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Downloading Fonts
Chapter 4: Using Fonts
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Whether you do or do not use additional fonts, it is helpful to
know a few facts about how the printer uses fonts either
resident in the printer or
downloaded
(transferred) from the
host.
Each time you specify a font in a document to be printed, the
font is downloaded to printer,
unless the font is already
:
• Resident in the printer’s ROM (read-only memory)
—PCL
only
.
• Specified in the printer driver as permanently
downloaded to the printer’s internal memory
—PCL only
.
• Installed on the PostScript card
—PostScript only
.
• Installed on a font card
—PCL only
.
Consult your software application’s user documentation for
a discussion of fonts associated with that application.
Temporary fonts
are PCL fonts downloaded for a particular
print job. As soon as the print job is finished, the fonts are
cleared from memory.
They must be downloaded for each
print job
that uses them
. Downloading may have an impact
on performance, depending on the number of fonts being
downloaded. As a result, the print job using downloaded
fonts may take longer than one using resident fonts.
As an example, when you print a mostly-text document in a
resident font, printing time is optimal.
If you print that same document using a downloaded font, the
time to print the first page is substantially longer than it was
for your resident-font document. The remaining pages also
take longer to print than those of the resident-font document.
Downloading
Fonts
Temporary an
d
Permanent Fonts
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