SATO GL408e - Font Commands

Unit 4: Standard Command Codes
SATO GL4xxe SBPL Programming Reference Page 4-24
FONT COMMANDS
FONTS: S, M, U, OA, OB, XB, XL, XS, XM, XU
FUNCTION
To print text images on a label. These are eight of the built-in fonts available on the
printer. All matrices include descenders.
FORMAT
Font XU: <ESC>XU Font U: <ESC>U
Font XS: <ESC>XS Font S: <ESC>S
Font XM: <ESC>XM Font M: <ESC>M
Font OA: <ESC>OA Font OB: <ESC>OB
Place preceding the data to be printed.
EXAMPLE
<ESC>A
<ESC>PS
<ESC>H0001<ESC>V0100<ESC>L0202<ESC>XUSATO
<ESC>H0001<ESC>V0175<ESC>L0202<ESC>XSSATO
<ESC>H0001<ESC>V0250<ESC>L0202<ESC>XMSATO
<ESC>H0001<ESC>V0325<ESC>L0101<ESC>OASATO
<ESC>H0001<ESC>V0400<ESC>L0101<ESC>OBSATO
<ESC>H0300<ESC>V0100<ESC>L0202<ESC>USATO
<ESC>H0300<ESC>V0175<ESC>L0202<ESC>SSATO
<ESC>H0300<ESC>V0250<ESC>L0202<ESC>MSATO
<ESC>Q1<ESC>Z
OUTPUT (4-18)
NOTES Characters may be enlarged through the use of the Character Expansion command
and character spacing may be altered through the use of the Character Pitch
command. The default is 2 dots between characters. Custom characters or fonts may
also be created - refer to Custom-Designed Characters (<ESC>T) command.
It is recommended to use a spacing of 5 dots for OCR-A and 1 dot for OCR-B. The
matrices for the OA and OB fonts are scaled so that they will remain a constant size
according to the OCR-A and OCR-B specifications when printed on different
resolution printers.
The proportionally spaced fonts XU, XS, XM, XL and XA can be printed with fixed
spacing using the Proportional Space (<ESC>PS) command.
Refer to Appendix: Reference Tables 11 through 19 for additional information.