
10/29/2010 Software Integrator Guide P1026208-001 Rev. B
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Text and Fonts
Overview
The ZPL kiosk printer supports more than just text and fonts, it supports languages with
the Zebra’s patented Global Printing Solution. The Global Printing Solution utilizes the
advanced features of Unicode to support non-Latin script based languages with left to
right, right to left, bi-directional, and top to bottom print with script dependent complex
grammar and display rules. These features are needed for selecting the correct glyphs
(one or more glyphs make a character or one or more characters make a glyph) to
properly generate localized text used around the world (e.g. Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai,
Devanagari, Chinese etc.). The printer supports complex language scripts, as well as,
basic text printing.
Unicode is a universal code page to convert text encodings into readable typeset for
printing. While ASCII and other traditional code page encoding systems support 256
characters or less, Unicode can support almost 100,000 characters for all major
languages. Unicode contains rules for combining characters (glyphs, graphemes,
ideographs) into language including complex non-Latin languages that can be difficult to
print.
Support for Unicode allows the printer to seamlessly print most languages with TrueType,
OpenType, and Zebra printer fonts (resident and optional). The ZPL kiosk printer includes
the ability to combine fonts (Unicode and non-Unicode) and supports individual character
substitution. As a result, you do not have to select the language, font, code page, or
configure or adjust the printer each time you need to print. Zebra’s printer-resident
capabilities provide fast receipt output and seamless multi-language printing with minimal
configuration.
Zebra offers several language supporting font and memory options. This allows you the
flexibility to choose options and configure your printer for only the features needed to
support your kiosk printer deployment. Multiple text reading directions are support to cover
the languages from around the globe.
The printer also includes support for those legacy text encoding methods (ACSII, PC DOS
and other code pages) for non-Unicode supporting applications.
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