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LP 1000

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3. USING THE LP1000 SOFTWARE PACKAGE

The  

LP1000  

is a graphic and text editor of labels. It gives you the abilily to create your

own labels and the opportunity to evaluate its appearance before actually seeing it in
print. The product is included in the set which comes with the purchase of the printer
and using it demands a minimum of computer-related knowledge.

Computer hardware and software requirements are also nothing to worry about - only
about1 MB of disc space is needed and a mouse! Copy the contents of the diskette in
any directory and start the LP1000.EXE file. You’ll see this window.

This is the main dialog window of the program. The wide field correlates to the label and
its dimensions may be changed  depending on the selected size of the label you will
work with. Follows a detailed description of the buttons.

3.1. Working with files anf forms

All actions related to the loading, saving in the memory and downloading from the

printer of  forms, graphics and fonts are executed from here. Clicking on this button
opens a dialog window having the following appearance and content:

Button 

<FORMS> 

shows a  list of forms, loaded in the printer. Select one of

them by clicking on it and edit by clicking <Edit>, save it  on the disk with <Save>  or
delete it from the printer by clicking <Delete>.

Button 

<GRAPHICS> 

shows a list of the graphics, loaded in the printer. Select

one of them by clicking on it, save it with <Save> or delete by clicking <Delete>.

Summary of Contents for LP-1000

Page 1: ...DATECS LP 1000 PLEASE READ THIS MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE STARTING WORK USER S MANUAL USER S MANUAL book item No 65231 3 444223 300476 3 444223 300476 3 444223 300476 3 444223 300476 3 444223 300476 Current price 24 50 c PROXIMA 92 ...

Page 2: ...FROM DA DA DA DA DATECS Ltd SOFIA TECS Ltd SOFIA TECS Ltd SOFIA TECS Ltd SOFIA TECS Ltd SOFIA 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 113 BULGARIA 13 BULGARIA 13 BULGARIA 13 BULGARIA 13 BULGARIA Tel 359 70 30 94 Fax 359 70 04 78 e mail sales datecs bg http www datecs bg DATECS LP1000 Data on the Printer Date of purchase Manufacturer s serial number Service maintenance Servicing company Address phones Working hours from ...

Page 3: ...00 software package 3 1 Working with files and forms 3 2 Label setup 3 3 Test print 3 4 Printing forms from the printer 3 5 Drawing texts 3 6 Drawing barcodes 3 7 Drawing a rectangle 3 8 Drawing a diaginal line 3 9 Drawing a frame 3 10 Inserting graphics 3 11 Defining variables and counters 3 12 Settings and diagnostics 3 13 Terminal 3 14 Reference 3 15 Exit 3 16 Designing a label example 4 List o...

Page 4: ...not to let any pins paper clips or other hard objects fall inside the printing mechanism Do not spill liquids of any kind on the device Print only on specified thermal paper rolls Don t force paper out from the printing mechanism Should the printer behave unusually during operation immediately turn off the cash register Printer repairs are performed only by service technicians Do not attempt to re...

Page 5: ...tched ON DAILY MAINTENANCE RULES Daily cleaning of the paper feed roller mechanism is desirable Use a piece of soft dry cloth ATTENTION Do not clean the thermal head immediately after a printing session the unit is still very hot Cleaning the thermal head 1 Switch the printer OFF Open the top cover and using a slghtly moist piece of cloth use water clean the head from dust blots or other dirt Do n...

Page 6: ...1DATECS http www datecs bg Sofia 1113 BULGARIA phone 02 70 30 94 fax 02 70 04 78 WE WISH YOU LOTS OF SUCCESS WITH THE DATECS LP1000 LABEL PRINTER WE WISH YOU LOTS OF SUCCESS WITH THE DATECS LP1000 LABEL PRINTER ...

Page 7: ...ably when you have to print a greater number of labels On the other hand it supports the PCX format and gives you the opportunity to design the graphics of parts of the label with an appropriate program under Windows and store it in the memory of the printer in advance The inbuilt 5 matrix fonts with different sizes as well as the freely selectable option for additional scaling and rotation gives ...

Page 8: ...3 Cables and connections b Connecting the cable for connection to a PC or the DATECS DT 15 elec tronic scale only one at a time Power supply cable AC Adapter Power supply connector Power supply in Serial interface cable RS connector a Connecting the power supply cable when you need to dissasemble the printer disconnecting the cables must be done after switching OFF Don t pull the cable itself but ...

Page 9: ...for the correct direction of unrolling the paper and if OK place it in the paper housing 5 Pull out about 5 cm of paper out of the cabinet see illustration and carefully close cover A distinctive clicking sound should be heard 6 Press FEED button to position the label Top cover Open cover button Thermal printing unit Thermal paper roll PRESS DOWN RIGHT WRONG ...

