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EBS-6100
Printer User's Manual
Paragraph 4 - Operating the Printer
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Ink-Jet Systems
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The offset (a number of days added to the current date in order to calculate the expiry
date) is defined by two parameters:
Offset (for the
Date+offs.
register) and Offset2 (for
the
Date+offs.2
register) in the PRINTING PARAMETERS command within the
PRINTING submenu.
The structure of the
Date+offs.
and
Date+offs.2
registers is similar to that of the
Univ. date register (see the
Universal date and time
special register). This means that
successive elements of the date need to be coded with the special characters (!)
that are specified in the description of the Univ. date special register.
EXAMPLE:
The
Date+offs.
and
Date+offs.2
registers can be coded in the following way:
Day Separator Month Separator Year e.g. DA.MO.YE (a separator can be
any character that is not used to code
the date),
Day Separator Month e.g. DA.MO , if year is not to be
printed,
Year Separator Month Separator Day e.g. YE.MO.DA .
Any combination of coding characters defined for the Univ. date special register can be
used.
Special Channel Data
The special channel is used to transfer data from peripherals (such as a computer,
automatic scales, a bar code reader) to the printer. The data can be printed automatically
via a special register called
special channel
.
While editing a subfile that is the special channel register, insert to the subfile as many
characters (they can be any characters) as the peripheral may transfer. The purpose is to
define the register length. During printing the characters are replaced with special
channel data in the following way:
•
If the number of characters transmitted from the special channel is smaller than
the register length, additional spaces are added on the right side on missing
character positions,
•
If the number of characters transmitted from the special channel is greater than
the register length, the excessive number of characters is cut off on the right side
on excessive character positions.
EXAMPLE:
The printer is connected with automatic scales and a subfile has been defined as a
Spec. chan.
register. The subfile contains, for example
e.g. XXXXXXXXXX or 1234567890
When the following data are transferred from the scales successively:
" netto: 75g ",
" netto: 1250g "
the subfile is printed as follows:
netto: 75g the entire text is printed.
netto: 125 the text is shortened as this register is only
10 characters long.
4.4.2. Using Print-Parameter Blocks
Operations on parameter blocks are available in the PARAMETERS SERVICE menu.