Some of the popular printers of that era that are supported include Canon, C-Itoh, Star Micronics, Epson, NEC, Okidata, and Panasonic.
[2] The Fontmaster line of word processing software provides Commodore users the ability to exploit the graphics capabilities just emerging in printers of the day in order to produce documents containing a mixture of font styles, sizes and effects as well as embedded pictures.
Although lacking the power and flexibility of word processors available today, it was ground-breaking in its day, winning an Outstanding Original Programming award at the 1985 Consumer Electronics Show.
Xetec also developed a few products for Macintosh and PC computers, products for the RC hobby market, and spent a number of years in research and development of solid-state fluorescent lighting ballasts, for which Jon Flickinger holds two patents.
's Gazette in 1986 called the $49.95 Fontmaster II "a terrific value, and well worth the trouble of learning some new commands in exchange for the excellent printouts it delivers".