Lexmark Optra S 1250 Manual

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Scalable Fonts
You can select the following resident scalable fonts from the
printer operator panel or from your software application.
The following fonts are available for all printer models in the fol-
lowingprinterlanguages:PCL5emulation,PCL6emulation,and
PostScript Level 2 emulation. See “Printing a Font Sample List” on
page 339 for more information.
The font names shown below are for PCL 5 emulation. In PCL 6
emulation and PostScript Level 2...

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Courier Bold Italic Letter Gothic Italic
Garamond Antiqua Letter Gothic Bold
Marigold Univers Medium
Palatino Roman Univers Medium Italic
Palatino Italic Univers Bold
Palatino Bold Univers Bold Italic
Palatino Bold Italic Univers Condensed Medium
Symbol Univers Condensed Medium Italic
Times New Roman Univers Condensed Bold
Times New Roman Italic Univers Condensed Bold Italic
Times New Roman Bold Wingdings
Times New Roman Bold Italic 

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Bitmapped Fonts
Symbol Sets for PCL Emulation
Font NamePCL 5 EmulationPCL 6 Emulation
PostScript Level
2Emulation
Line Printer 16 All All None
POSTNET Barcode All None None
ABICOMP International ISO 8859/5 Latin/Cyrillic
ABICOMP Brazil/Portugal ISO 8859/7 Latin/Greek
DeskTop ISO 8859-9 Latin 5
Greek-8 ISO 8859-10 Latin 6
HP German Legal
HP Spanish PS Text
ISO-2 IRV Roman-8
ISO-4 UK Math-8
ISO-6 ASCII MC Text
ISO-10 Swedish/Finnish Microsoft...

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Note:Not all font names support all of the symbol sets. Refer to
theTechnical Referenceor use your printer operator panel to
find which symbols sets are supported by each font name.
Downloadable Fonts
You can download scalable fonts in PostScript Level 2 emulation
and either scalable or bitmapped fonts in PCL emulation. Fonts can
be downloaded to printer memory or to a Flash Memory Option or
Hard Disk with Adapter Option. Fonts downloaded to flash...

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PrintingaFontSampleList
To print a list of the fonts currently available, selectTESTS MENU,
Print Fonts,and eitherPCL Fonts,PS 2 FontsorPPDS Fonts
from the printer operator panel. 

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Enhancing Print Quality
Appendix
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Enhancing
Print Quality
B
There are several ways to customize the printer settings to meet
your specific print quality needs. Enhanced print quality some-
times comes at a cost, such as increased print time or additional
memory requirements. There may be times when you prefer to
chooseprintersettingsthatdon’tplaceasgreatademandonthe
printer resources.
This information may help you make decisions about your net-
work default settings,...

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Binary
The ability to turn a pixel on or off, as opposed to assigning it a
range of intensities; single-color printers (monochrome printers)
are binary.
Continuous Tone
The ability to represent many levels of intensity for a single pixel,
as opposed to simply turning the pixel on or off.
Resolution
The spacing of pixels the printer can address and resolve individu-
ally, usually measured in the number of dots per inch (dpi).
Text
Alphabetic...

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Halftones
Gray-scale objects (such as photographs) whose gray dots have
been converted to a pattern of groups of black dots. These groups,
which are of various sizes, along with the white dots (pixels turned
off), create the illusion of gray shadings: larger groups make the
image appear black or dark gray, while smaller groups make the
image appear light gray.
Screen Frequency
The distance between the centers of the groups of black dots, mea-...

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Print Quality Settings
Several factors control the appearance of the printed page. You can
regulate how much toner the printer applies to each black dot, or
pixel, as well as the frequency and size of the dots.
Each of the following sections describes a printer setting you can
change to alter the appearance of the printed document. Note that
some of these settings complement each other, while others are
mutually exclusive. See the table on...