HP 5961-0509 manual Serial I/O, Soft Font, Spacing, Stroke Weight, Style, Symbol Index

Serial I/O

An input/output (I/O) interface that transmits information bit-by-bit (in “serial” mode). RS-232 is an industry-wide standard form of a serial interface.

Soft Font

Soft fonts are fonts stored on disks. These fonts can be transferred to the printer’s memory and used the same way as cartridge or resident fonts.

Spacing

Fonts have either fixed or proportional spacing. Fixed-spaced fonts are those for which the inter-character spacing is constant. In proportionally-spaced fonts, inter-character spacing varies with the natural shape of a character.

Stroke Weight

Stroke weight describes the thickness of the strokes that compose characters. Medium and bold are examples of stroke weights.

Style

Font style is defined by the angularity of the strokes of the characters with respect to the X-axis. Upright, italic, and condensed are examples of font styles.

Symbol Index

This is a grouping of symbols. An unbound font has the capacity to be bound to a set of symbols selected from a complementary Symbol Index (such as the Unicode or the MSL symbol indexes). Each symbol in the index is identified by a unique symbol index number. Appendix D of the PCL 5 Comparison Guide contains lists of MSL and Unicode symbol index characters and their numbers (also see Unicode or MSL).

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