Bitmapped And Scalable Fonts - Dell 3115cn Color Laser Printer User Manual

Bitmapped and Scalable Fonts

The multifunction printer uses both bitmapped and scalable fonts.
Bitmapped fonts are stored in print memory as predefined patterns of bits that represent a typeface at a
specific size, style, and resolution. The following illustration shows an example of a character from a
bitmapped font.
Bitmapped fonts are available in different type styles and point sizes as downloadable fonts.
Scalable fonts (also called outline fonts) are stored as computer programs that define the outlines of the
characters in the font. Each time you print characters from a scalable font, the multifunction printer creates a
bitmap of the characters at the point size you choose and saves it temporarily in print memory.
These temporary bitmapped fonts are deleted when you turn off or reset the multifunction printer. Scalable
fonts provide the flexibility of printing in many different point sizes.
Your multifunction printer uses different scalable font formats for downloading fonts to the multifunction
printer. PCL 5/PCL 6 uses Intellifont and TrueType scalable fonts. Adobe PostScript 3 uses Type 1 and
TrueType scalable fonts. There are thousands of different scalable fonts available in these different font
formats from numerous font suppliers.