Apple 12/600PS Downloading fonts manually to RAM or to the hard disk, Printers dialog box appears

By contrast, when you manually download a Type 1 font with the Font Downloader, the font remains in printer memory (RAM) until you switch off or restart the printer or when memory limitations are exceeded. Manually downloading frequently used fonts therefore reduces printing time because the fonts do not have to be sent to the printer each time they are used. Keep in mind, however, that fonts manually downloaded to RAM reduce the overall amount of memory available for printing and so may affect the printing of documents that do not contain the downloaded fonts.

When you manually download a Type 1 font to a hard disk attached to the printer, the font is available to the printer and no longer has to be downloaded. This can speed up printing.

In addition to downloading fonts, you can also use the Font Downloader to perform various printer management tasks, such as listing and removing downloaded fonts, manually downloading PostScript language files, clearing the printer font cache, and resynchronizing your printer with the Windows driver.

See your network administrator for more information about performing these tasks on your network, or choose the Help button in the Font Downloader dialog box to see instructions for these tasks.

Downloading fonts manually to RAM or to the hard disk

Fonts need to be downloaded only once. Users who want to use fonts that have already been downloaded should use the Job Control tab dialog box (described later in this chapter) to turn on Do Not Download Fonts.

Otherwise, the fonts will be downloaded again, wasting time and system resources.

Before you begin If you are downloading fonts to a hard disk, you must add the hard disk to the device list (and initialize it if necessary), as explained later in this chapter.

1From the Program Manager, open the Control Panel.

2Double-click the Printers icon.

The Printers dialog box appears.

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