Fine-quality printing produced by dot-matrix printers in their best resolution, which is almost as good as that produced by fully formed characters.
A term used to describe the overall clarity and legibility of a printer's output, comparable to a typewriter. Was once a selling feature of some of the older dot-matrix printers, but these days is expected.
A description of advanced 9-pin and 24-pin dot matrix printers, where the text produced by the printer is hard to distinguish from a letter-quality daisywheel printer.
(NLQ) A printing standard where the documents produced resemble the higher standard, "letter quality" produced on a quality typewriter. Laser printers produce letter quality documents. Although some inkjet printers advertise "near letter quality" performance, it is difficult for the untrained eye to distinguish NLQ from letter quality documents.
A printing feature that uses 144 dots per inch to create each character on a page.
(NLQ) Print that is slightly less clear than letter quality.
The print mode used by your printer to produce near-letter-quality fonts for better readability and appearance. Print speed is slower. See also draft.
Describes print output that is slightly less clear than letter quality. 6.14
