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Print Operations
Printer Fonts
1/13/2016 ZD420 User’s Guide 212485-001 Rev. A
Asian fonts and Other Large Font Sets
Asian language ideographic and 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. Both of the printer’s programming languages support
the large pictographic double-byte character Asian font sets.
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 Unicode fonts are large such as MS (Microsoft) Arial Unicode font (23 MB) available from
Microsoft or the Andale font (22 MB) offered by Zebra. These large font sets typically support a
large number of languages as well.
Getting Asian Fonts
Asian bitmap font sets are downloaded into the printer by the user or integrator. The ZPL fonts
are purchased separately from the printer. EPL Asian Fonts are available for free to download
from the Zebra Web site.
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese
(The SimSun font is pre-loaded in printers sold in the Peoples Republic of China)
• Japanese — JIS and Shift-JIS mappings
• Korean including Johab
• Thai
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