[comp.graphics] Wanted: simple text output routine for dot matrix printer

riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) (06/24/87)

I am looking for a piece of software which must have been written a thousand
times: I need a simple program to turn ascii text into (say) 3/8 inch tall
output using graphics mode on a dot matrix printer. 

The application I have in mind is to print names on gummed labels, which can
then be stuck on "Hello My Name Is" tags for a conference we put on every
year.  The output font needs to be legible from a distance. 

If it matters, we run SysV on a 3B15 and available printers are an AT&T 5310
and an AT&T 470 (each is a clone of something more common, but I'm not sure
what).  Of course, if I get a well-written and -documented program intended
for any reasonably vanilla printer I should be able to hack it for use here. 

Thanks.

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