# setup-printer command

The setup-printer BASIC program downloads
fonts to a laser printer attached to a form queue.

The form queues are items in the dm,devices, file with fonts 1 through 16 defined at the proper table entry (x-125
through 140.)

The list of font item-IDs used by a form queue
are in the file dictionary dm,fonts, with the item-IDs the same as
the form queue.

If a form queue is indicated, it downloads the
fonts in that list.

If a printer number is indicated, for all
form queues defined by that printer, it downloads the fonts in each
form queue list. Thus, by specifying the item-ID of the form queue,
it retrieves the list of fonts in dm,devices, dictionary.

| q.number | Form queue number to which the fonts are downloaded. |
| --- | --- |
| printer.number | Printer number to which the form queue fonts are downloaded. |
Fonts reside in the dm,fonts, file.

The list of fonts assigned to a form queue resides in the dictionary dm,fonts form queue number.

Setting up
a form queue downloads all the fonts defined for that form queue.

Setting up a printer does a form queue download for each form
queue defined for that printer.

Each (downloaded) font is stored
in the printer’s memory, and is referenced by a numeric font-ID number.
To ensure that an existing font is not accidentally overwritten, the
beginning font-number of 10 is used, and is increased by 10 for each
additional downloaded font.

The fonts may be invoked using the
same @ functions available to BASIC and the arguments
between (-146) and (-267), or by the Output processor `font` command).

## See also

- [.font command](https://d3codex.com/output-processor/dot-font-command/)
- [@() function](https://d3codex.com/pickbasic-flashbasic/at-parenthesis-function/)
- [download command](https://d3codex.com/tcl/download-command/)
- [Font](https://d3codex.com/definitions/font/)

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Source: https://d3codex.com/tcl/setup-printer-command/ - part of the D3Codex reference.