Epson EPL-N2750, Reference Manual

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D-2
Working with Fonts
Printer and Screen Fonts
Fonts are installed on both the printer and the computer. The
printer fonts, which reside in printer memory, are used by the
printer to print text. Screen fonts, which are stored in your
computer, are used to display text on screen to represent the fonts
that will be printed.
Two separate sets of fonts are needed because the monitor and
the printer have different requirements for producing fonts. The
monitor normally uses bitmap fonts that are specially designed
for the screen’s resolution. A bitmap is a dot-by-dot
representation of an image or character. The printer, however,
uses an outline font that is created from a mathematical formula
that describes the outline of each character. Using outline fonts
allows the printer to render any character in the requested size.
Note:
The distinction between printer and screen fonts is not as important
when you are using TrueType
®
fonts, which are included with
Windows. TrueType is an outline font format that can be used by both
the printer and the screen.
Available Fonts
The following table lists the fonts that are installed on your
printer. The names of all the fonts appear in your application
software’s font list if you are using the driver provided with the
printer. If you are using a different driver, all of these fonts may
not be available.
printer font screen font