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Page 3: ...dio or television reception try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures 1 Reorient the radio or television receiving antenna 2 Relocate the printer with respect to the rec...

Page 4: ...ERRORS OMISSIONS OR DISCREPANCIES IN THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT TransAct cannot guarantee that changes in software and equipment made by other manufacturers and referred to in this pub...

Page 5: ...l Support 5 Return Materials Authorization and Return Policies 6 Service Programs 6 Sales Support 6 Contact Information 7 iTherm 280 Specifications and Requirements 11 iTherm 280 Thermal Printer Model...

Page 6: ...inter Driver Installation for WIN95 98 Me 36 Printer Driver Installation for NT4 0 2000 36 OPOS drivers Installation Instructions 37 To Install the USB drivers 37 How to Operate the iTherm 280 Printer...

Page 7: ...c Save 121 User Macros 129 Bar Codes 131 Electronic Journal 142 Unicode and Downloaded Fonts 154 Unicode Encoding 154 Miscellaneous Control 159 Remote Power Control 167 Documented Extended Control com...

Page 8: ...251 Universal Color Command Descriptions 252 iTherm 280 Coupon Cut Logo Feature 254 Unicode A Software Font Solution 257 About Unicode 258 Memory 258 TransAct s implementation of Unicode in the iTherm...

Page 9: ...eset in Serial Mode 289 Reset in Parallel Mode 289 Miscellaneous Communication Features 290 Power cycle Recovery 290 Data Pass through 290 Multi drop Configuration 290 Off line Active 291 Recovery fro...

Page 10: ...ontrol Using DTR 281 Figure 20 XON XOFF Serial Port Flow Control 282 Table 1 Possible Character Pitches 14 Table 2 Requested CPI and Resulting CPI 15 Table 3 Cell Size for Small Medium and Large Fonts...

Page 11: ...11 Table 38 Paper Sensor Status n 1 49 211 Table 39 Drawer Kick out Connector Status n 2 50 212 Table 40 Values for the Status Function n 212 Table 41 Printer Status n 1 212 Table 42 Off line Status n...

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Page 15: ...nt speed Rugged spill resistant cover Large 4 inch paper roll capacity with drop in loading Protected internal power supply Ethernet and USB interfaces Wireless option for reduced cable clutter Applic...

Page 16: ...a printer For any issues not covered in this guide quality technical support is available on line at www transact tech com or by telephone at 607 257 8901 or 877 7 ITHACA Consult the following pages f...

Page 17: ...Drivers with Documentation Part No 100 9732 Master Character Set Definitions Part No 100 9785 Our on line support site also includes a convenient e mail assistance request form where you can submit su...

Page 18: ...clearly on the outside of the box TransAct Technologies Incorporated has a full service organization to meet your printer service and repair requirements If your printer needs service please contact...

Page 19: ...50 USA TransAct Technologies World Gaming Headquarters Western Regional Repair Center 6700 Paradise Road Suite D Las Vegas NV 89119 USA Telephone 877 7 ITHACA or 607 257 8901 Main fax 607 257 8922 Sal...

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Page 23: ...is 8 inches per second 200 mm sec monochrome 8 0 inches per second paper feed speed 3 15 inch 80 mm print zone 44 57 characters per line Built in self ranging External Power supply Clam shell paper lo...

Page 24: ...ed button Cover open button Settable cash drawer configurations Ithaca Epson or Star Spill proof design vertical main PCB mounting 58 mm or 80 mm paper width factory settable 4 0 inch 101 mm Paper rol...

Page 25: ...8 The following options are available on some of the models Vertical Wall Mount Kit Adjustable paper low Custom interfaces and emulations DC powered version through Hosiden type connector...

Page 26: ...aracters achieves different character pitches As each dot has a fixed size and position only specific pitches are possible The following table defines the fonts and pitches possible with each Characte...

Page 27: ...e 2 Requested CPI and Resulting CPI Standard Print There are three resident fonts in the printer Small Medium and Large The cell size for each is different Requested CPI Character Width Resulting CPI...

Page 28: ...wever to provide readable international characters some characters are wider In most cases this font can be printed at 16 9 CPI without having the characters touch This font is recommended for printin...

Page 29: ...19 000 000 20 000 000 21 000 000 22 000 000 23 24 Rotated Print To provide printing flexibility rotated print is available Rotated print mode will rotate the print in any of three 90 orientations The...

Page 30: ...8 Max Dimensions W D H Dimensions in inches 6 25 8 50 5 87 Approximate weight 4 6 lb Shipping weight 6 0 lb...

Page 31: ...Peak 167 msec Table 5 Power Input Requirements with the 24 volt DC Power The iTherm 280 can be configured to operate with various power supplies If a DC power supply with less capability is used the p...

Page 32: ...5 C Optimum 100 5 C Initial 73 5 C Effective 83 5 C Optimum 88 5 C Initial 77 2 C Optimum 104 8 5 C Smoothness bekk 325 sec Ave 325 sec Ave 200 bekk Table 6 Paper Grades Monochrome Thermal Paper Grad...

Page 33: ...sions Paper Low Adjustment Settings Approximate Paper Remaining in feet Paper Roll Diameter UPPER LIMIT 2 turns counter clockwise 29 1 29 1 turn counter clockwise 23 1 203 FACTORY SETTING 18 1 115 1 t...

Page 34: ...eard under noisy conditions It will produce a sound pressure level of at least 90 dBA 1 foot from the front of the printer A paper cover interlock switch is provided as a standard feature When the pap...

Page 35: ...Pin 12 Pin 12 PE Paper Out Status Printer to Host Pin 13 Pin 13 SLCT Printer selected Printer to Host Pin 14 Pin 14 AUTOFD Autofeed paper Host to Printer Pin 15 Pin 32 FAULT Printer error Printer to H...

Page 36: ...ts If the cable that is used to connect the host to the printer is a pin to pin inter connect it will not work Therefore a null modem or turn around cable must be used to interconnect the host and the...

Page 37: ...ine Printer Daemon Protocol LPR RFC1179 Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP RFC1157 Printer MIB RFC1759 Port 9100 Raw data Service Location Protocol SLP RFC2165 The TFTP Protocol Revision 2 RFC135...

Page 38: ...ided to printer Figure 2 Cash Drawer Pin Definitions The cash drawer can be configured for one of three configurations Ithaca Epson or Star The Main Controller PCB has three 3 six pin headers one each...

Page 39: ...Output Sink Drive Drawer open close signal Input Drawer kick out drive signal 1 Output Sink Drive 3 Drawer open close signal Input Signal ground 24V DC 4 24V DC 24V DC 24V DC 5 Drawer kick out drive s...

Page 40: ...is required to mount the bracket to the wall The hardware should be installed into wall studs to ensure that the printer mounting meets the following conditions The mounting to the wall must withstand...

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Page 43: ...in parallel interface cards To determine what interface is installed refer to the configuration receipt shipped with the printer or enter configuration mode and look at the verification printout If a...

Page 44: ...ard and any cash drawer cables 4 Turn over the printer and reconnect the power CD interface drawing not yet available Figure 3 Cash Drawer Selection The cash drawer connector may be connected to one o...

Page 45: ...re required to be connected to the printer 1 DC Power 2 Communications 3 Cash Drawer The iTherm 280 Printer is generally supplied with a built in power supply As an option the printer is available wit...

Page 46: ...to the serial interface connection It can be a 36 pin Centronics IEEE 1284 B or a 25 Pin female D Shell IEEE 1284 A connector The pin out of both connectors are shown below 25 pin Connector 36 pin Co...

Page 47: ...printer may appear inoperative If the configuration is not correct refer to the section on changing the iTherm 280 configuration If there are a number of printers to be installed and you want the iden...