Page 10: ...hich holds the paper holder 5 Replace the controller in the direction shown by the arrow 6 Fasten screw back again 7 Place printer cover back and fasten the two screws 8 Place the separator as shown on illustration 9 Set switch 5 to work with the narrow roll Take off screws and dismantle part Unscrew holder turn to opposite position and fasten on again Place the separator in the special slots ...

Page 11: ...nsists of one line of text ending with an LF 0Ah Commands are made up of one or two letters followed by a different number of parameters divided by a comma Intervals MUST NOT BE ENTERED in these commands this will be treated as syntax error Capital and small letters are identified A detailed description of the commands follows but it must here be underlined that if a command starts with it will no...

Page 12: ...nsions as possible or the result may be incomplete printouts or empty labels The command Q with all demanded parameters is placed at the beginning of the text file Other commands my also be located here starting point R select code table I print density D and printing speed S Designing the appearance of the label Setting the elements which will not be subject to changes they will need no counters ...

Page 13: ... terminal program In this no special knowl edge of the commanding language will be needed A more detailed description of the program you will find further in the present Manual The forms the graphics and loadable fonts use a common memory of the printer i e if we enter more graphic information there will be less memory left for forms and vice versa This memory restriction comes for two reasons on ...

Page 14: ...ll print out diagnostic information After this operation the printer MUST be switched off and on again printing labels with larger black areas the printer be switched off at shorter intervals for cooling CONFIGURATION KEYS SW1 SW2 SW3 Baud rate off off off 1200 on off off 2400 off on off 4800 on on off 9600 off off on 19200 on off on 38400 off on on 57600 on on on 115200 2 8 Indicators POWER Activ...

Page 15: ...ialog window of the program The wide field correlates to the label and its dimensions may be changed depending on the selected size of the label you will work with Follows a detailed description of the buttons 3 1 Working with files anf forms All actions related to the loading saving in the memory and downloading from the printer of forms graphics and fonts are executed from here Clicking on this ...

Page 16: ...mory of the printer or the disc Button Save as Label is clicked when you have to give a name to the label on the screen and save it as a file to the disc This file will contain the adjustments made on the label and the objects on the screen including graphics fonts definitions and the current status of the variables and counters Button Save as Form is clicked to give a name to the label on the scr...

Page 17: ...imeters multiply this times 8 and note down the result Possible values are between 200 and 1640 Orientation Sets the printing orientation of the label Select between Top normal orientation and Bottom rotated to 180o Darkness Sets printing density where the possible values are between 0 and 15 15 being the darkest possible option Greater printing density setups may cause a slow down in the printing...

Page 18: ...hown in 2 or 4 digits Time format The hour minutes print format must of the type AxByC where A B and C may be H Hour M Minutes S Seconds A field of one type may be used only once or may not be employed at all Select from the symbols x and y the printer will use them as spaces 3 3 Test print The option includes printing the created label on the screen without having to load it into the memory of th...

Page 19: ...alues can be seen and edited from here Button Print Send the command to print out the set number of labels Button Continue Sends a command to the printer to resume printing after an interruption Button To file Instead of being sent to the printer the data and the com mands for printing are saved in a file under an entered name 3 4 Printing forms from the printer Print a form which has been stored ...

Page 20: ...ze from 1 to 9 List Fonts Defines the font currently in use The printer has 5 in built fonts with sizes 8 x 12 10 x 16 12 x 20 14 x 24 and 32 x 48 which have names from 1 to 5 respectively If additional fonts have been loaded they will appear in the name with a capital Latin letter and height the width of each of the loadable fonts may differ List Style Defines the set printing style the options b...

Page 21: ... processing The printer executes the following modifiers Cuts the leading symbols from the string identical to the symbol following the symbol of the modifier May also be used for deleting leading zeros or spaces Cuts the end symbols from the string identical to the symbol following the symbol of the modifier Rn Deletes the symbols to the left of n Ln Saves the last n symbols in the string Mm n Se...

Page 22: ...he point will be saved as the start of the coordinate system for placing the image you have selected 2 Refers to the following buttons drawing bar codes drawing rectangles drawing diagonal lines drawing frames NOTE These simplified actions are possible only after completing the selection of a given object which is done by pressing the left key of the mouse somewhere on the object for frames click ...

Page 23: ... of these objects is done by pressing the key Ctrl V Shift may be used when there are several objects in the white field placed one over the other You can select each one of these overlaid objects by clicking the left key of the mouse after it has been positioned on the selected object When the dotted line closes around the selected object you can release the Shift key of the keyboard and press th...

