Disk No:  718                                                           
Disk Title: LQ Printer Utility                                          
PC-SIG Version: S2.81                                                   
                                                                        
Program Title: LQ Printer Utility                                       
Author Version: 2.35                                                    
Author Registration: $35.00                                             
Special Requirements: Epson or compatible printer.                      
                                                                        
So you want letter quality, but you're stuck with that old nine-pin dot 
matrix printer?  Don't just resign, join the club; discover LQ PRINTER  
UTILITY!  It is an impressive printer utility program that lets you use 
your inexpensive dot matrix printer to print a variety of fonts in      
near-letter quality.  It can be loaded as a memory-resident program to  
filter the data from your wordprocessor or other programs, or it can be 
used alone to process individual files.  But if you have the 80K or so  
of RAM, the memory-resident mode is the most convenient way to use this 
program.                                                                
                                                                        
LQ PRINTER UTILITY includes pre-defined fonts of Courier, Greek,        
Helvetica, Roman, and many others (italics for each font are included). 
A character editor is also provided to let you modify or create your    
own font sets.  Each font character is 10 by 24 dots so there is enough 
resolution to make some fairly decent fonts.                            
                                                                        
Like all programs of this sort, LQ PRINTER UTILITY uses a graphics mode 
for your beautiful new fonts and printing takes longer -- but it's worth
the wait.  It also provides a print spooler, and this optimizes graphics
printing.                                                               
                                                                        
Included is the program BIGPRINT, which lets you print large-           
letter banners (using any of the same fonts that LQ uses).  If your     
printer is an Epson (or compatible), the banner letters are made using  
the block graphics characters; otherwise, they are created with         
asterisks.  (Just make sure you don't have LQ loaded when you run       
BIGPRINT, or your printer will be running forever.)                     
                                                                        
A new feature of LQ is a program that lets you create and edit your own 
letterheads.  LETHEAD is a graphics editor that works with LQ to        
produce high-resolution letterheads consisting of 1" x 1" pictures and  
up to four lines of accompanying text.                                  
                                                                        
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