topic Re: Font cards in General Discussion

Font cards

mpetrof — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:01:18 GMT

I'm helping a widowed friend of my wife's reduce her load of stuff. Among it were 7 Canon Font Cards: BM1-3, SC-1A, b; and two newere ones. SCj-1 & BM-2 (part nos. s63-2300 & 2330.

Does an;yone know anything about these? Thank you.

Re: Font cards

shadowsports — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:46:40 GMT

Greetings,

One man's trash is another's treasure. Sounds like junk to me. You would need to have something to install them in.

Re: Font cards

mpetrof — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 03:15:00 GMT

The implicit question was: What do they get installed in?

Re: Font cards

Patrick — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:31:29 GMT

Hi mpetrof,

Font cards were used in printers in the late 1980's and early 1990's. They provided the user to print various fonts that the cards contained, as the driver did not do this. For an example, please view this page from PC Mag (June 1990):

Re: Font cards

mpetrof — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:55:04 GMT

Thank you Patrick..