Preset Or Onetime-Set Commands; All Models; Model Ti8 Only - IBM 4610-TM6 - SureMark Printer TM6 Two-color Thermal Transfer User Manual

August 24, 2004

Preset or Onetime-Set commands

All models

Model TI8 only

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Bit 0
Bit 1
Bits 2 – 7
Byte 5
EC level = EC level of loaded code
Error Conditions:
None.
Remarks:
This is an IMMEDIATE command.
The SureMark printer has commands to specialize and tune each printer to improve
its usability, performance, and uniqueness. This flexibility is provided through the
use of flash erasable programmable read-only memory (flash EPROM) and an
electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM). Data in these
memory devices will stay valid until it is redefined. This information only needs to be
defined once because it will remain for the life of the printer or until it is redefined.
To verify that data was previously stored in the printer, the system can request a
checksum on data stored in each sector.
Flash EPROM has 5 sectors. To rewrite information in a sector, you must first erase
the sector.
v For logo commands and predefined messages, erasing the sector is necessary
only to replace a logo or predefined message number, or when the length of the
logo or message exceeds space available in that sector.
v For user flash memory, erasing the sector is necessary only when writing to an
address that has already been written to.
v For user-defined thermal and impact characters, new characters can be added if
they have the same matrix as characters already in the character set. If new
character sets are added, the flash memory does not have to be erased. To
replace characters, you must first erase the sector.
Sector Function
1 Download graphics (logo) Commands
2 Predefined (Canned) Messages
3 Two user-defined impact character sets
4 User-defined thermal character sets – four fixed matrix or 2 proportional
5 User Flash Memory
The EEPROM stores microcode tolerances (MCT) values.
Model TI8 provides five functions with which you can store and define data. They
are:
v User-defined thermal characters
Set to 1 when printer is set for 58 mm paper
Set to 1 if Model TI8 is in TI4 mode
Reserved
Appendix C. RS-232 programming information
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