Page 48: ...stalled 13 If you selected Replace existing driver reboot your machine to ensure all components are installed 8 5 1 Insert the Windows NT 2000 printer driver floppy disk into your diskette drive 2 Cli...

Page 49: ...o verify that USB is enabled click on Start Settings Control Panel Double click System and select the Device Manager If you see Universal Serial Bus controllers in the list USB is enabled Check you PC...

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Page 53: ...power supply is disconnected You will notice that none of the indicator lights will be on when the printer is in OFF When the printer enters ON mode the green power indicator light will be activated T...

Page 54: ...ss If the POWER indicator is blinking a non recoverable error has occurred see the fault indicators below If the error is not operator recoverable a power cycle may correct the problem If a power cycl...

Page 55: ...or produces information loss Error Blink Codes If during normal operation the ERROR indicator is lit and the POWER indicator is blinking a minor error occurred The POWER indicator shows the error by b...

Page 56: ...tions Two are designed to be useful when performing on site print evaluations One option allows the printers electronic journal to be maintained one allows the printers configuration to be changed and...

Page 57: ...refully as they are not the same as Self Test You may exit configuration mode at any time without affecting the printer configuration by pressing the power button TEST Configuration The content of the...

Page 58: ...utton 4 When the red error indicator light blinks continue to hold the Feed button until the blink pattern changes about 5 seconds After the pattern changes release the line feed button and the printe...

Page 59: ...and determines that the boot loader is accurate and the printer firmware is correct Tests 1 through 4 produce non recoverable errors if they fail in which case the power must be removed from the print...

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Page 63: ...ress and hold the Feed button until the next test is printed Then release the Feed button 5 Repeat step 4 until Test Configuration is printed 6 Press and release the Feed button briefly The current co...

Page 64: ...Mode Number of bits parity and stop bits 7 bit or 8 bit Even Odd No Parity 1 or 2 Stop Bits 8 Bit No parity 1 Stop bit Handshaking Flow control options Ready Busy Xon Xoff None Ready Busy Receive Err...

Page 65: ...thers 6 Input Buffer This option specifies how large the input buffer is 40 Characters 256 Characters 1024 Characters 2048 Characters 4096 Characters 8192 Characters One Line 8192 Characters Print Ene...

Page 66: ...setting EJ Manual Print This sets whether or not the manual electronic journal options are available Enabled Disabled Enabled EJ Record Numbers This options sets weather or not the record number is pr...

Page 67: ...st of papers displayed during printer configuration that configuration should be used If not the printer should be set to Generic Color If this does not produce acceptable print quality you may select...

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Page 71: ...55 An example is 2 which represents 02H or 2 decimal n Indicates a variable parameter The variable parameter n can have a value from zero to 255 The meaning of n is described and defined in the descri...

Page 72: ...he command description It is intended that the standard Ithaca PcOS emulation be used for new applications Not all features of iTherm 280 Printers are supported by EPOS specifically the ability to pri...

Page 73: ...It is consistent with most previous Ithaca PcOS products and should be used when the printer is placed in a new application One new feature in the iTherm 280 Printer is the ability to print color gra...

Page 74: ...Vertical Motion Perform a fine line feed ESC J n 1BH 4AH FM m1 m2 m3 77 Set 1 8 inch line spacing ESC 0 1BH 30H ST 78 Set 7 72 inch line spacing ESC 1 1BH 31H SG 78 Begin variable line spacing Enable...

Page 75: ...elect character code page ESC T nh nl 1BH 5BH 54H CP m1 m2 m3 m4 91 Insert Euro character ESC C n 1BH 5BH 43H EU 93 Print control character ESC n 1BH 5EH CC m1 m2 m3 93 Redefine character set ESC S 1B...

Page 76: ...ed Print Summary on page 108 ESC r n 1BH 72H RX 106 Set rotated print line length ESC s n 1BH 73H RL m1 m2 m3 110 Set rotated print line spacing ESC u n1 1BH 75H none 110 Page Mode Select page mode ES...

Page 77: ...c Name 0 1BH 1FH 63H UC Name 0 125 Run macro data from user store ESC US r Name 0 1BH 1FH 72H UR Name 0 126 Flag item as a start up macro ESC US s Name 0 1BH 1FH 6DH US Name 0 126 Delete item from use...

Page 78: ...ESC EM J n 1BH 19H 4AH BJ m1 m2 140 Electronic Journal Electronic journal initialize and set password ESC GS I Password 0 1BH 1DH 49H EI 144 Electronic journal erase the electronic journal ESC GS E P...

Page 79: ...oding ESC L 1BH 2BH 4CH none 157 Initiate Unicode UTF 8 encoding MBCS ESC M 1BH 2BH 4DH none 158 Initiate normal 8 bit character encoding ESC A 1BH 2BH 41H none 158 Miscellaneous Commands Disable pape...

Page 80: ...tus back ESC EM P n 1BH 19H 50H None 177 Control Periodic status back ESC EM p n 1BH 19H 70H None 177 Inquire status Refer to command descriptions ENQ n 05H none 170 Inquire cash drawer 1 status ENQ 1...

Page 81: ...e 162 Feed to black dot ESC VT 1BH 0BH None 83 Begin 24 CPI character pitch ESC SI 1BH 0FH F4 85 Set bar code height n 0 Restore defaults n 1 9 Number of passes 0 11 inch per pass ESC EM B n 1BH 19H 4...

Page 82: ...1FH 6DH US Name 0 126 Transfer user store to extended user store ESC US t ALL 0 1BH 1FH 66H 00H UF 127 Begin 12 x 12 draft print ESC 0 1BH 23H 00H QT 88 Cancel user defined characters ESC 1BH 24H non...

Page 83: ...n1 n2 ni 0 1BH 44H none 75 Begin emphasized print ESC E 1BH 45H MM 102 End emphasized print ESC F 1BH 46H CM 103 Begin enhanced print ESC G 1BH 47H ME 102 End enhanced print ESC H 1BH 48H CE 102 Set...

Page 84: ...ption ESC 1BH 5BH 40H DH SH 101 Insert euro character ESC C n 1BH 5BH 43H EU 93 Set character pitch ESC P n 1BH 5BH 50H F n 86 Redefine character set ESC S 1BH 5BH 53H 94 Select character code page ES...

Page 85: ...0 1BH 6CH EE 153 Set horizontal position ESC n n1 n2 1BH 6EH HP m1 m2 m3 76 Set page mode page position ESC o n1 1BH 6FH PY m1 m2 114 Enable paper error mode operation ESC p n 1BH 70H PE m1 m2 162 Que...

Page 86: ...gin A line feed is not performed unless auto feed is active The print rotation direction and the left margin command define the left margin LF Line feed ASCII LF Hexadecimal 0AH Decimal 10 IPCL LF EPO...

Page 87: ...to the left The pointer position cannot be moved to the left of the left margin BS does not cause the buffer to be printed rather the following data is OR ed with the previous data ESC D Set horizonta...

Page 88: ...ESC a n command sets the horizontal justification Where n 0 Left justified JL 1 Center justified JC 2 Right justified JR 8 Left justified no line feed None 9 Center justified no line feed None 10 Righ...

Page 89: ...the command performs feeds in n 144 inch increments Immediately after APA graphics the command is adjusted for the difference between 72 dpi graphics and 96 dpi print ESC 3 Set variable line spacing...

Page 90: ...mal 27 49 IPCL SG EPOS none Description The ESC 1 command sets the default line spacing to 21 216 inch Use 21 216 inch line spacing for all points addressable APA graphics printing ESC A Set variable...

