Bound Fonts; Unbound Fonts; Font Sources; Internal Fonts - Brother HL-1050 Technical Reference Manual

5.1.4. Bound fonts

Bound fonts are fonts which have only a single symbol set.

5.1.5. Unbound fonts

Unbound fonts are fonts which have a large amount of symbols selected from a complementary symbol index
(intellifont) or unicode symbol index (TrueType).

5.1.6. Font sources

Depending on your printer model, fonts available to the printer can be in one of three places, either in the
printer's ROM as supplied from the factory, on a cartridge/card, on the storage device, or in the printer's RAM.
RAM fonts are downloaded from a personal computer.

5.1.7. Internal fonts

The printer comes with some bitmap fonts contained in its ROM and many scalable typefaces which can be used
to create scalable fonts.

5.1.8. Card/cartridge fonts

You can buy cartridge/card -based bitmap fonts and scalable typefaces. Plug the cartridge/card into one of the
printer's cartridge/card slots and then select any font from them as if it were in the printer's ROM. Depending on
your model, you can also save bitmap fonts and scalable typeface in the flash ROM memory, installed optional
storage device and you can use any of these as if they were a font card.

5.1.9. Downloadable fonts

You can buy diskettes containing fonts which can be copied directly to the printer using the DOS COPY
command. You can also design your own fonts and download them to the printer.
One disadvantage of downloaded fonts is that they reside in the printer's RAM memory. The printer also uses
this memory for composing the text and graphic output that it prints on the page. If the memory contains too
many fonts the printer may run out of memory. Since downloaded fonts are stored in the printer's RAM they are
lost when the printer is switched off, and you must download them again before you can use them.

5.1.10. Primary and secondary fonts

The printer maintains two sets of font characteristics which define its primary and secondary fonts. The primary
font is the one it will use by default, the secondary font can be selected instead. This facility enables you to have
two parallel font definitions that you can switch between easily without invoking long escape sequences. You
can select the primary and secondary fonts using PCL commands.
Depending on your model, you can also set any available fonts to be the printer's user default primary and
secondary fonts using the printer's control panel. Refer to the User Guide for instructions on how to do this.
The factory default settings for both primary and secondary fonts are Brougham 12 point, 10 cpi Roman 8.

5.1.11. Specifying the primary font

When you specify primary font characteristics you send escape codes with '(' as the second character of the
sequence. This tells the printer that the font characteristic you are specifying applies to the primary font.

5.1.12. Specifying the secondary font

When you specify secondary font characteristics you send escape codes with ')' as the second character of the
sequence. This tells the printer that the font characteristic you are specifying applies to the secondary font.
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