Chapter6 Information for Application Development Adjusting Font Width and Object Positioning The following adjustments are provided in the [Replace settings from printer using ZPL II commands] window. Font width This allows you to reduce width of font. “100%” is the original size. You can specify how much to reduce the width in increments of 1%. If you reduce the width too much, printed characters may become illegible. When you change the setting, check actual printouts. It is expected that the allowable range is 80 to 100%. Vertical Positioning This allows you to adjust vertical print position of objects, such as a text, barcode, graphic, and image, on a single page.
The setting can be changed in the range of -5.0 to + 5.0% in increments of 0.1%. Horizontal Positioning This allows you to adjust horizontal print position of objects, such as a text, barcode, graphic, and image, on a single page. The setting can be changed in the range of -5.0 to + 5.0% in increments of 0.1%. If the ZPL II compatible monochrome printer used previously was 203 dpi and the CW-C8000 Series prints at 200 dpi, the print result would be 1.5% (203/200) larger. The Vertical positioning and Horizontal positioning functions are used to compensate for this. Note that the positioning functions adjust only position of objects and do not change dimensions of the objects.
This is to prevent the objects from being deformed. Especially for a thin line and barcode objects because scaling them down can result in disappearance of the line and drop in readability of the barcode. In most cases, objects can be properly positioned with this functions, however, if there is a too large object comparing to the page size, or if gaps between multiple objects are too narrow, objects may be printed overlapping with each other resulting in printing labels different from the original label design. Objects on a page 361