Postscript; Features - Ricoh Aficio 401 Operating Instructions Manual

MEMORY AND OPTIONS
This section contains general information on the optional PostScript function
available with the machine.
supported languages, and programming references.

Features

The PostScript option is a page description language from Adobe Systems,
Inc. that is available with many IBM compatible and Macintosh software
applications. Your software application can use the PostScript language to
provide page information to the printer. During printing, this information is
interpreted by the printer to produce the specified page output.
The PostScript option supports Adobe PostScript Level II, provides 39
built-in typefaces, and can print each typeface in any point size.
The PostScript option also supports the downloading of PostScript Type I
fonts and includes a rasterizer that allows you to download TrueType fonts
as soft fonts. Resident PostScript TrueType fonts are not supported.
In addition, depending on the software you use to create the document you
want to print, the PostScript language provides you with the capability to
manipulate the text contained in a PostScript file, allowing you to perform
tasks such as stretching, rotating, bending, defining the shape, scaling, and
clipping the text.
Note: The PostScript language is different than other languages that use
control codes and basic printer commands such as Line Feed and
Form Feed are not used or understood. Therefore, you cannot use
the PostScript option with software applications that do not support
the PostScript language.
For more information on the PostScript language,
Language Reference Manual.
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This information includes supported fonts,

POSTSCRIPT

refer to the PostScript