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Methods of printing special characters in ZPL2 without installing a font pack. Goals: Provide examples with explanations on printing special characters. Facts or Affected Items: ZPL2 Printers, ^FH and ^CI commands, Code Page 850, ZPL2 Programmers Manual Changes: N/A Details There are several ways to print characters in the upper 128 range of Code Page 850. Below are a few examples. These examples should print the lower case "a" with a circumflex: (â) ^FH (Field Hex) allows you to send the hexadecimal value for any character in the Code Page 850 set. Format: ^FHa
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^CI (Change International Font) allows you to substitute characters from different character sets and re-map characters from one code page with x.10 firmware or higher. For X.8 or higher firmware using the ^CI command to change the character set to Latin 2: Format: ^CIa Parameters:
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For X.10 or higher using ^CI command to substitute a character Hex value 131 for a character Hex value 97 Format: ^CIa,s1,d1,s2,d2,... Parameters:
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