HP-UX 11i v3 International Printing Features

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Comparison of PCL5.asian and PS.font Model Files
Many of the capabilities of the PCL5.asian and PS.font model files are similar, but there are also
some subtle differences. For instance, the same text file printed by the PCL5.asian model file might
look slightly different from that of the PS.font model file because of differences in font selection and
sizes.
Table 11 compares the PCL5.asian and PS.font model files. Use this table to choose the model
file that is best for your printing environment.
Table 11: Comparison of PCL5.asian and PS.font Model Files
Model File
PCL5.asian PS.font
Printing speed The PCL5 printer language is simpler. So the
print job usually completes faster.
The PostScript printer language is more complex.
So a PostScript print job is usually a bit slower
than the corresponding PCL5 print job.
Printer memory
PCL5.asian requires less printer memory
than PS.font for similar print jobs.
PS.font requires more printer memory than
PCL5.asian for similar print jobs.
Printer control
language
PCL5 PostScript
Multiple pages
per sheet
Support printing 2 or 4 pages per sheet of
paper.
Not currently supported.
Mozilla web
pages
Does not support printing of web pages from
Mozilla.
Support the printing of non-Latin 1 characters in
web pages as displayed by the Mozilla web
browser.
Non-CJK
language
support
Can provide limited support for European
character sets as long as they are supported
directly by the printer.
Can support all the non-CJK character sets
supported by the HP-UX operating system (e.g.,
Hebrew, Arabic).
Bidirectional
printing
Not supported Supported as specified by the Unicode
bidirectional algorithm.
Configurability Allow a limited amount of configuration and
customization by the setnetlp command
and direct file editing.
Allow more configuration and customization than
PCL5.asian via the psmsgen configuration tool.