15. A printing system in accordance with claim 14 wherein: (a) the font storage memory has a number of individual addressable word storage locations defined by an address field extending between a minimum address and a maximum address; and (b) a subfield of contiguous addresses of the words defining a single character are readable in either the first or second direction.
15. A printing system in accordance with claim 14 wherein: (a) the font storage memory has a number of individual addressable word storage locations defined by an address field extending between a minimum address and a maximum address; and (b) a subfield of contiguous addresses of the words defining a single character are readable in either the first or second direction. 16. A printing system in accordance with claim 15 wherein the means for causing the readout of words comprises: (a) a means for providing the addresses of words to be sequentially read from the font storage memory, the means for providing addresses having a counter which is programmed to count a total equal to the number of words which are contained in an individual character in ascending order from a minimum address to a maximum address when reading out in the first direction and in descending order from the maximum address to the minimum address when reading out in the second direction, each word having a plurality of pixels each having an address with the pixels ranging in address from a most significant pixel to a least significant pixel; and (b) means, coupled to the font storage memory, for selectively reversing the order of outputting pixels in a single word on an output having a number of lines equal to the number of pixels in a word so as to either output the pixels in a first fixed order from the most significant pixel to the least significant pixel when the direction of reading out is in the first direction or in a second fixed order, opposite the first fixed order, from the least significant pixel to the most significant pixel, when the direction of reading out is in the second direction, the output lines being coupled to the page memory.