Page 24: ...e duplicated text is left aligned Center The duplicated text is justified Right The duplicated text is right aligned List Rotation Sets the orientation of the bar code to 0o 90o 180o 270o List Barcode By clicking in this field you can select the type of the bar code you wish to draw Details about the arrangement and the possible symbols employed you will find further on in the documentation List T...

Page 25: ... Drawing a diagonal line Inserts a diagonal line of set thickness and colour Fields Start X and End X Start and end coordinate for X of the line in dots Pos sible values from 607 to 607 Fields Start X and End Y Start and end coordinate for Y of the line in dots Pos sible values from 1639 to 1639 Field Thickness Sets the thickness of the line in dots The thickness is recorded in the X direction if ...

Page 26: ...fers the option to include a graphical image into the label The image must be pro cessed into the monochrome PCX format Fields Start and Start Y Set the coordinates of the upper left angle of the image These coordinates may be entered directly although positioning the image with the mouse is much easier Field Store as Enters a name under which the graphic image will be stored in the memory Field L...

Page 27: ...d alignment Possible alignment options None Not aligned The true length is used of the variable counter Left Left alignment to the Length symbol Right Right alignment to the Length symbol Center Centered alignment in the Length symbol Fill The fill in force justify symbol when aligned Increment Sets the growth increment of a counter Possible values between 9 to 9 The field is of no importance for ...

Page 28: ...ms loaded into the printer as well as graph ics and fonts Sets all adjustments of the printer in a predefined state Deactivates the current form Button Print diagnostic info Prints out diagnostic information which includes test graphics and the current adjustments of the printer Button Graphics info Prints out a list of the graphics loaded in the printer Button Print ext font info Prints out a lis...

Page 29: ...of the buttons in the upper end of the screen will show information for the respective dialog 3 15 Exit Exit the program If the changes in the last label have not been saved they will be lost 3 16 DESIGNING A LABEL EXAMPLE 1 Start the LP1000 EXE file 2 Select the button Working with files and forms 3 Select New label from the opened window G ...

Page 30: ...ÅÑÒÅÐÍÀ ÂÀÒÀ the text which will be printed NOTE the initial coordinates X and Y may not be entered the image can be placed on the desired location in the label with the help of the mouse after its appearance Cyrillic texts can be printed after the installation of a DOS driver 9 The entered parameters are conformed with OK 10 The texts Ïëîùòíà ìàñà 120ãð êâ ì Øèðèíà 200 öì ÁÄÑ 12679 75 Êîíòðîëåí í...

Page 31: ...indow 3 The program offers the last edited label as the name of the file and the place the directory where it is located You can change the name by entering a new one and additionally add the extension DLB for example C LP1000 VATA DLB 4 This entry is confirmed with the OK button 5 A test print of the newly created label can be done by clicking the button Test print If the appearance of the label ...

Page 32: ...ounters C Defining a text variable V Generating a graphic image Generating a line of text A Drawing a bar code B Drawing rectangles in XOR mode LE Drawing rectangles in black LO Drawing rectangles in white LW Drawing diagonal lines LS Drawing a frame X Drawing out a loaded PCX file GG Working with forms command files Start of a new form FS End of a new form FE Loading a form FR Deleting a form FK ...

Page 33: ...n occupied memory UM Returning a list of loaded forms UF Returning a list of loaded graphics UG Returning a list of loaded fonts UE 5 List of the command in alphabetical order Description command Setting values for counters variables Generating a line of text A Drawing a bar code B Defining counters C Listing of the loaded fornts EI Deleting a font EK Saving a new font ES Recovering the name of th...

Page 34: ...iable V Drawing frames X Setting doirection of print Z Description command Note The commands marked with cannot be included into a form command file 6 Detailed description of the commands A Setting the printer s functional mode Setting the printing Offers the option to adjust the printing density depending on density the sensitivity of the paper and the character of the printed information Format ...

Page 35: ... will be cut off Example Q240 80 Sets the length of the page 30 mm and dividing space 10mm When sticker labels are used sets the height of the label the size of the black strip on the back side of the labels and the offsetting distance related to the end of the black strip It is advisable to measure the space between the separate labels and enter the result carefully so as to adjust the printing a...

Page 36: ...ed with 2 or 4 digits ME or MN The current month shown in three letters or two digits DD The current day of the month The small letters mark the spaces between the fields They are entered together with the symbol which we wish to use Example TDdd me y4 This would generate a date of the type 02 Sep 2001 Setting the format of The command sets the mode in which the current hour the hour will be gener...

