ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (12/08/89)
It seems that our LaserJet II has an "extra" internal resident font
in it ... can anyone explain what is happening?
Occasionally we use the LJII for fixed pitch printing. I have noticed that
we sometimes get a "skinny" 10cpi versus a "full" 10cpi Courier. The skinny
one is about 9.2cpi. It is definitely a fixed pitch font.
The manuals talk about 3 internal fonts (Courier 10cpi, Courier Bold 10cpi,
Line Printer 16.66cpi). It would seem that I have a 4th ... I tend to try to
think up reasons for existence of such unusual occurrences -- my theory is that
the 9.2cpi is to allow a "full 10 cpi line" to print on the LJII in spite of the
left and right margin "dead zones".
My concern is how to control the use of this font, in terms of escape codes or
whatever, so that I know when I am getting it, when I am not getting it, etc.
Thanks for any assistance.
By the way, I did power cycle the LJII and so this is not some soft font
that was downloaded long ago -- besides, it is a fixed pitch font and all
of our soft fonts are proportional. Also, we have no font cartridges.
Ray Liere
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