Xerox 4520mp manual Temporary and Permanent Fonts

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Temporary and Permanent Fonts

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.

For optimal performance, use resident fonts whenever applicable since they do not require downloading time.

Note

Permanently downloaded fonts are PCL fonts downloaded in the same way as temporary fonts, but they remain downloaded for all print jobs until the printer is powered off. They are permanent only as long as the printer is on.

Similar to resident fonts or those on font cards, permanently downloaded fonts reduce the processing time for a print job that uses them. The distinction is that permanently downloaded fonts occupy printer memory that might be used otherwise.

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