Specifications

Chapter 2— Downloading Fonts to the Printer

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To manually download an outline font to your printer

1 Nibblize the font data.

Divide the nibblized data into separate lines preceded by the j

command. (See the Outline Font, Download command in Chapter 7.)

Remember to wrap the entire line in <STX> and ;<ETX>. You need

short lines for limited message length protocols and to make modifying

easier by using an editor or word processing program.

2 Include IPL commands to instruct the printer what to do with the font

data. For help, see the following example and Chapter 7, “IPL

Command Reference.”

3 Send the commands to the printer using one of the methods described

in Chapter 1.

This is an example of a nibblized outline font file that includes IPL

commands to send it directly to a printer.

Nibblized Outline Font File Example

Command Definition

Enter Program mode.

<STX>J03,Times,1;<ETX>

Create TrueType font 3 and

give it the name Times.

TrueType data string.

TrueType data string.

TrueType data string.

Several TrueType data

strings not shown due to

space constraints.

Last TrueType data string.

<STX>R<ETX> Exit Program mode.

Using Third-Party Software Applications to Download Fonts

Use your third-party software to download fonts into a user-defined font

format that the printer can interpret. Refer to your third-party

documentation for more information.