GCC Printers Elite 12ppm - Manual (Page 106)

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Windows
TrueType fonts are automatically installed with Windows and are set to automatically
download by default. Refer to the Windows documentation for more information.
Downloading fonts from a Macintosh
In addition to the fonts that come with the Elite 12ppm, you can purchase more fonts
(both TrueType and Adobe Type 1) and download them to the Elite 12ppm. A downloaded
font is a printer font that is sent by the Macintosh to the RAM located in the Elite 12ppm.
There are two methods for downloading fonts: automatic and manual.
Downloading fonts automatically
If a font being used is not one of the printer’s resident fonts (i.e., nonresident font), it is
automatically downloaded to the printer’s RAM during each print job. After printing is
complete, the font is removed from the printer’s RAM. This method of downloading fonts
is useful if you are printing a variety of fonts within several print jobs. However, if you are
printing the same font repeatedly, this method is inefficient because the font must be
downloaded for every print job.
Downloading fonts manually
If you frequently use the same nonresident fonts, manually downloading them to the
printer’s RAM is faster than having them download automatically each time they are used
in a document. To manually download fonts, use the LaserWriter Utility included with the
Elite 12ppm software. The LaserWriter Utility is located in the Elite™ 12ppm Folder that
was copied onto your startup disk during the initial installation.
When a font is downloaded to the printer’s RAM, it remains in RAM until the printer is
switched off. (If other users on the network have the screen font but do not have the out-
line font, the outline font can still be used as long as it remains in the printer’s RAM.) Since
each manually downloaded font uses some of the printer’s RAM, you are restricted in the
number of fonts that can download by the amount of RAM available in the printer (the
more RAM in the printer, the more fonts you can download). However, using a large
amount of RAM to download fonts can affect the performance of the printer when process-
ing large or complex print jobs. If you frequently use many nonresident fonts in your
documents you may want to attach a dedicated font storage hard drive to the printer.
To manually download fonts using the LaserWriter Utility:
1. Make sure the printer that you want to download fonts to is selected in the
Chooser.
2. Double-click the LaserWriter Utility icon.