Kyocera C8100DN - Color Laser Printer, Technical Reference Manual

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Chapter 7 Emulation
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LDFC fonts or downloaded bitmap fonts by the user, they will constantly print unpre-
dictably if the printing system uses the resolution of 300 dpi.
Font Priority
On the printing systems with the 600/1200 dpi resolution support, font selection in the
HP LaserJet format adds an additional step to the font prioritization format. In font selec-
tion, the printing system evaluates the characteristics of the font and, by a process of
matching features, reduces selection to a single font. The highest priority characteristic is
symbol set, followed by spacing, pitch, point size, font style, stroke weight, and typeface.
The LaserJet emulation (mode 6) adds resolution to this priority list. This additional pri-
ority is not available in the printing systems not supporting the 600/1200 dpi resolutions.
For example, the printing system might face a font selection scenario of four near identi-
cal types of the Dutch801 font (by the KPDL emulation):
• CGTimes (LaserJet compatible Intelli font)
• Times (PostScript compatible font)
• TimesNewRoman (LaserJet compatible TrueType font)
These fonts have several common attributes and there is a possibility that selecting a
Times may insert the TimesNewRoman font instead as a result of the internal font evalu-
ation procedure. It is therefore important to understand how fonts are selected by the
printing system. (See
Chapter 4 for a discussion of the printing system’s internal font
evaluation.)
The final (lowest) priority for font priority is the font source. The source refers to the
place where the font is accessed. The following table shows how this characteristic is
ordered.
Users should note two differences in the source priority of font selection. Ordering prior-
ity 1 uses the original HP method whereby the internal number assigned to a font would
be evaluated and the lowest number given the higher priority. This method applies to
fonts downloaded to the printing system and, any LDFC-generated fonts. Ordering prior-
ity 3 evaluates the font in alphabetic order. This method applies to the resident fonts and
the KPDL fonts.
An FRPO command (FRPO C8;) can modify this evaluation method by turning off eval-
uation of either the resident or scalable fonts, or KPDL fonts or both. The resident scal-
able fonts are not affected by this FRPO command. These fonts were designed by Agfa
and observe the alphabetic ordering method used by Agfa.
Regular and Dark Courier/Letter Gothic
The stroke weight (bolding) of Courier and Letter Gothic is changeable between regular
and dark. The default is regular and matches the Hewlett-Packard. It can be changed to
dark which was the default stroke weight of Courier and Letter Gothic in order Kyocera
printing systems by changing the FRPO V9 parameter.
Ordering
priority
Source Priority within same
source
1 Downloaded and LDFC-generated fonts Smaller font ID
2 Memory card fonts Top slot > bottom slot
3 Resident and optional fonts Alphabetic order