GCC Printers Elite 12ppm - Manual (Page 109)

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Set Startup Page to turn the printer’s start page On or Off. This option corresponds to the
Start Page submenu in the front panel of the Elite 12ppm. For example, if you turn off the
start page in the LaserWriter Utility, the Start Page option in the display window on the
front panel will be set to Disabled. (The Elite 12ppm’s default is Enabled.)
Get Page Count to display the total number of pages printed by the Elite 12ppm.
Download PostScript File to send a PostScript file directly to the printer.
Restart Printer to restart the printer between print jobs. This is useful for clearing down-
loaded fonts from the printer’s memory and is preferable to switching the printer off and
on again, as it will not interrupt another print job.
Downloading fonts from Windows
■ Type 1 fonts
Type 1 fonts are automatically downloaded to the Elite 12ppm. These fonts are deleted
from the printer’s RAM when the print job is complete. However, you may want to keep
downloaded fonts in the printer’s RAM for successive print jobs. To maintain Type 1 fonts
in the printer’s RAM, manually download the fonts using the font downloading utility
included with your Type 1 font package. Manually downloaded fonts remain in the
printer’s RAM until you switch off the Elite 12ppm.
Note: If your normal routine is to download several fonts to the printer, it is a good idea to
adjust the Windows printer driver’s virtual memory setting so that it can better process
your documents. Perform the procedure after you have downloaded your normal set of
fonts to the printer.
■ TrueType fonts
While you can download TrueType fonts to the Elite 12ppm, Windows does not recognize
TrueType fonts as resident fonts. Therefore, the TrueType fonts will still be downloaded
from the PC at print time.
Using an external hard disk with the Elite 12ppm (1200 dpi model only)
The Elite 1212 provides a SCSI port for connecting up to seven external SCSI hard disks.
These disks are used to store additional PostScript and TrueType fonts. Using an external
disk for font storage is faster than downloading from the computer and it leaves more
available memory, which improves performance. Fonts can be downloaded from
Macintosh and Windows systems.