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9: Fonts
Introduction
The Elite 12ppm supports a wide range of font types and formats for both the PostScript
and PCL environment.
For PostScript users, the Elite 12ppm comes with 11 high-quality PostScript font families
built into its internal hardware. These fonts are in the Bitstream
®
Speedo™ format and are
designed to match the corresponding Adobe Type 1 fonts.
The Elite 12ppm can also render any Adobe Type 1 and Apple TrueType™ fonts that you
may be using in your documents. When a document contains fonts that are not built into
the printer, the high-quality outline versions of the fonts will be automatically downloaded
to the printer during the print job and then removed after the job has finished. You may
also manually download fonts to the printer’s internal memory (RAM) by using the
LaserWriter Utility, included with the Elite 12ppm software, or downloaders included with
many font packages; manually downloading fonts can make printing faster. When fonts are
manually downloaded to the printer, they remain in the printer’s RAM and available for all
print jobs sent to the printer for as long as the printer is switched on; the fonts are removed
from RAM when the printer is switched off.
For PCL 5 users, the Elite 12ppm comes with two high quality PCL outline font families
and two 300 dpi bitmap fonts. The outline fonts are in the Bitstream Speedo format, which
are designed to match the AGFA Intellifont
®
fonts found in the HP LaserJet III.
Resident PostScript fonts
The Elite 12ppm comes with 11 high quality PostScript font families installed in the
printer’s ROM: Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, Helvetica Narrow, Palatino, Avant
Garde, Bookman, New Century Schoolbook, Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Dingbats. The Elite
12ppm printing software includes the matching bitmap screen fonts for the Macintosh.
Screen fonts are the bitmapped images that appear on the screen and are selected from
within a document. When you click the Print button, the Macintosh sends a description of
the bitmap screen font to the Elite 12ppm in the PostScript page description language. The
Elite 12ppm uses the PostScript interpreter to print the high quality outline font. For more
information on the structure of the PostScript language, Adobe offers three books, pub-
lished by Addison-Wesley: PostScript Language Reference Manual (2nd Edition), PostScript
Language Cookbook and Tutorial, and PostScript Language Program Design.