PCL Emul menu
Menu item
Font Source
Resident
Disk
Download
Flash
All
Font Name
<list of available fonts>
Symbol Set
10U PC-8
12U PC-850
PCL Emulation Settings
Point Size
1.00–1008.00
PCL Emulation Settings
Pitch
0.08–100
Description
Specifies the set of fonts used by the Font Name menu item
Notes:
Resident is the factory default setting. It shows the factory default set of
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fonts downloaded into printer RAM.
Flash and Disk settings appear only if applicable and show all fonts resident
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in that option.
Flash and Disk options must be properly formatted and cannot be
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Read/Write, Write, or password protected.
Download appears only if applicable and shows all the fonts downloaded
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into printer RAM.
All shows all fonts available to any option.
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Identifies a specific font and the option where it is stored
Notes:
Courier 10 is the factory default setting.
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The font source abbreviation is R for Resident, F for Flash, K for Disk, and
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D for download.
Specifies the symbol set for each font name
Notes:
10U PC-8 is the US factory default setting.
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12U PC-850 is the international factory default setting.
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A symbol set is a set of alphabetic and numeric characters, punctuation,
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and special symbols. Symbol sets support the different languages or
specific programs such as math symbols for scientific text. Only the
supported symbol sets are shown.
Changes the point size for scalable typographic fonts
Notes:
12 is the factory default setting.
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Point Size refers to the height of the characters in the font. One point equals
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approximately 1/72 of an inch.
Point sizes can be increased or decreased in 0.25-point increments.
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Specifies the font pitch for scalable monospaced fonts
Notes:
10 is the factory default setting.
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Pitch refers to the number of fixed-space characters per inch (cpi).
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Pitch can be increased or decreased in 0.01-cpi increments.
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For nonscalable monospaced fonts, the pitch appears on the display but
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cannot be changed.
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