Page 91: ...s not change the default line spacing value The next character print position is reset to the left margin Note The IPCL command prints from 00 to 99 lines For example if you wish to feed 12 lines the...

Page 92: ...ine positions specified by n The end of the setting is specified by a 0 All previously set tabs will be cleared If nn is less than nn 1 then the command is in error and all of the following informatio...

Page 93: ...7 67 n IPCL SL m1 m2 EPOS ESC C n Description The ESC C n command sets the form length to n lines at the current line spacing If the current page position is greater than the new page length the comma...

Page 94: ...e ESC 5 0 command ends auto line feed mode Note The begin and end auto line feed command overrides the configuration setting ESC Reverse line feed ASCII ESC Hexadecimal 1BH 5DH Decimal 27 93 IPCL LR E...

Page 95: ...gurable Black Dot parameters The Dot Width and the Offset may be adjusted to operate with a specific paper The Calibration is preset and should not be changed Function Adjusting the width and offset o...

Page 96: ...Back of Ticket 0 8 20 to first line of print Dimensions in Inches mm Note This command interacts with the Feed to Black Dot command If the Black Dot paper Option is set the black dot position specifie...

Page 97: ...ters per inch print pitch ESC Begin 12 cpi character pitch ASCII ESC Hexadecimal 1BH 3AH Decimal 27 58 IPCL F2 EPOS ESC SP n Description The ESC command sets 12 235 characters per inch print pitch SI...

Page 98: ...lists the exact pitch for various values on n 1 1 00 2 2 00 3 3 01 4 4 00 5 4 95 6 5 94 7 6 93 8 8 00 F7 9 9 04 10 9 90 F3 11 10 95 12 12 23 F2 13 13 00 14 13 87 15 14 86 F6 16 16 00 17 17 33 F1 18 17...

Page 99: ...ch cpi will depend on the font selected Note 1 The ESC V n command disables any pitch settings established by pitch set commands that establish a cpi like ESC P n After a set right side spacing comman...

Page 100: ...ft 2 24 x 16 near letter quality NLQ 3 24 x 16 near letter quality NLQ 4 7 repeats 0 3 Draft print modes are high speed print modes intended to provide quality print with minimal ink usage The 12 x 12...

Page 101: ...des 1 and 2 12 x 12 draft font is rotated 90 or 270 and printed in a single pass Double wide and double high fonts are available However because the font is rotated double wide makes the characters ta...

Page 102: ...ll as normal IBM code pages The EPOS character set select command has been extended to allow additional character sets over and above the 11 defined by EPOS The EPOS code page select command has not b...

Page 103: ...pages are supported 64 USA Slashed 0 0 64 0H 040H 65 USA Unslashed 0 0 65 0H 041H 66 British 0 66 0H 042H 67 German 0 67 0H 043H 68 French 0 68 0H 044H 69 Swedish I 0 69 0H 045H 70 Danish 0 70 0H 046H...

Page 104: ...0FBH 1020 Windows Greek 3 252 3H 0FCH 1021 Latin 5 Windows Turkey 3 253 3H 0FDH 1022 Windows Cyrillic 3 254 3H 0FEH 1024 Hungarian CWI 4 0 4H 000H 1026 ISO Latin 4 8859 4 4 2 4H 002H 1027 Ukrainian 4...

Page 105: ...1BH 5BH 43H n Decimal 27 91 67 n IPCL EU Description The ESC C n command allows an application to replace any character in the currently active character set with the Euro character The character to b...

Page 106: ...dressed by sending a 65 decimal to the printer Sixty five predefined code pages or character maps assign characters to a particular address built into the printer Occasionally an application needs to...

Page 107: ...can be defined Data d specifies a bit printed to one and not printed to zero At the default user defined characters are not defined and the internal character set is printed Once the user defined cha...

Page 108: ...nted ESC y 11 Enable OCR characters ASCII ESC y 11 Hexadecimal 1BH 79H 0BH Decimal 27 121 11 IPCL YX011 EPOS ESC y 11 Description The ESC y 11 command replaces 30 characters in the currently selected...

Page 109: ...2 Description The ESC y 12 command returns the 30 OCR characters to the previously selected character set It does not restore the print mode Note Any character definitions defined by the redefine char...

Page 110: ...er H 48H 72 H Letter I 49H 73 I Letter J 4AH 74 J Letter K 4BH 75 K Letter L 4CH 76 L Letter M 4DH 77 M Letter N 4EH 78 N Letter O 4FH 79 O Letter P 50H 80 P Letter Q 51H 81 Q Letter R 52H 82 R Letter...

Page 111: ...o be printed at twice the currently selected character width For example ten cpi becomes five cpi 17 cpi becomes 8 5 cpi etc The SO command remains in effect until A valid line terminator is received...

Page 112: ...W n Hexadecimal 1BH 57H n Decimal 27 87 n IPCL FD n 1 FS n 0 FHA n 3 Note Single wide double high mode is not available in IPCL mode EPOS ESC n Description The ESC W n command controls multi line dou...

Page 113: ...e Also see ESC W above Description The ESC EOT NUL k NUL n m command sets double wide double high and italic print mode Where k bits k 76543210 xxxx Italic control 0 0000 No change 1 0001 Italics On 2...

Page 114: ...G 1 Description All subsequent text is printed in enhanced print mode two passes with a vertical offset Enhanced printing provides a deeper resolution of each character and may enhance multiple part...

Page 115: ...nted half size on the upper side of the print line Note Superscript is not available in all print modes ESC S 1 Select subscript ASCII ESC S 1 Hexadecimal 1BH 53H 01H Decimal 27 83 1 IPCL SB EPOS none...

Page 116: ...7 71 IPCL MI EPOS ESC 4 Description The ESC G command begins italic print mode Note Italics are not available in all print modes ESC H End italics ASCII ESC H Hexadecimal 1BH 25H 48H Decimal 27 37 72...

Page 117: ...tated 90 and 270 mode the print length is determined by the length of the longest line entered In line formatted mode the line length is set not by the longest line entered but by the maximum line len...

Page 118: ...ording to the currently stored format parameters When n 7 or 15 the print mode is rotated 270 according to the currently stored format parameters The ESC r 7 command differs from the ESC r 3 command b...

Page 119: ...the rotate command Note 4 Only enhanced and emphasized attributes are available for formatted rotated print These attributes are not available on a character basis They affect all of the rotated text...

Page 120: ...Hexadecimal 1BH 72H 03H Decimal 27 114 3 IPCL R3 ESC r 7 Begin 270 rotated print with line formatting Not available in page mode ASCII ESC r 7 Hexadecimal 1BH 72H 07H Decimal 27 114 7 IPCL R7 EPOS ES...

Page 121: ...SCII ESC r 15 Hexadecimal 1BH 72H 0FH Decimal 27 114 15 IPCL RX15 EPOS ESC T 1 ESC r 0 End rotated print ASCII ESC r 0 Hexadecimal 1BH 72H 00H Decimal 27 114 0 IPCL R0 EPOS ESC 0 Description The ESC r...

Page 122: ...1 m1 n2 m2 ni mi 0 Hexadecimal 1BH 75H n1 m1 n2 m2 ni mi 00H Decimal 27 117 n1 m1 n2 m2 ni mi 0 IPCL none EPOS none Description The ESC u n1 m1 n2 m2 ni mi 0 command adjusts the line spacing for each...

Page 123: ...page definition will change the orientation and reset the entry location back to the top left corner of that orientation Receipt or Inserted Form B A D C Initial entry location Figure 6 Page Mode entr...

Page 124: ...ommand is used to print the page the memory used to store the page image is not maintained and is released to be used by other functions Function Select page mode ASCII ESC t x Hexadecimal 1BH 74H x D...

