GCC Printers Elite XL - Manual (Page 135)

Fonts 6-1
Introduction
The Elite XL supports a wide range of font types and formats for both the
PostScript and PCL environment.
For PostScript users, the Elite XL comes with 11 high-quality PostScript font
families built into its internal hardware. These fonts are in the Bitstream
®
Speedo™ format and are designed to match the corresponding Adobe Type 1
fonts.
The Elite XL can also render any Adobe Type 1 and Apple TrueType™ fonts
that you may be using in your documents. When a document contains fonts
that are not built into the printer, the high-quality outline versions of the fonts
will be automatically downloaded to the printer during the print job and then
removed after the job has finished. You may also manually download fonts to
the printer’s internal memory (RAM) by using the LaserWriter Utility,
included with the Elite XL software, or downloaders included with many font
packages; manually downloading fonts can make printing faster. When fonts
are manually downloaded to the printer, they remain in the printer’s RAM and
available for all print jobs sent to the printer for as long as the printer is
switched on; the fonts are removed from RAM when the printer is switched
off.
For PCL 5 users, the Elite XL comes with two high quality PCL outline font
families and two 300 dpi bitmap fonts. The outline fonts are in the Bitstream
Speedo format, which are designed to match the AGFA Intellifont
® fonts
found in the HP LaserJet III.
Resident PostScript fonts
The Elite XL comes with 11 high quality PostScript font families installed in
the printer’s ROM: Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol, Helvetica Narrow,
Palatino, Avant Garde, Bookman, New Century Schoolbook, Zapf Chancery,
and Zapf Dingbats. The Elite XL printing software includes the matching
bitmap screen fonts for the Macintosh. Screen fonts are the bitmapped images
that appear on the screen and are selected from within a document. When you
click the Print… button, the Macintosh sends a description of the bitmap
screen font to the Elite XL in the PostScript page description language. The
Elite XL uses the PostScript interpreter to print the high quality outline font.
Chapter
6
Fonts