Switching Fonts

Set a Primary and Secondary Font

For PCL5, you can set one Primary and one Secondary font, then use the SI and SO commands to switch between them.

Commands used:

Command

ASCII

Hexadecimal

 

 

 

 

Assign FontID

<ESC> * c # D

1B

2A 63 # 44

 

 

 

 

 

Assign FontID to FontFile in storage

<ESC> & n # W [01]

1B

26

6E # 57 [01]

 

 

 

 

 

Set primary font by FontID

<ESC> ( # X

1B

28

# 58

 

 

 

 

 

Set secondary font by FontID

<ESC> ) # X

1B

29

# 58

 

 

 

 

 

Switch to primary font

SI

0F

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Switch to secondary font

SO

0E

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Example

To set the default resident font Courier as the Primary font and the downloaded font Download1.bin as the Secondary font, then switch between them:

<ESC>%-12345X@PJL ENTERLANGUAGE=PCL<0D><0A>

<ESC>*c1000D<ESC>&n12W<01>Download1.bin

 

 

/ * assign Font ID 1000 to Download1.bin */

<ESC>)1000X

/* Set Downloaded font as Secondary font */

<0F>[DATA

STRING].<0D><0A>

/ * Select Primary font */

<0E>[DATA

STRING].<0D><0A>

/ * Select Secondary font */

<0F>[DATA

STRING].<0D><0A>

/ * Select Primary font */

<0E>[DATA

STRING].<0D><0A>

/ * Select Secondary font */

<0C>

 

 

 

<ESC>%-12345X

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