User manual XEROX DOCUPRINT 4508

[. . . ] The Xerox DocuPrint 4508 Desktop Laser Printer User Guide Xerox Corporation 701 South Aviation Blvd. El Segundo, CA 90245 USA Americas Operations Support 800 Long Ridge Road Stamford, CT 06904-1600 USA Xerox Canada, Limited 5650 Yonge Street North York, Ontario Canada M2M 4G7 Rank Xerox, Limited Parkway Marlow Buckinghamshire SL7 1YL United Kingdom Copyright © 1995, 1996 Xerox Corporation. Copyright protection claimed includes all forms of matters of copyrightable materials and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted, including without limitation, material generated from the software programs which are displayed on the screen such as styles, templates, icons, screen displays, looks, etc. XEROX®, The Document Company®, the stylized X, DocuPrint, and 4508 are trademarks of Xerox Corporation or its subsidiaries. [. . . ] Refer to the section "The Remote Control Panel (RCP)" (page 5-4) for the EconoMode setting procedure. EconoMode 7-4 y DocuPrint 4508 User Guide Maintenance Cleaning the Printer To prevent excessive wear and to preserve the print quality, keep the printer free of dust and debris. Figure 7. 1 Cleaning the printer Before cleaning the printer, disconnect the printer from its power source. 1 Clean the outside of the printer with a slightly damp cloth (Use water only). Do NOT use ammonia-based cleaners on or around your printer. 2 3 Clean the inside of the printer with a dry lint-free cloth. Remove all dust, spilled toner, and particles of paper. Clean the ridges of the rear printer door with a dry lint-free cloth or brush. Chapter 7: Maintenance y 7-5 7-6 y DocuPrint 4508 User Guide Chapter 8 Fonts 8 r e tpah C Definition of Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-2 Internal and Soft Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4 Internal Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4 Soft Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-4 Selecting Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-5 Chapter 8: Fonts y 8-1 Fonts Definition of Fonts A font is a group of characters and symbols that have similar characteristics. Figure 8. 1 Font samples · Symbol Set A unique subgrouping of the available alphabetic, numeric, and special characters in a font. · Spacing The character width. Fixed pitch font characters have the same width. The width of a proportional font character is variable. · Pitch The number of characters that can be printed in one horizontal inch. · Height (Point Size) Units of measurement that identify the height of a font. 72 points per inch. · Style A stylistic variation of a font, such as bold or italic. 8-2 y DocuPrint 4508 User Guide Definition of Fonts · Stroke Weight The thickness of the character. · Typeface The name of the design of characters and symbols. · Orientation The position of the logical page with respect to the physical page. Figure 8. 2 (0, 0) X Examples of orientation Top Margin Physical Page Physical Page ABCD. . . Logical Page (0, 0) ABCD. . . Y Landscape (0, 0) Y Physical Page Portrait Physical Page Logical Page ABCD. . . Top Margin Y Reverse Portrait ABCD. . . X (0, 0) Reverse Landscape Chapter 8: Fonts y 8-3 Fonts Internal and Soft Fonts Internal Fonts Depending on the capability of your software, you can size the proportionally spaced internal typeface from 0. 25 point to 999 point, in quarter-point increments. The printer automatically rotates any font from portrait to landscape depending on the page orientation. When the printer is ON-LINE and the READY LED is on, you can print the list of currently available fonts for the printer by depressing the key for 4 seconds. Soft Fonts Downloading is the process of transferring soft fonts from a host computer to the printer's memory. Figure 8. 3 Examples of soft fonts (TrueType scalable) Once downloaded, a soft font occupies a portion of printer memory (RAM) Note 8-4 y DocuPrint 4508 User Guide Fonts Selecting Fonts You can select fonts by using the font selection features of your software application by sending printer commands through the software program or by using the Remote Control Panel program. The factory default font is Courier, 12 point, 10 pitch, portrait orientation, upright medium weight font with the Roman8 symbol set. When the printer looks for a requested font, it checks the font source in the following order: 1. Internal font. Chapter 8: Fonts y 8-5 8-6 y DocuPrint 4508 User Guide Appendix A Printer Commands A x i d ep A np PCL Printer Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Standard Data File A data file format that can be read by many software applications. SDF files contain data elements delimited by any special character, typically the comma. Each logical record in an SDF file is terminated by a carriage return. SMS accounting export data files are stored in SDF format. [. . . ]