Issue / Question
Information about Hans font offered by Zebra for printers
What is the Hans font?
How can I print Chinese characters?
How can I see the Hans font is loaded in my printer?
Applicable To
China customized printer, ZRxxx,except ZR128
Resolution / Answer
The Hans font is a Chinese (Simplified) font base on 思源宋体 (Source Han Serif，Google named Noto Serif CJK) font, using GB18030 or Unicode character encoding. The base font is open source.
It is used in conjunction with ZPL (printer command language) to print Chinese characters with Zebra printers.
This font cannot be purchased from Zebra and printers cannot be upgraded with this font in the field.
The printer models which China customized ZRxxx series except ZR128 have been loaded with Hans font by default.
The GB18030 character set (GB18030.DAT encoding table) is also loaded in these printer configurations.
The Hans font have 2 stored name, HANSSC.TTF or HANS.TTF in different batch printer.
Following are ways to identify the fonts installed on your Zebra printer.
Please consult your printers User Guide for further details. Read More>>
- -Print font list via driver
- -Print object list via driver
- -Send ZPL command “^XA^WDE:*.*^XZ” to the printer to printout object in printer’s internal flash memory
The Hans font will not be deleted during a printer flash memory initialization.
To free up space in the memory of the printer, the font can be deleted.
The following ZPL command can be used:
^ID
Alternatively this SGD command can be used:
file.delete
Please refer to the ZPL manual for more details. Read More>>
Note: If the font has been removed it cannot be reloaded in the field.
Here is a sample ZPL script to use the Hans font and GB18030 character set for printing Chinese characters.
^XA ^CW1,E:HANS.TTF ^SEE:GB18030.DAT^CI26 ^FO50,60^A1N,20,20^FD简体中文abcd1234^FS ^FO50,160^A1N,30,30^FD简体中文abcd1234^FS ^FO50,260^A1N,50,50^FD简体中文abcd1234^FS ^XZ
Similar result can be achieved with Unicode character encoding.
Here is a sample ZPL script using UTF-8 encoding.
^XA ^CW1,E:HANS.TTF ^CI28 ^FO50,60^A1N,20,20^FD简体中文abcd1234^FS ^FO50,160^A1N,30,30^FD简体中文abcd1234^FS ^FO50,260^A1N,50,50^FD简体中文abcd1234^FS ^XZ
