The fonts installed okay, but some of the characters look funny on screen, whats up?
Chances are nothing is wrong. It is just that your monitor has a resolution on the order of 72 pixels per inch and your printer probably has a resolution of more than 300 dots per inch. Q: Some of the characters don’t print right or they are replaced with rectangles, what’s up? A: Some of the lettering fonts do not have full punctuation or accents. If the font does not have a given character, you may get all sorts of strange things when you try to print that character. This is just your printer doing what printers are suppose to do. On the other hand, some of the artwork fonts are very detailed and they may tax older computers or printers. When your computer or printer runs out of memory it may mess up printing a character or replace it with a rectangle. Here are a few tips: one, the larger the font size, the more taxing it is on your system. Two, when you are just on the verge of having a problem, sometimes you can eliminate it by shifting up or down one or two point sizes. Three, if
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