Feeding And Printing Commands; Setting Up The Printer; Reading Printer's Status - Intermec EasyCoder E4 Programmer's Reference Manual

8. Feeding and Printing Commands

9. Setting Up the Printer

10. Reading the Printer's Status
EasyCoder E4 Direct Protocol v2.10 – Programmer's Reference Manual
Some commands control printing and media feed, for example:
• Changing media feed speed
• Rotating the platen roller during cleaning
• Feeding out an empty label, ticket, tag, or piece of strip
• Adjusting the label stop/black mark sensor.
• Printing one label or a batch of labels (or similar).
You can control how the printer will work, for example:
• Select standard IN and OUT channels
• Set the printer's clock/calendar
• Set formats for the printing of date and time
• Set separators for input data strings to predefi ned layouts
• Create label counters
• Enable/disable the optional label taken sensor
• Enable/disable Feed key
• Format the printer's RAM memory or a memory card
• Remap certain incoming characters
• Select character set(s)
• Restart the printer
• Select verbosity level
• Select type of error message
• Enable error handling and create customized error messages
• Select method for breaking the printing of a batch of labels
• Change the printer's setup
Provided you have two-way serial communication between
printer and host, you can return the printer's status with regard to
a number of functions to the host, for example:
• Current date and time
• Memory status
• Printhead status and characteristics
• Value of various system counters
• Status of various sensors
• Firmware and hardware version
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