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12/16/13 EPL Programming Guide 14245L-003 Rev. A
ES
Store Soft Font
Description This command is used to download and store soft fonts in memory.
Syntax ES”FONTNAME”p
1
p
2
p
3
a
1
b
1
c
1
”DATA”a
2
b
2
c
2
”DATA
2
”a
n
b
n
c
n
”DATA
n
”
Parameters This table identifies the parameters for this format:
Note • Soft fonts can be downloaded to and deleted from the printer using the Soft Font
Downloader Utility or Zebra Designer.
Parameters Details
FONTNAME = One letter
font name
Accepted Values: a–z, lower case
Lower Case named fonts minimize soft font memory usage to
only store fonts downloaded and have 256 character limit.
The following use hexadecimal coding for parameter values.
p
1
= Number of characters
to be downloaded
Accepted Values: 00–FF hex (0–255 decimal) for 1 to 256
fonts per soft font set.
p
2
= Character rotation Accepted Values:
00 hex = 0 and 180 degrees
01 hex = 90 and 270 degrees
02 hex = Both 0 and 180 degree rotation pair and the
90 and 270 degree rotation pair
p
3
= Font height Accepted Values: 00–FF hex
Measured in dots and expressed as a hexadecimal number, i.e.
1B hex. = 27 dots.
Font height includes accentors and dissenters of characters
and need to fit in the character cell.
• 203 dpi printers = 256 dots = 1.26 in. = 32.03 mm
• 300 dpi printers = 00–FF hex.
256 dots = 0.85 in. = 21.67 mm
a
1
= (1st) Download
character map
position
Accepted Values: 00–FF hex
b
1
= (1st) Spacing to next
print character
Accepted Values: 00–FF hex
Downloaded character’s next printed character position in
dots, i.e. Character tracking - the space between characters.
Must be greater than or equal to the character width, see
parameter c1. Dots in a decimal number converted to a
hexadecimal number.
c
1
= (1st) Downloaded
characters width
Accepted Values: 00–FF hex
Dots in a decimal number converted to a hexadecimal
number.