27. A printing system in accordance with claim 24, wherein the processing unit comprises: (a) means for storing a remainder from an immediately preceding word which has not been transmitted to the page memory for storage therein; (b) an arithmetic logic unit means for rotating a current word retrieved from the font storage memory by a number of pixel positions and merging the rotated word with the remainder stored in the means for storing a remainder with the remainder assuming the most significant pixel positions to position the pixels of the merged remainder and the current word in the arithmetic logic unit for storage as a word in the page memory of the raster storage means with a word of pixels having the most significant pixel positions being transmitted to the page memory; and (c) means for determining the specified number of pixel positions that the arithmetic logic unit is to rotate the current word by dividing a specified position of the boundary of the first word of an immediately previous character, to be stored in the page memory of the raster storage means, as expressed in a number of pixels, by the number of pixels in a word.
24. A printing system in accordance with claim 21 further comprising: (a) a first storage coupled between the font storage means and the processing unit for storing each retrieved word from each character prior to transmission to the processing unit; (b) a second storage, coupled between the processing unit and the raster storage means, for storing each word from each character prior to transmission to the raster storage means; and (c) a third storage, coupled between the raster storage means and the printing means, for storing at least one word stored in the raster storage means prior to transmission to the printing means.