9. A printing system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising: (a) a font storage memory for storing a plurality of characters to be printed by the printing means with each character being stored as a matrix of pixels contained in plurality of lines having a beginning line, a plurality of intermediate lines and an ending line with each line having at least one addressable word with each word having a plurality of pixels; and (b) means, coupled to the font storage means, for causing the readout of words in either a first direction or a second direction, the first direction being from the first line thru the last line with each line being read out in a direction from the lowest addressed word to the highest addressed word and the second direction being from the last line thru the first line with each line being read out in a direction from the highest addressed word to the lowest addressed word and the storage of each character that has been read out in either the first or second direction from the font storage memory in the page memory.
9. A printing system in accordance with claim 1 further comprising: (a) a font storage memory for storing a plurality of characters to be printed by the printing means with each character being stored as a matrix of pixels contained in plurality of lines having a beginning line, a plurality of intermediate lines and an ending line with each line having at least one addressable word with each word having a plurality of pixels; and (b) means, coupled to the font storage means, for causing the readout of words in either a first direction or a second direction, the first direction being from the first line thru the last line with each line being read out in a direction from the lowest addressed word to the highest addressed word and the second direction being from the last line thru the first line with each line being read out in a direction from the highest addressed word to the lowest addressed word and the storage of each character that has been read out in either the first or second direction from the font storage memory in the page memory. 10. A printing system in accordance with claim 9, wherein: the font storage memory stores each character with orientations consisting of a first orientation and a second orientation rotated 90.degree. with respect to the first orientation.