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Fonts and Your Printer
12/14/07 GX420t / GX430t User Guide 980612-001 Rev. A
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.
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 G-Series 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 ZebraNet Bridge.
• To display all of the fonts loaded in your G-Series 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 G-Series 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 G-Series 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.