Zebra Technologies EPL2 manual ES Command Store Soft Font

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ES Command - Store Soft Font

Description This command is used to download and store soft fonts in memory.

Soft fonts can be downloaded to and deleted from the printer from the Soft Font Downloader Utility, CAL Tools or CAL3.

Syntax ES"FONTNAME"p1p2p3a1b1c1“DATA1”a

2b2c2“DATA2... anbncn“DATAn

Parameters “FONTNAME” = One letter font name Range: a-z, Lower Case

·Lower Case named fonts minimize soft font memory usage to only store fonts down- loaded and have 256 character limit.

The following use hexadecimal coding for parameter values.

p1: Number of characters to be downloaded Range: 00 - FF hex. (0-255 decimal) for 1 to 256 fonts per soft font set.

p2: Character Rotation

·00 hex. = 0 and 180 degrees

·01 hex. = 90 and 270 degrees (clockwise)

·02 hex. = Both 0 and 180 degree rotation

pair and the 90 and 270 degree rotation pair

p3: Font Height Range: 00 to FF hex.

Measured in dots and expressed as a hexadecimal number, i.e. 1B hex. = 27 dots

Font height includes accentors and dis- senters of characters and need to fit in the character cell

·203 dpi printers =

256 dots = 1.26 inches = 32.03 mm

·300 dpi printers = 00 to FF hex.

256 dots = 0.85 inches = 21.67 mm

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Zebra Technologies EPL2 manual ES Command Store Soft Font, Following use hexadecimal coding for parameter values