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Introduction
Language Character Sets (Fonts 1-5)
12/16/13 EPL Programming Guide 14245L-003
Language Character Sets (Fonts 1-5)
The Latin-based language and Greek character support is controlled and enabled with the I
command on page 112. The default language set is the English DOS codepage 437.
Characters, such as the Euro symbol, can be substituted using the oR command on page 129.
Asian Character Sets (Fonts 8 & 9)
The Page Mode EPL2 programming language supports up to two (2) font sets of a single Asian
language as well as the standard EPL2 Latin (Multilingual) fonts 1-5 and downloadable soft
fonts (A-Z and a-z).
Asian language support is an optional feature and requires a special version of the printer
(PCBA) to support the large Asian character sets. The flash-based printers support up to five
different Asian language character (ideogram) sets. See the A command on page 43 for the
detailed list of fonts.
For Asian language firmware updates, publications, and support options, see www.zebra.com.
All fonts can be expanded both horizontally and vertically. The Asian fonts can also be printed
from top to bottom or in the Latin character orientation from left to right. The Asian printers
support the standard Latin fonts with the single character map code page 437 for all five (5)
fonts.
The Asian characters are 16 bit (or double-byte) mapped characters. The printed Asian
character is dependent on the double-byte ASCII values. The Latin (English, etc.) font sets are
8 bits per (or single-byte) ASCII character maps.
Chinese Character Set
The printer automatically recognizes single-byte characters and double-byte characters.
The single-byte font characters are mapped to hexadecimal address range 00 to 7F hex (0-127
decimal) for 203 dpi printers and 00 to FF hex (0-255 decimal) for 300 dpi printers.
The double-byte font characters are mapped to hexadecimal address range A1A0 to F7FF hex.
First byte, 161 (A1h) and second byte 160 (A0h) to first byte, 247 (F7h) and second byte, 255
(FFh) is the decimal, grouped byte range.
Note • Only one (1) Asian language is supported by a printer. Each Asian language
(character set) is a separate printer firmware version.
Asian printers with flash firmware can be reprogrammed for a different Asian language, but
we do not recommend this for normal use.