Printing A Label Introduction - Intermec EasyCoder F4 Installation & Operation Manual

Printing a Label
Introduction
Intermec EasyCoder F4 – Installation & Operation Ed. 3
This chapter will help you to produce a label within minutes of
unpacking your printer and it will show you how the Intermed
Fingerprint programming language and the Intermec Direct Protocol
make creating label formats an easy task.
If you are new to EasyCoder printers, read the rest of the manual
before returning here.
In addition to the Intermec Direct Protocol and the Intermec
Fingerprint programming language, the EasyCoder F4 also supports
the InterDriver printer driver for various versions of Microsoft
Windows. After you select the Windows Driver option in Intermec
Shell, you can use the EasyCoder F4 printer the same way as
you use any other printer to produce printouts from any standard
Windows program.
Connecting Printer and Host
In the following examples we assume that you are using an ASCII
terminal or a PC with a terminal program, for example Microsoft
HyperTerminal, as a host. We also assume that you are using the
standard RS-232 serial interface to connect your printer with
the host.
The printer contains a powerful microprocessor which is controlled
by the Intermec Fingerprint programming language. The connected
PC is only used as a non-intelligent terminal for sending instructions
to the printer and to display the responses from the printer on
a screen.
Intermec provides optional communication cables for connecting the
printer to most PCs. Refer to Appendix 3 for wiring diagrams.
Setup
By default, the printer is set up for the following serial communication
protocol on communication port "uart1:":
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