Symbol Sets

Your product can access a variety of symbol sets. Many of these symbol sets differ only in the international characters specific to each language.

Note: Since most software handles fonts and symbols automatically, you may never need to adjust your product settings. However, if you write your own product control programs, or if you use older software that cannot control fonts, refer to these tables for details on the symbol sets.

When you consider which font to use, also consider which symbol set to combine with the font. Available symbol sets vary depending on the mode and font you choose.

PCL5 Mode Symbol Sets

Symbol set name Attribute Font classification
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
ISO 60: Danish/Norwegian 0D
Roman Extension 0E
ISO 15: Italian 0I
ISO 8859/1 Latin 1 0N
ISO 11: Swedish 0S
ISO 6: ASCII 0U
ISO 4: United Kingdom 1E
ISO 69: French 1F
ISO 29: German 1G
Legal 1U
ISO 8859/2 Latin 2 2N
ISO 8859/4 Latin 4 4N
ISO 17: Spanish 2S
Roman-9 4U
PS Math 5M
ISO 8859/9 Latin 5 5N
Windows 3.1 Latin 5 5T
Microsoft Publishing 6J
Ventura Math 6M
ISO 8859/10 Latin 6 6N
DeskTop 7J
Math-8 8M
Roman-8 8U
Windows 3.1 Latin 2 9E
Pc1004 9J
ISO 8859/15 Latin 9 9N
PC-Turkish 9T
Windows 3.0 Latin 1 9U
PS Text 10J
PC-8, Code Page 437 10U
PC-8 D/N Danish/Norwegian 11U
MC Text 12J
PC-850 Multilingual 12U
Ventura International 13J
PcEur858 13U
Ventura US 14J
Pi Font 15U
PC852, Latin 2 17U
Unicode 3.0 18N
Windows Baltic 19L
Windows 3.1 Latin/Arabic 19U
PC-755 26U
PC-866, Cyrillic 3R
Greek8 8G
Windows Greek 9G
Windows Cyrillic 9R
PC-851, Greek 10G
ISO 8859/5 Cyrillic 10N
PC-8, Greek 12G
ISO 8859/7 Greek 12N
PC-866 UKR 14R
Hebrew7 0H
ISO 8859/8 Hebrew 7H
Hebrew8 8H
PC-862, Hebrew 15H
PC-862, Hebrew 15Q
Arabic8 8V
HPWARA 9V
PC-864, Arabic 10V
Wingdings 579L
Symbol 19M
ZapfDigbats 14L
OCR A 0O
OCR B 1O
OCR B Extension 3Q
Code3-9 0Y
EAN/UPC 8Y

PCL6 (Bitstream) Mode Symbol Sets

Symbol set name Attribute Font classification
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ISO Norwegian 4
ISO Italian 9
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 14
ISO Swedish 19
ASCII 21
ISO United Kingdom 37
ISO French 38
ISO German 39
Legal 53
ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 78
ISO Spanish 83
Roman-9 149
PS Math 173
ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 174
Windows 3.1 Latin 5 180
Microsoft Publishing 202
ISO 8859/10 Latin 6 206
DeskTop 234
Math-8 269
Roman-8 277
Windows 3.1 Latin 2 293
Pc1004 298
ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 302
PC-Turkish 308
Windows 3.0 309
PS Text 330
PC-8 341
PC-8 D/N 373
MC Text 394
PC-850 405
PcEur858 437
Pi Font 501
PC852 565
Unicode 3.0 590
WBALT 620
Windows 3.1 Latin 1 629
PC-755 853
Wingdings 18540
Symbol 621
ZapfDigbats 460
PC-866, Cyrillic 114
Greek8 263
Windows Greek 295
Windows Cyrillic 306
PC-851, Greek 327
ISO 8859/5 Cyrillic 334
PC-8, Greek 391
ISO 8859/7 Greek 398
PC-866 UKR 466
Hebrew7 8
ISO 8859/8 Hebrew 232
Hebrew8 264
PC-862, Hebrew 488
Arabic8 278
HPWARA 310
PC-864, Arabic 342

PCL6 (URW) Mode Symbol Sets

Symbol set name Attribute Font classification
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ISO Norwegian 4
ISO Italian 9
ISO 8859-1 Latin 1 14
ISO Swedish 19
ASCII 21
ISO United Kingdom 37
ISO French 38
ISO German 39
Legal 53
ISO 8859-2 Latin 2 78
ISO Spanish 83
Roman-9 149
PS Math 173
ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 174
Windows 3.1 Latin 5 180
Microsoft Publishing 202
ISO 8859/10 Latin 6 206
DeskTop 234
Math-8 269
Roman-8 277
Windows 3.1 Latin 2 293
Pc1004 298
ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 302
PC-Turkish 308
Windows 3.0 309
PS Text 330
PC-8 341
PC-8 D/N 373
MC Text 394
PC-850 405
PcEur858 437
Pi Font 501
PC852 565
Unicode 3.0 590
WBALT 620
Windows 3.1 Latin 1 629
PC-755 853
Wingdings 18540
Symbol 621
ZapfDigbats 460
PC-866, Cyrillic 114
Greek8 263
Windows Greek 295
Windows Cyrillic 306
PC-851, Greek 327
ISO 8859/5 Cyrillic 334
PC-8, Greek 391
ISO 8859/7 Greek 398
PC-866 UKR 466
Hebrew7 8
ISO 8859/8 Hebrew 232
Hebrew8 264
PC-862, Hebrew 488
Arabic8 278
HPWARA 310
PC-864, Arabic 342
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