Register Loading - Datamax Prodigy Operator's Manual

The first string "132100001000050TEST 123" is defined as the register
number "01" in the Printer. On the label, it appears as the human
readable message "TEST 123" located above the bar code. You can see
from the sample label that the data printed in the standard left-to-right
rotation "1", in font "3", at a 2X width and 1X height magnification.
The lower left-hand corner of the field was located approximately 1" up
from the bottom "0100", and over from the edge .5" "0050". This is the
position specified by the eight digits that precede the data string "TEST
The bar code field is defined by the string "1a3109000000110123456".
This field is printed in the standard rotation, font a (Code 3 of 9 without
human readable interpretation), with a wide-to-narrow bar ratio of 3:1.
The bar code is positioned to print on the label 0" from the bottom and
over from the edge 1.10". The data in the bar code was "123456".
The last character sent is the ASCII "E" character. It requests the Printer
to begin plotting the characters and bar codes as specified in the memory
stored registers.

4.11 Register Loading

The Printer prints labels in one of two modes. The standard mode is
described in the previous section. It requires that the complete format
be sent to the Printer each time a label is to be created. However, there
is a more efficient way of creating labels on the Printer. This method
involves programming for a fixed label format. At the end of the format
the host device sends an ASCII X (DEC 88, HEX 58) instead of the E
character. This stores the register data in memory and returns the
Printer to the SYSTEM command processor. However, a label is not
produced. From this point, the SYSTEM command processor allows
single or multiple labels to be printed from the stored field registers.
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