Re: Hewlett Packard printer fonts needed

Terry McAdams (terrymc@cyberstation.net)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 01:32:47 EST

Edith LaForge wrote:
> My school library's received a donated HP 500C printer with _no_ disk
>of fonts. Windows 3.1 has only a few fonts to use with this printer.
> Can anyone tell me where to find the HP Master Type Library with
>scalable typefaces? TIA.

Visit their home page
(http://www.hp.com/cposupport/Peripherals.html#Printers). Choose the "HP
DeskJet 500 Series Printer Files" option. Then choose the option that
describes what you are looking for. They have the latest driver disks that
are available for their printers. If a font disk originally came with the
printer, it will be there.

Just a note about fonts and windows 3.1: Windows 3.1 comes with a font
technology called Truetype. This technology was developed by Apple
Computer (yes the Mac company). Microsoft licensed Truetype from Apple to
include with Windows 3.1. Truetype allows you to scale fonts to any size
that you wish and have them perfectly smooth when printed. This will work
on any printer that Windows recognizes as a printer. You must have a font
that is a Truetype compatible font to do this, however.

There are thousands Truetype fonts available. You can find them
commercially, shareware, or even freeware. I know there are some available
on America Online in both the Mac and PC download areas. If you run across
some Mac fonts, they can be converted for use on the PC if you have a
program that does that, but I'm not sure where you'd find such a program.

Hope this helps.

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Terry McAdams
terrymc@cyberstation.net
US Air Force Avionics Instructor
I am also a qualified elementary school teacher and Mac owner
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