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Printer Commands Chapter 5
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^A ^D COMMAND
X 86 Single Serial Number Status:
0 Disable increment and decrement
1 Enable increment: The serial number will be incremented by the step value
specified by the ^D85 command.
2 Enable decrement: The serial number will be decremented by the step value
specified by the ^D85 command.
The next three commands determine the status of multiple serial numbers:
XX 87 Load Field Number to Clear Increment/Decrement: This command is used
to clear the status of one or more fields that are using the serial number
increment/decrement function. Example: A “^A1^D87<CR>” instructs the
printer to clear the increment/decrement function of text string number 1 or the
first text string.
XX 88 Load Field Number to Increment by 1: The ^Axx specifies which field to
increment by one.
XX 89 Load Field Number to Decrement by 1: The ^Axx specifies which text string
field that will be decremented by one. The printer will not decrement fields
beyond 0. Fields that instructs the printer to decrement beyond 0 will be set to
0.
A sample format using the single serial number function:
^D57 <CR>
1,575,609,,25,35,0,1,285,0,0 <CR>
1,280,300,2,1,5 <CR>
^D56 <CR>
^A2^D86 <CR>
^A1^D84 <CR>
^A5^D85 <CR>
^A3^D75 <CR>
^D2 <CR>
20 <CR>
^D3 <CR>
This format would enable the decrement function (^A2^D86). Select text string #1 to
decrement (^A1^D84), load the step value of 5 (^A5^D85) and then print three serialized
labels (^A3^D75). The printed result would be “20” for the first label, “15” for the second
label, and “10” for the third or last label.