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980612-001 Rev. A GX420t / GX430t User Guide 12/14/07
• To remove non Asian EPL fonts with EPL programming, use the EK command.
• To remove EPL Asian fonts from the printer, use the ZPL ^ID command.
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.
Asian fonts and Other Large Font Sets
Asian language 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; EPL does not. Both of the printer’s programming
languages support the large pictographic double-byte character Asian font sets.
Asian language support requires additional memory support by the G-Series printer configured
with the RTC and Full Flash Memory factory option. 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 large Unicode fonts are too large to be installed in the printer with the RTC and Full
Flash Memory factory option such as MS (Microsoft) Arial Unicode font (23MB) or the
Andale font (22MB) offered by Zebra. These large font sets typically support a large number
of languages as well.
Getting Asian Fonts
Asian font sets are downloaded into the printer by the user or integrator. The fonts are
purchased separately from the printer.
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese (ZPL and EPL)
• Japanese — JIS and Shift-JIS mappings (ZPL and EPL)
• Korean (ZPL including Johab and EPL)
• Thai (ZPL only)