Lexmark Printer manual Pcl

2-37 PCL

Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark E234(n), E330, E332n

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 using a PJL command (see “LPRINTPCLFONTS” on page 3-83),or through MarkVision Professional (network models only). 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 resident symbol sets. The tables beginning on page 2-43show 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 through MarkVision Professional (network models only). Refer to your printer user documentation for more information.

The fonts are divided into three major groups. The first 47 fonts (R0 to R46) shown on the font sample pages are the standard PCL emulation fonts. The next 39 fonts (R47 to R85) are called Type 1 fonts and were originally defined for PostScript emulation, but now also work in the PCL emulation. The final five fonts (R86 to R90) are additional specialty PCL fonts. For a list of the 47 standard PCL emulation fonts, see Table 2-20 on page 2-38.For a list of the 39 Type 1 fonts, see Table 2-21 on

page 2-40.For a list of the five additional specialty PCL fonts, see Table 2-22 on page 2-42.These tables list both the forward and backward compatibility font selection commands. For more information on forward and backward compatibility, see page 2-38.For more information on selecting symbol sets, see page 2-43.

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.

You can also select fonts using PJL commands. The selection parameter is the number portion from the font identifier shown on the font sample pages, such as 0 or 76 from font identifiers R0 or R76. Use the PJL values shown in the tables beginning