Print A Label Introduction - Intermec EasyCoder 501 E Installation & Operation Manual

Print a Label
Introduction
Intermec EasyCoder 501 E – Installation & Operation Ed. 1
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 501 printers
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 501 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 4 for wiring diagrams.
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