Operating instructions

Precautions for RICOH-SCRIPT2

Differences between RICOH-SCRIPT2 and “PostScript Language

Reference Manual, Second Edition”

The differences between RICOH-SCRIPT2 and PostScript Level 2 as defined in

the “PostScript Language Reference Manual, Second Edition” by Adobe Sys-

tems Incorporated are described below.

• RICOH-SCRIPT2 does not support the “user path cache” function, therefore

the print processing speed may be reduced when this function is called by

any PostScript program. This function originated in Display PostScript, and

it is not used by most printer drivers.

• RICOH-SCRIPT2 does not support “automatic garbage collection”. Instead, a

similar routine is implemented by the printer drivers with the “save/restore”

operators. Not having this function does not create any problems.

Other Precautions

• Because of the differences in image, graphics, and clipping rules, the printing

results produced by any single draw operator might be out of place by one

dot.

• The memory area used for downloading fonts will not be free. A VM error

might occur when downloading fonts with insufficient VM memory. In this

case, the print job may be canceled. However, this printer will restart RICOH-

SCRIPT2 automatically.

• Lasertalk version 1.3 is not supported.

• Built-in font metric data may be different from the PostScript fonts.

• Type 1 fonts conform to the Adobe Type 1 font format (1.1) standard. How-

ever, some Type 1 fonts with outline transposition (self-interference) may not

print correctly.

• When printing text without using “font hint data” downloaded from the ap-

plication, enlarged or reduced fonts may print incorrectly.

• When using the PostScript printer driver with Windows applications, the

printed result might not match the preview on the computer screen.