23. A printing device according to claim 22 wherein said first font file includes first glyph data corresponding to more than one type of character and wherein said second font file includes second glyph data corresponding only to western characters.
22. A printing device comprising: a first font file storing first glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of the first set of characters being identified by multi-byte character codes; a second font file storing second glyph data corresponding to a second set of characters, characters of the second set of characters being identified by single-byte character codes; and a processor receiving character codes identifying characters to be printed during a print job, wherein: when received character codes identify characters in said second set of characters, said processor extracting second glyph data from said second font file corresponding to the identified characters for printing; when received character codes identify characters in said first set of characters, said processor examining each received character code to determine whether the received character code identifies a character that is also in the second set of characters, if not said processor extracting first glyph data from said first font file corresponding to the identified character for printing and if so, said processor extracting second glyph data from said second font file corresponding to the identified character for printing.