Select Font Id Number; Select Font Style Number; Save Font Id Number As Default Font At Power Up; Lock Permanent Font Flash Area - CognitiveTPG A776 ColorPOS Programming Manual

Select font ID number

ASCII
GS 0xF0 0x01 n
Hexadecimal 1D F0 01 n
Decimal
29 240 1 n
Value of n: 128 - 255
Select font ID number for downloaded font.
This command is sent before downloading the map file for a specific font. Each font ID has one map file to download.
This command is also sent to select a downloaded font at run time.
Three Asian Fonts are available for use on the A776/B780 printer: Traditional Chinese, Kanji, and Korean. Only one of
these character sets can be downloaded to the printer at one time.
Font ID
C3 (hex)
CB (hex)
CE (hex)
Note: Before downloading one of the Asian Fonts, the expanded flash memory allocation must be set up to expand
the size of the permanent font space. (See Expanded Flash Memory Allocation below). For Traditional Chinese, 1.3 Meg
of space is required. Kanji requires 1 Meg, and Korean requires of 1 Meg of space in the permanent font area.

Select font style number

ASCII
GS 0xF0 0x02 n
Hexadecimal 1D F0 02 n
Decimal
29 240 2 n
Value of n: 0 - 255
Select font style number for downloaded font. After selecting font style number, set the horizontal and vertical
character spacing for the characters.
This command is sent before downloading the map file for a specific font. Each font ID can have multiple styles. For
example, two different styles could be 16 x 16 Gothic and 24 x 24 Gothic, or three different styles could be 16 x 16
Gothic, 16 x 16 Ariel, and 16 x 16 Courier. Each style number within a font has one character definition file.
This command is also sent to select a downloaded font style at run time.

Save font ID number as default font at power up

ASCII GS 0xF0 0x03
Hexadecimal
1D F0 03
Decimal 29 240 3
Save current font ID number as default font at power up. All characters will be printed from the downloaded font.

Lock permanent font flash area

ASCII
GS 0xF0 0x10 n
Hexadecimal 1D F0 10 n
Decimal
29 240 16 n
Value of n: n = 0x00
n = 0x01
This command allows or prevents the permanent font area to be erased.
Note: This only affects the 1D 40 33 commands and downloading a font to permanent font area when a font already exists
with the same ID.
A776-PG00001 D 07/13
Font
Traditional Chinese
Kanji
Korean
lock permanent font flash (default)
unlock permanent font flash to erase or delete
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