilize scalable fonts. The original scalable font was the PostScript font from Adobe. Generally most PostScript printers are equipped with 39 basic fonts installed internally. However, thousands of additional fonts are also available through Adobe Postscript page found on our network.

A few years after PostScript was officially released Apple and Microsoft joined forces to develop TrueType. TrueType today is now integrated into each of the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems.

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