Zebra Technologies EPL2 - Manual (Page 53)

ES Command - Store Soft Font
Description This command is used to download and store
soft fonts in memory.
Soft fonts can be downloaded to and deleted from
the printer from the Soft Font Downloader Utility,
CAL Tools or CAL3.
Syntax ES"FONTNAME"p
1
p
2
p
3
a
1
b
1
c
1
“DATA
1
”a
2
b
2
c
2
“DATA
2
” ... a
n
b
n
c
n
“DATA
n
”
Parameters “FONTNAME” = One letter font name
Range: a-z, Lower Case
· Lower Case named fonts minimize soft font
memory usage to only store fonts down-
loaded and have 256 character limit.
The following use hexadecimal
coding for parameter values.
p
1
: Number of characters to be downloaded
Range: 00 - FF hex. (0-255 decimal)
for 1 to 256 fonts per soft font set.
p
2
: Character Rotation
· 00 hex. = 0 and 180 degrees
· 01 hex. = 90 and 270 degrees (clockwise)
· 02 hex. = Both 0 and 180 degree rotation
pair and the 90 and 270 degree rotation pair
p
3
: Font Height
Range: 00 to FF hex.
Measured in dots and expressed as a
hexadecimal number, i.e. 1B hex. = 27
dots
Font height includes accentors and dis-
senters of characters and need to fit in
the character cell
· 203 dpi printers =
256 dots = 1.26 inches = 32.03 mm
· 300 dpi printers = 00 to FF hex.
256 dots = 0.85 inches = 21.67 mm
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