Page 125: ...journal station select No This command is like a station select and is not active You cannot store page mode images in the electronic journal A page mode command in journal station mode will exit jour...

Page 126: ...ameter is a flag that specifies if this command is an absolute position command or relative to the current position If this is 1 the command is processed as a relative position command If this is 0 th...

Page 127: ...maller than the same graphic printed on an impact printer All of this is done transparently to the application however loss of resolution may result in some modes If desired the ESC m command can be u...

Page 128: ...e is generally used to print 240h by 144v dpi resolutions in two passes Extended APA Graphics ESC Print graphics in mode m 60h 120h 240h x 72v dpi ASCII ESC m n1 n2 Hexadecimal 1BH 2AH m n1 n2 Decimal...

Page 129: ...90 dpi Full speed 8 bit slices 7 144 dpi Full speed 8 bit slices 10 104 x 96 dpi 1 horizontal 1 vertical pass 11 208 x 96 dpi 2 horizontal 1 vertical pass 12 104 x 192 dpi 1 horizontal 2 vertical pass...

Page 130: ...ESC U 0 Select bidirectional print ASCII ESC U 0 Hexadecimal 1BH 55H 00H Decimal 27 85 0 IPCL GB EPOS ESC U 0 Description The ESC U 0 command prints all data in bi directional logic seeking print mod...

Page 131: ...ays in graphic mode until it is changed by another command Note that the bar code generation and other graphic commands change graphics mode The format of the horizontal graphic command follows For ad...

Page 132: ...horizontal 1 vertical pass 12 104 x 192 dpi 1 horizontal 2 vertical passes 13 208 x 192 dpi 2 horizontal 2 vertical passes 14 15 16 Not supported Note 1 Only modes 10 thorough 13 should be selected fo...

Page 133: ...repeat ffH nine times and 02H 55H means repeat 55H two times Difference Compression In difference compression data is represented in byte pairs In compression the first byte is an index into the byte...

Page 134: ...ace two items in user store with the same name and the last defined item will be used Defining Macros Macros can be defined two ways The first is by using the begin and end named macro commands These...

Page 135: ...m referenced is a user defined character set it is loaded into the current definition If it is a macro it is loaded into the macro buffer It is not processed or printed To help maintain the user store...

Page 136: ...and accidental deletion of the saved information The user defined character buffer and or user data buffer may be redefined and used but cannot be stored The terminating 0 may be replaced with an or...

Page 137: ...27 31 109 IPCL UM Name 0 EPOS GS Name 0 is from one to 15 characters and must be null terminated Description The ESC US m Name 0 command saves the current macro buffer structure into the flash user st...

Page 138: ...store ASCII ESC US r Name 0 Hexadecimal 1BH 1FH 72H Decimal 27 31 114 IPCL UR Name 0 EPOS GS 0 Name 0 is from one to 15 characters and must be null terminated Description The ESC US r Name 0 command l...

Page 139: ...None Description This command transfers the information in the base 16K user store to the extended user store The base user store is erased if the transfer was successful The terminating 0 may be rep...

Page 140: ...e 128 Note The report is also printed as part of the configuration report Function Redefine User Store Termination Character ASCII ESC EM T n Hexadecimal 1BH 19H 54H n Decimal 27 25 84 n IPCL UT n EPO...

Page 141: ...d The printer simply stops saving information when it is full As the buffer fills the input data is printed normally The effect of the macro start command is to clear the buffer and to start to save t...

Page 142: ...mands are recorded ESC g 2 Stop macro record ASCII ESC g 2 Hexadecimal 1BH 67H 02H Decimal 27 103 2 IPCL GE EPOS ESC g 2 Description The ESC g 2 command stops recording user store data information The...

Page 143: ...t is generally better to print vertical barcodes by printing horizontal barcodes in page mode rotated 90 or 270 You can then mix HRI and other text with the barcodes Function Print bar code ASCII ESC...

Page 144: ...nificantly longer barcodes Interleaved 2 of 5 Interleaved 2 of 5 is a high density self checking continuous numeric bar code It is mainly used where fixed length numeric fields are required The data f...

Page 145: ...the length IE ESC k 1 n where n specifies the number of characters to follow The characters following n characters may be from 0 to 127 Values greater than 127 are converted to printable characters b...

Page 146: ...a as defined in Code A Space is defined as a 0 which makes programming difficult and causes control character conflicts for the printer To solve the problem the iTherm 280 Printer subtracts 32 from al...

Page 147: ...tart B 136 88 Start C 137 89 Figure 8 Expanded Function coding Note In automatic mode FNC4 is always specified as 133 regardless of what code stick is currently active In most cases the iTherm supreme...

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Page 149: ...6E SI o 79 79 111 6F DLE p 80 80 112 70 DC1 q 81 81 113 71 DC2 r 82 82 114 72 DC3 s 83 83 115 73 DC4 t 84 84 116 74 NAK u 85 85 117 75 SYN v 86 86 118 76 ETB w 87 87 119 77 CAN x 88 88 120 78 EM y 89...

Page 150: ...set digit which defines how the next six digits are encoded The next five digits have fixed encoding The last is a check digit The printer prints an EAN 13 bar code with the 12 digits sent to it and...

Page 151: ...ters the way PDF 417 barcodes are generated and printed Where f Feature to control and v the value of the feature f C 43H 67 Set encoding columns v 1 30 0 sets to auto f R 52H 82 Set encoding rows v 3...

Page 152: ...Level 6 128 201 400 Level 7 256 401 Up Level 8 512 Function Set bar code height ASCII ESC EM B n Hexadecimal 1BH 19H 42H n Decimal 27 25 66 n IPCL BH m EPOS GS h n Description The ESC EM B n command...

Page 153: ...bits n IPCL 76543210 xx Justified 0 00 00 Left 1 01 01 Center 2 02 10 Right xx HRI characters 0 00 00 Not printed 16 16 01 Printed above the bar code 32 32 10 Printed below the bar code 48 48 11 Prin...

Page 154: ...xtended user store without initializing the electronic journal If any data has been stored in the extended user store it will be lost if the extended flash is repartitioned CAUTION The printer does no...

Page 155: ...CAUTION If you have initialized the electronic journal and don t know the password there is no way to erase the electronic journal without returning the printer for service The warranty does not cover...

Page 156: ...lize and Set Password ASCII ESC GS I Password 0 Hexadecimal 1BH 1DH 49H Password 0x00 Decimal 27 29 73 Password 0 IPCL EI Password EPOS Description This command initializes the electronic journal and...

Page 157: ...electronic journal Note The first record is identified as record 1 Function Report the Electronic Journal ASCII ESC GS R Sl Sh Ll Lh Hexadecimal 1BH 1DH 52H Sl Sh Ll Lh Decimal 27 29 82 Sl Sh Ll Lh IP...

Page 158: ...Most standard C formatting print parameters may be used Note The record header many be totally disabled by a configuration option Function Print Report an Electronic Journal Log ASCII ESC GS L Print...

Page 159: ...1 Cash Drawer 1 ACK NAK 2 2 Paper low status ACK NAK 3 3 Paper out status ACK NAK 4 4 Electronic Journal Low Out ACK NAK 25 low high 5 Validation Form present ACK NAK 7 6 Mechanical Error Status ACK N...

Page 160: ...d under software control and a password is provided the electronic journal can not be erased in journal print mode There is also a factory configured mode that completely disables this feature To ente...

Page 161: ...llowing entries Erase Complete Journal If the electronic journal is not password protected this option will erase the complete journal and reinitialize it Printing part of the journal Print Last 20 Re...

