kyoceru fs-6700 giving character errors

[renegademonk]

Howdies,
The problem : 'C' and zero '0', when printed in bold (tried Arial and rounded? Arial), appear several spaces back and laying on their side !! All other letters and numbers print out fine so far ..

The FS-6700 is shared from a win98 machine to 2 other win98 machines, all with latest drivers from the kyocera website.

Am i correct in thinking this may be a character set problem?
Or else ..?

cheers,
ben

 

[UncleRick]

Try updating your Arial font. I had a simular problem with Arial and Times New Roman on another make of printer. I download a different version of the fonts and it fixed my problem. Did your printer come with a font disk? In your printer driver can you choose to use the font internal to the printer or to send the fonts needed down with each job? If so, try both settings.

I'm not sure what you mean by character set. A character set is the font. One of the features of a font is the symbol set. I assume you mean symbol set because character set is not commonly used as font is much easier to say.

If you did mean symbol set, then I don't think that is the problem as that just defines which symbol will be available in the font.

If you did mean font, then I agree. I have had luck at

http://www.font-finder.com/fonts.html

finding fonts. Also many printer manufacturers have "font managers" that come with lots of fonts. Some are free downloads and you don't have to install the manager to use the fonts.

I hope something in there is helpful.
good luck and have fun,

 

[renegademonk]

Tried the disable/substitute-with device fonts settings but no fix there.

The drivers apparently come with 2 forms of printer language - PCL-5E and KPDL(postscript)

I used the former as suggested at

http://www.kyoceramita.com.au/downloads/printerlanguage.html

BUT on switching to KPDL the problem has disappeared
Something to do with postscript but its not clear to me exactly what.. i suppose the KPDL drivers translate the postscript properly for the printer.. ?

It is a simple alteration at properties>device settings>PDL settings regardless of which of the two win95/98 driver downloads you make - ie:the files seem identical 2.1.0417

and yeah when i said character set i meant font - as i see a font uses THE character set?

cheers rick

ben

 

[UncleRick]

Hi Ben,

I'm glad you have it working. IIRC PostScript handles fonts differently than PCL.

If you are interested in font characteristics there is a basic introduction to selecting fonts in PCL and it talks a little about the characteristics of fonts.

http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/software/utils/pcl_page5.html

have fun,