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Contents
1
2
Introduction
1.1
1.2
1.3
Fonts (General information)
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.4.1
2.4.2
2.5
2.5.1
2.5.2
2.5.3
2.6
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.7
3
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.1.6
3.1.7
3.2
Font location................................................................................................................................................................................. 11
Font characteristics ...................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Font selection methods ................................................................................................................................................................ 12
The device's PCL Font list ............................................................................................................................................................ 12
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................12
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................12
HDD FONTS / THE PRINTER HDD ......................................................................................................................................13
[SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 13
The device's HDD Directory list .................................................................................................................................................... 13
DIMM FONTS / THE FONT DIMM .......................................................................................................................................13
Our Font DIMM............................................................................................................................................................................. 13
DIMM insertion procedure ............................................................................................................................................................ 13
[SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 14
SDCARD FONTS / FONT SDCARDS .....................................................................................................................................14
Our Font SDcard .......................................................................................................................................................................... 14
SDcard insertion procedure .......................................................................................................................................................... 14
[SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 14
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................14
General information ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Selecting the font.......................................................................................................................................................................... 16
Drawing text ................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Sizing text..................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Orienting/Rotating text .................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Positioning text ............................................................................................................................................................................. 17
The complete command sequence ............................................................................................................................................... 18
HP-GL/2 ........................................................................................................................................................................18
4.1.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
4.9
4.10
4.11
24
INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................................24
[SUPPORT ONLY] ....................................................................................................................................................................... 24
DEFINITIONS / TERMINOLOGY ............................................................................................................................................24
CHARACTERISTICS OF A SYMBOLOGY ..................................................................................................................................25
ENCODING SCHEMES ........................................................................................................................................................26
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................26
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................26
ATTRIBUTES OF A BARCODE ...............................................................................................................................................27
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................27
[SUPPORT ONLY] ........................................................................................................................................................27
BARCODE QUALITY / READABILITY ISSUES ............................................................................................................................27
LIMITATIONS OF BARCODE SOLUTIONS ................................................................................................................................28
4.11.1
4.11.2
4.11.3
Platform-specific limitations ...................................................................................................................................................... 28
Device-specific limitations ........................................................................................................................................................ 28
Solution-specific related limitations........................................................................................................................................... 28
4.12.1
4.12.2
4.12.3
The isolation steps ................................................................................................................................................................... 29
[SUPPORT ONLY] ................................................................................................................................................................... 31
Contacting support ................................................................................................................................................................... 31
4.12
5
General information ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18
Selecting the font.......................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Drawing text ................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Sizing text..................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Orienting/Rotating text .................................................................................................................................................................. 21
Positioning text ............................................................................................................................................................................. 22
The complete command sequence ............................................................................................................................................... 22
Barcodes (General information)
4.1
15
PCL ...............................................................................................................................................................................15
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.2.4
3.2.5
3.2.6
3.2.7
4
11
PCL FONTS .....................................................................................................................................................................11
The Printer languages (General information)
3.1
9
TERMINOLOGY AND NOTATION .............................................................................................................................................9
TECHNICAL SUPPORT ..........................................................................................................................................................9
LIMITED WARRANTY ............................................................................................................................................................9
TROUBLESHOOTING BARCODE PRINTING .............................................................................................................................28
The Barcode Symbologies and Applications
5.1
5.1.1
5.1.2
5.1.3
5.1.4
5.1.5
5.1.6
5.1.7
5.1.8
5.1.9
5.1.10
5.2
33
SYMBOLOGY: CODE 128 ...................................................................................................................................................38
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
Character set (Alphabet)............................................................................................................................................................... 38
Reference numbers ...................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Checksum methods ...................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Encoding scheme ......................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Encoding (I): The Logical encoding............................................................................................................................................... 41
Physical attributes ........................................................................................................................................................................ 41
Code construction: Steps.............................................................................................................................................................. 41
Encoding (II): The Physical encoding............................................................................................................................................ 42
Code construction: The complete procedure (Example) ........................................................................................................... 42
APPLICATION: UCC/EAN-128 ..........................................................................................................................................44