Page 162: ...journal is with carbon copy mode In this mode select information sent to the validation or receipt station is carbon copied into the electronic journal A record is started with the Electronic Journal...

Page 163: ...l be added to the journal record As the records are printed those commands will be used to format the print Some care should be taken to assure that only format control command that you intend to be p...

Page 164: ...re ignored ESC BEL ESC EM ESC ESC 4 ESC 8 ESC 9 ESC ESC C ESC v The following commands cause the journal to stop and will be processed again after the journal information is saved ESC FS ESC FF ESC GS...

Page 165: ...ectronic journal records Function Electronic Carbon Copy Begin ASCII ESC l 3 Hexadecimal 1BH 6CH 3 Decimal 27 108 3 IPCL EB EPOS Description This command begins a carbon copy journal entry Function El...

Page 166: ...l fonts or change the pitch are selected the down loaded font will be deactivated and the last used internal font selected To access characters located above 255 you must use a Unicode encoding method...

Page 167: ...et to a reasonable value in case they are used in future implementations This command is not used during normal printing use of the printer NOTE There is a font downloading utility available from Tran...

Page 168: ...ected font from RAM It will not delete a font from flash memory for from ROM NOTE This command will reselect the last used internal font If another soft font is to be used it must be selected Function...

Page 169: ...yte NOTE All information sent to the printer must now use this encoding even for non print commands Function Initiate Unicode UTF 16LE Encoding ASCII ESC L Hexadecimal 1BH 2BH 4CH Decimal 27 43 76 Des...

Page 170: ...e character This encoding method is less straightforward This method uses unique bit sequences at the MSBs of a byte to determine its location and meaning within the MBCS encoding See the table below...

Page 171: ...58H n1 n2 Decimal 27 88 n1 n2 IPCL none EPOS ESC l ESC Q Description The ESC X n1 n2 command sets left and right print margins in characters from the home position Where n1 left margin and n2 right ma...

Page 172: ...none EPOS none Description The ESC q n command returns a status to the host when it is processed Response SOH n The ESC q n command may be placed in the print data and when processed by the printer wi...

Page 173: ...ut buffer by the print processor Note 2 Cash Drawer 2 is factory configurable in one of two modes Either pin 2 or 3 is active depending on an internal jumper setting The factory default is pin 3 Cash...

Page 174: ...sound to be altered Where n1 is the number of alert cycles n2 is the on time of the alert cycle in ten Ms intervals n3 is the off time of the alert cycle in ten Ms intervals ESC p 5 Enable disable pap...

Page 175: ...not allow the Paper Out sensor to be disabled It is always on n is defined as follows 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 Off 00H 0 Paper roll near end sensor disabled 0 1 On 01H 02H 03H 1 2 3 Paper roll near end...

Page 176: ...its 2 7 Undefined If Bit 0 is clear the printer stops processing data If Bit 1 is set the data is passed through the printer and sent out on the serial port Note 1 The pass through command is preproce...

Page 177: ...haracters with normal characters 13 Not used 14 Forces head maintenance 15 Print Current totals 16 Enable Test Font 17 Requests the printer to enter remote OFF 18 Requests the printer to exit remote O...

Page 178: ...ote 4 The printer has a resident OCR MA font It is defined and mapped per ANSI X3 111 1986 Once mapped into a code page it can be removed by issuing an ESC y 12 command or a code page select command N...

Page 179: ...9H n Decimal 27 121 n IPCL YX17 or YX18 EPOS ESC y n Where n 17 Requests the printer to enter remote OFF 18 Requests the printer to exit remote OFF Description Inquiry ENQ commands are accepted and an...

Page 180: ...i drop control ASCII SOH n Hexadecimal 01H n Decimal 1 n IPCL none Where n is the printer address Addresses of A B or C are configurable Description The printer must be addressed in multi drop mode SO...

Page 181: ...on the status is automatically returned to the host If the printer is configured for parallel IEEE 1284 operation the HOST must initiate a reverse channel request to return the status Serial and USB M...

Page 182: ...if inquire commands are used This prevents the printer from using flow control for anything but buffer full The programmer must take on the responsibility for assuring that inquire commands are used...

Page 183: ...09H The buffer is not empty ENQ 10 Request printer reset ASCII ENQ 10 Hexadecimal 05H 0AH Decimal 5 10 Function Reset printer Response Serial Parallel ACK 10 06H 0AH No response The command was accept...

Page 184: ...in IEEE 1284 mode as well Note If reset inhibit is set in the configuration menu this command is ignored ENQ 11 Inquire power cycle status ASCII ENQ 11 Hexadecimal 05H 0BH Decimal 5 11 Function Has th...

Page 185: ...r2 Where 15 is the echo of the command ID n is the number of return bytes 40 28H to prevent confusion with XON XOFF r1 bit 0 1 always bit 1 Cover is closed bit 2 Receipt paper is out bit 3 0 bit 4 Pri...

Page 186: ...affect the state of the power cycled flag Use ENQ 11 to reset the power cycled bit bit 4 Printer is waiting in an error mode Use ENQ 22 to identify the specific error and ENQ 10 to recover bit 5 0 bi...

Page 187: ...n string which follows MFG Ithaca Periph CMD PJ1000CL IPCL CLS PRINTER MDL 1000 PcOS DES Ithaca Peripherals iTherm 280 REV PE1200 01 16 OPTS 20xy Where x is a bit field defined as follows bit 0 1 Red...

Page 188: ...occurred Note 1 If bit 7 is set a serious error has occurred The printer is not able to recover from type of error without operator intervention If bit 7 is set without bit 5 Auto cutter fault then th...

Page 189: ...Function The ENQ 24 command reports Color Cartridge status Response ACK 24 Length 40 n1 n2 n3 Where 24 Is the echo of command n1 Secondary Pen Color 0 Not installed 1 Red 2 Green 4 Blue n2 Primary Pen...

Page 190: ...the ESC EM p command however it is not save during a power cycle ESC EM p n Activate Periodic Status Back ASCII ESC EM p n Hexadecimal 1BH 19H 70H n Decimal 27 25 112 n IPCL None EPOS None Descriptio...

Page 191: ...OS emulation unlike the TM T90 emulation is not designed as a drop in replacement for an Epson printer The iTherm 280 Printer is designed to bring new and unique features and functionality s to a poin...

Page 192: ...ed by the printer The printer supports all the response bit fields as defined by the TM T88 and TM T90 Printers See the descriptions below The iTherm 280 Printer looks at and evaluates all commands as...

Page 193: ...e on off 198 ESC 1BH 3FH Cancel user defined characters 193 ESC E 1BH 45H Turn emphasized mode on off 198 ESC G 1BH 47H Turn double strike mode on off 199 ESC M 1BH 4DH Select character font 193 ESC R...

Page 194: ...inting area width 206 ESC 1BH 2AH Select bit image mode 208 GS v 0 1DH 76H 30 H Print raster bit image 208 DLE EOT 10H 04H Real time status transmission 212 DLE ENQ 10H 05H Real time status request to...

Page 195: ...227 GS g 2 1DH 67H 32 H Transmit maintenance counter value 228 5 5 5 5 GS 1DH 3AH Start end macro definition 229 GS r t m 1DH 5EH Execute macro 229 FF 0CH Print and return to standard mode 81 CAN 18H...

Page 196: ...8 3 ESC I Auto Cut 222 ESC m Auto Cut 222 ESC u Transmit Peripheral Device Status 213 ESC v Transmit Paper status 214 Table 22 Undocumented TM T90 Commands...

Page 197: ...underline mode on off 198 ESC 4 1BH 34H Set italics mode 200 ESC 5 1BH 35H Reset italics mode 200 ESC 1BH 3FH Cancel user defined characters 193 ESC E 1BH 45H Turn emphasized mode on off 198 ESC G 1B...

