Label Printing - Intermec EasyCoder E4 Programmer's Reference Manual

Chapter 5 Feeding and Printing Commands
1. Media Feed, cont.

2. Label Printing

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If the FORMFEED command is issued without any specifi cation
of the feed length, a complete blank label (or the equivalent)
will be fed out. By specifying a positive or negative value in the
FORMFEED command, the global Start Adjust and Stop Adjust
setup can be substituted or supplemented for individual layouts
or labels.
It is important whether the FORMFEED command is executed
before or after the PRINTFEED command:
• FORMFEED before PRINTFEED corresponds to Start
Adjust.
• FORMFEED after PRINTFEED corresponds to Stop Adjust.
The relationship between paper and printhead when printing
starts decides all positioning along the Y-axis, that is, along the
media path.
Printing Commands
When a PRINTFEED command is issued, the fi rmware pro-
cesses all previously entered text fi elds, bar code fi elds, image
fi elds, box fi elds, and line fi elds into a bitmap pattern. The
bitmap pattern controls the heating of the printhead dots as the
media is fed past them. Each PRINTFEED command produces
one single copy or, optionally, a batch of labels or similar.
PRINTFEED | PF [<batch size>]
<batch size>
Default:
The execution of a PRINTFEED command resets the following
commands to their respective default values:
ALIGN
BARFONTSLANT
BARFONTDSIZE
BARMAG
BARTYPE
FONTSIZE
FONTDSIZE
MAG
This reset only affects commands executed after PRINTFEED,
not commands that have already been executed. This makes
batch printing possible.
EasyCoder E4 Direct Protocol v2.10 – Programmer's Reference Manual
specifi es the number of copies to be printed.
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BARFONT
BARFONT ON/OFF BARFONTD
BARFONTDSLANT BARHEIGHT
BARRATIO
DIR
FONTSLANT
FONTDSLANT
PRPOS
BARFONTSIZE
BARSET
FONT
FONTD
INVIMAGE