T480 Unicode and Fonts
T480
Programmer’s Guide
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206
Rev A
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application may download files. In addition, TransAct Technologies provides a file
loading tool that runs on Windows
®
based systems.
To allow flexible and easy support for all kinds of fonts, fonts are stored in the EPIC
3000 printer as a standard font file. These files are typically not visible to the user,
however; TransAct Technologies provides a support tool that will allow the user to load
their own font directly from Windows and change the way fonts are printed. It is also
possible for the host application to load fonts into the printer.
The printer can contain up to 99 unique and selectable fonts. Any font may be selected
at any time. In addition up to 8 fonts may be linked or stacked together. Some standard
character size and character pitch commands are supported as legacy commands. The
appearance of the print using those commands has been optimized using the TransAct
WGL4 font. If you elect to use your own font, or the GB18030 font, you may wish to use
the scalable font control commands to select the character size and spacing rather than
the legacy commands.
TransAct Technologies provides a basic WGL4 font with the printer. This may be
supplemented or replaced with a GB18030 Chinese font upon request. The printer will
accept TrueType and compressed stroke fonts as defined by Monotype. If required, the
customer may supplement the TransAct supplied fonts with their own custom fonts.
WARNING:
If you elect to load fonts into the printer you must have proper
rights to that font.
Do not
download a font to the printer if you do not have
the right to use the font as a downloaded printer font
.
