Avery Dennison Monarch Tabletop Printer 2, Reference Manual

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Changes the param eter s eparator c harac ter from , to ?. The other c ontrol c harac ters rem ain
unc hanged. It als o enables the im m ediate c om m ands by defining the ^ s ym bol as the c om m and
identifier.
Resetting Control Characters
Change the c harac ters in the previous exam ple bac k to their original s ettings by downloading this
pac ket:
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Notic e that the param eter s eparator is ? in this pac ket. This is the param eter s eparator that was
s et before this pac ket. Onc e the pac ket is rec eived by the printer, the new param eter s eparator
(a c om m a, in this c as e) is valid.
Be c areful when us ing this feature. If you forget what the c ontrol c harac ters were c hanged to,
print a tes t label. (The tes t label lis ts the c urrent c ontrol c harac ters .) See “
Printing a Tes t Label ,”
in Chapter 8 for m ore inform ation.
Using Immediate Commands
Im m ediate c om m ands effec t printer operation as s oon as the printer rec eives them , even if they
are inc luded within a pac ket or us ed ins ide quotation m arks .
Us e im m ediate c om m ands to c hange im m ediate c om m and or s tatus polling c ontrol c harac ters ,
res et the printer, or c anc el and repeat batc hes .
Enabling Immediate Commands
W hen the printer is firs t turned on, thes e c om m ands are not available. To us e thes e c om m ands ,
s end the c ontrol c harac ters pac ket and define the im m ediate c om m and c ontrol c harac ter. The
im m ediate c om m and c ontrol c harac ter is s aved in non-volatile RAM s o it is not los t after turning
off the printer. Onc e the im m ediate c om m and c ontrol c harac ter is defined, the im m ediate
c om m ands are enabled.
Sending Immediate Commands
Im m ediate c om m ands c ons is t of a three- or four-c harac ter s equenc e s ent in a pac ket or
em bedded in an applic ation. Eac h c om m and m us t be s ent s eparately.
Syntax
co ntro l characte r_ imme diate co mmand
The printer c an ac c ept only one im m ediate c om m and at a tim e. Sending a c om m and before the
previous one is c om pleted res ults in an error.
Exam ple ^CB
Im m ediately c anc els the batc h c urrently printing unles s an error exis ts in the printer. This
exam ple as s um es that the defined im m ediate c om m and c ontrol c harac ter is the c aret (^).