Question about soft font for laserjet printer

Hi,

I need to print different language to a network laser printer. I understand
that I can embed the soft font in each printout but it is too costly as the
network bandwidth is limited (it is across countries).

Therefore, I wonder if I can preload the soft font to the printer and then
submit the plain print job. I have the following questions:

- Does it sound working?
- Is there any generic way to preload the soft font to a network laserjet
printer (from a windows 2k machine say). If possible please teach me in
detail too.
- Any other idea where I can save the bandwidth and still meet my
printing requirement?

Regards,

Dennis

(Dennis Ng) wrote in message . com...
I need to print different language to a network laser printer. I understand
that I can embed the soft font in each printout but it is too costly as the
network bandwidth is limited (it is across countries).

Therefore, I wonder if I can preload the soft font to the printer and then
submit the plain print job. I have the following questions:

- Does it sound working?
- Is there any generic way to preload the soft font to a network laserjet
printer (from a windows 2k machine say). If possible please teach me in
detail too.
- Any other idea where I can save the bandwidth and still meet my
printing requirement?

I think first try to produce PDF files. That will include the fonts
(Chinese?) you want, but in a very compact way. If you have images,
you can select the downsampling to reduce the size of the file.

Otherwise, to make fonts resident in the printer depends on what kind
of printer it is. Basically, ther are three kinds of lasers:
Postscript and PCL printers have tools to download fonts to printer
RAM (or hard disk if it has one). Winprinters don't have any fonts at
all. If it's a network printer it should have all this in its manual.