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5.
When you are finished installing fonts from the
source drive, click the Close Drive button. The
fonts you installed will appear in your Windows
applications.
You can now proceed to set downloading options for
the fonts you installed.
Setting Downloading Options
You can use the Font Installer to set downloading
options for individual fonts. Downloading is the
process of transferring soft fonts from the computer to
the printer RAM. There are two downloading options:
temporary and permanent.
When you install a font from a
Temporary Fonts:
disk, Temporary is the default setting. This means
that the font is only sent to the printer RAM when it
is needed to print, and it is not stored in the RAM
after printing. This is a good choice when you rarely
use a font, when you need to reserve printer
memory for printing graphics, when you are using
a variety of fonts in one document, or when you are
printing to a shared printer.
Permanent Fonts:
When you download a font as
Permanent, it stays in the printer RAM until you
turn the printer off. You can even configure the Font
Installer to download Permanent fonts each time
you start the computer. This is a good choice for
fonts you use frequently. Downloading fonts
permanently can speed printing, but limits the
amount of printer RAM available for printing
graphics and complex pages. Permanent fonts are
marked in the Font Installer list with an asterisk (*).
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User's Guide
Downloading Fonts as Permanent
1. In the Font Installer list box, select a font. (You can
select more than one font in the list box, but you can
only set downloading options for one font at a time.
If you select more than one font, the Permanent and
Temporary buttons are dimmed when you try to
select them.)
2. Click the Permanent button to select it.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each font that you want to
download as Permanent.
4. When you have finished, click OK.
5. Because you designated fonts as Permanent, the
Download Options dialog box appears for further
specifying downloading options.
Check Download Now to send your permanent
fonts to the printer immediately.
Check Download at Startup to download the fonts
to your printer immediately and again each time
you start your computer.
6. Click OK to complete downloading selection and
close the Printer Setup.
If you select Download at Startup, you must turn on
your printer before you turn on your computer. This is
because the printer driver inserts a line into your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file that automatically downloads the
selected fonts to your printer every time you start or
reset your computer.
note:
If you have less than 6 MB of RAM and send
PostScript jobs to the printer, any downloaded PCL
fonts (even permanent ones) will be lost. Therefore, if
you wish to consistently use permanently downloaded
PCL fonts, set the printer emulation to PCL instead of
AES, turn off the Auto Start page (because it is a
PostScript document), do not send PostScript jobs to the
printer, and always use the PCL printer driver.
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