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Print Operations
Fonts and Your Printer
8/4/10 GK420d™ User Guide 980608-001 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.
Localizing the Printer with Code Pages
The G-Series™ printer supports two sets of language, region and character sets for permanent
fonts loaded into the printer for each printer programming language, ZPL and EPL. The printer
supports localization with common international character map code pages.
• For ZPL code page support, including Unicode, see the ^CI command in the ZPL
programmer’s guide.
• For EPL code page support, see the I command in the EPL programmer’s guide.