Printers and Fonts Table

When handling printer files in OS/400 you can easily refer to different fonts to be displayed. Fonts are usually referred by a global font identifier, which is just an ID not being really helpful for knowing what is what.
In addition, not every printer supports each available font, and sometimes even the same printer has different capabilities depending on the type of print data being sent.

The following table is a subset of a very extensive listing found in the documentation about OV/400. The listing is cut down to the most often used printer emulation, the IBM 8312. Both SCS and AFP/IPDS capabilities are listed. Fonts being substituted to have been omitted, only directly supported fonts are shown.

Type Style	Attributes	Font Name	SCS	IPDS
3	Mono	OCR-B	✓	✓
5	Mono	Rhetoric	✓	✓
11	Mono	Courier	✓	✓
12	Mono	Prestige	✓	✓
13	Mono	Artisian	✓	✓
18	Mono, Italic	Courier Italic	✓	✓
19	Mono	OCR-A	✓	✓
20	Mono	Pica	✓	✓
26	Mono	Matrix Gothic	✓	✓
30	Mono	Symbol	✓	✓
31	Mono	Aviv	26	✓
38	Mono, Bold	Orator Bold	✓	✓
39	Mono, Bold	Gothic Bold	✓	✓
40	Mono	Gothic	✓	✓
41	Mono	Roman Text	✓	✓
42	Mono	Serif	✓	✓
43	Mono	Serif Italic	✓	✓
44	Mono	Katakana Gothic	✓	✓
46	Mono, Bold	Courier Bold	✓	✓
49	Mono	Shalom	26	✓
50	Mono, Bold	Shalom Bold	✓	✓
51	Mono	Matrix Gothic	✓	✓
52	Mono	Courier	✓	✓
55	Mono, Bold	Aviv Bold	26	✓
66	Mono	Gothic	✓	✓
68	Mono, Italic	Gothic Italic	✓	✓
69	Mono, Bold	Gothic Bold	✓	✓
70	Mono	Serif	✓	✓
71	Mono, Italic	Serif Italic	✓	✓
72	Mono, Bold	Serif Bold	✓	✓
80	Mono	Symbol	✓	✓
84	Mono	Script	✓	✓
85	Mono	Courier	✓	✓
86	Mono	Prestige	✓	✓
87	Mono	Letter Gothic	✓	✓
91	Mono, Italic	Light Italic	✓	✓
98	Mono	Shalom	87	✓
99	Mono	Aviv	87	✓
101	Mono, Bold	Shamlom Bold	87	✓
102	Mono, Bold	Aviv Bold	87	✓
110	Mono, Bold	Letter Gothic Bold	✓	✓

Weblinks

• SC41-5712-01 DDS Reference
• GG24-4389-00 Printing IV
• SG24-2160-01 Printing V
• SC41-9618-02 Application System/400 Systems Application Architecture OfficeVision/400: Using OfficeVision/400 Word Processing