User Manual

Print Operations
Localizing the Printer with Code Pages
The 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.
Asian fonts and Other Large Font Sets Asian
Asian language ideographic and pictographic fonts have large character sets with thousands of characters
that support a 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
Zebra ZKDU – Printer Accessory
The Zebra ZKDU (keyboard display unit) is a small terminal unit that interfaces with the printer for accessing
EPL or ZPL label forms stored in the printer.
The ZKDU is strictly a terminal and does not have the capability to store data or set up parameters.
The ZKDU is used for the following functions:
• List label forms stored in the printer
• Retrieve label forms stored in the printer
• Input variable data
• Printing labels
• Switching between EPL and ZPL to dual support both printer language format/form types. These can be
stored and printed in late model Zebra label printers.
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