MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer SPECIFICATION General Printing system Direct thermal line head Max Characters per line 24(default) Character matrix 24x8, 24x9, 24x12 or 24x16 Character size 3mm x 2mm, 3mm x 1.5mm or 3mm x 1mm (Approx. 13, 17 or 25cpi) Horizontal dot pitch 0.125mm (Approx.
MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Configuration & Setup The printer incorporates a number of configurable options, each of which has a number of settings. The default settings of the standard printer are detailed in the table below in bold. To change the setting of any option, follow the procedure below: 1.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Option Setting Number (default in bold) Setting (default in bold) Sleep/Wake-up Never Sleeps Off after 1 minute Off after 2 minutes Off after 5 minutes Off after 10 minutes Emulation A & D Standard “Approved” Mode Date &...
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Mode Button and Status Operation Power On Self Test The self test procedure is initiated by supplying power to the printer while the mode button is depressed. When the mode button is released a test print will be produced.
MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Basic Operation Paper Out The printer will automatically detect when the printer paper has run out, and report this using the Status LED. Use the Mode button to feed through the last few centimetres of paper and fit a new roll.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer A&D Mode Operation In this mode, the printer will parse the input data for messages which it recognises, assign a “type” code to the message, and extract certain data fields from the message for use in printed output and statistical functions (when enabled).
MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Printer Output In A&D mode, the printer prints a line of text each time a message is successfully parsed. Blank lines are not printed before or after the line unless date/time stamping is enabled. The format of reports with date/time stamping is shown in the appropriate section of this document.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Language Type Output Peso¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzs10,15uuu Italian Conteggio¤¤¤zzzzzs152uuu Netto¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzs10,15uuu Lordo¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzs10,15uuu Tara¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzs10,15uuu Tara¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzs10,15uuu Peso¤Unitᤤzzzs10,15uuu Totale¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzzzs152uuu Numero¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzzzz11¤¤¤ Tara¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤zzzs10,15uuu Data¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤dd/mm/yy Ora¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤hh:mm:ss = sign ¤ = space = suppress leading zero = unit character 0..9 and ‘.’ = numeric data Note that the ordering of day, month and year for message type 11 is subject to definition by the “Date Format”...
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Percentages In cases where there is a units field, if either ‘N’ only, ‘DS’, or the ‘%’ character appears anywhere in the units field, the value name (e.g “Weight”) is not printed Approved Mode Output In approved mode, certain digit of the weight value (for message types 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 only) are surrounded by square brackets.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Date and Time Stamping When date/time stamping is enabled, message types 1 to 10 will have their printed output preceded by the date and/or the time depending on the value of the date/time stamping configuration setting.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Storing Weights (MCP1000-118-S) When the statistics feature is enabled, the printer will store each incoming weight reading (from message types 1, 2, 3, 4 and 8) in non-volatile memory in IEEE-754 floating-point format. The printer will also record the maximum number of decimal places present in received readings, and the message type and unit string of the first reading.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Erase Last Weight This option asks for confirmation thus… |Erase last weight? |0 presses = no |1 press = yes before printing either… |Last weight erased |Erase Cancelled Erase All Weights This option asks for confirmation thus…...
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Menu Mode This mode is selected each time the printer is manually switched off (and paper is loaded). At the start of menu mode, the printer prints a menu, and ejects enough paper so that the menu can be viewed.
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MCP1000 Series Thermal Printer Report Format Below is an example statistic report. The report will be language-dependent. |Date 01/04/04| |Time 08:00:01| |TOTAL 15.206 g| |MAX 16.154 g| |MIN 14.223 g| 2.761 g| | 0.0467 g| 15.3452 g| |SREL 0.0035 3.5000 %| The results are printed using the following precision rules.
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