Page 198: ...aracters 207 ESC U 1BH 55H Turn on off unidirectional printing mode 206 ESC 1BH 5CH Set relative print position 204 ESC a 1BH 61H Select justification 205 ESC l 1BH 6CH Set left right margin in charac...

Page 199: ...Generate pulse 224 GS A 1DH 28H 41H Enter test mode 227 GS I 1DH 49H Transmit printer ID 223 GS P 1DH 50H Set horizontal and vertical motion units 223 GS b 1DH 62H Turns smoothing mode on off 200 GS...

Page 200: ...8 GS 1DH 5CH Set relative vertical print position in page mode 219...

Page 201: ...onvolatile memory pool information 234 GS 5 1DH 35H Erase all entries from nonvolatile memory 232 GS 6 1DH 36H Save user defined character set 234 GS 7 1DH 37H Select user defined character set 234 Ex...

Page 202: ...t buffer and does not feed the paper Function Print and Feed n Lines ASCII ESC d n Hexadecimal 1BH 64H n Decimal 27 100 n Range 0 n 255 Description The ESC d n command prints the data in the print buf...

Page 203: ...e Feed n Lines ASCII ESC K n Hexadecimal 1BH 4BH n Decimal 27 75 n Range 0 n 48 Description The ESC K n command prints the data in the print buffer and feeds the paper n x 1 144 inches in the reverse...

Page 204: ...cing ASCII ESC SP n Hexadecimal 1BH 20H n Decimal 27 32 n Range 0 n 255 Description The ESC SP n sets the right side character spacing in n x 1 160 inches It is used to change the spacing between char...

Page 205: ...ata d specifies a bit printed to one and not printed to zero At the default user defined characters are not defined and the internal character set is printed Once the user defined characters have been...

Page 206: ...orwegian 9 Windows East Europe 49 Danish II 10 Windows Greek 50 Spanish II 11 Latin 5 Windows Turkey 51 Latin American 12 Windows Cyrillic 52 French Canadian 13 Hungarian CWI 54 Dutch 14 Kamenicky MJK...

Page 207: ...72 0H 048H 73 Italian 0 73 0H 049H 74 French Canadian 0 74 0H 04AH 75 Spanish 0 75 0H 04BH 76 Swedish II 0 76 0H 04CH 77 Swedish III 0 77 0H 04DH 78 Swedish IV 0 78 0H 04EH 79 Turkish 0 79 0H 04FH 80...

Page 208: ...F9H 1018 ECMA 94 3 250 3H 0FAH 1019 Windows East Europe 3 251 3H 0FBH 1020 Windows Greek 3 252 3H 0FCH 1021 Latin 5 Windows Turkey 3 253 3H 0FDH 1022 Windows Cyrillic 3 254 3H 0FEH 1024 Hungarian CWI...

Page 209: ...3H replaces the character at 0D5H with the Euro symbol Function Turn Color Mode ON OFF ASCII ESC r n Hexadecimal 1BH 72H n Decimal 27 114 n Range n 0 1 48 49 Description The ESC r n command turns on o...

Page 210: ...32 Double wide mode is selected 6 Undefined Off 00H 0 Underline mode is not selected 7 On 80H 128 Underline mode is selected Table 28 Print Modes Function Turn ON OFF Underline Mode ASCII ESC n Hexade...

Page 211: ...hen it is 0 upside down printing mode is turned off The default setting is n 0 When upside down mode is turned on the printer prints 180 rotated characters from right to left The line printing order i...

Page 212: ...2 Function Begin Italics ASCII ESC 4 Hexadecimal 1BH 34H Decimal 27 52 Description The ESC 4 command begins italics print mode Note Italics are not available in all print modes Function End Italics AS...

Page 213: ...ne the FEED Button is disabled when it is zero the button is enabled To prevent problems caused by accidentally pressing the FEED Button use the command to disable it The FEED Button is temporarily en...

Page 214: ...LED comes on When the validation sensor is enabled and a paper end is detected the printer ejects the paper after printing as much as possible and enters the paper waiting state When the validation se...

Page 215: ...The validation sensor is enabled when either 6 or 7 or both bits are on This command is enabled only with a parallel interface and is ignored with a serial interface The paper sensor s used to output...

Page 216: ...the print buffer and keeps other data or setting values except for the print data Function Set Absolute Print Position ASCII ESC nl nh Hexadecimal 1BH 24H nl nh Decimal 27 36 nl nh Range 0 nl 255 0 n...

Page 217: ...line Function Set Back Space ASCII BS Hexadecimal 08H Decimal 8 Description The BS command moves the print buffer one character width to the left The pointer position cannot be moved to the left of t...

Page 218: ...nal flag is activated and the command is enabled when the printer returns to standard mode Function Set Printing Area Width ASCII GS W nl nh Hexadecimal 1DH 57H nl nh Decimal 29 87 nl nh Range 0 nl 25...

Page 219: ...s from the beginning of the line Function Set Right Margin ASCII ESC Q n Hexadecimal 1BH 51H n Decimal 29 81 n Range 0 n 255 Description The ESC Q n command sets the right margin using n The right mar...

Page 220: ...s specified by nl nh x 256 in mode 0 or 1 and nl nh x 256 3 in mode 32 or 33 and d indicates the bit image data Set a bit to one to print a dot or set a bit to zero to not print a dot Use the command...

Page 221: ...ith the paper low sensor bits 0 and 1 of the third byte are always on with paper adequate status Bit 3 of the second byte is always No error The status items are selected using n as follows 4 4 4 4 4...

Page 222: ...ed 1 0 Undefined Off 00H 0 No mechanical error 2 On 04H 4 Mechanical error occurred Off 00H 0 No Auto cutter error 3 On 08H 8 Auto cutter error occurred 4 Off 00H 0 Not used fixed to off Off 00H 0 No...

Page 223: ...50 Description The GS r n command transmits the status specified by n as follows paper sensor status as one byte of data when n 1 or 49 and drawer kick out connector status when n 2 or 50 The paper p...

Page 224: ...m the time the paper roll is inserted to the time the printer goes on line See the GS z 0 command for details of the on line recovery wait time The paper roll low sensor is an option If the printer do...

Page 225: ...d 12 5 On 20H 32 Recoverable error occurred 6 Off 00H 0 Not used fixed to off 7 Off 00H 0 Not used fixed to off Table 43 Error Status n 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 0 Off 00H 0 Not used fixed to off 1 On 02H 2 N...

Page 226: ...eceipt Paper present 0 1 On 02H 2 Receipt Paper Low or not present Off 00 0 Cover is closed 2 3 On 04H 4 Cover is open 4 Off 00 0 Not used fixed Off Off 00 0 Slip is present 5 On 04H 4 Slip is not pre...

Page 227: ...inter ejects the paper The default setting is n 1 The paper type s are selected for printing by using n as follows 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 Off 00 0 Electronic Journal disabled 0 On 01 1 Electronic Jou...

Page 228: ...Command Settings ASCII ESC f t1 t2 Hexadecimal 1BH 66H t1 t2 Decimal 27 116 t1 t2 Range 0 t1 15 0 t2 64 Description ESC f t1 t2 sets the time that the printer waits for validation paper to be inserte...

Page 229: ...ting position yL yH 256 vertical motion units Horizontal printing area width dxL dxH 256 horizontal motion units Vertical printing area width dyL dyH 256 vertical motion units Function Select Standard...

Page 230: ...A D C Initial entry location Function Print and return to standard mode in page mode0 ASCII FF Hexadecimal 0CH Decimal 12 Description FF In page mode prints the data in the print buffer collectively...

