Apple Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS - Manual (Page 126)

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Position/Automatically Center Watermark/Position Relative to Center Tells the
driver how to position the watermark. Automatically Center Watermark
centers the watermark on the page. Position Relative to Center lets you
specify x and y coordinates for the watermark relative to the center.
Downloading fonts
The printer uses downloadable PostScript fonts, which are a type of soft font.
The PostScript printer driver automatically downloads any Type 1 fonts from
your computer’s hard disk to the printer’s memory as needed for each
document that you print. You can also use the driver to manually download
fonts to the printer’s memory when you don’t want to download fonts for each
document. Manually downloading fonts can speed printing.
Note: The printer has a set of built-in fonts that do not need to be
downloaded. These fonts are listed in Appendix A of the Color LaserWriter
12/600 PS User’s Manual.
Whether it is better to let Windows download fonts automatically or to
manually download fonts yourself depends on the number and frequency
with which fonts are used in a document and the size of your
printer’s memory.
Downloading a Type 1 font to a PostScript printer usually takes from 15 to 20
seconds. When a program prints a document containing a font that is not
resident in your printer, Windows automatically downloads the font with the
document. However, after the document prints, any fonts that have been
downloaded with the document are cleared from the printer’s memory. This
means that each time you print a document that contains fonts not resident in
the printer, the fonts must be downloaded.
By contrast, when you manually download a Type 1 font with the Font
Downloader, the font remains in printer memory (RAM) until you switch off
or restart the printer or when memory limitations are exceeded. Manually
downloading frequently used fonts therefore reduces printing time because
the fonts do not have to be sent to the printer each time they are used. Keep in
mind, however, that fonts manually downloaded to RAM reduce the overall
amount of memory available for printing and so may affect the printing of
documents that do not contain the downloaded fonts.
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