Fonts
What is a font?
A font refers to a set of printable characters in a partic- ular typeface of a specific size (e.g. 12 point) and style (e.g. roman, bold or
Bitmap fonts are made up of a pattern of dots (at the printer resolution) to form the image of each printable character. These are of a fixed size and scaling makes them look ragged.
Scalable fonts are stored as a set of mathematical curves. At print time, the printer uses the stored curves to make up a bitmap of each character required, at the required size in the required style, at the full printer res- olution. Such fonts are therefore said to be scalable and do not appear ragged at enlarged sizes.
Printing a font list
1.Press the
English
2.Press TRAY TYPE/Print Fonts button for at least two seconds. The LCD shows FONTS HP PCL6.
3.Press the ENTER button.
4.After a short delay two pages of font information will be printed, including samples.
Using fonts
Most Windows programs provide an easy method of font selection within documents. In these cases the font selection is controlled by the host PC software applica- tion (or by Windows itself). On other software plat- forms special codes (escape sequences) must be embedded with the print data. This topic is beyond the scope of this user guide. However, the font list referred to above contains a list of the required codes. Use of these codes is best left to a professional programmer.
Symbol sets
The printer provides special sets of characters for tech- nical, legal and foreign language uses, as well as sets of drawing and standard alphanumeric characters. Each font uses symbols from one or more of these sets.
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