Selecting a font

NetSpool assumes a fixed-pitch font when it formats data. Therefore, you should use a fixed-pitch font to print the data so you can maintain the correct alignment of characters. If you select the Convert to PCL formatting option, you should use a fixed-pitch, scalable font to print the data.

If the printer's default font is not suitable, you can specify a font using one of these methods. The method you use depends on whether the printer is controlled by IP PrintWay™ or PSF:

• Printers that PSF controls: Name the font in the Character sets field on the Allocation panel of the printer definition.
• Printers that IP PrintWay controls: You can specify a font in one of these places:
  • Specify PCL commands to select the font in the IP PrintWay Document header field in the printer definition. IP PrintWay sends the PCL commands in this field to the printer. Therefore, this font is used to print all data sets transmitted to the printer, not only data sets created by NetSpool.
  • Specify PCL commands to select the font in the NetSpool Beginning of File exit. This font is used to print all data sets created by NetSpool.
  • Name the font in the Character sets field on the Allocation panel of the printer definition. Use this method if you (1) use the AFP to PCL or AFP to PostScript transform or (2) print to a remote system running PSF, such as Ricoh InfoPrint Manager or Ricoh ProcessDirector V3.0 or later. Otherwise, the font you specify in this field is ignored.
  Guidelines:

  1. If a fixed-pitch font is not suitable for all of your print jobs, you could set up more than one printer definition for the same printer. Then, specify a fixed-pitch font in the printer definition that NetSpool uses.
  2. If you are using PSF printers, consider specifying the chars attribute in embedded job attributes.
  3. PCL commands in the NetSpool Beginning of File exit override PCL commands in the Document header field.
  4. If you use the AFP to PCL or the AFP to PostScript transform, do not specify a PCL command in the NetSpool Beginning of File exit because the AFP to PCL and AFP to PostScript transforms cannot interpret PCL commands.
  5. If you select the SCS automatic page orientation field, specify the size of the font in the Line density and Print density fields instead of in a PCL command so that NetSpool can accurately determine the appropriate page orientation. This is because NetSpool cannot detect the size of a font specified in a PCL command or in the Character sets field.