Media; Media Size - Intermec EasyCoder F2 Installation And Operation Manual

Setup Parameters, cont'd.

Media

• Media Size

• Media Type
• Paper Type
• Testfeed
• Contrast
Intermec EasyCoder F2 – Installation & Operation Ed. 1
The media setup tells the firmware the characteristics of the of me-
dia that will be used, so the printout will be positioned correctly on
the paper and get the best quality possible.
Media Size
The size of the printable area is defined by three parameters; X-
Start, Width, and Length.
X-Start
X-start specifies the position of the origin along the dots on the
printhead.
By default, X-start is 24 dots, which places the inner margin of the
print area 3 mm (0.118") from the inner edge of the paper and gives
a maximum print width of 424 dots (53 mm/2.087").
If you want to make use of the entire paper width, reset the X-start
value to 0 which gives a maximum print width of 448 dots (56 mm/
2.205").
By increasing the value for the X-start parameter, the origin will be
moved outwards, away from the inner edge of the web. In other
words, the larger X-start value – the wider inner margin and the less
available print width.
Width
Width specifies the width of the printable area and is defined as a
number of dots from the origin. The sum of the X-start value and
the width value gives the outer margin of the printable area. The
width must not be so large as to allow printing outside the paper
web and must not exceed 448.
Length
Length decides the length of the printable area from origin and along
the Y-coordinate as a number of dots by allocating memory space
in the printer's temporary memory. Two identical image buffers are
created. The size of each buffer can be calculated using this for-
mula:
Buffer size (bits) = [Print length in dots] x [Printhead width in dots]
Note that the temporary memory has other functions that also
require some memory space. To obtain a longer print area, the
memory can be increased by fitting a larger DRAM SIMM on the
printer's CPU board as described in the Service Manual.
Chapter 6 Setting Up the Printer
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