Star Micronics 4111 manual Downloading a font example one, Download CN1OORPN.R8P

Many commercial font-management programs are now on the market, including Insight Development’s LaserControl, Blaha Software’s HotLead, SoftCraft’s LaserFonts, and the PCL printer driver in Microsoft’s Windo~)s. These utility programs help you download fonts, then let you access the fonts automatically from your word processor or other programs.

,Most font files on disk that you buy to download into your printer have Escape sequences right in the file, which simplify the process. Usually all you have to do is copy the file from your computer into your printer (you must assign a font ID number first). If you download fonts with the MS-DOS COPY utility, make sure to use the COPY /Eloption. That will keep your computer from “interpreting” the data you send, which sometimes produces badly shaped characters.

OK, let’s look at a couple of examples.

3.4.6 Downloading a font: example one

Example one is for a computer running just MS-DOS.

Say you’ve bought Hewlett-Packard’s Century Schoolbook fonts and want to download the regular (upright), italics and boldface characters. The HP disk labels for each file are CN 100RPN.R8P, CN 100IPN.R8P and CN1OOBPN.R8P.In case you’re interested, that’s HP’s code for CeNtury, 100 decipoints, Regular (or Italic or Bold), ProportioNal, Roman-8 symbol set, Portrait.

One of thedisks you get also contains a batch file named DOWNLOAD.BAT. To load the regular upright font you make sure the printer is online, then after your computer’s A> prompt you type:

DOWNLOAD CN1OORPN.R8P

When the program asks for the font ID number you key in a number between Oand 32767. Then when the program asks whether you want the font stored permanently or temporarily you type either P or T (a temporary font disappears if you press the printer’s [RESET] button). Finally the program asks if you want to print a sample of the font and you reply Y or N for yes or no.

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