Minolta Color PAGEPRO PLUS Manual page 93

Outline of the MENU Utilities
Understanding Fonts
Font
A font is a specific group of characters that have common style and
size characteristics. Your printer can store a variety of different
fonts in its memory for printing. Since these fonts reside in printer
memory, they are called resident fonts. This printer uses two types
of resident fonts: scalable fonts and bitmap fonts. In addition to
resident fonts, you can also download non-resident soft fonts for
printing.
Scalable Fonts
Scalable fonts (also called outline fonts) can be enlarged or reduced
(scaled) to suit your printing needs. There are few limitations on
the sizes that you can specify for scalable fonts.
Bitmap Fonts
A bitmap font is stored in printer memory as a set of characters and
symbols with a specific size and unique design. Each bit of the font
is precisely mapped, so this type of font cannot be scaled to
different sizes. This printer maintains 10 TrueType fonts and 35
Intellifont typefaces in memory (when in PCL mode).
Soft Font
A soft font is downloaded from host computer to printer memory
as is required. The selection of both scalable fonts and bitmap fonts
available to the printer can be expanded using soft fonts.
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