Font And Symbol Set Support For The Lexmark C912 - Lexmark T630n VE Reference Manual

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PCL

Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark C912

Your printer has 86 resident fonts in PCL emulation, including 84 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 using a PJL command (see "LPRINTPCLFONTS" on
page 3-83), from the printer operator panel, 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 83 resident symbol sets. The tables
beginning on page 2-14 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 printer operator panel or
through MarkVision Professional. Refer to your printer user documentation for more
information.
The fonts are divided into two major groups. The first 47 fonts (R0 to R46) shown on
the font sample pages are the standard PCL emulation fonts. The 39 remaining fonts
(R47 to R85) are called Type 1 fonts and were originally defined for PostScript
emulation, but now also work in the PCL emulation. For a list of the 47 standard PCL
emulation fonts, see Table 2-4 on page 2-10. For a list of the 39 Type 1 fonts, see
Table 2-5 on page 2-12. Both tables list the forward and backward compatibility font
selection commands. For more information on forward and backward compatibility,
see page 2-10. For more information on selecting symbol sets, see page 2-14.
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.
You can also select fonts using PJL commands. The selection parameter is the
number portion from the font identifier shown on the font sample pages, such as 0 or
76 from font identifiers R0 or R76. Use the PJL values shown in the tables beginning
on page 2-14 to select a symbol set. If a symbol set does not have a PJL value, use
the symbol set ID to select the symbol set. A font selection can be either temporary or
set as the default.