Description Of Easycoder Pf4I - Intermec EasyCoder PF4i User Manual

Chapter 1—Introduction

Description of EasyCoder PF4i

The EasyCoder PF4i is a sturdy medium-duty thermal transfer printer
with a printhead resolution of 8 dots/mm = 203.2 dot/inch (standard) or
11.81 dots/mm = 300 dpts/inch (option) and a maximum print width
of 104 mm (4.095 inches) or 105.7 mm (4.161 inches) respectively. It
offers a large number of useful features, such as:
• Flash memory SIMMs for fi rmware, fonts, bar codes, and application
programs
• Built-in Compact Flash memory card adapter
• Built-in RS-232 and USB interfaces
• Provision for extra interface boards including wired and wireless
EasyLAN connections
• Keyboard and display with backlight for improved user interface.
A large number of factory-installed or fi eld-installable options are avail-
able, so the printer can be confi gured for a wide range of applications.
See Chapter 9 and Appendix A for more information.
The EasyCoder PF4i supports the unique and fl exible Intermec Finger-
print v8.20 programming language, which allows the user or third-party
developer to create custom-made application programs and label formats
in a BASIC-like environment.
EasyCoder PF4i is also designed to work with the Intermec Direct
Protocol programming language, the Intermec InterDriver and Intermec
Labelshop. The InterDriver allows you to print labels from standard MS
Windows applications, for example Microsoft Offi ce.
Intermec LabelShop is a series of label-design programs that work under
various versions of MS Windows.
The EasyCoder PF4i supports 15 scaleable Unicode TrueType and
TrueDoc fonts as standard. Additional fonts can be downloaded into the
printer's Flash memory, or be plugged in using a CompactFlash card.
The Unicode standard allows the use of special characters for various
languages including non-Latin fonts, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and similar.
A version of EasyCoder PF4i, that supports the Intermec Programming
Language (IPL), is described in a special User's Guide.
2 Intermec EasyCoder PF4i—User's Guide (Fingerprint version)