Printing Lines And Boxes; Defining And Printing A Label - Datamax Prodigy Operator's Manual

4.9 Printing Lines and Boxes

Lines and boxes can be created by requesting font "X" from within the
LABEL COMMAND interpreter. The horizontal and vertical multipliers
work with the line and box routines in the same manner as human
readable fonts. The format of the data area is as follows:
Lhhhvvv
Where L = L to specify line drawing (solid box)
hhh = horizontal width of line (solid box)
vvv = vertical height of line (solid box)
or,
Bhhhvvvbbbsss
Where B = B to specify box drawing
hhh = horizontal width of box
vvv = vertical height of box
bbb = thickness of bottom and top box edges
sss = thickness of sides of box

4.10 Defining and Printing a Label

The following is the procedure for formatting labels:
1. The ASCII STX (DEC 02, HEX 02) followed by an ASCII "L" (DEC
76, HEX 4C) must be sent to the Printer. This sets the Printer up to
accept LABEL FORMATTING COMMANDS. At the entrance into
the LABEL FORMATTING mode, the Printer does several things.
It clears the field register area and loads the FIELD GENERATION
interpreter. The interpreter will scan the data as it is received,
placing completed fields into registers. The paper is in the "home
position" at the time the STX L command is received and set.
References made by the statements that follow will consider the
current paper position as 0,0.
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