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Adding and Selecting Fonts

Adding more fonts
Selecting fonts

To select a font, use your application program.

Font problems are uncommon but the following may occur.

The printer substitutes a font other than the one you selected with your software.

The printed page does not exactly match what is on screen.

These kinds of problems usually occur if you use an emulation other than LJ4 or when you are trying to print fonts that are not installed in the printer. If you have font problems, read "Printer and Screen Fonts" below to find out how to fix them.

Adding more fonts

Fonts that reside on your computer's hard disk can be downloaded, or transferred, to the printer so they can be printed. Downloaded fonts, also called soft fonts, remain in printer memory until you turn off the printer or otherwise reinitialize it. If you plan on downloading many fonts, make sure your printer has sufficient memory.

Downloading fonts

Most font packages make it easy to install fonts by providing their own installer. The installer gives you the option of having the fonts automatically downloaded whenever you start your computer or having fonts downloaded only when you need to print a particular font.

If you're running Windows, you can also install fonts from within the Fonts window. (To access this window, open the control panel and click the Fonts icon.) Once installed, the fonts are available in all your Windows applications.

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Selecting fonts

Whenever possible select fonts from the font list in your application. See your software documentation for instructions.

If you are sending unformatted text to the printer directly from DOS or if you are using a simple software package that does not include font selection, you can select fonts with SelecType when in the LJ4, ESC/P 2, FX, or I239X menu.

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