>>>Hi all, I set my printer font to "courier new" with the font size 11 for my program. As I see, it prints just fine but users complaint that it prints too slowly. Is there any way I can make the printer print faster? I mean like changing the font type or something? Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>
>Ed,
> How can I know what fonts are the native fonts for my printer and what must i do so that it will print using this native font? By the way, I'm using raw code.

(1) mske sure the printer driver for the target printer is installed and set as your default printer.

(2) In the Fonts dialog, only use fonts with a little printer icon next to them - fonts that show no icon on the left are native Windows fonts, which almost certainly will not be naive printer fonts, or ones that show a stylizex TT next to them are scalable True Type fonts, which are certain to be sent as graphic images to the printer

(3) when selecting a native font, only select print sizes [provided in the font dialog.

Using native fonts will only work with the selected printer, or compatible pritners using the same driver. A print driver that does not support a native font from another printer will select a Windows font using the font substitution tables, the output will be slow, and alignment will be problematic. Using a least common denominator printer for your taget printer set, ans installing the printer using the least common denominator driver rather than the default seems to be the best approach if you insist on creating output on DMPs where speed rather than hardware independence is an issue. A better choice would be to abandon the Windows-based printer tools and assume all formatting responsibility yourself.