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Checking Installed PCL Fonts, Understanding the PCL Font List Printout

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Checking Installed PCL Fonts Your HP LaserJet printer comes with 45 scalable fonts and one bitmapped Line Printer font. You can find out which PCL fonts are currently installed in your printer by printing a PCL font list. (If you have PostScript installed you can also print a PostScript font list. See Chapter 5 for more information.) The font list printout shows only permanent soft fonts. Permanent soft fonts are downloaded soft fonts that stay resident in the printer until you download other fonts to replace them, or until you turn the printer off. To print a PCL Font List: 1 Press [Menu] until PCL FONTS MENU appears. 2 Press [Item] until PCL FONT LIST is displayed. 3 Press [Select] to print the list. Understanding the PCL Font List Printout Figure 7-3 is the first page of a sample PCL Typeface List. Letters in the sample font list match numbers in the key to Figure 7-3 shown below. See Appendix B, "Common PCL Printer Commands," for step-by-step instructions on using printer commands to select a font in DOS applications. Item Key to Figure 7-3 A Font is the name of the font. B Pitch/Point indicates the specified pitch or point size of the font. "Scale" indicates a scalable font. C Escape Sequence (a PCL programming command) is used to select the designated font. D Font # is the number you use to select internal, or downloaded soft fonts from the control panel. (Do not confuse the font number with the soft font ID, described next.) The letter preceding the font number shows the source of the font (I is Internal, S is Permanent soft font, and Slot is SIMM (slot number follows)). E Font ID is the number you assign to soft fonts when you download them through your software. F Escape Sequence Legend 7-14 Solving Printer Problems EN

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Checking Installed PCL Fonts
Your HP LaserJet printer comes with 45 scalable fonts and one
bitmapped Line Printer font.
You can find out which PCL fonts are
currently installed in your printer by printing a PCL font list.
(If you
have PostScript installed you can also print a PostScript font list.
See
Chapter 5 for more information.)
The font list printout shows only permanent soft fonts.
Permanent soft
fonts are downloaded soft fonts that stay resident in the printer until you
download other fonts to replace them, or until you turn the printer off.
To print a PCL Font List:
1
Press
[Menu]
until
PCL FONTS MENU
appears.
2
Press
[Item]
until
PCL FONT LIST
is displayed.
3
Press
[Select]
to print the list.
Understanding the PCL Font List Printout
Figure 7-3 is the first page of a sample PCL Typeface List. Letters in the
sample font list match numbers in the key to Figure 7-3 shown below.
See Appendix B, “Common PCL Printer Commands,” for step-by-step
instructions on using printer commands to select a font in DOS
applications.
Item
Key to Figure 7-3
A
Font
is the name of the font.
B
Pitch/Point
indicates the specified pitch or point size of the font.
“Scale” indicates a scalable font.
C
Escape Sequence
(a PCL programming command) is used to select the designated font.
D
Font #
is the number you use to select internal, or downloaded soft fonts from the control panel.
(Do not
confuse the font
number
with the soft font
ID
, described next.)
The letter preceding the font number shows the
source of the font (I is
Internal
, S is
Permanent
soft font, and Slot is
SIMM
(slot number follows)).
E
Font ID
is the number
you assign
to soft fonts when you download them through your software.
F
Escape Sequence Legend
7-14
Solving Printer Problems
EN