Landscape Mode; Landscape Printing Commands - IBM 4610-TM6 - SureMark Printer TM6 Two-color Thermal Transfer User Manual

Landscape mode

Landscape mode printing is primarily for printing the face of a check.
Notes on landscape printing:
v Lines you send to print start at the bottom of the form, against the right stop, and
v Different lengths of paper allow different print-line lengths. Therefore, the
v The printer calculates the length of a document it is to print. To do that, it must
v When landscape mode is used without the check flipper, the document should be
v To position the printing in landscape mode to the correct position, the system
v Line feeding is 5 steps per mm or 21 steps per line, at 6 lpi.
v All landscape printing must be done with one printing pass. Therefore:
v There is no error recovery for landscape printing.

Landscape printing commands

1. ESC f (x) (y): Set up document wait time
2. ESC c 0 X'08': Select document station - landscape print mode:
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4a. FF: Print and Eject Document.
Finish printing and eject the document.
4b. ESC q or ESC < X'01': Open Document Throat
Finish printing and release the document from the printer's rollers.
Note: The document station stays selected - the printer will wait for
another document until the station is changed.
continue to the top of the form, to a maximum of 80 mm from the bottom of the
form. This is because the bottom of the form is known (against the right stop)
and the top of the form is unknown to the printer.
application must know the size of the print line.
feed the document up past the bottom sensor and back to the top sensor. (On a
5-inch document this takes 2 seconds.) If a MICR read was done previously, the
length was calculated at that time.
inserted so that the right edge is at the top of the printer, and the bottom edge is
against the printer's right wall.
must send line feeds. The printer assumes that the top of form for a document in
landscape mode is the far left edge of the document (to a maximum of 80 mm
from the bottom of the form).
– Double-high printing is not allowed.
– User-defined characters greater than 9 dots high are not allowed.
Same as for portrait mode.
A If the document was not previously loaded:
v The document present indicator blinks until a document is
detected.
v Once detected, the document will be grabbed by the printer and
fed to the right margin on the document. Because the document
is inserted on its side, this is at the top of the printer.
v If a document is not detected within the wait time (specified in
the ESC f command), the printer sends error status to the
system, and continues to wait.
The system can either cancel the print buffer, deleting all data in
the print buffer, or wait for a document to be inserted.
August 24, 2004