User's Guide 50
Fonts, Bar Codes and Graphics
The specifications of fonts, bar codes and graphics depend on the printer emulation. The emulation is
a printer programming language, through which the host can communicate with your printer. There
are two printer-programming languages: PPLA and PPLB. Only one emulation can be resident at a
time.
Printer Programming Language A, PPLA
Specification FM402DT FM402TT FM403TT
General fonts 7 alpha-numeric fonts, OCR A and OCR B
ASD smooth fonts 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 18 points 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14,
and 18 points
Symbol sets for
smooth fonts
USASCII, UK, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and
Danish/Norwegian
Courier fonts 8 symbol set (PC, PC-A, PC-B, EAMA-
94, Roman8, Legal, Greek and Russian)
Soft fonts Downloadable PCL fonts
Font expandability 1x1 to 24x24
Bar code types Code 39, Code 93, Code 128/subset A, B, C, Codabar,
Interleave 2 of 5, UPC A/E/2 and 5 add-on, EAN-8/13,
UCC/EAN-128, Postnet, Plessey, HBIC, Telepen and FIM.
MaxiCode and PDF417 (2D symbologies).
Graphics PCX, BMP, IMG and HEX formats
Printer Programming Language B, PPLB
Specification FM402DT FM402TT FM403TT
General fonts 5 fonts with different point sizes
Symbol sets
(Code pages)
8 bits: Code page 437, 850, 852, 860, 863 and 865.
7 bits: USA, British, German, French, Danish, Italian,
Spanish, Swedish and Swiss.
Soft fonts Downloadable soft fonts
Font expandability 1x1 to 24x24
Bar code types Code 39(checksum), Code 93, Code 128/subset A, B, C,
Codabar, Interleave 2 of 5(checksum), Matrix 25, UPC A/E 2
and 5 add-on, EAN-8/13, Code 128UCC, UCC/EAN, Postnet,
German Postcode.
MaxiCode and PDF417 (2D symbologies).
Graphics PCX and binary raster
