Printing Labels With Ipl Commands; Learning The Structure Of Ipl Command Strings - Intermec EasyCoder 3240 Developer's Manual

Printing Labels with IPL Commands

Learning the Structure of IPL Command Strings

Intermec Printer Language (IPL) Developer's Guide
• Program commands send label format information to the printer.
RFID program commands create and define tag fields and data sources.
The printer must be in Program mode to use these commands.
• Configuration commands enable or disable printer features and
options. The printer must be in Print mode to use these commands.
• Test and Service commands query the printer for hardware diagnostic
data and print job status. The printer must be in Test and Service mode
to use these commands.
• Immediate commands abort print jobs, return the status of print jobs,
and reset the printer. The printer can be in any mode to use these
commands, and executes these commands immediately even if other
IPL commands are waiting to be executed.
Follow this basic procedure to print bar code labels using IPL:
1 Use IPL commands to design the format for the bar code label.
If you do not specify a format, the printer assumes you want to use the
default format (format 0), which is stored permanently in the printer.
The printer prints the label using that format.
2 Send the format to the printer as a series of IPL command strings. The
printer stores the format in memory.
You can store multiple formats on your printer. For more information,
see the "Format, Create or Edit" command in the IPL command
reference manual.
3 Send a command string to the printer that specifies the data for the
fields of the format, and then prints the label.
Note: It is not always necessary to send the format and the data to the
printer separately. You can send fixed data formats or even variable data
formats that include the data in the same file.
An IPL command string is a text string that you send to the printer. A
command string is a combination of ASCII control codes (or their readable
equivalents), the syntax for the specific command, and associated data.
Chapter 1 — Introduction to IPL Commands
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