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XPM 80™ Thermal Printer Family
density increases the "burn time", (the length of time that the thermal printhead elements are
heated).
Note: Excessively long burn times may adversely affect printer life!
7.7. Invalidation
The XPM 80™ printer includes the ability to invalidate printouts (render them unreadable by
overprinting them with a random pattern) under certain conditions. These conditions include
after loading paper; at the end of paper; when data has been lost; and on initialization. In all
cases, the purpose of the feature is to prevent printouts that might be partially valid from
being misused. For example, if a ticket had been in the process of printing and the power
failed, the printer would stop printing. Upon restoration of power, it would be preferable to
invalidate the partially printed ticket and, if appropriate, have the host send a new one to be
printed. By enabling "Invalidate paper on initialization", this can be accomplished.
7.8. XPM 80™ Digital Tools
The XPM 80™ family of thermal printers includes with the Windows XP driver a series of very
useful tools. These can be run directly from the Tools folder of the driver package once the
driver has been installed. A brief summary of these tools is shown below.
Note: It is important to note that the behavior of the XPM 80™ is heavily dependent
upon the settings determined by the Configuration Tool.
XPM 80™ Command Tool: Very simple tool for sending Native Commands to the printer.
XPM 80™ Configuration Tool: A very important tool that allows you to change virtually any
variable setting or performance characteristic of your XPM 80™ printer.
XPM 80™ Diagnostic Tool: A powerful tool for identifying possible issues with your printer,
its peripherals and firmware by examining the details of its operation.
XPM 80™ Font Tool: Used for uploading and assigning different fonts within the XPM 80™
printer.
XPM 80™ Image Tool: This very helpful tool creates XPM 80™ format graphic files from
standard format graphic files so they can be uploaded as stored images.
XPM 80™ Print Terminal: Possibly the most useful tool of the bunch, the Print Terminal has
six sets of 24 buttons each, many of them preprogrammed to transmit commands to your
XPM 80™ printer. All buttons are programmable to make them transmit whatever is needed.
This tool is very popular with software developers who are integrating the XPM 80™ into their
products as a tool that they use to verify command sequences and responses.
XPM 80™ Uninstaller Tool: Use this tool to uninstall single or all versions of the XPM 80™
driver.
XPM 80™ Upload Tool: Used to upload new firmware, specific data files, etc. to the flash
area of your XPM 80™ printer.
XPM 80™ Wide Font Tool: Used for uploading Wide Font formats (such as Chinese or
Korean) from standard graphic files.
8.
Low Current Operation
There are numerous factors that affect thermal printer current. It is possible to manipulate these
factors consciously to reduce current draw for situations where this is important, such as operating
from batteries. If battery operation only occurs when power has failed, the host software can be
programmed to print at a faster, higher current rate during normal operation and then switch the
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