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HP DeskJet 600, 700, 800, 900 & HP 2000 Series PCL Developer’s Guide 57
10.11 Font Selection
10.11.1 Font Selection by Attribute
The user requests a font by designating its attributes with the following commands. For the HP
DeskJet 600 Series printers, successful selection requires the selected font is either one of the
built-in bitmap fonts or a soft font that has been downloaded to the printer. For the HP Desk-
Jet 850, 870, 890 Series printers, successful selection only requires that the typeface speci-
fied is one of those included in the printer’s firmware; any specified point size will be generated
by the printer’s font scaling technology.
10.11.2 Font Symbol Set
Identifies the set of symbols in a font, consists of a decimal value and a letter value.
The ID (identification number) consists of a number portion and a letter portion. For example,
to specify ASCII (0U) as the symbol set for the primary font, send Esc(0U. Some of the possi-
ble values for the identification number (ID) are listed on the symbol set tables on the following
pages.
The legal range of the number portion of ID is 0 to 2047. The legal range of the letter portion of
ID is the upper-case ASCII characters “A” through “Z”, except for “X”. Symbol sets with IDs of
“X” can only be selected with the Font ID. “Q” is used with HP “Specials” symbol sets and not
recommended for general use. “Y” is used for barcode symbol sets.
PC-8, Code Page 437 (10U) is the default primary and secondary symbol set; but a user-
default may be selected. PC-8 is selected if the specified symbol set does not exist or cannot
be satisfied by any font.
TABLE 36. Font Symbol Set (Primary) - Esc ( ID
Font Symbol Set (Secondary) - Esc ) ID
#
Value
DJ600
DJ610C
DJ660C
DJ670C
DJ680C
DJ690C
DJ695C
DJ810C
DJ830C
DJ850C
DJ870C
DJ880C
DJ890C
DJ895C
DJ970C
HP2000C
EFFECT
ID
44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 44
Symbol set identification value
from the table
Default
10U - (PC-8, Code Page 437)
Range
n/a