Font And Symbol Set Support For The Lexmark X422 - Lexmark Printer User Manual

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PCL

Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark X422

Your printer has 91 resident fonts in PCL emulation, including 89 scalable fonts and
two bitmapped fonts.
Several parameters are used to select a font from the data stream. These include
symbol set, spacing, point or pitch, style, weight, and typeface number. For scalable
fonts, you can vary the size of a font by specifying pitch or point size. For bitmapped
fonts, you must choose the pitch or point size listed on the font sample pages. You can
print the font sample pages from the MFP control panel, using a PJL command (see
"LPRINTPCLFONTS" on page 3-83.) or through MarkVision Professional. Refer to
your printer user documentation for more information.
A symbol set defines which characters are available for a font and the code point for
each of these characters. Your printer supports 88 symbol sets. The tables beginning
on page 2-15 show the symbol sets available for each font in PCL emulation. Not all
fonts support all symbol sets.
You can select a font as the PCL emulation default from the MFP control panel or
through MarkVision Professional. Refer to your printer user documentation for more
information.
The fonts are divided into three major groups. The first 47 fonts (R0 through R46)
shown on the font sample pages are the standard PCL emulation fonts. The next 39
fonts (R47 through R85) are called Type 1 fonts and were originally defined for
PostScript emulation, but now also work in the PCL emulation. The last five fonts (R86
through R90) include three different Code 3 of 9 bar code fonts, OCR-A and OCR-B
fonts.
The fonts are further divided into font groups A, B, and C indicating which symbol sets
are supported by each font. For a list of the 47 standard PCL emulation fonts, as well
as the OCR and Code 3 of 9 bar code fonts, see Table 2-4 on page 2-10. For a list of
the 39 Type 1 fonts, see Table 2-5 on page 2-13. Both tables list the forward and
backward compatibility font selection commands and the font group (A, B, or C) for
each font. For more information on forward and backward compatibility, see
page 2-10. For more information on selecting symbol sets, see page 2-15.
For compatibility purposes, you can disable Type 1 fonts with the Printer Job
Language (PJL) LTYPE1FONTS command. The factory default for these fonts is
Enabled. See LTYPE1FONTS on page 3-47 for more information.