20080908#3.0
EBS Ink-Jet Systeme
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The contents of a volatile counter are
lost after the printer has been
switched off. With a non-volatile
counter the counting can be resumed
from its last setting after the printer
has been switched on again.
If you place the mouse cursor in the
text edit window, above the charac-
ters within the counter field, the
colour of the non-volatile counter on
the variable field list changes from
blue to pink (for the volatile counter
the colour changes from black to
red).
NOTE: An increment (decrement) is added to the
counter each time button
is pressed and the
contents of the incremental (decremental)
counter increases (decreases). The only excep-
tion is when a text is to be printed repeatedly,
that is when the print parameter
Text repeti-
tions
>
1
or is set to
Continuous
. In such a
situation button
does not time each of the
prints but rather groups of prints. The
Refresh
var.fields
parameter from the
Parameters 3
tab
decides whether every successive repetitive print
modifies the contents of the counters or not. The
distance between the beginnings of two con-
secutive prints produced with repetitive printing
is defined with the
Rep. distance
parameter
from the
Parameters 2
tab.
Example
: For the counter defined as above set
the
Text repetitions
parameter to
3
.
a). If the
Refresh var.fields
parameter is set to
OFF, the following prints can be produced:
is pressed for xth
time
The following counter
contents are printed:
1
0000 0000 0000
2
0001 0001 0001
3
0002 0002 0002
---
--- --- ---
999
0999 0999 0999
b). If the
Refresh var.fields
parameter is set to
ON, the following prints can be produced:
is pressed for xth
time
The following counter
contents are printed:
1
0000 0001 0002
2
0003 0004 0005
3
0006 0007 0008
4
0009 0010 0011
---
--- --- ---
333
0996 0997 0998
334
0999 1000 1001
Print Preview
On creating a text to be printed with
the use of the variable fields you can
check for proper operation of the
counters using the print preview op-
tion.
Use the
key to preview a print and
initiate variable fields.
The
key is used to preview suc-
cessive prints; it is available after the
key has been pressed once.
Define a text containing one or more
variable fields
(incremental or decremental
counters, date and time)
.
Check if the variable fields operate
properly by using the print preview
option. Press
. In the Print Preview
window you can see what the text
looks like after the text, print and the
printer’s general parameters required
have been applied.
If a text to be printed is defined as
above, then the following contents
can be printed on 21-04-2008 from
12:10 hours on, when printing is re-
leased with button
of the printer
(simulated by the
key in the pro-
gram):
