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Programmer’s Reference Manual
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ANSI Printers
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® ANSI Printers Programmer’s Reference Manual ® 164305-001D
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction........................................................... 9 About This Manual................................................................................. 9 Audience ......................................................................................... 9 Warnings and Special Information .................................................. 9 Related Product Information .................................................................. 9 Software Features .
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Table of Contents Vertical Position Absolute ............................................................. 42 Vertical Position Relative .............................................................. 42 Graphics .............................................................................................. 43 Dot Patterns And Densities ........................................................... 43 Horizontal Format.......................................................................... 45 Verti
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Table of Contents B Conversion Tables ............................................. 77 C Glossary............................................................. 85
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1 Introduction About This Manual ® This manual lists the ANSI commands and explains how to configure the printer when this emulation is loaded in your printer. Audience This book assumes you are an experienced programmer and are familiar with the ANSI emulation. Warnings and Special Information Read and comply with all information highlighted under special headings: WARNING Conditions that could harm you as well as damage the equipment. CAUTION Conditions that could damage the printer or relat
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Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations Font Typefaces. Also referred to as print modes. The five typefaces include Near Letter Quality (NLQ), Data Processing (DP), High Speed (HS), OCR A, and OCR B. Character Sets. Fifty-one character sets are available. You can print the character sets in the different print modes. Bar codes. Several bar codes are available: Code 3 of 9, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC A, EAN 8, EAN 13, UCC 128, and Codabar. Expanded/Oversize print modes
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Downloading Software Through the Serial or Parallel Port Downloading Software Through the Serial or Parallel Port 1. Make a printout of all saved configurations. (Installing new software erases all saved configurations. You will use the printouts to restore the printer configurations.) 2. Set the printer power switch to O (Off). 3. If the printer is already connected to the serial or parallel port of an IBM-compatible computer running the PC-DOS™ or MS-DOS operating system, go to step 9. If
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Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations 15. Using Windows Explorer, create a directory named download at the root level of your C: hard drive. 16. Insert the printer emulation software CD into your computer. Figure 1. Navigating to the Appropriate Emulation File on the CD 17. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the appropriate file on the CD based on the printer model number and desired emulation, e.g., T5000IGP. (See Figure 1.) 18. Make note of the file name, which is a six digit number plu
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Downloading Software Through the Serial or Parallel Port Figure 2. Copying the Emulation File to the Download Directory 19. Copy the file to the download directory. NOTE: You may need to hold Ctrl to make sure a + appears to the right of the pointer. (See Figure 2.) 20. Start a command prompt session. (The Start Menu icon is usually labeled MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt.) 21. At the command prompt type: C: cd \download 22. At the command prompt on the computer type: filename.exe
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Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations CAUTION Do not interrupt the downloading process once it has started. Interrupting a download will damage the flash memory on the controller board and NIC. While the file is copied into memory, the printer LCD informs you of the load process and status. 23. When the new program has successfully loaded into memory and the printer has reset itself, set the printer power switch to O (Off). 24. Unplug the AC power cord from the printer. 25. Remove the CD f
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Downloading Software Through the Network Interface Card (NIC) Figure 3. Navigating to the Appropriate Emulation File on the CD 8. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the appropriate file on the CD (using the Unzipped directory) based on the printer model number and desired emulation, e.g., UnzippedT5000IGP. (See Figure 3.) IMPORTANT You must use the Unzipped directory, since this contains the uncompressed files necessary for NIC download. 9. Make note of the file name, which is a six digit
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Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations NOTE: The default is no password. If the FTP program requires a password, contact your system administrator. 15. At the password prompt, press . 16. Once logged in, type the following sequence at the command prompt to download the filename.prg file to the printer: cd dest cd d1prn bin put filename.prg (where filename.prg is the file name you noted in step 9.) CAUTION Do not interrupt the downloading process once it has
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Downloading Optional Font Files to Flash Memory 7. Wait until you see “WAITING FOR PROGRAM DOWNLOAD” on the LCD before proceeding. This can take up to 30 seconds to appear, depending on the emulations and interfaces installed in the printer. NOTE: The printer default port is CENTRONICS; if you want to use this port, continue to step 16. 8. Press the ⇒ (NEXT) key; “SELECT DOWNLOAD PORT = CENTRONICS” appears on the LCD. 9. Press the ⇒ (NEXT) key again to cycle through the download ports avail
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Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations If you are loading the file using the serial port on the computer, type the following commands: mode COM1:9600,N,8,1,P copy /b filename.dwn COM1 (where filename.dwn is a file you noted in step 15.) The 9600 baud rate is the only selection older versions of MS-DOS can use. The baud rate information entered in the above commands must match the selection you made in step 9. You can download the optional font files one at a time by entering on
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Flash Memory Message Guide Flash Memory Message Guide Message Explanation Required Action CLEARING PROGRAM The program successfully None FROM FLASH loaded into printer RAM and the checksum matched. The old program is now being deleted from flash memory. DIAGNOSTIC PASSED The printer passed its None memory and hardware initialization tests. ERROR: DC PROGRAM Printer cannot find the data 1. Download the program NOT VALID controller program or the again. validation checksum is 2. If the messa
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Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations Message Explanation Required Action ERROR: PROGRAM NEEDS The printer requires more Add flash memory or use a MORE FLASH flash memory in order to run smaller emulation program. the downloaded program. ERROR: PROGRAM NOT The printer is not compatible Use the correct emulation COMPATIBLE with the downloaded software option(s) for this program. model. ERROR: PROGRAM NOT The printer does not see a There is no program in printer VALID program in flash memory
