Configure Fonts for your Printer

Font Settings for Barcode & Address Label Printers

Written by Jasmine Osman Caldeira

Last published at: December 21st, 2023




Open the Font Settings Dialogue

  1. Firstly, ensure you have a printer selected & a printer language selected. Select EPL if you are not sure.






  2. The 3 dots button should appear if both options are selected

  3. Click to open the Font Settings Dialogue


If using ZPL

If using EPL


Printing a list of fonts is the only way to see what fonts are already installed on the printer, or to verify the existence of newly installed fonts.

This function is available for both EPL and ZPL Printer Languages

  1. From within the Font Settings Dialogue, click "Print a list of installed font files"




Install a Font File

The system provides a short list of fonts that you can install onto your printer.

Barcode Printers — available for ZPL
Address Printers — available for both EPL & ZPL

  1. From the Font Settings Dialogue > Under Install a font file > Select the font you want to install

  2. Click Install


Remove a Font File

Removing a font file would only be required for freeing up some memory in order to upload some other file (font or logo).

  • Barcode Printers — Available only for ZPL 
  • Address Printers — Available for both EPL & ZPL

  1. From the Font Settings Dialogue > Under Remove a font file > Select the font you want to remove

  2. Click  Remove

This is how you can verify that the recently installed font works

  • Available for both EPL and ZPL.


  1. From the Font Settings Dialogue > At the very bottom you will see buttons to print test labels.
    • When the selected Printer Language is ZPL, there are two buttons available, for testing each available font respectively.



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Additional information on fonts 

Arial — This EPL font is limited to basic latin characters without any accents

  • Arial is installed as two .FNT files (AN.FNT and AV.FNT). 
  • Installing a different font size will result in overwriting any already installed Arial font.


Noto Sans & Swiss 721 — These ZPL fonts support many languages

  • The ZPL fonts will be saved as .FNT OR .TTF files — the printer select the correct font extension
  • Both Noto Sans & Noto Sans CJK files are saved as NOTO
  • Swiss 72Q is saved as TT003M_.


Noto Sans CJK — Stands for Chinese-Japanese-Korean

  • These languages contain many characters which make the font file too big to fit in the standard memory (2 MB) of the Zebra printer
  • In order to install the Noto Sans CJK, a printer model with the extended memory of (64 MB) module is required.