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DOWNLOADING FONTS SUPPLEMENT

Note: please read the Downloading File Supplement first.

44 and 46 printers will no longer accept downloaded FGL bitmapped fonts. Instead, you can download HP Soft

fonts directly to the printer. Soft fonts are readily available and, therefore, provide a far greater selection of fonts

than those available through FGL.

Soft font files contain complete character data and instructions and may be downloaded “as is” to the printer.

Soft fonts usually end with the .SFP or .SFL extensions but this depends on the program that creates them (like

the Adobe Font Foundry Program).

SOFT FONT DOWNLOADING

Downloading Fonts as Temporary or Permanent

The process of transferring fonts from your computer to your printer is called downloading. If you use a font

frequently, download it as permanent. This causes the file to be stored in flash so it will always be available.

This is the default mode for the printer but if the mode has been changed you can send a <PF> command to set

permanent mode. If you install a font as temporary, it is loaded into your printer's ram memory not flash.

These files will be lost once power is turned off. Send a <TF> command to set the temporary file mode.

For example, to send a Soft font to a printer connected to your lpt1 port simply type copy/b name.sfp lpt1:.

You must also send at least one other character following the last soft font to guarantee the font is stored into

the printer’s memory. NOTE: Pushing the test button after downloading the last soft font will also store the font

into the printer’s memory.

Note: Soft fonts are often available in both Portrait and Landscape orientations. The customer only needs to

download the portrait orientation in order to get all four rotations of the font.

Permanent and temporary fonts are assigned a sequential ID according to the order of downloading unless the

download is preceded with the <ID#> command. The first soft font downloaded would be soft font 1, the second

soft font 2, etc. The first soft font would be printed with an <SF1> command, the second by <SF2> etc.

TRANSLATION TABLE COMMAND - <TT#>

This command only affects fonts that use an extended character set. Originally, was meant only for use with

downloaded soft fonts. It can now be used with resident fonts (see below).

0 = Normal - prints characters in the same order as they were stored.

1 = Used for translating a font stored in code page 1252 Windows Latin 1 format to the code page 437 MS-DOS

Latin US (PC-8) character set.

2 = Used for translating a font stored in code page 1252 Windows Latin 1 format to the code page 850 MS-DOS

(Multilingual Latin I) character set.

3 = Used for translating a font stored in code page 1250 Windows Central Europe format to the code page 852

(Latin II) character set.

4 = Used for translating a font stored in code page 850 MS-DOS (Multilingual Latin I) format to the code page

1252 Windows Latin 1 character set.

Note: code page 858 is the same as code page 850 except it contains the Euro character in space D5. It can be

used in place of code page 850.

PERMANENT TRANSLATION TABLE COMMAND - <tt#>

This command is exactly the same as described above except that the command is saved in the flash and

becomes permanent until a new <tt#> command is sent. To return to the default setting send a <tt0>command.