Font used to print text is different in RHEL 7 than in RHEL 5 or RHEL 6
Issue
- I expect the printout font to be exact as the old production server which runs on RHEL 6.
- We are replacing a RHEL 5 server with RHEL 7.4. We tried to configure printers as before, but the default font is not the same. How can we set the default font for the printer?
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The text in RHEL 7 prints like the following:

but we want it to look like how it printed in RHEL 5 and 6, like this:

Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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