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Understanding fonts
Readability disclaimer
Many factors can affect the readability of bar codes and optical character recognition (OCR)
characters, including printer settings, such as Print Resolution, Toner Darkness, and Print Darkness.
In addition, choice of print media can significantly affect the readability of bar codes. See Using the
printer menus and Print media guidelines for information on printer settings and print media
considerations to help optimize the readability of printer bar codes and OCR characters.
For more information, refer to the Card Stock & Label Guide available on Lexmark’s Web site at
www.lexmark.com/publications. It is also located on the drivers CD.
Before purchasing any specific solutions, print a sample of OCR characters or bar codes on your
print media. Then, verify readability with the actual devices that will be used to read them. Lexmark
does not warrant that a specific bar code reader will be able to read the bar code images as printed
or that a specific OCR reader will be able to read the OCR characters as printed.
Symbol sets
A symbol set is the collection of alphabetic and numeric characters, punctuation, and special
characters available in the font you select. Symbol sets support the requirements for different
languages or specific applications, such as math symbols used for scientific text.
In PCL 6 emulation, a symbol set also defines which character will print for each key on the keyboard
(or more specifically, for each code point). Some applications require different characters at some
code points. To support multiple applications and languages, your printer has 83 symbol sets for the
resident PCL 6 emulation fonts.
Symbol sets for PCL 6 emulation
Not all font names support all of the symbol sets listed. Refer to the Technical Reference to
determine which symbol sets are supported by each font name.
ABICOMP Brazil/Portugal ISO 21: German PC-853 Latin 3 (Turkish)
ABICOMP International ISO 25: French PC-855 Cyrillic
DeskTop ISO 57: Chinese PC-857 Latin 5 (Turkish)
Legal ISO 60: Norwegian version 1 PC-858 Multilingual Euro
MC Text ISO 61: Norwegian version 2 PC-860 Portugal
Microsoft Publishing ISO 69: French PC-861 Iceland
Russian-GOST ISO 84: Portuguese PC-863 Canadian French
Ukrainian ISO 85: Spanish PC-865 Nordic
PCL ITC Zapf Dingbats ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 (ECMA-94) PC-866 Cyrillic
PS ITC Zapf Dingbats ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 PC-869 Greece
PS Math ISO 8859-5 Latin/Cyrillic PC-911 Katakana
PS Text ISO 8859-7 Latin/Greek PC-1004 OS/2