Switching symbol sets in PCL5 printers

[William James McEachran]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:32:52PM -0500, William James McEachran wrote:

I wrote:
> Question: Beyond issuing the character set command is there an additional
> step required to effect the output produced?

My thanks to Jim Asman, Bob Rasmussen, and a private poster who brought me
up to speed on character sets and fonts.

The character set commands won't do a darn thing unless you've got the
required fonts for it installed.

So, while I had a printer that supported the OCR-A character set it turned
out I needed OCR-A fonts.

There are at least 3 solutions.
- buy a font cartridge for the printer
- download soft fonts for the printer 
- use Anzio's latest version with PCL translation on a Windows client
  machine which has the required fonts installed. (BTW, Anzio really
  rocks for handling filePro's printing.)

I'm sure to have more questions on fonts later -- who knew that fonts went
beyond bold, italic, and pitch changes? :-).

Thanks all.
-- 
Bill McEachran