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- A Soft Font Companion Program For GRAB
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
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- P.O. Box 61
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- Wasco, Illinois 60183
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- 312-377-3520
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- (9 - 5 CST)
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- CIS: 72417,3437
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- 1 SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 2 REQUIREMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 3 RUNNING DOWNLOAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 4 USING DOWNLOAD WITH GRAB . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 5 ERROR MESSAGES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- 6 COMMON PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
- 7 ABOUT ELFRING SOFT FONTS . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 8 LICENSING INFORMATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
- 9 REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- 10 WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- 11 Elfring Soft Font Registration . . . . . . . . 9
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- 1 SUMMARY
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- DOWNLOAD is a shareware utility program for the IBM PC or
- compatible computer that manages the process of sending soft
- fonts to your DeskJet, LaserJet, or compatible printer. This
- version of DOWNLOAD can only send a single font at a time to your
- printer. You can optionally change the soft font ID number or
- parallel printer port. This DOWNLOAD package is customized
- especially for use with GRAB. It comes with 12 point Helv and
- Roman landscape fonts which will let you print envelopes in a
- professional looking proportionally spaced font.
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- The more advanced (commercial) versions of DOWNLOAD can send a
- single font, or group of fonts, through the standard MS-DOS
- devices to your laser printer. They have optional control over
- the soft font ID number, whether the font is permanent or
- temporary, and whether it is a primary or secondary font. A list
- of soft fonts may be sent to the laser printer by specifying
- those fonts in an ASCII text file. Finally, the advanced version
- of DOWNLOAD will extract fonts from archive libraries saving
- great amounts of disk space. A memory resident DOWNLOAD is also
- now available. Call or write for more details on these packages.
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- 2 REQUIREMENTS
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- DOWNLOAD requires an IBM PC or compatible computer, with a
- minimum of 128K of memory, an HP LaserJet+, Series II, DeskJet,
- or compatible printer, and a printer port. Parallel printer
- ports LPT1:, LPT2:, and LPT3: are supported. Everyone who wants
- to use DOWNLOAD and/or these fonts on anything but a trial basis
- must register the program! Licensing for personal use is free.
- Licensing for a business or commercial use costs $10. See the
- form at the end of this document. DeskJet owners MUST have at
- least 1 - 128k RAM cartridge to use the soft font in this
- package.
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- 3 RUNNING DOWNLOAD
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- The DOWNLOAD program is designed to send soft fonts to your laser
- printer and to help you manage font ID numbers. DOWNLOAD is easy
- to use. The only thing you really need to remember is that
- DOWNLOAD will automatically prompt you with a brief description
- of how to use it if you need it. Simply type DOWNLOAD followed
- by a carriage return. The program will print a short explanation
- of its operation and options as shown below:
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- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.3
- Copyright 1987, 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts
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- Use --> download fontname [device ID -options]
- where everything the between `[]'s is optional and...
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- fontname = the name of the font to download
- device = LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3
- ID = starting ID number to assign font to (0 - 32767)
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- When optional arguments are not present, download defaults to:
- LPT1, ID = 0, permanent font, and font is NOT selected. For
- example:
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- download he100rpn.usp lpt1: 5
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- To run DOWNLOAD you must specify either the name of the soft font
- to send to your printer. You can optionally specify the device
- to send the file to, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3. To invoke DOWNLOAD type:
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- download yourfont [port ID#]
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- All items between the `[' and `]' characters are optional. This
- means you do not have to include them. Note that the `[' and `]'
- characters are not actually used in a command. Also note that
- these optional items can be specified in any order. For example,
- to download a Times-Roman 12 point bold font you would enter:
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- download ro120rpn.usp
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- The DOWNLOAD program will find that file, (if it doesn't exist
- DOWNLOAD will let you know), send it to your printer, and will
- default to: printer port LPT1, soft font ID 0, and permanent
- status. The font will not be selected as either primary or
- secondary. The screen will look as follows:
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- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or compatible printer, V1.3
- Copyright 1987, 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts
- Sent 1 file, with a total of 12427 bytes
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- A more complicated command might involve using a different
- printer port and assigning a soft font ID number. For example:
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- download tr100bpn.usp 1000 lpt2
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- This sends the bold faced Times-Roman font to the LaserJet via
- LPT2: and assigns it font ID 1000, and permanent status.
