Read this section if you would like to know more about fonts and see samples of the installed fonts.

To select a font, use your application program.

Font problems are uncommon but some may occur, such as:

❏The printer substitutes a font other than the one you selected with your software.

❏The printed page does not exactly match what is on screen.

These kinds of problems usually occur if you use an emulation other than LJ4 or when you are trying to print fonts that are not installed in the printer. If you have font problems, read “Printer and Screen Fonts,” below, to find out how to fix them.

Printer and Screen Fonts

Fonts are installed on both the printer and the computer. The printer fonts, which reside in printer memory, are used by the printer to print text. Screen fonts, which are stored on your computer's media, are used to display text on screen to represent the fonts that will print.

Two separate sets of fonts are needed because the monitor and printer have different requirements for producing fonts. The monitor normally uses bitmap fonts that are specially designed for the screen's resolution. A bitmap is a dot-by-dot representation of an image or character. The printer, however, uses an outline font that is created from a mathematical formula that describes the outline of each character. Using outline fonts allows the printer to render any character in the requested size.

printer font

screen font

Note:

The distinction between printer and screen fonts is not as important when you are using TrueType fonts, which are included with Windows. TrueType is an outline font format that can be used by both the printer and the screen.

D-2Working with Fonts