CG Times & Times New Roman
Lindsay Rollo
It has both CG Times and Times New Roman as installed fonts.
Can someone give me a brief rundown of the differences and/or
advantages/disadvantages of these to typefaces.
Virtually all my printing is concerned with extended text items,
correspondence, reports with no graphics.
TKS
Lindsay J. Rollo
Wellington, New Zealand lro...@actrix.gne.nz
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Lindsay J Rollo
Wellington, New Zealand lro...@actrix.gen.nz
David Lemon
> I have just taken delivery of a HP Laserjet 5P printer.
> It has both CG Times and Times New Roman as installed fonts.
> Can someone give me a brief rundown of the differences and/or
> advantages/disadvantages of these to typefaces.
CG Times is Compugraphic's (now Agfa's) clone of Times, the font
Linotype designed as an adaptation of Times New Roman (Times is
different from a clone, since Linotype's version was designed at the
behest of the Times of London (for which the font was first made) with
Monotype's permission, since much of the Times was set with Linotype
machines). The difference between Times New Roman and Times has much
to do with the nature of their uses; Times New Roman is a bit more
refined, while Times is a bit sturdier (better suited for machine-set
text that was printed at high speeds on a rotary letterpress). When
Compugraphic cloned Times they added their own quirks, about which
I'll withold comment.
Frankly, I don't think the esthetic difference is signficant to your
purposes. A bigger issue may be the font format. CG Times is in the
Intellifont format, while Times New Roman is the same TrueType font
distributed with the Microsoft font pack. Since TNR is widely
available on both Mac and Windows platforms, it offers an easier
chance to match what your co-workers may be doing, if that's a
concern.
- David Lemon
type nerd
We have just quoted on nine dozen boxes of gray lamp wicks.
Mark P. Fishman
CGTimes is available in TrueType as well. We received it on disk with
a recently purchased HP 4M Plus, in a set of "screen fonts" for the
built-in Intellifonts. (The "screen fonts" seem to be full TTs.) Also
it might be in Microsoft's HP Font Pack.
One could call HP and ask if the TT font set is available to a 5P
owner.
Cheers -- Mark F.