Printer Fonts and Windows NT

A printer font is any font that can be produced on your printer. There are basically three kinds of printer fonts:

• Device fonts are fonts that actually reside in the hardware of your printer. They can be built into the printer itself or can be provided by a font cartridge or font card.
• Printable screen fonts are Windows NT screen fonts that can be translated for output to the printer (including TrueType).
• Downloadable soft fonts are fonts that reside on your hard disk and are sent to the printer when needed. (Only the characters needed for the particular document are downloaded, not the whole font set.)

Not all printers can use all three types of printer fonts. For example, HPPCL printers cannot print Windows NT screen fonts.

The Windows NT Universal printer driver takes advantage of TrueType fonts and offers other improvements over older dot-matrix and HPPCL printer drivers. The Windows NT Universal printer driver is used instead of specific dot-matrix or HPPCL printer drivers.

For more information about setting up printers, see Chapter 6, "Printing."