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- WARNING: if you use DOWNLOAD to send more than one font to your
- printer at a time, you MUST change the soft font ID number for
- each font. If you send two fonts to your printer with the same
- ID number your printer will throw one of them away. (The
- advanced DOWNLOAD programs take care of this problem
- automatically.) To send both fonts to your printer:
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- download ro120rpn.usl 1
- download he120rpn.usl 2
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- 4 USING DOWNLOAD WITH GRAB
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- To use DOWNLOAD and the two fonts with GRAB you must first
- configure GRAB to use one of these soft fonts. Next install
- GRAB, and then you MUST download the soft font to your laser
- printer. You are now set to print envelopes in a proportionally
- spaced soft font. Remember that order: configure, install,
- download, and print.
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- Sounds simple so far? Well it really is. Just chose between the
- two fonts supplied with DOWNLOAD. The Helv font is a sans serif
- font that resembles Helvetica. The Roman font resembles Times-
- Roman. Pick the one you like best and then fire up the GRAB
- configuration program.
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- Perform a normal installation of GRAB for your printer. (You
- must pick a laser printer type and printer port!) Once
- everything is configured move the to the "Printer configuration
- menu". From there select "LaserJet init fonts". You must now
- enter a font selection sequence. The sequences for both the
- Roman and the Helv fonts are shown below. Enter the appropriate
- sequence for the font you have chosen. You must now move to the
- locations menu and change the location information.
- Proportionally spaced fonts have MUCH smaller space characters so
- you need to modify the locations where your addresses will print.
- To match the standard GRAB envelope patterns use the values
- below:
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- To Match GRAB's normal positioning My Favorite
- ==================================
- Large Up Down "To Address": 0 -2
- Left to Right "To Address": 89 55
- Left to Right "From Address": 24 20
- Up Down "From Address": 0 -1
- Small Up Down "To Address": 0 0
- Left to Right "To Address": 99 85
- Left to Right "From Address": 68 60
- Up Down "From Address": 0 0
- Comment line below: 1 1
- Comment line spaces: -62 -50
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- Finally, save this configuration! Always remember to download
- the appropriate soft font to your laser printer BEFORE printing.
- Here are the escape sequences to select each of these soft fonts.
- Note that <Esc> stands for the escape key. The ASCII string is
- shown first followed by the decimal string. (GRAB wants to see
- the decimal string.)
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- LASERJET soft fonts
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- Roman: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b5T
- 27 40 48 85 27 40 115 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 53 84
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- download ro120rpn.usl
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- Helv: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s1p12v0s0b4T
- 27 40 48 85 27 40 115 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 52 84
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- download he120rpn.usl
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- DESKJET soft fonts
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- Roman: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s0u1p12v0s0b4t2Q
- 27 40 48 85 27 40 115 48 117 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 52 116 50 81
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- download ro120rpn.djp
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- Helv: <Esc>(0U<Esc>(s0u1p12v0s0b5t2Q
- 27 40 48 85 27 40 115 48 117 49 112 49 50 118 48 115 48 98 53 116 50 81
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- download he120rpn.djp
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- 5 ERROR MESSAGES
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- DOWNLOAD automatically checks the status of your laser printer
- before sending anything to it. If the printer is off, not
- connected, deselected, or out of paper DOWNLOAD will display an
- error message. For example, if your printer was out of paper you
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- download cp300rpn.usp
- Send soft fonts to a LaserJet or DeskJet printer, V1.8
- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 by Elfring Soft Fonts
- Sending font cp300rpn.usp with ID 0
- Printer I/O error
- Printer out of paper
- Abort, Retry, Ignore?
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- Answer with the appropriate letter (A/R/I) followed by a carriage
- return. This process lets you select the printer or add more
- paper to correct the problem.
