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Monarch
9430RXÔ Ô
Printer
TC9430RXPM Rev. AA 10/05 ©2005 Paxar Americas, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Each product and program carries a respective written warranty, the only warranty on which the customer can rely. Paxar reserves the right to make changes in the product, the programs, and their availability at any time and without notice. Although Paxar has made every effort to provide complete and accurate information in this manual, Paxar shall not be liable for any omissions or inaccuracies. Any update will be incorporated in a later edition of this manual. 2005 Paxar Americas, In
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European Economic Area The European variant is intended for use throughout the European Economic Area, and is compliant with the R&TTE directives; however, authorization for use restricted as follows: European standards dictate maximums radiated transmit power of 100 mW EIRP and frequency range 2.400 –2.4835 GHz. France, the equipment is to be restricted to the 2.4465 – 2.4835 GHz frequency range. Belgium outside, the equipment is to be restricted to the 2.460 – 2.4835 GHz frequency ran
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION........................................................................ 1-1 Duty Cycle ............................................................................. 1-1 Conventions Used in this Manual ............................................. 1-2 Control Characters ................................................................. 1-3 CONFIGURING THE PRINTER ................................................... 2-1 Selecting the Operating Mode...............
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CREATING AND PRINTING FORMATS ....................................... 3-1 Overview ............................................................................... 3-1 Creating Text Fields ............................................................... 3-1 Selecting Character Sets ..................................................... 3-2 Selecting a Font .................................................................. 3-3 Using Underline Characters .........................................
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MODIFYING STANDARD FONTS ............................................... B-1 Standard Fonts.......................................................................B-1 Modifying Fonts ......................................................................B-1 Defining New Characters.........................................................B-2 Selecting Character Sets.........................................................B-3 Loading New Characters ...............................................
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iv Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION 1 The Monarch 9430RX printer control language contains a variety of commands to ♦ create and print formats. ♦ configure the printer. ♦ enable specific printer features. You download these commands in a data stream from another device. This manual describes the printer's control language. Duty Cycle The printer is designed to print up to 1000 inches per day. The average print rate is 1 inch every 10 seconds at a text character print density of 25% (i.e., one characte
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Conventions Used in this Manual Following are the conventions used in the syntax descriptions of each command. Symbol Description - Separates items in the command sequence. < > Indicates a variable with a single-byte value. ' ' Indicates the value is a literal. Enter the value as it appears or use the ASCII hex values for the same characters. ( ) Indicates a variable of any length. # # Indicates a variable of an exact length. ESC Indicates the beginning of a command sequence. E
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Control Characters The following characters are reserved and used to control the printer. The printer provides single-byte responses to the host of its status. Char. Control Hex Dec Control Action EOT ^D 0x04 04 End Of Text Signals to the host device that the printer is in idle mode and the print buffer is empty. BS ^H 0x08 08 Backspace Removes the previous character in the print buffer. HT ^I 0x09 09 Horizontal Tab Advances to the next tab position (from the following list)
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Char. Control Hex Dec Control Action XON ^Q 0x11 17 Transmitter On Signals that the device is ready to receive data (can be sent by the printer or host). AUXON ^R 0x12 18 Printer on Signals to the host that the printer is online. It is sent after initial power up, clearing a supply jam, or a supply reload. XOFF ^S 0x13 19 Printer receiver is off Signals to the host that the print buffer is full or an error has occurred. Signals to the printer that the host’s transmitter is of
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CONFIGURING THE PRINTER 2 There are several commands to configure the printer. You can include these commands anywhere in a data stream. This chapter describes the commands to configure the printer. Selecting the Operating Mode The printer works in either online or buffer mode. In online mode, the printer prints characters as soon as they are received. In buffer mode, the printer receives and stores characters, and then prints them upon receipt of an EOT control character (4 hex).
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Setting the Power Mode The printer can operate in five different power modes, each using a different number of printhead sections, which are groups of dots on the printhead. The mode selected also affects the print speed (the more printhead sections used, the faster the printer speed and vice versa). Syntax ESC-- ESC Starts the command language. Power mode command. Enter P. Power mode. The number of printhead sections to use, specified in hex. Optio
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Request the printer statuses You can request the print buffer, battery status, and magnetic card reader status from the printer by sending 16 hex (Ctrl-V) to the printer. The printer responds with ESC-'B'-#pbchars#-CR-LF-ESC-'V'-#volts#-CR-LF-ESC- 'M'-#card#-CR-LF-NAK ESC B Print buffer status. #pbchars# The number of characters currently in the print buffer, shown as four ASCII hex digits, which are “OR’d” with 30 hex. CR LF Carriage return and line feed. ESC V Battery voltage status.
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Using the Power-Off Timer The printer has a power-off timer to conserve battery life. After a specified period of inactivity occurs, the printer goes into sleep mode. The printer returns to normal mode when it starts receiving commands again, but the countdown re-starts after every character received. Before powering down, the printer sends AuXon then Xoff. See “Setting the Communications Parameters” for descriptions of the dip switches and for information about this feature. Syntax ES
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Supply Control Commands The commands in this section control how the printer uses black-mark supplies. Look at your supply (distance between black marks, existence of any preprinted text, etc.) before you begin. You may have to use the black mark search command multiple times if the marks are farther apart than the maximum search allows. To use these commands: 1. Set the sensitivity of the sensor search mechanism detecting the black mark (ESC QQ command). 2. Move the supplies forward
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ESC Starts the command language. ‘cmdbbw’ Search for black mark backward command. Enter QB. The maximum number of lines to move backward in 0.25mm line increments (in 00 hex – FF hex). Printer Responses See the printer’s response to the black mark commands in the following table. Command Response Description ESC QR39 ESC-'Q'-3F hex-3F hex-#high#-#low# Black mark found. ESC QB35 ESC-'Q'-30 hex-30 hex-#high#-#low# Black mark not found #high# The left digit of the hex number repr
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Example ESC P( The printer responds with: ESC-'('-#version#-CR-LF-NAK ESC ( Response from the firmware version request. #version# Four ASCII characters representing the firmware version. CR-LF-NAK Indicates the end of a response from the printer. Example ESC P) The printer responds with: ESC-')'-'103'-#version#-CR-LF-NAK ESC ) Response from the hardware version request. #version# An ASCII character representing the hardware version. CR-LF-NAK Indicates the end of a response from t
