letter quality , LQ (skrót)

These outline fonts could be printed in letter quality at any size.

The dot matrix is the least expensive; the 24-pin model will print closer to letter quality than the 9-pin model.

Can different types of printer e.g. a letter quality printer be added?

Besides the broad teak-and-glass kitchen table was a keyboard and modum that linked up to the office computer along with a letter quality printer.

This allows, for instance, both draft and letter quality printing to be carried out remotely without having to alter printer settings on the server.

Partial truth No. 1: His description of "two types of printers," dot matrix and letter quality.

Letter quality (high-speed typewriter process) was slower, noisier, resembled typescript, incapable of graphics - and altogether fine for manuscripts.

The Registry itself has two addressable network printers: a 400 cps data processing dot matrix, and a lower letter quality thimble printer.

These problems can be resolved in several ways, however, and certainly shouldn't present a barrier to any user determined to get letter quality output from his word processing package.

"You look at spacing, you look at alignment, you look at letter quality.

Near Letter Quality (NLQ)

Near Letter Quality mode-informally specified as almost good enough to be used in a business letter-endowed dot-matrix printers with a simulated typewriter-like quality.

ImageWriter LQ (Letter Quality) was a 27-pin dot matrix printer introduced in 1987 by Apple Computer.

That used to sound fast, but the Panasonic 24-pin printer is rated at 240 characters per second for high-speed drafts, 80 characters per second for letter quality.

The ImageWriter printer supported a higher resolution mode where bitmap fonts double the size of the screen resolution were automatically substituted for 'near letter quality' printing.

Some later Apple QuickDraw-based laser printers also supported four-times font printing where bitmaps quadruple the screen size were used for letter quality output.

The Diablo 630 could produce letter quality output as good as that produced by an IBM Selectric or Selectric-based printer, but at a lower cost.

While some of those dot-matrix printers boast of "near letter quality" printing, the HP Deskjet 500 is capable of boasting "near laser quality" printing.

The Super Graphix Jr added support for 50+ printers and "Near Letter Quality", which was a technique of using multi-pass graphic printing to achieve better looking text printing.

Apple also provided TrueType outline files for the bitmapped 'city' system fonts, allowing letter quality WYSIWYG printing of those fonts.

Commodore also produced the DPS-1101 daisy wheel printer, which produced letter quality print similar to a typewriter, and which typically cost more than the computer and floppy disk drive together.

In addition to the seven type fonts standard on both new printers, the KX-P1124i includes what Panasonic calls a "super letter quality" type that makes two passes over each line for added sharpness.

In text mode, the printer was logic-seeking, meaning it would print with the head moving in both directions while it would print only in one direction for graphics and Near Letter Quality.

The quality of the printing depends on the number of dots that are used to create each character; typical values range from 8 rows of 8 dots to the, so called, Near Letter Quality of 24 rows of 17 dots.

Most dot-matrix printers now have a mode called Near Letter Quality, or some variant, in which the printhead goes over every line twice with a slight offset, a procedure that tends to fill in the dots, and others use more pins to bang out smoother-looking letters.