Page 231: ...and the distance from the current position to nl nh 256 vertical or horizontal unit 1 Function Print Bar Code 1 ASCII GS k m dl dk NUL Mode 1 m between 0 and 6 Hexadecimal 1DH 6BH m dl dk 00 Decimal...

Page 232: ...e horizontal width exceeds the printing area the printer only feeds the paper These commands feed as much paper as necessary to print the bar code according to the GS h command These commands are enab...

Page 233: ...102 n Range n 0 1 48 49 Description The GS f n command selects a font for the HRI Human Readable Interpretation characters used when printing a bar code n selects a font from the following table 5 5 5...

Page 234: ...t the beginning of a line The GS V m n command executes paper feeding to the manual cutting position Function Partial knife cut ASCII ESC i Hexadecimal 1BH 69H Decimal 27 105 Description The ESC i com...

Page 235: ...1BH 40H Decimal 27 64 Description The ESC command initializes the printer All settings including character font and line spacing are canceled Function Transmit Printer ID ASCII GS I n Hexadecimal 1DH...

Page 236: ...specified by t in real time to the connector pin specified by m as follows 0 Drawer kick out connector pin 2 1 Drawer kick out pin 5 Note This feature is licensed from Epson and is only available in...

Page 237: ...1 byte Enters in standard mode Function Select Peripheral Device Status ASCII ESC n Hexadecimal 1BH 3DH n Decimal 27 61 n Range 1 n 3 Description The ESC n command selects the device to which the host...

Page 238: ...recovery wait time is confirmed by the printer status of ASB or the DLE EOT command n 2 is only effective when a recoverable error occurs The printer can recover from an error without turning off the...

Page 239: ...etting the current counter value in the print buffer as print data a character string the printer counts up or down based on the count mode set Function Initialize maintenance counter ASCII GS g 0 m n...

Page 240: ...paper 14 20 Number of times energizing head roll paper 14 20 Number of autocutter operations 14 20 Printer operation time cumulative The contents of the maintenance counter are as follows Hexadecima...

Page 241: ...cutes r times continuously with the interval specified by t When the LSB of m 1 the printer remains idle and waits for the FEED Button to be pressed after waiting for the period specified by t After t...

Page 242: ...ermits A printout of the amount of nonvolatile memory remaining can be obtained by performing a printer self test Each image is uniquely identified by the name given to it by the Name parameter The na...

Page 243: ...REM Enter the GS command PRINT 1 MY IMAGE CHR 0 REM Define the image name PRINT 1 CHR 1 CHR 1 REM Image size 8 x 8 bits PRINT 1 CHR 255 CHR 255 CHR 255 CHR 255 REM Send 8 bytes of image PRINT 1 CHR 25...

Page 244: ...NT 1 CHR 29 CHR 48 REM Enter the GS 0 command PRINT 1 MY IMAGE CHR 0 CHR 0 REM Enter the image name Where m selects a mode from the table below 2 2 2 2 9 9 9 9 00 0 Normal 203 203 01 1 Double wide 203...

Page 245: ...of dots in the vertical direction is y x 8 If x x y x 8 exceeds the size of the buffer the image is truncated d indicates bit image data and specifies a bit printed to one and not printed to zero Afte...

Page 246: ...s the current character set created by the ESC command to the nonvolatile memory pool If no character set has been defined the command stores an empty definition structure Function Select User Defined...

Page 247: ...low is detected Where n 0 Printer continues to print with paper low 1 Printer stops printing when paper low is detected Function Paper Error Signal Control ASCII ESC p 3 n Hexadecimal 1BH 70H 33H n De...

Page 248: ...8 2 Description The ESC c 5 n command enables or disables the FEED Button When the least significant bit LSB of n one the FEED Button is disabled when it is zero the button is enabled...

Page 249: ...time cash drawer command you must use the added cost licensed firmware 0 The iTherm 280 printer has an Axiohm emulation that closely matches the A793 and A794 printers The Axiohm command set for the m...

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Page 253: ...haracters together to produce a mosaic of characters that form a graphic image The simplest method uses an or any other character to form an image For example ITHACA might be formed as follows Figure...

Page 254: ...205 205 205 205 205 205 205 205 205 205 205 205 188 CR LF ESC a 0 ESC 0 ESC P 15 CR LF ST 2000 OP 00067 TE 021 0035 CR LF KLEENEX FAM D04 QTY 1 1 68 J CR LF RITZ D01 QTY 1 2 50 D CR LF CHIPS D01 QTY...

Page 255: ...s the data path to the printer must be eight bits Seven bit serial protocols do not access the extended characters The extended characters require that the form be reverse fed Consequently printing li...

Page 256: ...e chosen fits the printer 3 inches wide with 0 25 inch margins If the paper size cannot be set print a portion of the page 3 Print the graphic to a file using a generic IBM graphic 9 pin driver The st...

Page 257: ...s no point in the printers mixing the highlight color with black If however the iTherm 280 printer is configured with two colors other than black the printer attempts to mix the colors to generate bla...

Page 258: ...e with 0 25 inch margins 3 The iTherm 280 print driver should be installed even if the printer is not connected 4 Set up the print driver to print the graphic to a file using whatever resolution is re...

Page 259: ...l emulations This support is an enhancement to the original TM U200 ESC POS Star and Citizen printer emulations The intent of Universal Color Graphic support is to allow the iTherm 280 color graphics...

Page 260: ...support universal color graphics You can however store the graphic in the printer and use IPCL commands to print the stored graphic You must select a printer resident font for this to work The followi...

Page 261: ...e allowed 8 Make sure there is enough room in the printer for the graphic 9 Insert a name in the Macro Name box Keep it simple this name will be used later to print the graphic 10 Record the graphic i...

Page 262: ...to 255H Note The used to flag the end of the Name string is not valid in PcOS Ithaca emulation mode You should use 0 or define the terminator with the UTx command The extended Escape sequences are ESC...

Page 263: ...ext string to the printer using whatever means is available to you URLogo Run Macro Logo Print the macro Universal graphics information is stored in the same place as user defined characters and user...

Page 264: ...ists in the flash user store or the universal graphic memory is exceeded the command is invalid and the Name field prints UR Name Run universal graphic data from user store IPCL UR Name Description Th...

Page 265: ...the terminator The value of n may be from 0 to 255 Example If UT were sent to the printer the User Store command to run universal graphic Demo would be URDemo CL Set Print Color IPCL CL n Description...

Page 266: ...e existing application cut command will be replaced by the Coupon Cut Logo operation Configuration options are as follows Cut Command Logo Cut Logo Perform Feed to cut then cut and then print the Logo...

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Page 269: ...s that we can use This is good now we use eight bits a byte But then I am Greek I am Russian I am Arabic was heard We need to use characters that we are familiar with What can be done to accommodate t...

Page 270: ...cter was 16 dots wide and 16 dots tall each character would require 32 bytes of memory 32 x 50 000 1 600 000 bytes to store all the characters images This is a very conservative estimate in reality ma...

Page 271: ...8 WARNING You must have proper rights to use a font in this manner Do not download a font to the printer if you do not have the right to use the font as a downloaded printer font...

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Page 275: ...e commands follow the ESC or ESCy format Other functions are performed by these basic commands Do not attempt to use any undocumented version of these commands The extended diagnostics commands may af...

Page 276: ...uide 2 10 Power Up Resets 11 Watchdog Resets 12 Base Flash Erases 13 Ext Flash Erases 14 Auto Cutter Cycles 15 Init Requests 16 Error Vectors 17 Auto Cutter Faults 18 Power On Time Min 19 System Activ...