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- 6 COMMON PROBLEMS
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- 1) MY LASER PRINTER WORKS FINE NORMALLY. HOWEVER, WHEN I USE
- DOWNLOAD TO SEND A SOFT FONT TO IT THE FONT IS GARBLED, DOESN'T
- APPEAR, OR WEIRD THINGS HAPPEN.
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- This is a common problem and is almost certainly due to bad
- hardware! When a soft font is downloaded your printer will be
- receiving data at the maximum possible speed. If you do not have
- a printer cable that meets minimum specifications, or if your
- parallel printer port is marginal the problems mentioned above
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- may occur. For the record: your parallel printer port cable
- should be 6 feet long or less and made of quality materials. You
- should NOT have a switch box in series with this cable! If your
- cable is OK try switching to a different parallel port. These
- ports are easy to damage with static electricity. They may appear
- to work- but they fail during high speed transfers.
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- 2) I DOWNLOAD A SOFT FONT AND MAKE IT MY PRIMARY FONT, JUST AS
- YOUR MANUAL SAYS. IF I COPY FILES TO THE PRINTER THEY PRINT IN
- THAT FONT. IF I USE MY WORD PROCESSOR I ALWAYS SEEM TO RETURN
- BACK TO MY DEFAULT INTERNAL FONT (COURIER).
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- The first thing a word processor does, (before printing
- anything), is to reset the printer. Resetting a laser printer (or
- the DeskJet) automatically causes the printer to return back to
- the default font, Courier). The only practical way around this
- problem is to provide the word processor with a printer driver
- that tells it how to use soft fonts.
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- 3) WHEN DOWNLOADING A NUMBER OF SOFT FONTS MY PRINTER STOPS
- WORKING AND DISPLAYS A FLASHING "20" ON THE LCD DISPLAY.
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- Congratulations, you have run out of memory in your printer. If
- you are sending new fonts to the printer try deleting the old
- ones before sending the new ones. (-D option in Download) If the
- problem occurs regularly you should start looking for a 1 meg
- memory add on board.
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- 4) THE SOFT FONT ID NUMBERS I ASSIGN WITH DOWNLOAD DO NOT MATCH
- THE NUMBERS SHOWN ON MY SAMPLE FONT PRINT SHEET.
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- The Soft Font ID numbers assigned by DOWNLOAD can be used to
- select soft fonts. However, these ID numbers have NO relationship
- to the numbers displayed on a font print sheet. Font print sheet
- numbers always start at 1 and go up. Soft font ID numbers can
- range from 0 - 65,535. There is no way to display a Soft Font ID
- number on a print sheet. Ignore the numbers shown on these
- sheets.
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- 5) MY WORD PROCESSOR DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK WELL WITH SOFT FONTS.
- WHAT CAN I DO?
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- At present, the following word processors will work well with
- most soft fonts. Note that most of these word processors come
- with printer drivers that support common soft font sets. (Some of
- these word processors build their own printer drivers
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- WordStar 2000 v3.0, WordStar 5.0, Word 4.0 & 5.0, Word Perfect
- 4.1 & 5.0,
- PC Write 2.71 & 3.02.
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- 6) THESE SOFT FONTS DON'T WORK WITH MY DESKJET!
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- All DeskJet soft fonts end with the letters "DJP". The other
- fonts work only on laser printers. To use a DeskJet soft font you
- MUST have a 128K RAM cartridge installed!
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- 7 ABOUT ELFRING SOFT FONTS
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- We have been making soft font packages and utility programs for
- laser printers for the last three years. We also do custom font
- design, letter heads, and graphic scanning. All our fonts and
- utilities are reasonably priced, ($20-$50). We offer: memory
- resident download programs, downloaders that extract fonts from
- archived libraries of fonts, programs that print sample sheets of
- your fonts, and several other utility programs. (We also offer
- the same line of products and fonts for the DeskJet printer.)
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- Our fonts come in four different categories- proportionally
- spaced, fixed width, symbol sets, and title fonts. Proportional
- fonts include: Broadway, Century, Century Legal, Helv, Old
- English, Rockford, Roman, Script, Square, & University. Fixed
- width fonts include: Bar Code 3/9, Courier, Letter Gothic, Line
- Draw, Lotus fonts, Prestige Elite, & Roman. Symbol sets include:
- Boxed Helv (keyboard symbols), Pi Characters, Dingbats, Credit
- Cards, Greek, and custom fonts. Title fonts include Helv & Roman
- in 40 & 50 point, plus hollow and shadow fonts!
