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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