{{anchor|Fontpage|Display|Printer|FontpageDefault}}In computing, a '''hardware code page''' ('''HWCP''') refers to a [[code page]] supported natively by a hardware device such as a [[display adapter]] or [[printer (computing)|printer]]. The [[glyph]]s to present the characters are stored in the [[character generator]]'s resident read-only memory (like ROM or flash) and are thus not user-changeable.<ref name="Paul_2001_CPSwitchFD"/> They are available for use by the system without having to [[upload]] any font definitions into the device. Startup messages issued by a [[System BIOS]] or displayed by an [[operating system]] before initializing its own code page switching logic and font management and before switching to [[graphics mode]] are displayed in a computer's '''default hardware code page'''.
