Monarch MPCL II User Manual

MONARCH PRINTER

CONTROL LANGUAGE

II

Optional Fonts Manual

TCMPCL2OF Rev AA 06/00

©1995 Monarch Marking Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Terms to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Chapter 2. Using ROM Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Using ANSI Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

ANSI Character Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

ROM Fonts Using ANSI Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Rom #1: Intensive Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Rom #2: Compliance Label Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Rom #3: Headline Font #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Rom #4: Headline Font #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Rom #5: Large Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Rom #6: Script Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

Rom #12: Scalable Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

ROM Fonts Using Non-Standard Characters . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Rom #7: Latin-Hebrew Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Rom #8: Latin-Arabic Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

Rom #9: Greek Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

Rom #10: Cyrillic Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Rom #11: Turkish Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Ordering Additional ROM Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

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Appendix A. Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1

Appendix B. Sample Formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Using Arabic Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Using Hebrew Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Using Greek Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-4

Using Cyrillic Characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-5

Using Turkish Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

Sample Standard Font Format Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1

Sample Headline Font Format Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Sample Scalable Font Format Packet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Sample Greek Font Format Packet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-4

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Chapter 1. Introduction

This manual applies only if you have purchased optional ROM
fonts for your printer.

The fonts described in this manual were designed to be used
with any MPCLII (Monarch® Printer Control Language version
II) printer. Be sure you understand the information in the
MPCLII Packet Reference Manual before you read this manual.

About this Manual ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

This manual provides the information you need to use any one
of the available ROM sets of predefined fonts on your tags or
labels. This manual includes print samples for each available
font family.

For information on incorporating ROM fonts into your tag or
label designs, see the MPCLII Packet Reference Manual.
Sample formats using ROM fonts are shown in Appendix B,
"Sample Formats."

If you wish to use a combination of fonts other than those
described in this manual, contact your Monarch Sales
Representative. Customized ROM font sets can be created to
meet your needs.

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Terms to Know –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Proportional
spaced fonts

All characters have different widths and
are difficult to center justify.

ROM Fonts These are stored on a ROM chip which is

installed in your priner. They cannot be
erased.

Scalable (Vector)
fonts

These fonts reside in the printer’s RAM or
in a ROM chip. Changing the point size
and magnification prints a smooth font.
There is no jaggedness at any point size,
because the font is created from an
equation every time it is used.

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Chapter 2. Using ROM Fonts

This chapter describes

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how to use ANSI characters with ROM fonts.

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the available ROM fonts.

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ordering information for additional ROM fonts.

Optional fonts are available in one of several ROM sets.
Refer to the following tables to locate the style for your chosen
font.

Fonts 1-6 and 12 use the ANSI character set. Fonts 7-11 use
the non-standard character sets shown in Appendix A,
"Character Sets."

Point sizes are approximate. A 12-point character is 12 points
wide. There are 72 points to an inch, so there would be six
12-point characters to an inch. Use these point sizes to
determine which fonts will fit on your format.

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The quality of your printed fonts is affected by print speed,
head energy, and the quality of your stock. To maximize the
quality of printing, you may wish to use a premium quality
stock. Contact your Monarch Sales Representative for
information about "premium" supplies. To improve the
appearance of your fonts, slow down the print speed. Refer to
your MPCLII Packet Reference Manaul to adjust the print
speed.

Check your bar codes when you change your print speed to
ensure an in-specification bar code.

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Using ANSI Characters ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

To use one of these characters in your format, press and hold
the Alt key and type in the character codes for your chosen
character using the numeric keypad. To determine the
character code, add the column number and row number for
the character. For example, to produce the ÿ character, you
would press Alt 255 (column 15 + row 240). Keep in mind
that the character may appear differently on your screen than
it may appear when printed, because screen fonts and printer
fonts are not necessarily the same.

Refer to the chart on the following page for the available ANSI
characters.

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ANSI Character Set

Chapter 2. Using ROM Fonts

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designates non-printing characters.

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ROM Fonts Using ANSI Characters –––––––––––––––––––––––––––

The following ROM fonts use the ANSI characters in the
formats.

Rom #1: Intensive Font

The Intensive Font family is used for text intensive tags or
labels. These fonts are very readable.

Font Style Point Size CG Times

500 10

501 12

502 14

503 16

504 18

505 10

506 12

507 14

508 16

509 18

CG Triumvirate

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