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Chapter 6
6. Fonts
As standard, the printer’s permanent memory is loaded with 15 scaleable
single-byte TrueDoc fonts at delivery:
• Century Schoolbook BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Dutch 801 Roman BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Dutch 801 Bold BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Futura Light BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Letter Gothic 12 Pitch BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Monospace 821 BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Monospace 821 Bold BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• OCR-A BT (see “Important Information” below)
• OCR-B 10 Pitch BT (see “Important Information” below)
• Prestige 12 Pitch Bold BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Swiss 721 BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Swiss 721 Bold BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Swiss 721 Bold Condensed BT (Includes the € currency sign)
• Zapf Dingbats BT (see “Important Information” below)
• Zurich Extra Condensed BT (Includes the € currency sign)
Note: In the FONT statement, the full names according to the list above must be used (case
sensitive). Also see Font Aliases later in this chapter.
TrueDoc fonts come as PFR (Portable Font Resources) fi les and are organized
according to the UNICODE standard. A PFR consists of one or several fonts in a
single fi le and can only be obtained from Intermec.
Intermec Fingerprint can also use TrueType fonts, provided they comply with the
Unicode standard. (This is usually the case with TrueType fonts for Windows 95/98
and Windows NT.) The benefi ts of using TrueDoc fonts are that they work faster
in Intermec Fingerprint and require less memory space.
To improve compatibility with Intermec Fingerprint 6.xx, bitmap fonts in .ATF
format are also supported, see below.
Some of the character sets listed in Chapter 4, for example Greek and Cyrillic,
are only available as standard in the font Swiss 721 BT.
When using IMAGELOAD or TRANSFER KERMIT to download a PFR or a
TrueType font fi le, it will be installed automatically. Any other method requires the
printer to be restarted before the font can be used, either by turning off and on the
power to the printer, or by executing a REBOOT statement.
Single- and double-byte fonts can be obtained from Intermec together with a suitable
mapping tables in the form of Font Cards or Font Install Cards.
Important Information!
When you select certain fonts, the printer will automatically switch
from the presently selected character set to a special one for the font in
question (see later in this chapter). As soon as any other font is selected
again, the printer will automatically return to the previously selected
character set. This applies to:
• OCR-A BT
• OCR-B 10 Pitch BT
• Zapf Dingbats BT
Introduction