![]() ![]() IBM named the font Sonoran Sans Serif due to licensing restrictions and the manufacturing facility's location (Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert), and announced in early 1984 that the Sonoran Sans Serif family, "a functional equivalent of Monotype Arial," would be available for licensed use in the 3800-3 by the fourth quarter of 1984. The hand-drawn Arial artwork was completed in 1982 at Monotype by a 10-person team led by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders and was digitized by Monotype at 240 DPI expressly for the 3800-3. For the 3800-3, Monotype substituted Helvetica with Arial. The fonts for the 4250, delivered to IBM in 1983, included Helvetica, which Monotype sub-licensed from Linotype. ![]() Monotype was under contract to supply bitmap fonts for both printers. IBM debuted two printers for the in-office publishing market in 1982: the 240- DPI 3800-3 laserxerographic printer, and the 600-DPI 4250 electro-erosion laminate typesetter.
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