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Deleting Fields
If you want, you can delete a field from a label format entirely. The only
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condition is that you cannot delete the last field in a format. For example, you
cannot delete field 0 from a format that has no other fields. If you want to delete
field 0 from a format, define field 1, and then delete field 0.
The following command string can be used to delete field x from label format y.
<STX><ESC>P;Fy;Dx;R<ETX>
This command string tells the printer to:
<ESC>P;
Fy;
Dx;
R
Scaling Fields
The size of a field is determined by the size of either the font or graphic you use
and the field magnification factors you apply.
The human-readable fonts and bar code symbologies have default sizes, and the
user-defined fields will print as large 3 x 3 inches, but each of these fields can be
further scaled by using magnification commands. If your printer contains
expansion RAM, you can print fields up to 4 x 4 inches.
Magnifying Fonts and Character Fields
The internal fonts in the 4100 already have sizes associated with them. This base
size is the smallest size that a character of a particular font can be printed. For
example, the letters in font 0 are 7 dots wide by 9 dots high, and there is a 1-dot
gap between characters. If you design a field that will print 10 letters in font 0,
the field will be 79 dots wide by 9 dots high.
In 86XX Emulation mode, magnification is provided only by height and width
magnification of the font in multiples of a fixed base size. In Advanced mode,
fonts may be increased in size by height and width magnification, or by pitch or
point size. Only one of the three methods of magnification can be used for each
field. Point size is measured by 1/72 of an inch, so that a 36-point font would
measure 1/2 inch. Pitch is measured by characters per inch. If a bitmapped font
is increased by pitch or point, the height/width magnification value that most
closely matches the pitch or point size will be used.
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Enter Program mode
Access format y
Delete field x
Return to Print mode
Designing Labels and Using Commands
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