User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Terms of Use
- Publication Date
- About
- Contents
- Introduction
- Printer Features
- Printer Features
- Inside the ZD620 Dual Capacity Ribbon Roll Printer
- Inside the ZD620 and ZD420 Direct Thermal Printers
- Inside the ZD420 Ribbon Cartridge Printer
- Label Dispenser Option (field installable) - All Models
- Cutter Option (field installable) - All Models
- Linerless Media Tear-Off Option (Direct Thermal Models Only)
- Linerless Cutter Option (Direct Thermal Models Only)
- Identifying Platen Drive Rollers Types
- Printer Power Supply Options
- ZD620 Locking Printer Features
- Zebra Print Touch
- Printer Features
- Install Hardware Options
- Field Installable printer Accessories and Options
- Printer Connectivity Modules
- Media Handling Options
- Removing the Standard Bezel
- Installing the Label Dispenser
- Installing the Standard Media Cutter
- Installing the Linerless Media Cutter
- Installing the Linerless Media ‘Tear-Off’ Bezel
- Media Roll Core Size Adapters
- Print Resolution Upgrade Kits
- Installing the Attached Power Supply Base Options
- Installing the Attached Battery Base Options
- Installing the Battery into the Attached Power Base
- User Interface
- LCD User Interface
- Meaning of the Indicator Light Patterns
- Display Controls and Menus
- Battery Indicators and Controls
- Printer Configuration Menus
- Setup
- Printer Setup Overview
- Select a Location for the Printer
- Install Printer Options and Connectivity Modules
- Attaching Power
- Getting Ready to Print
- Loading Roll Media
- Loading Thermal Transfer Roll Ribbon
- Loading the ZD420 Ribbon Cartridge
- Run a SmartCal Media Calibration
- Test Printing with the Configuration Report
- Detecting a Media Out Condition
- Detecting a Ribbon Out Condition
- Connecting your Printer to a Computer
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Classic Wireless Connectivity Option
- Setup for Windows® OS
- Print Operations
- Thermal Printing
- Select a Print Mode
- Adjusting the Print Quality
- Darkness Control
- Adjusting the Print Width
- Printing on Fan-Fold Media
- Printing with Externally Mounted Roll Media
- Using the Label Dispenser Option
- Using the Linerless Options
- Sending Files to the Printer
- Ribbon Cartridge Programming Commands
- Printing with the Attached Battery Base and Battery Option
- Printer Fonts
- EPL Line Mode - Direct Thermal Printers only
- ZD620 and ZD420 Locking Printer Option
- Zebra® ZKDU — Printer Accessory
- ZBI 2.0™ — Zebra Basic Interpreter
- Setting the Power Failure Recovery Mode Jumper
- USB Host Port and Link-OS Usage Examples
- USB Host
- USB Host and Printer Usage Examples
- Items Required for the USB Host Exercises
- Files for Completing the Exercises
- Exercise 1: Copy Files to a USB Flash Drive and Perform USB Mirror
- Exercise 2: Print a Label Format from a USB Flash Drive
- Exercise 3: Copy Files to/from a USB Flash Drive
- Exercise 4: Enter Data for a Stored File with a USB Keyboard and Print a Label
- Using the USB Hosts Port and the NFC Capabilities
- Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Tools
- Printer Diagnostics
- Power-On Self Test
- SmartCal Media Calibration
- Configuration Report (CANCEL Self Test)
- Printer Network (and Bluetooth) Configuration Report
- Print Quality Report (FEED self test)
- Reset Printer Factory Defaults (PAUSE + FEED Self Test)
- Reset Network Factory Defaults (PAUSE + CANCEL Self Test)
- Reset Button
- Communication Diagnostics Test
- Sensor Profile
- Advanced Mode
- Factory Test Modes
- Universal Serial Bus (USB) Interface
- Serial Port Interface
- ZD620 / ZD420 Thermal Transfer Models
- ZD620 / ZD420 Ribbon Cartridge Thermal Transfer Models
- ZD620 / ZD420 Direct Thermal Models
- Printer Diagnostics
- Media
- ZPL Configuration
Print Operations
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Printer Fonts
The ZD-Series printer supports your language and font requirements. 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 printer’s font capabilities are programming language dependent. The ZPL and the legacy 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.
Zebra has variety of utilities and application software that support font download to the printer for ZPL and
EPL printer programming languages.
Important • Some factory installed ZPL fonts in your printer cannot be copied, cloned or restored to your printer by
reloading or updating firmware. If these license restricted ZPL fonts are removed by an explicit ZPL object delete
command, they must be repurchased and reinstalled via a font activation and installation utility. EPL fonts do not have
this restriction.
Identifying Fonts in Your Printer
Fonts and memory are shared by the programming languages in the printer. Fonts can be loaded into
various storage locations in the printer. ZPL programming can recognize EPL and ZPL 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 the Zebra Setup Utility or ZebraNet ™
Bridge.
• To display all of the fonts loaded in your 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.
Localizing the Printer with Code Pages
The Link-OS 4 inch Desktop 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.