User`s guide

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Selecting Fonts
Fonts are selected through your software application, through
printer commands, or (for PCL 5) the control panel. The font
you select is used until you:
Change your selection at the menu
Select a different font through your software application
Send a printer command to select a font with your document
Scalable Fonts Scalable fonts are available in PostScript page description
language and PCL 5 mode. Scalable fonts are created within the
printer on a character-by-character basis ensuring font quality.
Fonts can be scaled in limitless sizes in PostScript page
description language, and scaled up to 999.75 points in quarter-
point increments in PCL 5 mode.
Bit-mapped Fonts Bit-mapped fonts are made of dot-by-dot patterns in predefined
sizes. Bit-mapped fonts have fixed point size, pitch and symbol
set attributes. For example, 10 point Courier is one font, 12
point Courier is another. Bit-mapped fonts cannot be scaled and
are available in PCL 5 mode.
Bit-mapped Versus
Scalable Fonts
Because each change in point size (or character set) requires a
separate font, bit-mapped fonts can take up more printer memory
than scalable fonts. If you use a wide variety of point sizes, one
scalable font can replace the need for hundreds of discrete-sized
bit-mapped fonts.
In PCL 5 mode, bit-mapped fonts and scalable fonts are selected
using the same PCL 5 command set. If a bit-mapped version of
a font is already available in the printer, the printer uses it first.
If a bit-mapped version is not available, and a scalable font is,
the printer scales the font to the specified point size.
3-4 Printing