Xerox 4510/4510ps, 4505/4505ps manual Temporary and Permanent Fonts, W n l o a d i n g F o n t s

Downloading Fonts

Temporary and Permanent Fonts

D o w n l o a d i n g F o n t s

Whether you do or do not use additional fonts, it is helpful to know a few facts about how the printer uses fonts either resident in the printer or downloaded (transferred) from the host.

Each time you specify a font in a document to be printed, the font is downloaded to printer, unless the font is already:

•Resident in the printer’s ROM (read-only memory)—PCL only.

•Specified in the printer driver as permanently downloaded to the printer’s internal memory—PCL only.

•Installed on the PostScript card—PostScript only.

•Installed on a font card—PCL only.

Consult your software application’s user documentation for a discussion of fonts associated with that application.

Temporary fonts are PCL fonts downloaded for a particular print job. As soon as the print job is finished, the fonts are cleared from memory. They must be downloaded for each print job that uses them. Downloading may have an impact on performance, depending on the number of fonts being downloaded. As a result, the print job using downloaded fonts may take longer than one using resident fonts.

As an example, when you print a mostly-text document in a resident font, printing time is optimal.

If you print that same document using a downloaded font, the time to print the first page is substantially longer than it was for your resident-font document. The remaining pages also take longer to print than those of the resident-font document.

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