
Classification: Avery Dennison – Public
Configuring the Printer
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D e f i n i n g t h e C o n t r o l C h a r act er s P a c k e t
Us e the c ontrol c harac ters pac ket (E) to c hange the MPCLII c ontrol c harac ters , enable and
dis able the im m ediate c om m ands , and c hange the default term inator c harac ter for job reques ts
and ENQs .
Changes take effec t with the firs t c harac ter following the end of header c harac ter of the
c onfiguration pac ket. Eac h c ontrol c harac ter m us t be unique and c annot appear anywhere els e in
a pac ket, exc ept within quotation m arks . Cus tom iz e the trailer c harac ters to work with the hos t.
Note :
W ait two s ec onds for the new c harac ters to take effec t before s ending pac kets us ing the
new c harac ters .
If us ing s ym bol s et 110 (Unic ode UTF-8) to print International c harac ters , s et the MPCL c ontrol
c harac ters (s tart of header, etc .) to dec im al values between 0 and 128; otherwis e, errors m ay
oc c ur with the Unic ode data entered.
Us e the following s yntax for the c ontrol c harac ters pac ket. Notic e all but the firs t param eter is
within quotation m arks .
Syntax
{I,E,"ANSI_ cd","string 1 ","string 2 " | }
E1. E
Control Charac ters Pac ket
E2. “ANSI_c d”
Code
De scription
Characte r
~123
Start of header
{ (left brac ket)
~044
Param eter s eparator
, (c om m a)
~034
Quoted s trings
“ (quotes )
~124
Field s eparator*
| vertic al bar
~125
End of header
} (right brac ket)
~126
Data es c ape c harac ter
(optional)
~~ (double tilde)
de fine d
characte r
Im m ediate c om m and
c harac ter (optional).
^ (c aret ~094) is
norm ally us ed
Up to any 3 c harac ters in the
0
to
255
dec im al range. The
c harac ter m us t be defined before this c om m and c an be us ed.
The field s eparator is the s plit vertic al bar (|). The dec im al value
is 124. To enter this c harac ter, us e the Shift key plus the Split
Vertic al Bar key on the c om puters keyboard. Depending on the
text editor, it m ay appear as a s olid vertic al bar or as a s plit
vertic al bar.
E3. “s tring 1"
Term inator for s tatus reques ts and ENQ reques ts . Up to any 3
c harac ters in the
0
to
255
dec im al range. The default is “
013
".
Sending "" dis ables this s equenc e.
E4. “s tring 2"
Term inator for job reques ts and data uploads . Up to any 3
c harac ters in the
0
to
255
dec im al range. The default is
none
.
Sending "" dis ables this s equenc e.
After c hanging thes e param eters , all pac kets , inc luding any future c onfiguration pac kets , m us t
us e the new c ontrol c harac ters . Us e the tilde and ASCII c harac ter c ode s equenc e when s ending
this pac ket m ultiple tim es . Als o, s et the pac ket delim iters to c harac ters within the 21 hex to 7E
hex range.
Send the c ontrol c harac ters pac ket to enable the im m ediate c om m ands . An im m ediate c om m and
exec utes im m ediately, even if it is em bedded within quotation m arks , and all data following the
c om m and in the s tring is ignored.
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