User Manual

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Print Operations
Asian fonts and Other Large Font Sets
Asian language ideographic and pictographic fonts have large character sets with
thousands of characters that support single language code page. In order to support the
large Asian character sets, the industry adopted a double-byte (67840 maximum)
character system instead of the single-byte characters (256 maximum) used by Latin
based language characters to address large font sets. In order to address multiple
languages with a single font set, Unicode was invented. A Unicode font supports one or
more code points (relate these to code page character maps) and is accessed in a
standard method that resolves character mapping conflicts. The ZPL programming
language supports Unicode. Both of the printer’s programming languages support the
large pictographic double-byte character Asian font sets.
The number of fonts that can be downloaded is dependent upon the amount of available
flash memory not already in use and the size of the font to be downloaded.
Some Unicode fonts are large such as MS (Microsoft) Arial Unicode font (23 MB) available
from Microsoft or the Andale font (22 MB) offered by Zebra. These large font sets typically
support a large number of languages as well.
Getting Asian Fonts
Asian bitmap font sets are downloaded into the printer by the user or integrator. The ZPL
fonts are purchased separately from the printer. EPL Asian Fonts are available for free to
download from the Zebra Web site.
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese
(The SimSun scalable font is pre-loaded onto printers sold with a Chinese
power cord.)
• Japanese — JIS and Shift-JIS mappings
• Korean including Johab
• Thai