Chapter6 Information for Application Development Registering Fonts Font Registration Function CW-C8000 Series and ZPL II compatible monochrome printers have built-in fonts. CW-C8000 Series have Epson original built-in fonts and they are different from the fonts on the ZPL II compatible monochrome printers. Since the font style (shape and thickness) and space around the font (causes changes in character spacing) of printed characters depend on the type of the built-in font, there may be differences in print results between CW-C8000 Series and ZPL II compatible monochrome printers. Example:
Print results of ZPL II compatible monochrome printer Print results of CW-C8000 Series To get print results close to the results of ZPL II compatible monochrome printer, CW-C8000 Series provide the functions to register fonts and replace fonts of the ZPL II printer with similar fonts. Getting Similar Fonts Prepare fonts (file format is TTF) similar to the built-in fonts on the ZPL II compatible monochrome printer. There are the following fonts that are similar to the fonts on ZPL II compatible monochrome printers. Since there are lot of fonts that differ in character thickness and spacing, carefully choose optimum fonts. Please get fonts and their licenses on your own responsibility.
Similar Fonts (Typical Example) Font Name Type Examples Swiss 721 Black, Black Condensed Helvetica Bold, Bold Condensed 355