LaserWriter 8.1.1: Disable Font Downloading?

When printing a document under LaserWriter 8.x, the fonts that are used in the documents are downloaded before a query is enacted to determine if fonts are available at the printer, or in this case a print spooler causing unnecessary network traffic. Is there a way to not download these fonts to the spooler?
At the beginning of every 8.x print job, the driver first opens a query job to obtain information about the target device; including its features, fonts, and other characteristics. Most likely this FontQuery does takes place in your setup, and could be confirmed by a packet trace of the print job.

A spooler receiving the query is expected to minimally return a default response. If the spooler cannot return a font list in a format that can be used by the printer driver, then the fonts will be downloaded with the print job.

Netware 3.x spoolers do not return the font list to a PostScript Level II LaserWriter 8.x driver query resulting in the fonts being downloaded. Note that Netware 3.x does support PostScript Level 1 font queries (such as those used by the LaserWriter 7.x driver).

Suggested Alternatives
Use only fonts built-in to your printer, thus eliminating fonts having to be downloaded when processing your job.

Another solution might be to use AppleShare Print Server 4.x or later. However, AppleShare doesn't maintain the font list dynamically, but builds the font list at the time the printer is captured. Fonts downloaded with previous jobs will not be reflected in the font list returned to the FontQuery. Since the font list isn't maintained dynamically, perhaps you could download and store typically used fonts via the LaserWriter Utility on a hard disk connected to the printer, then capture the printer with AppleShare Print Server. Thereafter, only the exceptional fonts used in a print job will be downloaded.
Published Date: Feb 19, 2012