Screen fonts

Introduction to screen fonts

If your printer has resident fonts, screen fonts will be provided on this CD along with the existing Windows system fonts used as screen fonts (for example, Arial).

Minimum system requirements

Microsoft Windows version

Windows 95/98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003

Recommended PC

486 or later

System memory

Minimum required for your version of Windows

Hard disk space

60 K x number of fonts

Video

VGA resolution or higher


Understanding screen fonts

This CD contains TrueType screen fonts that match your printer's resident scalable fonts. Screen fonts are fonts you install in Windows to match your scalable resident printer fonts. Selecting resident printer fonts improves printing performance. The screen fonts allow the documents displayed on the computer screen to match the output from your printer. When you install screen fonts, you have access to the full set of resident printer fonts in Windows applications for both PostScript and PCL 5e emulations.

The TrueType fonts included on this CD were developed by some of the industry's best type suppliers. A few of the screen fonts and printer resident fonts do not come from the same type supplier. Consequently, some screen fonts may have characters that appear slightly different from the printer resident fonts.

International screen fonts

Since your printer has international Windows character set support built in, you can set up the PostScript and PCL printer drivers from this CD so the resident fonts emulate these international Windows character sets. You can also install TrueType screen fonts from this CD to match the printer's resident international Windows character set fonts.

When the PostScript or PCL printer driver is set up to emulate the resident printer fonts with the international Windows character set(s), each corresponding printer font has one of the following suffixes after each font name:

PCL

PostScript

    (W1) - Latin 1 (Western)

    (WE) - Latin 2 (Central Europe)

    (WT) - Latin 5 (Turkish)

    (WL) - Latin 6 (Baltic)

    (WG) - Greek

    (WR) - Cyrillic

    (no designation) - Latin 1 (Western)


The Latin 1 Windows character set is usually the default Windows character set for most Western countries; and the PCL and PostScript printer driver uses this character set for the resident printer fonts. However, the PCL printer driver can be set up to print using the languages shown above. For example, if your Windows 95/98 platform default language is Latin 2, after the PCL printer is installed, it uses (WE) for the printer fonts. We have provided screen fonts in these international character sets so your screen will match your resident printer fonts.

Use the Western directory as the default directory because most users install screen fonts that match the Western (Latin 1) Windows character set. If your driver is emulating the resident printer fonts with another language Windows character set, install the TrueType screen fonts for the language by accessing the appropriate directories on the printer CD. Click the link below to view the languages and directories for the available Windows character sets, and to proceed with installation.

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