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Fonts and Your Printer
1/5/2011 GT-Series™ User Guide P1032729-001
Fonts and Your Printer
The GT-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 GT-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 GT-Series™ printer includes utilities and application software that support font download
into the printer for both printer programming languages.
The GT800 GT-Series™ printer includes resident fonts to support Simplified or Traditional
languages.
Localizing the Printer with Code Pages
The GT-Series™ printer has support two primary printer programming languages: ZPL and
EPL. Each programming language has a set of fonts to support region, locale (language) and
character sets. The printer supports localization with common international character map
code pages and some configuration status printout
• For ZPL code page support, including Unicode, see the ^CI command in the ZPL
programmer’s guide.
• For ZPL configuration status printout language see the ^KL command in the ZPL
programmer’s guide. At time of release, the GT800 GT-Series™ printer does not Chinese
languages with this command.
• For EPL code page support, see the I command in the EPL programmer’s guide.
Important • Some factory installed ZPL fonts in your printer cannot be copied, cloned or
restored to your printer by reloading or updating firmware. If these license restricted ZPL fonts
are removed by an explicit ZPL object delete command, they must be repurchased and
reinstalled via a font activation and installation utility. EPL fonts do not have this restriction.