Copyright: Thursday, September 24, 1998 08:16:27


Raster Printer Font Installer

Use the Raster Printer Font Installer to install and remove external fonts for the printer. External fonts can be PCL soft fonts or cartridge fonts. Refer to your font documentation to check the font format.

Click the following for more information about the dialog box.

 New Soft Font Directory

 New Soft Fonts

 Installed Soft Fonts

 Open

 Add

 Delete


Specifies the path and directory containing new external soft font files.

Type the path and directory in New Soft Font Directory, and then click Open.


Lists the external soft fonts available for installation.

To install fonts, select them in New Soft Fonts, and then click Add.


Lists the installed external soft fonts.

To remove installed fonts, select them in Installed Soft Fonts, and then click Delete.


Searches the directory specified in New Soft Font Directory for font files.

Type the path and directory of your font files in New Soft Font Directory, and then click Open.


Installs new external soft fonts.

 	To install fonts, select them in New Soft Fonts, and then click Add.


Removes installed external soft fonts.

To remove installed fonts, select them in Installed Soft Fonts, and then click Delete.


Specifies whether the print optimization feature is enabled. When enabled, text might not print correctly on top of a graphic if your document contains overlapping text and graphics.

If the printed output is not correct, you can disable the feature. When disabled, print optimization features (such as substituting device fonts for TrueType fonts and scanning the document for horizontal and vertical rules) are turned off.


Allows you to view or change the halftone color settings.


Specifies the text quality (density) you want to use. The options available depend on your printer. In general, use Letter Quality to print the final copy of a finished document and Draft Quality to print rough drafts. To print a good quality document, use Near Letter Quality.

Different printer models support different print quality options. Some color-graphic printers support Normal Mode, which is appropriate for rough drafts of graphic images, and Presentation Mode, which produces high-quality color graphic images. Some printers support Resolution Enhancement Technology (RET), which affects the sharpness of the printed document and offers RET options such as Light, Medium, and Dark.

Print quality and print speed are directly related, therefore the higher the print quality, the longer it takes to print the document.


Specifies whether the advanced printing feature is enabled. When enabled, metafile spooling is turned on and options such as Page Order, Booklet Printing, and Pages Per Sheet are available, depending on your printer. For normal printing, leave the advanced printing feature set to the default (Enabled). If compatibility problems occur, you can disable the feature. When disabled, metafile spooling is turned off and the printing options might be unavailable.


Specifies whether the booklet feature is enabled. When enabled, two pages will print side-by-side on both the back and front of one sheet of paper.

When the advanced printing feature is disabled, the booklet feature is also disabled.


Lists printer-specific printing options, such as Print Quality and Output Bin. For more information on the available options, see your printer's operating manual.


Specifies the color and grayscale depth. For fastest color printing, click 8 Color (Halftoned); for business graphics, click 256 Color (Halftoned); for photographic images, click True Color (24bpp). If your printer supports it, click Monochrome to print in black and white.

Image quality and print speed are directly related. The higher the color depth you choose, the longer it takes to print your document.

Your printer might not support all the options listed above. For more information on the available options, see your printer's operating manual.


Specifies the type of halftoning to use when printing graphics. To let the printer determine the best halftone quality, use Auto Select. If you print a color graphic that uses colors not supported by your printer, use a dithering option. Dithering blends your printer's colors to produce the color specified in the graphic. For more information on the options, see your printer's operating manual.


Specifies the font cartridges installed in your printer.


Specifies whether to use printer halftone or system halftone. If you print documents that contain a large number of continuous tone images, you may be able to increase print speed by clicking System Halftone.


Allows you to view or change your halftone setup.


Lists the form-to-tray assignments.

Many printers support more than one source of paper, such as upper and lower trays. You can assign a form (which defines the paper size and margins) to each of your printer's paper sources. Once a form is matched to a source, you can select the form when you print from your programs. The printer prints from the tray (paper source) to which that form is assigned.


Specifies the form-to-tray assignment. Once you have assigned a form to a specific tray, the printer will always use that tray to print the form.


Specifies the amount of memory installed in your printer.


Specifies whether to allow non-1252 code page systems to print. This option, available only on printers outside the United States, tells the printer to ignore the resident printer (PostScript) fonts and to use TrueType fonts.


Specifies that the printer should create the printed page in memory before printing. This ensures that the printer is able to print complex pages completely.


Allows you to install and remove external fonts for the printer. External fonts can be Printer Control Language (PCL) soft fonts or cartridge fonts. Refer to your font documentation to check the font format.


Click to view the font-substitution table or to change the TrueType-to-PostScript font mapping.


Click to specify TrueType font options. Click Don't Substitute (the default) to download TrueType fonts (soft fonts) for printing instead of using PostScript fonts. To substitute PostScript fonts for TrueType fonts when printing documents that contain TrueType fonts, click a font name.


Lists the printer-specific printing options such as Printer Memory or Envelope Feeder that you can install in your printer. For more information on the available options, see your printer's operating manual.


Specifies whether to generate job control codes, such as adding a reset code (CTRL+D) at the beginning and end of the document, or sending Printer Job Language (PJL) commands. If you print to an AppleTalk port, click No.


Specifies which output bin to use for your printed document.


Converts the Windows character set to the specified code page character set for printing. The escape codes for the specified code page character set cannot be modified.