Resident typefaces (PostScript and PCL5)
The printer is shipped with 164 PostScript fonts and a CD-ROM containing ATM (Adobe Type Manager) software. ATM software helps your computer display the fonts on screen as they will appear in your prints. Refer to Printing a list of fonts for instructions on printing out a list of the resident fonts.
For PCL5 printing, the printer supports the following typefaces in regular, medium, bold, italic medium, and italic bold: Albertus, Antique, Arial, Clarendon, Coronet, Courier, Garamond, Letter Gothic, Marigold, Times, Times New Roman, Univers, and Wingdings.
Downloading fonts
The fonts resident in the printer are stored in the printer and are always available for printing. The PostScript interpreter in the printer can also accept and store additional fonts known as downloadable fonts. If you want to print PostScript outline fonts that are not built into the printer, you can transfer or download them from your computer to the printer. Downloading fonts saves print time if you plan to print several documents or a large document using those fonts.
When you download a font, it is stored in the printer's memory or on a SCSI hard disk attached to the printer. Refer to Using SCSI Hard Disks for more information on using an external SCSI disk for font storage. You can download as many outline fonts as the printer's memory or hard disk allow. Adding more printer memory expands the number of fonts that can be downloaded to the printer.
The printer accepts Type 1 and Type 3 downloadable fonts including those from Adobe, Agfa, Bitstream, Microsoft, and Apple; PCL5 fonts; and a variety of user-defined fonts. The printer also accepts TrueType downloadable fonts, which can be scaled to any point size. TrueType fonts look the same on the screen as they do when printed.
You download a font from a PC or Macintosh the same way you download fonts to any PostScript printer. Follow the documentation that was shipped with your fonts.
Using fonts with Windows
Before printing, you need to make sure the fonts specified in your document are installed in the printer or set up correctly in Windows. If you request a font in an application that is not resident in the printer, or is not correctly installed in Windows, the text is printed in the Courier typeface.
To use fonts that are not resident in the printer, do one of the following:
For more information on using fonts with Windows, visit the Tektronix color printer web site.
Printing a list of fonts
You can print a list of the printer's resident fonts by downloading a utility file to the printer.
Printing a font list from a Macintosh
- Install the sampler and utility files from either the Installer for Mac® OS Diskette 1 or the printer's CD-ROM; see Using the Mac OS installer for details.
- In the Chooser, select the appropriate printer.
- On your computer's hard disk, locate the PhaserTools folder; locate the Apple Printer Utility and double-click its icon to start the application.
- From the Utilities menu, choose Download PostScript File.
- Select the Font Sampler file from the list, then click Open. (This file was installed inside the PhaserTools folder, in the Samplers folder.)
- If no output is returned by the printer, the Apple Printer Utility displays a dialog box; click OK to continue.
Printing a font list from a PC
- From the printer's CD-ROM or the Printer Software for Windows diskette, locate the SAMPLERS directory and the FONTS.PS file.
- Copy the FONTS.PS file to your computer's hard disk or use the file directly from the CD-ROM.
- To send the FONTS.PS file to the printer:
