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Print Operations
Sending Files to the Printer
1/13/2016 ZD420 User’s Guide 212485-001 Rev. A
Sending Files to the Printer
Graphics, fonts and programming files can be sent to the printer from the Microsoft Windows
operating systems by using the Link-OS Profile Manager, Zebra Setup Utilities (and driver),
ZebraNet ™ Bridge or Zebra® ZDownloader found on the user's CD or at www.zebra.com
.
Printer Fonts
The ZD420 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 printer’s font capabilities are programming language dependent. 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 ZPL programming guide describes and documents 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 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
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 ZD420 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.