At the time this book was written, there were so many printers available from Radio Shack that a book like this had to be created. Printers that carried the Radio Shack brand included the following: CGP 115, 220; DMP 100, 110, 120, 200,400,420,500,2100,2100P; DW I, II, IIB; DWP 210, 410; LP I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII; QP I, II; TP 10; Plotter/Printer.

By this time, printers were no longer simple line printers of plain text. The newer printers were capable of printing graphics, boldface, and proportionally spaced text. This book was written to help its readers take full advantage of these new features.

Barden split his book into three sections. Section One covered printer basics. Section Two dealt with printing text. Section Three explained graphics printing.

As an aid to understanding printer "codes," Barden included a table in the appendix for making decimal, binary, and hexadecimal conversions from 0 through 255. ( )