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The right asset. In the right place. At the right time.
International Printing
Unicode
©2008 ZIH Corp.
The right asset. In the right place. At the right time.
Unicode Agenda - 40 mins
What is Unicode?
Before Unicode
Who needs Unicode in this region?
Surviving without Unicode
The Competition
Partners with Unicode Support
Proven Solution
Buyers need Unicode
Summary
Questions and Answers
What is Unicode?
A “universal codepage” for font character mapping
Unique number for every possible character
Typical codepages like 850, support 256 characters, Unicode can support over 64,000 characters
What is Unicode?
Unicode provides a unique number for every character:
no matter what the platform
• Windows, Unix, System i
no matter what the program
• SAP, Microsoft, Oracle
no matter what the language
• Western, Middle East, Asia and Pacific
What is Unicode?
Western is used by the Americas and Western Europe
Western
What is Unicode?
A single preloaded “printer resident” font that supports all of EMEA “out of the box”
936 charactersuses: 220K Flash
Western Hebrew Traditional Arabic
Turkish Greek Cyrillic
Central European Baltic
Andale fromMonotype Corp.
What is Unicode?
Large Asian Worldtype fonts are options
up to 32MB in size
Before Unicode?
Had to license and download different code pages
Western
Cyrillic
Central European
Before Unicode?
Download fonts as graphics
REDUCE
SPEED
NOW
Who needs Unicodein this region?
Multinationals that have headquarters here
Exporters to Central and Eastern Europe or Asia Pacific
Any body that needs anything other than Western European (IBM Codepage 850)
Surviving without Unicode!
Label design applications?
BAR-ONE, CodeSoft, BarTender, NiceLabel,Loftware, etc.
Business applications?
SAP, AS/400, Oracle, other ERP, etc.
Custom, Proprietary, Legacy, VB, C++, .NET
Label Design Applications without Unicode!
End Users and VARs lived with limitations!
Downloading fonts as graphics
• Increased Network Traffic (* 10K)
• Slow “first label out”
• Pauses between labels when batch printing
This is a big problem for networked and wireless printers!!
• Not as noticeable on modern printers with a parallel cable!
Business Applications without Unicode
Downloading fonts as graphics is not possible for business applications!
License country specific fonts for every printer
Develop ZPL® by hand to use the fonts
• No LDA supports these fonts!
Embed ZPL in business application
Create separate forms for each code page
Modify business application to support Zebra specific code page (for each country)
The cost of integration without Unicode?
Country specific configurations reduce barcode labelling ROI!• Font licensing (optional) and management COSTS
• Application development COSTS
• Driver development COSTS
• Label and form design COSTS
• Maintenance COSTS
• Reduced flexibility COSTS
Country specific = “Custom” - “Custom” = COSTS
Unicode Quiz
The Competition
non-Zebraothers!
fast parallel connectivity
(LDA only)
fast network connectivity?
fast wireless connectivity?
easy business application
integration?
Zebra still leads the Way
Zebra’s Unicode based Global Printing solution still leads the way
Zebra’s solution supports over 40 different languages
simultaneously
With Zebra a single font can satisfy all printing needs and multiple
fonts don’t have to be stored on the printer
Zebra’s solution supports multiple Unicode encoding methods
• including UTF-8, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE
Most of the competition only supports WGL4 (Windows Glyph List 4)
fonts with limited UTF-8 support for the Latin and Cyrillic languages
Label Design Applicationsand Unicode Support
Zebra is driving LDA’s to support Unicode Support is needed for the screen Support is needed for the printer LDA status:
EuroPlus NiceLabel - shipping
Seagull BarTender - shipping
ZebraDesigner™ - shipping
Codesoft - shipping
Loftware - shipping
Proven Solution
Shipping since 2005 (proven solution)
• Xi4™, ZM400™/ZM600™, S4M™, 105SL™ and PAX™
And now available on the G-series desktop printers
All above EMEA printers now preloaded with Unicode Firmware and Unicode Font
• Printer resident scaleable font containing 936 characters (220K)
• Western, Central and Eastern European also including Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Hebrew and Arabic
Unicode Proven Success
Praktiker - 700+ Z4M™s Ordered and shipped Blocked the competition Avoided a price war!
Nestlé Rolling out SAP 4.7 Enterprise Unicode Looking at only buying Unicode printers
Tell the buyer they“need” Unicode
Get Unicode “high up” on the buyers shopping list!
this blocks the competition!
Unicode Summary
All EMEA languages “out-of-the box”
Easy integration with business apps
Printer resident fonts for “fast first label out”
No pausing between labels (batch printing)
End users no longer need to:
• Download fonts as graphics - slow printing
• Purchasing and configure local code pages / fonts
• Expensive and complicated integration with business applications
The right asset. In the right place. At the right time.
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