Appendix B. Font Information for IPDS Printers

Font Terminology, Names of Font Groups, and Font Structure

The first few pages of this appendix describe font terminology, the names of groups of fonts, and font
structure. The appendix then lists the fonts available in the printers that contain resident fonts.
IBM ships fonts in a product called the IBM AFP Font Collection.To learn more about the AFP Font
collection, refer to the Fonts Summary for AFP Font Collection and the TechnicalReference for IBM
Expanded Core Fonts. The AFPFont Collection contains the following fonts:
vIBM Expanded Core Fonts
–Boldface
–BookMaster Latin1
–BookMaster Specials
–Courier
–Courier APL2
–Gothic Katakana
–Gothic Text
–Helvetica
–IBM Logo
–Letter Gothic
–OCR(OCR-A and OCR-B)
–Prestige
–Times New Roman

IBM Font Structure and Terminology

In IBM font terminology, a font has three components:
vCoded font
vFont character set
vCode page

Coded Font

Acoded font translates your request for type (for example, text you previously entered at a computer
terminal) into characters for printing. Acoded font, which associates a specific code page with a specific
font character, consists of two parts:
vReferences to specific font character sets
vReferences to specific code pages
1.A pel is a pixel, picture element, or dot. The sequence of dots that form a character is called a raster pattern. The number of dots
per inch that a printer generates is called the :hp1.print resolution:ehp1. or pel density.A resolution of 240 pels means that a
printer prints 240 pels per inch both vertically and horizontally,or 57 pels per square inch (240 x 240).
CodedFont
FontCharacter Set CodePage
Characters
Character properties
Printing attributes
Characters IDs
Code points
Figure61. Font Components
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