Datamax E4203 manual ILPC-CHINESE Option

Appendix O

ILPC-CHINESE Option

The Chinese option is a double-byte scalable font supporting Simplified GB Chinese. In the double-byte format, the printer recalls one character printed from every two 8-bit bytes sent from the host. Double- byte scalable fonts are selected using a print format record (see Generating Label Formats and Appendix H for details).

DPL Big 5 Encoding Support: The printer firmware supports font files that are encoded for the GB Character Map and the Big 5 Character Map. The resident Asian font in the printer is encoded in the GB Character Map. To utilize the Big 5 Character Map, the user must download a font file that is Big 5 encoded. The font file downloaded must be of a size compatible with the module size available. Printing characters from the Big 5 encoded font file is accomplished by:

1.Setting the character mapping with a System Command or Label Format Command (<STX>yUB5 or yUB5, respectively).

2.Setting the ‘b’ field = ‘9’ and ‘eee’ field = ‘Unn’, where ‘nn’ is equal to the Font ID number selected for the Big 5 encoded font file downloaded.

3.Selecting string data corresponding to the Big 5 Character Map.

Scalable Double-Byte Font Map - CHINESE

	eee	Scalable	Font	Binary	Hex ASCII	Code
(Font Code)		Font Type	Name	Addressing	Addressing	Pages
UC0		Scalable Resident	Simplified GB Chinese	√		GB
uc0		Scalable Resident	Simplified GB Chinese		√	GB
U50	- U5z...	Scalable Non-Resident (Download)	Big 5	√		B5
U90	- U9z
u50 - u5z		Scalable Non-Resident (Download)	Big 5		√	B5
u90 - u9z
U50	- U5z...	Scalable Non-Resident (Download)	User defined	√		–
U90	- U9z
u50 - u5z		Scalable Non-Resident (Download)	User defined		√	–
u90 - u9z

Sample Simplified GB Chinese DPL file (binary addressing) and resulting label:

<02>L<CR>

D11<CR>

ySPM<CR>

1911S0003100010P020P015Scalable Chinese Available in GB Character Set<CR> 1B110000020017001234567890<CR>

yUGB<CR>

1X1100001900010b0392011000020002<CR> 112200002800030GB CHARACTER’S IN ALL 4 ROTATION’S<CR> 112200002600030Rotation 1<CR> 1911UC002650150P012P012<BD><D0>A1><A1><A1><A1><BD><D1><A1><A1><A1><A1><BD><D2><A1><A1> <A1><A1><BD><D3><00><00><CR>

112200002400030Rotation 2<CR> 2911UC002600150P012P012<BD><D0><00><00><CR> 2911UC002600205P012P012<BD><D1><00><00><CR>

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