PCL
2-9
Font and Symbol Set Support for the Lexmark C935,
X940e, and X945e
Your printer has 91 resident fonts in PCL emulation, including 89 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. 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 3-75.), or through MarkVision Professional (network models only). See your
printer documentation for more information.
A
symbol set
defines which characters are available for a font and the code point for
each of these characters. Your printer supports 88 resident symbol sets. The tables
beginning on page 2-11 show the symbol sets available for each font in
PCL emulation. Not all fonts support all symbol sets.
You can select a font as the PCL emulation default through MarkVision Professional
(network models only). See your printer documentation for more information.
The fonts are divided into three major groups. The first 47 fonts (R0 to R46) shown on
the font sample pages are the standard PCL emulation fonts. The next 39 fonts (R47
to R85) are called Type 1 fonts and were originally defined for PostScript emulation,
but now also work in the PCL emulation. The final five fonts (R86 to R90) are
additional specialty PCL emulation fonts. For a list of the 47 standard PCL emulation
fonts, see Table 2-3 on page 2-10. For a list of the 39 Type 1 fonts, see Table 2-4 on
page 2-12. For a list of the five additional specialty PCL emulation fonts, see Table 2-
12 on page 2-44. These tables list both the forward and backward compatibility font
selection commands. For more information on forward and backward compatibility,
see page 2-10. For more information on selecting symbol sets, see page 2-39.
For compatibility purposes, you can disable Type 1 fonts with the Printer Job
Language (PJL) LTYPE1FONTS command. The factory default for these fonts is
Enabled. See LTYPE1FONTS on page 3-39 for more information.
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
76 from font identifiers R0 or R76. Use the PJL values shown in the tables beginning
