LaserWriter Select 360: PCL emulation (11/93)


The LaserWriter Select 360 supports HP PCL5 emulation. Which of
the printer's ROM fonts are directly accessable via PCL5?

As it turns out, not all fonts in the LaserWriter Select 360's ROM are
accessible while in LaserJet III PCL5 emulation mode. There are only four
fonts available, two are bitmap fonts (with a couple fixed-pitch point
sizes), and the other two are scalable fonts. The fonts are:

Bitmap fonts (fixed pitch)
------------
Courier
Line Printer

Scalable fonts
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Times
Univers

Information regarding these fonts is actually built into the ROMs of the
LaserWriter Select 360. The information provided includes such things as
available point sizes, pitches, styles, and the PCL5 escape sequence
necessary to access the font. To get a printout of this information, just
download the following two lines of PostScript:

/LaserJetIII /ProcSet findresource
/FontReport get exec

NOTE: In the escape code sequence for scalable fonts, the "_" (underscore)
character is where you fill in the point size you need, since it is a
scalable font.


Published Date: Feb 19, 2012