Need to create PCL that doesn't reference the resident device fonts

Greetings SAP folks,
JSYK where I'm coming from on this...I am a print/data stream guy.  I know little about the workings of SAP. 
The workflow of the customer is......SAPscript to PCL to IBM's AFP (Advanced Function Presentation) to IBM IPDS (Intelligent Printer Data Stream) to a Kodak Press Controller.
The basic issue is this....the fonts being used from beginning to end must all be of the same typeface or font family and the glyph metrics must be as close as possible.  If not, the results are character and word spacing issues (too close together or too far apart).
To be more specific, the issue is that the customer has specified Helvetica, Times and Courier fonts in their SAPscript and after I dump of the PCL escape sequences, it shows me that Universe, CG Times and Courier fonts, respectively,  are being referenced.   The PCL is then transformed by another application from the queue into IBM's AFP which is then routed to their z/OS mainframe and into a JES queue where a functional subsystem called Print Services Facility (PSF) transforms the AFP into a specific printer communication protocol called IPDS that is used for printing on the Kodak press. 
The Kodak customer that I'm working with has SAP R/3 4.6C running on AIX and the issue that we are having is that the  generation of PCL must contain the correct PCL font family name or must contain a soft font with the correct font family (typeface) name and the correct glyph character attributes.  From all that I've read about SAPscripts, printer device drivers, OTF files, uploading and accessing soft fonts, it would appear to me that there must be a switch or PCL escape sequence that can be set somewhere that tells the PCL device driver to use the soft fonts or use the typeface name and font metrics that are contained in the PRI file (HPLJ4100).  
What I'm seeing in the PCL, I would interpreted that the application did not supply enough information about the font and based the font selection hierarchy from the HP PCL5 Reference Guide,  the font reference being placed in the PCL is that of a "resident" font and not what we need.
I have in my possession the 1984/1985 Adobe PFM/PFB files and FontLab Studio so that I can create TTF's and/or AFM/INF files for uploading.
If there is a switch to turn on or attribute to set that enables soft font downloading or something that tells the PCL device driver to use the font metric information contained in the PRI file, that would be good to know.  Otherwise, I need to know if the SE73 documentation is the correct path that I have to take in order to get what they need.   Keep in mind that they are running on AIX and not Windows.
Thanks,
Paul

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Your suggestion is exactly what I was hoping I could do... it even protected my Photoshop files in the directory. (I'd never noticed that "protect" option before!!)
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