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Storing Label Formats
When you define a label, either by downloading printer commands or by using
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Label design software or a similar program, its format is stored in the RAM of
the 4100.
There is enough RAM in the 4100 to store several different label formats, while
still having enough room to store downloaded fonts, graphics, and data. Of
course there is a limit to what can be stored in the printer, and printer memory
should be used as carefully as possible.
In its base configuration, the 4100 has 20K of static RAM. You may expand the
available RAM with the 256K RAM expansion option. The <ESC>m command
will report the amount of available static RAM.
Once a label is stored in the printer, it can be used at any time. You can call it up
to print labels, or you call it up in programming mode to modify one or all of the
fields.
There are limits to the number of formats, fonts, graphics or pages that you can
store in the 4100. You can define up to 20 formats, but there may not be enough
room depending on the amount of memory being used for other purposes. The
more formats, graphics, and fonts you store, the less memory is available.
Designing Pages
A page is a collection of one or more formats that are combined to print at the
same time. This is practical in cases where you need to attach similar labels to
different positions on an object. For example, you may need to attach one label
to a product and a different label to the product container. With the 4100 page
printing capability, you can print both labels at the same time.
Because you can print pages of several formats at once, you can also print labels
on precut media rolls of different sized labels. You can define a page that prints
one large label for every two small labels.
When you group label formats into a page, the formats are put in positions that
are assigned the letters a through z. Formats combined in pages may still be
printed independently.
Pages and formats exist independently of each other. This means you can delete
a page without affecting any of the formats.
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