HP PCL/PJL reference (PCL 5 Printer Language) - Technical Reference Manual Part I

EN Select Default Font Command 8-27
Examples
To specify the font associated with ID number 7 as the primary font,
send:
E
C
(7X
To specify the font associated with ID number 5 as the secondary
font, send:
E
C
)5X
Select Default Font Command
The Default Font command sets all of the font characteristics to those
of the user (control panel selected) default font.
E
C
( 3 @ - Default primary font characteristics
E
C
) 3 @ - Default secondary font characteristics
Note If the user default font is a proportionally-spaced font, the pitch
characteristic is not affected by the default font command.
HP-GL/2 Font Selection
In addition to selecting fonts using the PCL font selection commands,
fonts can also be selected and printed in HP-GL/2 mode using the
HP-GL/2 label commands (refer to Chapter 23, Character Group).
The HP-GL/2 font selection commands allow you to label vector
graphic images and to create some special effects with fonts not
otherwise available. These special effects include printing outline
fonts from fonts which are not outline style, printing mirror-images of
fonts, and printing fonts on any angle on the logical page. Fonts can
also be scaled using HP-GL/2 vector graphics, however this font
scaling method is rather program intensive and not the recommended
method (refer to “HP-GL/2 Vector Graphics” in Chapter 25 for
additional information).