Setting Up The Printer; Layout Mode/Immediate Mode; In/Out Channel - Intermec EasyCoder E4 Programmer's Reference Manual

Setting Up the Printer

1. Layout Mode/Immediate Mode

2. In/Out Channel

EasyCoder E4 Direct Protocol v2.10 – Programmer's Reference Manual
The EasyCoder E4 Printer can operate in Immediate Mode or
Layout Mode. In Immediate Mode, layouts and variable data
fi elds are disabled. In Layout Mode, layouts and variable data
fi elds are enabled (see Chapter 4.8). The printer is by default in
Immediate Mode.
INPUT ON
INPUT ON sets SYSVAR(18) to 0 and enables the use of layouts
and variable data (Layout Mode).
INPUT OFF
INPUT OFF restores SYSVAR(18) to the value it had before the
INPUT ON command was received and disables the use of layouts
and variable data (Immediate Mode, default).
The printer will receive and transmit data on the standard serial
communication channel "uart1:". If you use parallel communica-
tion, two-way communication will be lost and the printer will
not be able to echo any data back to the host or return any
other data. It is possible to select different channels manually as
standard IN and standard OUT channels, using the SETSTDIO
command.
SETSTDIO <IN channel>, <OUT channel>
<IN channel> and <OUT channel> can be individually specifi ed
as:
0
1
4
Example:
SETSTDIO 0,1 ↵
automatic port switching (default)
"uart1:" serial communication channel
"centronics:" parallel communication chan-
nel (IN channel only)
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