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Where fonts reside – Xerox 4505/4505ps User Manual

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At one time, computers used bitmapped fonts only. One set of

bitmapped fonts was needed to display characters on a

terminal screen, and another set was needed for printing.

These were called

screen fonts

and

printer fonts

,

respectively.

Today, software applications use many scalable fonts because

they can be used for both screen and printer.

Screen fonts

are always stored on the host computer, not the

printer.

Printer fonts

may reside in three places:

Printer ROM

holds

resident

fonts, installed at the factory

on memory chips on the printer controller board. See

“Fonts Resident on the Printer” (page 4-5)

for a complete

list.

A

font card

inserted into the printer holds additional PCL

fonts. The 4505/4505ps and 4510/4510ps printers provide

two slots for font cards. See

Chapter 1: Introduction

(page 1-3) for font card location.

Software applications

contain additional fonts that may

be

downloaded

to printer memory, in some cases, for the

entire time the printer is turned on. See

“Downloading

Fonts” (page 4-13)

for more information.

Where Fonts

Reside

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