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TwinSide TS™ Thermal Printer Family
way for any significant length of time. Since all applications are different, and nuisance
tripping can be an issue in some applications, the exact reaction to this flag is left to the
designer.
Contamination Flag: If the platens that move the paper become contaminated, or if the
sensors in the TwinSide TS-56 start to become obscured, a Contamination Flag will be set.
This means that the printer should be cleaned. It is not necessary to stop printing, but
depending upon the application, an alert message should be displayed somewhere indicating
that cleaning maintenance should be performed. Please refer to document D 691 029 for
details of how to clean the TwinSide TS-56.
6.7. TwinSide TS™ Digital Tools
The TwinSide TS™ family of thermal printers includes with the Windows XP/7 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 as follows.
TwinSide TS™ Command Tool: Very useful tool for sending Native Commands to the
printer. You can use this tool to design your printout.
TwinSide TS™ Configuration Tool: A very important tool that allows you to change virtually
any variable setting or performance characteristic of your TwinSide TS™ printer.
TwinSide TS™ Diagnostic Tool: A useful tool for identifying possible issues with your
printer, its peripherals and firmware.
TwinSide TS™ Image Tool: This very helpful tool creates TwinSide TS™ format graphic files
from standard format graphic files so they can be uploaded as stored images.
TwinSide TS™ Print Monitor Info Tool: Shows information that is supplied by the print
monitor
Ts-PrintMon.dll
DRIVER\TWINSIDE-PM-PRINT-MON-INFO".
TwinSide TS™ Print Terminal: Possibly the most useful tool of the bunch, the Print Terminal
has six sets of 24 buttons each, most of them preprogrammed to transmit commands to your
TwinSide TS™ printer. All buttons are programmable to make them transmit whatever is
needed. This tool is very popular with software developers who are integrating the TwinSide
TS™ into their products.
TwinSide TS™ UniFont Converter: Creates an uploadable font file from fonts licensed for
public use under the GNU General Public License version 2.0
Windows driver package for details of this license and related obligations under the license.
TwinSide TS™ Uninstaller Tool: Use this tool to uninstall single or all versions of the
TwinSide TS™ driver.
TwinSide TS™ Upload Tool: Used to upload new firmware, specific data files, etc. to the
flash area of your TwinSide TS™ printer.
7.
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
TwinSide TS™ to a lower current mode when the system switches to battery operation. The following
are some considerations to aid in reducing current draw.
Part No. D 691 023A
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