Media; Media Size - Intermec EasyCoder 501 XP Installation & Operation Manual

Chapter 7 Setting Up the Printer
Setup Parameters, cont'd.

Media

• Media Size

• Media Type
• Paper Type
• Testfeed
• Contrast
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The media setup tells the fi rmware the characteristics of the of
media that will be used, so the printout will be positioned correctly
on the paper and get the best quality possible.
Media Size
The size of the printable area is defi ned by three parameters; X-Start,
Width, and Length.
X-Start
X-start specifi es the position of the origin along the dots on the
printhead.
By default, X-start is 36 dots, which places the inner margin of the
print area 3 mm (0.118") from the inner edge of the paper and gives a
maximum print width of 1244 dots (103.7 mm/4.1").
If you want to make use of the entire paper width, reset the X-start
value to 0 which gives a maximum print width of 1280 dots (106.6
mm/4.2").
By increasing the value for the X-start parameter, the origin will
be moved outwards, away from the inner edge of the web. In other
words, the larger X-start value – the wider inner margin and the
less available print width.
Width
Width specifi es the width of the printable area and is defi ned as a
number of dots from the origin. The sum of the X-start value and
the width value gives the outer margin of the printable area. The
width must not be so large as to allow printing outside the paper
web and must not exceed 1280.
Length
Length decides the length of the printable area from origin and
along the Y-coordinate as a number of dots by allocating memory
space in the printer's temporary memory. Two identical image
buffers are created. The size of each buffer can be calculated
using this formula:
Buffer size (bits) = [Print length in dots] x [Printhead width in dots]
Note that the temporary memory has other functions that also require
some memory space. To obtain a longer print area, the memory can
be increased by fi tting a larger DRAM SIMM on the printer's CPU
board as described in the Service Manual.
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