Prinergy supports CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) characters using the Character Identifier (CID) font file format; it does not support the Original Composite Format (OCF) font file format.

The following features are available:

Frequently asked questions

Available font bundles

When you purchase Prinergy, one of the following bundles is available, depending on the country in which you live.
Note: You can purchase only one factory font bundle; that bundle must be appropriate to your region. For example, if you are in Japan, you can buy either the Basic Japanese or Advanced Japanese bundle, but not both.

Font bundle

Bundle contains

Basic Japanese

First five Morisawa font programs

Full Japanese

All 23 Morisawa font programs

Simplified Chinese

All SinoType font programs

Traditional Chinese

All Monotype font programs

Korean

All Han Yang font programs

CJK

All of the above

The following table lists which font bundles are available in specific countries. If you require more fonts than the ones in the available font bundle, you must purchase the fonts locally, and load them as aftermarket fonts.

Country

Available font bundle

Japan

Basic Japanese or Full Japanese or CJK

People's Republic of China

Simplified Chinese or CJK

Taiwan

Traditional Chinese or CJK

Hong Kong

Traditional Chinese or CJK

Korea

Korean or CJK

CJK fonts are sold only as high-resolution versions. Japanese CJK fonts are quite expensive, both for Kodak and for customers purchasing those fonts as aftermarket packages. Kodak offers bundles as a convenience to our customers. Purchasing bundles saves the time and effort of purchasing the entire library and probably also saves money.

Some other issues to consider:

Here are the existing font bundles:

Font Protection for Factory-Installed Fonts

The only RIP property used to protect factory-installed fonts is license ID. Adobe assigns a unique license ID to each font bundle. For the fonts to be accessible, the ID of the font bundle must match the license ID specified by the RIP executable (Normalizer JTP). Serial number and product name are relevant to after-market fonts, but not factory-installed fonts.

Font protection for after-market fonts

Serial number, license ID, and product name properties of the RIP are used together to protect after-market fonts. The license ID and product name do not need to be unique on each hardware system. In the case of a Prinergy system, the license ID and product name will be the same for all component hardware systems.
The AppleTalk Font Downloader used to download the font must derive a unique serial number from some characteristic of the target hardware system. The AppleTalk Font Downloader encrypts the font files with a key derived from the serial number, license ID, and product name. For the font to be used or embedded into PDF on the target system, the RIP (Normalizer JTP) on that system must have the same serial number.
By default, and according to agreements with Morisawa, Adobe derives the serial number from the MAC (medium access control) address of the network card installed on the target system. This prevents the user from copying the installed font files from the original target system to a different system, and then using or embedding a font. To prevent the user from downloading the font from various systems, typical after-market font installers have a protection scheme that permits only a limited number of installs (for example, three).