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Printer Fonts
The ZD-Series printer supports your language and font requirements. 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 printer’s font capabilities are programming language dependent. The ZPL and the legacy 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.
Zebra has variety of utilities and application software that support font download to the printer for ZPL and
EPL printer programming languages.
Important • Some factory installed ZPL fonts in your printer cannot be copied, cloned or restored to your printer by
reloading or updating firmware. If these license restricted ZPL fonts are removed by an explicit ZPL object delete
command, they must be repurchased and reinstalled via a font activation and installation utility. EPL fonts do not have
this restriction.
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 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.
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