Contents - CognitiveTPG A798 Programming Manual

6 A798 Programming Guide

Contents

Transmit status ................................................................................................... 71
Send printer software version....................................................................... 72
Real time commands .........................................................................73
Preferred implementation .............................................................................. 73
Alternate implementation ............................................................................. 73
Rules for using real time commands .......................................................... 73
Moving data through the buffer .................................................................. 74
Busy line and fault conditions ....................................................................... 74
Real time status transmission ....................................................................... 74
Real time request to printer ........................................................................... 77
Real time printer status transmission ......................................................... 78
Real time commands disabled ..................................................................... 78
Unsolicited status mode ...................................................................79
Select or cancel unsolicited status mode (USM) .................................... 79
Recognizing data from the printer .............................................................. 82
Bar codes ............................................................................................83
Select printing position of HRI characters ................................................ 83
Select pitch of HRI characters ....................................................................... 83
Select bar code height ..................................................................................... 83
Print bar code ...................................................................................................... 84
Print multiple barcodes ................................................................................... 85
Set GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS) parameters ............................................ 86
Print GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS), null terminated ................................ 87
Print GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS), data length specified ..................... 87
Select PDF 417 parameters ............................................................................ 88
Select bar code width ...................................................................................... 89
Page mode .........................................................................................90
Print and return to standard mode ............................................................. 90
Cancel print data in page mode................................................................... 90
Print data in page mode ................................................................................. 90
Select page mode ............................................................................................. 91
Select standard mode ...................................................................................... 92
Select print direction in page mode ........................................................... 92
Set print area in page mode .......................................................................... 93
Set absolute vertical print position in page mode ................................ 94
Set relative vertical print position in page mode .................................. 94
Macros ................................................................................................95
Select or cancel macro definition ................................................................ 95
Execute macro .................................................................................................... 95
User data storage ..............................................................................96
Write to user data storage .............................................................................. 96
Read from user data storage ......................................................................... 96
Read from non-volatile memory (NVRAM) ............................................... 96
Write to non-volatile memory (NVRAM) ................................................... 96
Select memory type (SRAM/flash)
where to save logos or user-defined fonts ............................................ 97
Flash memory user sectors allocation ....................................................... 97
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Revision C 12/09