User manual

Print Operations

Fonts and Your Printer

980644-001 Rev. A LP 2824 Plus™ User Guide 4/1/09

Fonts and Your Printer

The 2824 Plus 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 printer includes utilities and application software that support

font download into the printer for both printer programming languages.

The 2824 Plus printer’s font capabilities are programming language dependent. 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. The EPL programming language provides for basic

bitmapped fonts and international 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.

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 2824 Plus printer. ZPL programming can recognize ZPL

and EPL 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 ZebraNet Bridge.

• To display all of the fonts loaded in your 2824 Plus 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.

• The six fonts LMu.FNT through LMz.FNT are EPL Line Mode fonts and are not

available for use in EPL programming on thermal transfer 2824 Plus printers.

• When displayed in ZPL, the EPL Soft fonts have are separated into two groups-

horizontal and vertical. The EPL Soft fonts are noted with single lowercase alpha

characters (a-z) followed by an uppercase H or V and the .FNT file extension.

EPL Fonts:

• To download fonts for EPL print operation, use the EPL Font Downloader.

• To display Soft Fonts (ext.) available to EPL, send the printer the EPL command EI.

• Asian Fonts in 2824 Plus 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.