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Printer and Screen Fonts

Fonts are installed on both the printer and the computer. The printer fonts, which reside in printer memory, are used by the printer to print text. Screen fonts, which are stored in your computer, are used to display text on screen to represent the fonts that will be printed.

Two separate sets of fonts are needed because the monitor and the printer have different requirements for producing fonts. The monitor normally uses bitmap fonts that are specially designed for the screen's resolution. A bitmap is a dot-by-dot representation of an image or character. The printer, however, uses an outline font that is created from a mathematical formula that describes the outline of each character. Using outline fonts allows the printer to render any character in the requested size.

Note:

The distinction between printer and screen fonts is not as important when you are using TrueType® fonts, which are included with Windows. TrueType is an outline font format that can be used by both the printer and the screen.

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