Downloading Fonts, Forms and Macros
3-4 ❖System Administrator Guide
PCL 5e Driver The printer drivers provide you with the ability to
download fonts and PCL 5e macros to the printer.
Fonts, forms and macros can be downloaded to printer
memory, to the optional hard drive and to optional flash
memory via drivers.
• To download fonts you must first install the
appropriate Windows 95/98, Macintosh, Windows NT,
or UNIX drivers. To download macros, you must install
the Windows PCL 5e driver.
• Fonts downloaded to the hard drive are stored in the
PCL Fonts and PS Fonts directories. Macros
downloaded to the hard drive are stored in the PCL
Macros directory. PCL fonts, forms and macros stored
in these directories remain there until you delete them.
They are not cleared from the hard disk when the
printer is powered off. You can only delete a macro
from the hard disk if you know the name of the macro.
Since you cannot print a list of macros as you can for
fonts, it is important to keep a record of all
downloaded macros. Then, use the PJL FSDELETE
command to delete fonts, forms and macros.
• “Temporary” fonts/forms/macros downloaded to
printer memory on a job per job basis are cleared from
the printer's memory after each job.
• “Permanent” fonts downloaded to printer memory are
cleared from memory whenever the printer is powered
off. When the printer switches PDLs, its automatic
State Saving feature saves all fonts and macros.
In addition to downloading through drivers, the printer
will support downloading of fonts, forms and macros to
its disk or flash memory by the use of the PJL command
FSDOWNLOAD. These files may be deleted from the hard
drive by the PJL command FSDELETE.