Lexmark Printer manual Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark C510n

2-19 PCL

Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark C510(n)

Your printer has 91 resident fonts in PCL emulation, including 89 scalable fonts and two bitmapped fonts.

Several parameters are used to select a font from the data stream. These include symbol set, spacing, point or pitch, style, weight, and typeface number. For scalable fonts, you can vary the size of a font by specifying pitch or point size. For bitmapped fonts, you must choose the pitch or point size listed on the font sample pages. You can print the font sample pages from the printer operator panel, using a PJL command (see “LPRINTPCLFONTS” on page 3-83.) or through MarkVision Professional. Refer to your printer user documentation for more information.

A symbol set defines which characters are available for a font and the code point for each of these characters. Your printer supports 88 symbol sets. The tables beginning on page 2-15show the symbol sets available for each font in PCL emulation. Not all fonts support all symbol sets.

You can select a font as the PCL emulation default from the printer operator panel or through MarkVision Professional. Refer to your printer user documentation for more information.

The fonts are divided into three major groups. The first 47 fonts (R0 through R46) shown on the font sample pages are the standard PCL emulation fonts. The next 39 fonts (R47 through R85) are called Type 1 fonts and were originally defined for PostScript emulation, but now also work in the PCL emulation. The last five fonts (R86 through R90) include three different Code 3 of 9 bar code fonts, OCR-A and OCR-B fonts.

The fonts are further divided into font groups A, B, and C indicating which symbol sets are supported by each font. For a list of the 47 standard PCL emulation fonts, as well as the OCR and Code 3 of 9 bar code fonts, see Table 2-4 on page 2-10.For a list of the 39 Type 1 fonts, see Table 2-5 on page 2-13.Both tables list the forward and backward compatibility font selection commands and the font group (A, B, or C) for each font. For more information on forward and backward compatibility, see

page 2-10.For more information on selecting symbol sets, see page 2-15.

For compatibility purposes, you can disable Type 1 fonts with the Printer Job

Language (PJL) LTYPE1FONTS command. The factory default for these fonts is

Enabled. See LTYPE1FONTS on page 3-47for more information.