Character, Custom Designed - SATO CL408 Programming Reference Manual

CHARACTER, CUSTOM DESIGNED

FUNCTION To allow for the creation, storage, and printing of custom characters, such as special fonts or logos. Up
to 50 individual characters may be stored in the custom character volatile memory.
FORMAT
Store Command:
Recall Command:
The Store command is typically sent in its own data stream to the printer, between the Start/Stop
commands. The Recall command is sent in a secondary data stream to print the character, and follows
any necessary position or size commands.
EXAMPLE
<ESC>A
<ESC>T1H3F0100038007C00FE01FF03FF87FFCFFFE07C007C007C007C007C00<ESC>Z
<ESC>A <ESC>H150<ESC>V100<ESC>L0505<ESC>K1H903F
<ESC>H350<ESC>V100<ESC>L1010<E SC>K1H903F <ESC>Q1
<ESC>Z
OUTPUT
(5-9)
NOTES
When printing the custom character using the Recall command, the character is affected by the
following commands: Character Expansion Character Pitch Line Feed Rotate, Fixed Base Reference
Point
The characters are stored in volatile memory and must be reloaded if the printer power is lost.
Do not use ASCII <CR> or <LF> characters (carriage return or line feed) as line delimiters within the
graphic data or the actual image will not be printed as specified.
E/Pro Programming Reference
Unit 5: Optional Command Codes
<ESC>Tabcc
<ESC>Kab90cc
a = 1 16x16 matrix
2 24x24 matrix
b = Specifies the character encoding method for the data stream
H Hexadecimal characters
B Binary characters
cc = Memory location to store/recall the character. Valid memory locations are 21
to 52 (counting in Hex) or "!" or "R" in Binary.
(data) = Data to describe the character
5-23
PN: 9001096E