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- This is a very brief orientation to downloading softfonts to a printer.
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- There are 3 steps to downloading a soft font.
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- 1) Send the PCL command that identifies the softfont: <ESC>*c#D
- substitute a number for #, ie 1 to start: <ESC>*c1D
- Save these into a file, I suggest FONT1.DAT. If you use MS-DOS's
- EDITOR to write the file, use CTRL+P then ALT+027 on the numeric keypad
- for the ESCAPE character. When you copy this file to the printer use
- the /B (Binary) switch, ie, COPY /B FONT1.DAT PRN:
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- 2) Now copy the desired font itself, this is the font you are using as
- downloaded font 1 (in this example) ie, LOGO.FNT or whatever name
- you have given it or it is called. Here again use the COPY /B format,
- ie, : COPY /B LOGO.FNT PRN:
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- 3) Finally, send the PCL command that notifies the printer this font
- download is complete and to make it a permanent font. Use the
- command: <ESC>*c5F
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- I suggest placing this in a file called PERM.DAT, creating it as you
- did in #1 above. Here also, use the COPY /B.
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- Consider placing these in a BATCH file to be called when you want to
- D/L soft fonts. Add as many as you need and have printer memory for.
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- Sample DOWNLOAD.BAT to download 3 softfonts:
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- @ECHO OFF
- CLS
- ECHO Loading Fonts...
- COPY /B FONT1.DAT PRN:
- COPY /B LOGO1.FNT PRN:
- COPY /B PERM.DAT PRN:
- COPY /B FONT2.DAT PRN:
- COPY /B LOGO2.FNT PRN:
- COPY /B PERM.DAT PRN:
- COPY /B FONT3.DAT PRN:
- COPY /B LOGO3.FNT PRN:
- COPY /B PERM.DAT PRN:
- CLS
- ECHO Font Download Complete!
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- For your use I have included some sample files to use, called:
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- FONT1.DAT For D/L font 1
- FONT2.DAT For D/L font 2
- FONT3.DAT For D/L font 3
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- PERM.DAT To make font permanent.
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- Note same PERM.DAT is used over and over - needs no changes.
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- IMPORTANT: If ECPage Font ID#26 is a Download #1 font, for example,
- make sure you download it as #1.
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