Page 277: ...for the color graphics to match the PJColor preview ESC L c sets the left or primary color and ESC R c sets the right or secondary color You can set the Left cartridge to any color and you can set th...

Page 278: ...Values ASCII ESC y 20 or ESC 20 Hexadecimal 1BH 79H 14H Decimal 27 121 20 Description This command forces the printer to print the current setup values Note This command must be preceded with an ESC...

Page 279: ...9 0 1 8 2 Notes This command performs a configuration update and should not be done on a regular basis Notes This command must be preceded with an ESC y 8 to enable it...

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Page 283: ...mputer Printer to cash drawer Host to printer link Cash drawer Keypad Host to keypad Printer Figure 14 Typical POS System For the host to printer communication link the iTherm 280 printer supports ser...

Page 284: ...mechanism that is using the data The communication port is either the serial port hardware or the parallel port hardware and the associated communication software driver A means for the host to bypas...

Page 285: ...low it notifies the communication driver that the information flow can be resumed if it was stopped and allows more information to be placed in the buffer The iTherm 280 printer has a configurable inp...

Page 286: ...hitecture Microsoft is providing the POSUSB driver model to allow USB POS devices to interface as serial COM ports to service object DLLs The Transact USB Printer interface is based on this Microsoft...

Page 287: ...icator Configured through networked PC Web Browser Works with Virtually All Major Operating Systems Integrated into the Printer Large RAM Buffer for fast continuous printing 512K Flash Memory for Futu...

Page 288: ...anoseconds will be accepted by the printer The cable can introduce significant signal degeneration and skew The data must be valid before the strobe signal is asserted and remain so until the strobe i...

Page 289: ...00 uS t3 DATA Hold after STB 0 5 uS t4 BUSY Delay after STB 0 0 5 uS t5 ACK Pulse Width 2 5 uS Table 56 Parallel port Timing Note Altered STB timing to take data on the falling edge of STB can be gene...

Page 290: ...0 Mode 0 provides a reverse channel for information from the printer Normal responses to inquire commands are placed in the IEEE 1284 reverse channel buffer The Mode 0 reverse channel request begins...

Page 291: ...reverse channel closes the output buffer overflows If data is in the buffer when dynamic responses are activated it will not be replaced by the current status If dynamic response is off and a buffer c...

Page 292: ...Therm 280 emulation 5 indicates that the printer is in some other emulation Y and Z are bit fields that designate the options attached to the printer Bit Y Z Bit 0 Color Support active 0 Bit 1 Undefin...

Page 293: ...y not notice the DTR signal until it has transmitted several bytes of data to the printer the printer continues to except up to 25517 bytes of data after it indicates that it is not ready Figure 19 Se...

Page 294: ...lect Key Printer Control Software Print Buffer 40 8K RTS Request to Send DTR Data Terminal Ready Data In Serial Data Out Not Usedfor Flow Control DTR RTS Send XOFF Send XON Send XON or XOFF Inquire Co...

Page 295: ...not the data is placed in the buffer without response The buffer is then checked to see if it is full before the internal pointer is incremented If it is not full the pointer is incremented in prepara...

Page 296: ...trol is used the flow is similar to DTR flow except that DTR is not used and XON XOFF control characters are transmitted back to the host on the serial link The XON XOFF advantage is that only three w...

Page 297: ...loper to select the optimal buffer size for an application Microsoft has defined a Plug and Play PnP protocol to identify devices on serial links The enumeration process is designed to find and automa...

Page 298: ...all others are optional The identification string used by the iTherm 280 Printer follows 028H Start of ASCII response 0 1 PnP Rev IPR0210 Unique ID IPR plus revision level PRINTER Printer M280 PcOS Mo...

Page 299: ...is buffered in a high speed processing queue When the printer has time it empties the queue and processes the inquiries The printer responds to the command as soon as the second byte of the command is...

Page 300: ...it data by one byte The printer buffer size is limited If the buffer overruns data will be lost 5 Modem handshake signals from the printer are not controlled during past through Their state is set by...

Page 301: ...zes the hardware and software but the printer does not recover from a loss of software control Note If the printer mode was changed by the ESC y 2 or 3 command a soft reset will not return to the powe...

Page 302: ...gh mode the printer can be requested to transmit any data that it receives When this is the case the printer s inquire commands are active but of little use Typically the printer s transmit data is co...

Page 303: ...printer at all times except when there is no power a full input buffer or a hard failure For example when the printer s cover is open the printer stops printing but still accepts data and inquiries T...

Page 304: ...rors occur for the most part during power up diagnostics They are as follows EEPROM READ ERROR Power up only The Internal EEPROM is not readable or the check sum is bad Pressing the Power Button will...

Page 305: ...nals are not to be used they should be left open Pins 3 4 and 7 of the 9 pin connector are outputs from the printer If any one of these signals is grounded or back driven the other two outputs will be...

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Page 307: ...16 78 Swedish IV 0 78 0H 04EH 0 0 7 8 17 79 Turkish 0 79 0H 04FH 0 0 7 9 18 80 Swiss I 0 80 0H 050H 0 0 8 0 19 81 Swiss II 0 81 0H 051H 0 0 8 1 20 91 Welsh 0 91 0H 05BH 0 0 9 1 NA 93 Arabic 0 93 0H 05...

Page 308: ...FCH 1 0 2 1 50 1021 Latin 5 Windows Turkey 3 253 3H 0FDH 1 0 2 2 51 1022 Windows Cyrillic 3 254 3H 0FEH 1 0 2 4 52 1024 Hungarian CWI 4 0 4H 000H 1 0 2 5 54 1026 ISO Latin 4 4 2 4H 002H 1 0 2 6 56 102...

Page 309: ...9 1 32 50 2 33 51 3 34 52 4 35 53 5 36 54 6 37 55 7 38 56 8 39 57 9 3A 58 3B 59 3C 60 3D 61 3E 62 3F 63 Hex Decimal ASCII 40 64 41 65 A 42 66 B 43 67 C 44 68 D 45 69 E 46 70 F 47 71 G 48 72 H 49 73 I...

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Page 311: ...be available Contact Transact Sales for availability Table 57 Paper Ordering Information Cables Stock Number 110V Power Cable USA 98 02174 220V Power Cable Australia 98 02178 230V Power Cable Internat...

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Page 313: ...rinter 161 222 ESC Double wide double high italics 101 ESC C n Insert Euro character 93 ESC P n Set character pitch 86 ESC S Redefine character set 94 ESC T nh nl Select character code page 91 ESC BEL...

Page 314: ...C r 11 Rotate 270 with two pass font 109 ESC r 13 Rotate 90 with two pass font and line formatting 108 ESC r 15 Rotate 270 with two pass font and line formatting 109 ESC r 3 Rotate 270 108 ESC r 5 Rot...

Page 315: ...ponse Enable 147 Emphasized Mode On Off 197 Emphasized Print Mode Beginning 102 Emphasized Print Mode Ending 103 End Italics 104 Enhanced Print Mode Ending 102 Enhanced print Beginning 102 Entering Co...

Page 316: ...Tab 75 Horizontal Tab Positions Setting 205 Horizontal tab Stops Setting 75 Horizontal Tab Setting 204 IEEE 1284 buffer Clearing 171 Indicator Lights 42 Indicators Fault 42 Initialize maintenance cou...

Page 317: ...gramming Considerations 129 Quad Density Graphics Printing 116 Query marker 160 Read and return Totals 261 Real Time Status Transmitting 211 real time Request to Printer 225 Recovery form Mechanical E...

Page 318: ...g 95 123 192 User Defined Characters Enabling 96 User macros 129 User store 121 User Store Status Inquire 177 User Store Delete item 127 User Store Flush Information 124 127 User Store Load item 126 U...

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