ZEBRA Print Solutions The World's First Multi-Language Label Express Printing

Zebra Technologies, a global leader in on-demand printing solutions for customers, has made it economical and easy to print on-demand international character labels. The new Zebra Global Printing Solution currently available provides Unicode-compliant encoding and font support for Zebra's bar code, label, and receipt printers. Once installed, other major language labels such as Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), along with custom characters and logos, can be printed immediately. Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other Asian languages ​​can be achieved through a simple font upgrade. Zebra is the first thermal printer manufacturer to provide Unicode-compliant encoding support for multilingual label printing (and multilingual printing on the same label).

“As more and more companies spread their business reach to multiple countries, it is increasingly important to be able to identify parts, products and commodity pallets in different languages ​​on the same label, and their port of call.” Zebra’s Director of Sales Mr. Dave Crist said. Zebra offers its customers a convenient, comprehensive and scalable global printing solution that meets the needs of multilingual printing and helps customers avoid the cost of fonts and configuration changes.

Zebra offers a global printing solution that can be applied to Zebra's industrial-grade and high-performance PAX-type and S, Xi, Z-series printers and print engines. All available printers shipped in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) regions are preloaded with compatible fonts that support multiple languages. This has become a standard.

Unicode is a universal code page (which converts numeric code points to characters) that can be used with any standards-compliant computer platform or software application. ASCII and most other traditional code page encoding systems support up to 256 characters. Unicode can support nearly 100,000 characters from all the major languages ​​in the world, including complex, non-Western characters that are harder to print.

In the past, users who needed to print multilingual labels could generally only upgrade their printers by purchasing supported fonts and the memory needed to store and process these fonts. As businesses continue to expand into new areas, factors such as the purchase, installation, and printer configuration of new language licenses will inevitably lead to these print systems becoming increasingly complex and costly to manage. Another method is to treat traditional characters as graphics. The result of this is usually that printing speed is extremely slow. Zebra's global printing solutions can effectively meet these challenges.

Zebra's global printing solution enables printers to automatically output in any language without requiring the operator to select a language, font, code page, or other configuration, and without having to adjust the printer. This printer built-in feature provides quick first-time label printing and seamless multilingual printing. It supports not only the Asia Pacific language optional fonts, but also can be purchased separately and used with the printer's built-in Unicode-compatible fonts. A 64-M memory upgrade can also be selected for storage label format and large Asian fonts to further increase printing speed.

All computer operating systems currently sold in China need to support the GB18030 standard for multilingual printing through devices that meet this standard. Zebra's global printing solution just supports the GB18030 encoding standard.

This flexible solution also supports dedicated logo libraries and special character libraries created by the company itself, and easily uses these logos and special characters for labels. Asian fonts generally do not support surnames, street names, and other proper nouns, so it is valuable to create shipping labels in Asia. The Zebra solution also includes special features for fast and accurate printing of Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Vietnamese and other languages ​​that may require bi-directional printing or complex text, character settings.

Many major IT systems and enterprise software applications support Unicode. By networking compatible Zebra printers with these systems, organizations can print international language tags directly from their applications.

Source of information: pack.cn