Page 37: ...nds to the set length the fill in symbols are joined d The additional symbol to the previous argument If not en tered a space will be included e Text promt This is string closed by inverted commas not longer than 25 symbols At the initialization of the counter the printer will send this text via the serial port Example C1 6 L Name Defines counter number 1 with a maximum length of 6 bites left alig...

Page 38: ...n of a multiplier for Y of the font Possible values are 1 9 g Printing mode N normal R inverted B bold W inverted bold The loadable font can be printed only in a normal mode h Text data The format for generating a text and a bar code is the same and is described further on Example A10 10 will create an image of the text Something from the coo 1 3 2 2 N rdinate 10 10 rotated to 90o with font 12 x 2...

Page 39: ...igits UE0 UPC E UE2 UPC E with 2 additional digits UE5 UPC E with 5 additional digits 2U UPC interleaved 2 of 5 L Plessey MSI 1 M MSI 3 with a control sum for module 10 e Setting the thickness of the narrow bar in dots Possible values 1 6 f Setting the thickness of the wide bar in dots Possible values 2 10 where the value must be bigger than the previous parameter Some of the bar code demand addit...

Page 40: ...oordinate for Y 0 2047 b c d or c Size for X 1 2047 LWa b c d d Size for YL 1 2047 Example LO10 10 100 200 Draws a rectangle with coordinates 10 10 110 10 110 210 and 10 210 in black Drawing a diagonal line Format LS m a b c d e m Non compulsory parameter Value E mode XOR W white a Starting coordinate for X 0 2047 b Starting coordinate for Y 0 2047 c Line thickness 1 80 d End coordinate for X 0 20...

Page 41: ...er The sepa rate elements are joined together in the order of their description from left to right Their encoding is as follows Free text This is entered directly and is closed by inverted brack ets If a bracket has to find a place in the text it must be preceded by Current date It is coded with TD m where m is not a compulsory whole number from 3500 to 3500 setting the offset size in relation to ...

Page 42: ... 30 V0 C1L3 willcreateatringfromthe variableV0 whichisclearedoffleading and end intervals as well as the left 3 symbols from the counter C1 V0L1V0M3 2V0R1 will create a string which will include the first third fourth and last symbol of the variable V0 D Working with forms Starting to save This command starts the entry of a new form in the operational a new form memory of the printer All valid com...

Page 43: ...e same when the form is deleted Format FR Name Name The name of the form A form with this name must be loaded into the memory Example FR Test Deleting a form The command deletes existing form or all forms The en gaged memory after this is freed Format FK Name Name Name of the form a form of that name must be saved in the memory If is entered as a name all forms will be deleted Information on the f...

Page 44: ...e graphic image 0 2047 Name Name of the graphic file Example GG20 150 Logo Deleting graphic files The command deletes an existing graphic file or all graphic files After deletion the memory is freed Format GK Name Name The name of the file a file of that name must be found in the memory Information on loaded graphic files Prints out a list of all loaded graphic files Format GI F Working with loada...

Page 45: ...reed Format EK Name Name of the font String which consists of only one letter which must be found in the memory of the printer If as name is entered all loadable fonts will be deleted Information on the loaded fonts A list of the loaded fonts is printed out Format EI G Clearing the memory Clearing the operational memory The command leads to the deletion of the whole information loaded into the pri...

Page 46: ...se Format P m n m The number of identical labels which will be printed out The entering of a value greater than 1 is an option when working with a form which uses counters After printing a certain number of labels the counters automatically change their values according to the rules set when they were de fined and the new group of labels is printed with the new values Possible value 1 1000 n The n...

Page 47: ...urns a list of the loaded forms in on loaded forms the memory of the printer which has the following structure b The number of the loaded forms 3 digits Form1 The name of the first form From 1 to 8 symbols Format UF or Each element of the above structure ends in CR LF The FI NAME second form of the command permits the printer to deliver the content of the form under the entered name The form must ...

Page 48: ...he n font Format UE or Each element of the above structure ends in CR LF The EI NAME second form of the command makes the printer show the con tents of the font under that name The font must gave been loaded in the printer in advance The data is sent in the following format n1 n1 p1 p2 p3 a1 b1 c1 an bn cn where n1 Elder ranking part of the number of bytes in font n2 Junior ranking part of the num...

Page 49: ...LP 1000 49 Notes ...

Page 50: ...50 LP1000 1 DATECS Sofia 1113 Bulgaria E mail sales datecs bg E mail sales datecs bg E mail sales datecs bg E mail sales datecs bg E mail sales datecs bg phone 359 02 70 30 94 fax 359 02 70 04 78 ...

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