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- 8 LICENSING INFORMATION
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- Elfring soft fonts and utilities are not and never have been in
- the public domain. Every version of these fonts and utilities
- contains a Copyright Notice and a prohibition against sale,
- modification, or alteration. These fonts and utilities are not
- free software.
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- Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988 by Elfring Soft Fonts.
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- Non-registered users are granted a limited license to use these
- fonts and utilities on a trial basis for the purpose of
- determining whether they are suitable for their needs. Use of
- any font or utility, except for this limited purpose, requires
- registration. Use of non-registered copies of fonts or utilities
- by any business, corporation, governmental agency or other entity
- institution is strictly forbidden.
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- Registration lets you use a set of soft fonts or a utility on a
- single computer and laser printer; a registered user may use the
- program on a different computer, but may not use the program on
- more than one computer or printer at the same time. Note that
- personal registration of the fonts and utilities in this GRAB
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- package is FREE. Corporate registration requires payment of a
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- All users are granted a limited license to copy trial Elfring
- Soft Font packs and utilities, only for the evaluation use of
- others subject to the above limitations. Software must be copied
- in unmodified form, along with the file containing this license
- information. The full documentation must be included with the
- copy.
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- Corporate and Business users are strictly prohibited from using
- this software for any purpose other than evaluation.
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- 9 REGISTRATION
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- After an evaluation period not more than 15 days in length,
- personal users should register their copy by simply filling out
- the form below. No fee is required. Corporations or anyone
- using these fonts or utilities while engaged in an activity
- pursued with the intent of making a profit MUST register. Fill
- out the form below and enclose a check, payable in U.S. funds for
- $10.00.
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- Registration licenses you to use DOWNLOAD and the two landscape
- fonts on a regular basis. Registered users will receive mailed
- notification of other fonts and utilities. Registered users will
- also be granted access to a registered user only BBS to become
- available sometime in 1989. Personal users need register only
- one font or utility; business users must register each font or
- utility pack.
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- All registration forms should be sent to:
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- Elfring Soft Fonts
- P.O. Box 61
- Wasco, Illinois 60183
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- 312-377-3520
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- 10 WARRANTY
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- Elfring Soft Fonts makes no warranty of any kind, express or
- implied, including without limitation, any warranties of
- merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. Elfring
- Soft Fonts shall not be liable for any damages, whether direct,
- indirect, special or consequential arising from a failure of
- these programs or fonts to operate in the manner desired by the
- user. Elfring Soft Fonts shall not be liable for any damage to
- data or property which may be caused directly or in directly by
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- IN NO EVENT WILL ELFRING SOFT FONTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY
- DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER
- INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR
- INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER
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- 11 Elfring Soft Font Registration
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- Name: ____________________________________________________
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- Address: ____________________________________________________
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- Address: ____________________________________________________
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- Address: ____________________________________________________
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- Soft font or utility name: ______________________________________
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- Source of font or utility: ______________________________________
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- Printer:
- [ ] HP LaserJet+, [ ] HP LaserJet II, [ ] HP DeskJet, [ ]
- Other________________
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- Word Processor or DTP: ______________________________________
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- Mail To:
- Business users must enclose $10.00 U.S.)
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- Elfring Soft Fonts, P.O. Box 61, Wasco, Illinois 60183
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- Telephone Registration: 312-377-3520 (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM CST)
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- [ ] I want more information on the following fonts or utilities:
- Barcode 3/9, Broadway, Century Schoolbook, Century Legal,
- Courier, Helv, Line Draw, Old English, Rockford, Roman, Roman
- fixed width, Script, Symbol sets, Title fonts, 40 - 50 point
- fonts, Dingbats, Computer keyboard fonts, Greek, Credit cards,
- Spread sheet fonts and macros, download, dispfont, custom fonts,
- special utilities, and memory resident download.
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