Color Laser Printers and Fonts

Color laser printers are a comprehensive choice for the person who wants to print in as many forms and ways as possible. They can produce a very high quality print and can easily print a mix of text and images. Furthermore, color laser printers are almost unlimited in their capacity to print designer fonts. Not only do they come with a standard set of fonts, called resident or internal fonts but you can also add fonts.

One way to add fonts to your color laser printer is to add a font cartridge. Almost all models of high quality laser printers have slots that allow you to insert font cartridges into them. These font cartridges are ROM boards on which font types have been stored. The plus to using a font cartridge is they do not use up your printer’s memory.

You can also print soft fonts using color laser printers. This is through a process that is called “downloading fonts.” All laser printers are sold with a certain mount of RAM memory. You can increase this memory by adding memory to the printer’s expansion slot. These can then be copied from a disk to the printer’s RAM. The more RAM available on the printer the more fonts you can download onto your printer at one time.

In addition to text, laser printers are very adept at printing graphics. However you need a sufficient amount of memory to print high-resolution images and graphics. However, you need significant amounts of memory in the printer to print high-resolution graphics. For example to print a full-page graphic at 300 dpi, for example, you need at least 1 MB (megabyte) of printer RAM. For a 600-dpi graphic, you need at least 4 MB RAM.

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