Localizing the Printer with Code Pages
The G-Series™ 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.
•For EPL code page support, see the I command in the EPL programmer’s guide.
Asian fonts and Other Large Font Sets
Asian language 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; EPL does not. Both of the printer’s programming languages support the large pictographic double-byte character Asian font sets.
Asian language support requires additional memory support by the G-Series printer configured with the RTC and Full Flash Memory factory option. 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 large Unicode fonts are too large to be installed in the early model G-Series printers (12MB Full Flash Memory prior to July 24, 2009) with the RTC and Full Flash Memory factory option such as MS (Microsoft) Arial Unicode font (23MB) available from Microsoft or the Andale font (22MB) 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 (ZPL and EPL)
•Japanese — JIS and Shift-JIS mappings (ZPL and EPL)
•Korean (ZPL including Johab and EPL)
•Thai (ZPL only)
