Custom User Strings; Scs Mode Transparent Data - Intermec EasyCoder 4630 User Manual

4630 and 4830 Coax/Twinax Interface Card User's Manual

Custom User Strings

Host download command 55 allows you to define up to six (0 through
5) custom user strings. A user string can be an ASCII control character,
a form feed, or another printer command.
To activate a custom user string, place the delimiter (&% or the
beginning delimiter you defined with command 40), the command
identifier U, and the number of the custom user string into the file
being sent to the printer.
For example, use command 55 to define user string number 3 to be the
ASCII control character <STX> (start of text, 02 hex):
&%Z55,3(02)
To send this user string (<STX>) to the printer at the start of a label,
enter the following command at the start of the label format:
&%U3
When the interface card receives the label format, it will interpret
&%U3 as <STX> and send the control character to the printer.

SCS Mode Transparent Data

SCS transparent mode (SCS TRN code 35) provides a method for
transparent data transmission when operating in LU1 mode. To use
this method, you must be connected to a system using SNA protocol
and be operating as a Logical Unit Type 1.
An SCS TRN sequence begins with a one-byte binary count
immediately following the TRN code. The count indicates the number
of bytes, not including the count byte, of transparent data to follow.
Up to 256 bytes of transparent data can be sent in each sequence.
SCS TRN data is user-defined and is not scanned for SCS control
codes. However, to emulate the characteristics of the IBM 3287, data is
translated to ASCII with undefined and non-printable characters
(control characters) printed as hyphens. The interface card offers the
option to emulate the IBM 3287 or to pass the data without translation.
Refer to command 45: SCS TRN Translate, for more information.
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