Printer User Manual

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Print Operations
Fonts and Your Printer
8/4/10 GX420d™ / GX430d™ User Guide 980611-001 Rev. C
Fonts and Your Printer
The G-Series™ printer supports your language and font requirements with a variety of internal
fonts, on-board font scaling, international font sets and character code page support, Unicode
support, and font download.
The G-Series™ printer’s font capabilities are programming language dependent. The EPL™
programming language provides for basic bitmapped fonts and international code pages. The
ZPL™ programming language provides advanced font mapping and scaling technology to
support outline fonts (TrueType™ or OpenType™) and Unicode character mapping as well as
basic bitmapped fonts and character code pages. ZPL and EPL programming guides describe
and document the fonts, code pages, character access, listing fonts, and limitations for their
respective printer programming languages. See the printer programming guides for
information on Text, Fonts and Character support.
The G-Series printer includes utilities and application software that support font download into
the printer for both printer programming languages.
Identifying Fonts in Your Printer
Fonts and memory are shared by the programming languages in the printer. Fonts can be
loaded in many memory areas in the G-Series printer. ZPL programming can recognize EPL
and ZPL fonts. EPL programming can only recognize EPL fonts. See the respective
programmer guides for more information on fonts and printer memory.
ZPL Fonts:
• To manage and download fonts for ZPL print operation, use the Zebra Setup utility or
ZebraNet™ Bridge.
• To display all of the fonts loaded in your G-Series printer, send the printer the ZPL
command ^WD. See the ZPL Programmers Guide for details.
• Bitmap fonts in the various printer memory areas are identified by the .FNT file
extension in ZPL.
• Scalable fonts are identified with the .TTF, .TTE or .OTF file extensions in ZPL.
EPL does not support these fonts.
EPL Fonts:
• To download fonts for EPL print operations, use the Zebra Setup Utility or ZebraNet™
Bridge to send files to the printer.
• To display Soft Fonts (ext.) available to EPL, send the printer the EPL command EI.
• Optional Asian Fonts in G-Series printers are displayed as Soft Fonts, but are still
accessible as documented in the A command in the EPL programmer’s guide.
• All EPL fonts displayed are bitmap fonts. They do not include the .FNT file extension
or the horizontal (H) or vertical (V) designators that are displayed with the ZPL
command ^WD as described above in ZPL Fonts.
• To remove non Asian EPL fonts with EPL programming, use the EK command.
• To remove EPL Asian fonts from the printer, use the ZPL ^ID command.