PCL
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Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark E321
Your printer supports 19 fonts in PCL emulation, including 17 scalable fonts and two
bitmapped fonts.
Several parameters are used to select a font from the data stream. These include
symbol set, spacing, point or pitch, style, weight, and typeface number. Print the font
sample pages to view the specific parameters for each font. For scalable fonts, you
can vary the size of a font by specifying pitch or point size. For bitmapped fonts, you
must choose the pitch or point size listed on the font sample pages. You can print the
font sample pages using a PJL command (see “LPRINTPCLFONTS” on page 3-83).
A symbol set defines which characters are available for a font and the code point for
each of these characters. Your printer has 88 resident symbol sets. The tables
beginning on page 2-33 show the symbol sets available for each font in
PCL emulation. Not all fonts support all symbol sets.
You can also select fonts using PJL commands. The selection parameter is the
number portion from the font identifier shown on the font sample pages, such as 0 or
18 from font identifiers R0 or R18. Use the PJL values shown in the tables beginning
on page 2-33 to select a symbol set. If a symbol set does not have a PJL value, use
the symbol set ID to select the symbol set. A font selection can be either temporary or
set as the default.
Use the following PJL commands to select fonts: FONTSOURCE, FONTNUMBER,
PITCH, PTSIZE, SYMSET, SET, DEFAULT. See “Table 3-5: Common Variables for
PCL Emulation” on page 3-48 for more information about these commands.
