Avery Dennison Monarch 2, Programmer'S Manual

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U s i n g U N I C O D E ( D o u b l e - B y t e ) Tr u e Ty p e ® F o n t s
Previously, our printers supported downloadable fonts, but with
limited code pages. Characters are represented by character
code pages. These fonts are designed to be regionally specific;
therefore, all code pages may not be supported in a given font.
For example, using Code Page 1252 (Latin 1), index 192
(represented as
~192 in an MPCL batch packet) prints this
character, À . The printers previously supported single-byte
character sets, which provided 255 different characters.
Now, with version 2.8 or greater software, the printer has
UNICODE (double-byte) font sets, which provide over 65,000
characters. Unicode is a double-byte (16-bit) encoding that
includes many characters used throughout the world. Each
Unicode index refers to a particular character, just like the index
in a code page.
TrueType font files are large and may image slower than bitmap
fonts. The size of the font file, in bytes, is the minimum amount
of memory you must have available for fonts in the printer’s
downloadable fonts buffer.
Fonts
B-11