
Text and Fonts
Overview
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Zebra Technologies Corporation - Font Licensing and Usage Warning
Fonts that are converted and downloaded to Zebra printers remain the exclusive property
of their specific owners and require license from such owners.
By the act of downloaded font into a Zebra printer for use, you certify that you are in
compliance with all licensing requirements set forth by such owners.
Installing Fonts with ZPL Programming
Your ZPL kiosk printer has several different font types. The fonts need to be imported into
the printer in the correct font category to print as expected. To get the benefits of Global
Printing and Unicode, fonts should be OpenType fonts.
When installing fonts in your printer, you should first install them in the Windows® Font
folder. This will allow you to explore your new font with the Windows® Character Map
viewer utility, "Using the Windows Character Map Utility" on page 127. It will also show
you a font type icon that will aid you in selecting the correct programming parameters for
directly importing fonts using the recommended
~DY (Download Objects) command.
Important • ZPL treats OpenType and TrueType fonts differently. The OpenType fonts
support Unicode character mapping. OpenType fonts can have many different file
extensions including TTF, TTE, and the expected OTF. Windows® recognizes OpenType
fonts and assigns the Opentype icon to the font, the capital letter ‘O’. TrueType fonts also
have an file extension of TTF, but Windows® assigns the TrueType file icon, two capitol
letter ‘T’s over lapped.
Go to the Windows® Control Panel window and open Fonts. Copy the font into the Fonts
folder. Repeat this process for all the project fonts not already installed on the test system.
In your project storage folder, rename the font from to all capital letters in the filename.
The font will now be in the same state as it will be used and displayed in printer directory
listings. ZPL commands like upper-case text in the ZPL code. Text/Data does not need to
be capitalized. Copy all of the project selected fonts into the project storage folder. Repeat
this capitalization process for all the project fonts in this directory.
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