Re: [IUG] CJK-capable spine label printers?

[Robert <ras at anzio dot com>]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Hersh, Daniel wrote:

> Is anyone out there successfully printing spine labels with CJK
> (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) characters in Millennium?  If you are, can you
> tell us what kind of printer you're using?  We're a new Millennium library
> on Release 2006.

The only successes I know of along this line involve the use of our 
product, Print Wizard Server Edition. You can find detailed information at
   http://www.anzio.com/support/vendors/iiilabels.htm

It MAY be possible to do this using a) an "attached printer", b) in 
"graphics mode", and c) using a comprehensive font, such as Code2000. But 
I don't know of anyone doing that.

BACKGROUND
==========
Most printers do not have built-in support for Asian languages. If they 
do, it tends to be for only one language (Simplified Chinese, Traditional 
Chinese, Japanese, or Korean). Thus it is not possible to get a mix of 
languages when printing directly to the printer (attached text, or system 
printer).

If you do use a method that employs the Windows printer driver (attached 
graphics), you can use fonts that are installed into Windows, but you 
often need to switch fonts. A font that contains Japanese may not contain 
Korean, for instance. Millennium doesn't have any mechanism for automatic 
font switching.

When the print data is routed through PWSE, PWSE makes sure an appropriate 
font is used for every character; that is, a font the actually has a glyph 
for that character.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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