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MODEL 48-466

THERMAL PRINT MECHANISM

OPERATOR'S MANUAL

Part Number 8800XX-0100

- Revised 02/04/98 MSG -

Preliminary Release

Centronics is a registered trademark of Data Computer Corporation.
HP and LaserJet II are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.
Arial is a registered trademark of The Monotype Corporation.
Other products, names, and brands are trademarks of their respective holders.

Arial Typeface is Copyright © 1991 The Monotype Corporation. All rights reserved.
FastFont Typefaces are Copyright © 1993, Page Technology Marketing, Inc.

This manual is subject to change without notice.

Copyright © 1998 Microcom Corporation, Westerville, Ohio - All rights reserved.

Printed in the U.S.A.

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Summary of Contents for 48-466

Page 1: ...ard Company Arial is a registered trademark of The Monotype Corporation Other products names and brands are trademarks of their respective holders Arial Typeface is Copyright 1991 The Monotype Corpora...

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Page 3: ...PER 9 2 4 CLEANING INSTRUCTIONS 9 CHAPTER 3 COMMUNICATIONS 11 3 1 CABLE PINOUT 11 3 2 PRINTER CABLES 12 CHAPTER 4 DESIGNING LABELS USING LDS 13 4 1 CONTROL CHARACTERS 13 4 2 GETTING STARTED 13 4 2 1 P...

Page 4: ...USING PCX2466 EXE UTILITY 51 6 2 GRAPHIC IMAGE STRUCTURE 51 6 3 DOWNLOADABLE GRAPHICS COMMAND SUMMARY 53 CHAPTER 7 DOWNLOADABLE FONTS 55 7 1 PROCEDURE FOR USING JET2466 EXE UTILITY 55 7 2 FONT STRUCT...

Page 5: ...cter Starting Positions 27 Enquiry Responses 33 Clock Field Parameters 41 UPC Zero Reduction Format 58 Code 128 Special Function Access 59 List of Figures Front View 6 Rear View 6 Status Label 8 Print...

Page 6: ...48 466 Operators Manual...

Page 7: ...lized label formats It can be driven from a PC mini computer mainframe and most special purpose computers Among many other features LDS supports downloadable graphics and fonts multiple serial numberi...

Page 8: ...48 466 Operators Manual 2...

Page 9: ...ftware controlled contrast adjustment Standard memory of 512Kbytes ROM and 512Kbytes RAM Internal date and time keeping Easy to load label path Detects label gap black line or blow hole stock Internal...

Page 10: ...PRINTING Batch and tag tear mode advances label to the tear bar Label back up prevents wasted media in tag tear and peel modes 1 5 INTERFACE COMMUNICATIONS Serial RS 232C 25 pin female D Sub connector...

Page 11: ...Chapter 1 Features and Specifications 48 466 Operators Manual 5 1 8 ELECTRICAL Voltage 117 220 VAC nom 50 60Hz Current 3 AMPS maximum 1 9 APPROVALS CUL CE complies with FCC class A...

Page 12: ...Features and Specifications Chapter 1 48 466 Operators Manual 6 48 466 Front View Figure 1 48 466 Rear View Figure 2...

Page 13: ...temporarily set to defaults The printer will return to the old settings if different after power down or a soft reset The printed labels and total labels represent the number of labels printed to date...

Page 14: ...led 48 466 REV 2 00 000000 0200 08 05 97 Status Label Figure 4 2 1 3 PAPER OUT MODE When a paper out condition occurs the printer will continuously beep and the red error indicator will light The fron...

Page 15: ...sful Solid Green 3 Short Beeps All Memory operation successful Solid Red Continuous Pulsed Beep All Printer error Caused by a paper out or hardware failure If an unexplained condition persists contact...

Page 16: ...Basic Operation Chapter 2 48 466 Operators Manual 10...

Page 17: ...port configuration If serial RS 232 C communication is selected and XON XOFF hand shaking is used the only signals the 48 466 requires are the RXD TXD and GND signals If hardware CTS RTS hand shaking...

Page 18: ...ill not need a NULL modem cable because the printer is DCE equipment For parallel connection use a standard 25 pin to 36 pin Centronics printer cable connected from the desired parallel port of the ho...

Page 19: ...ecial purpose computers and PC s However the easiest way to start is with a PC and a terminal emulation software program This will method of connection will allow two way serial communication with the...

Page 20: ...inter using a terminal emulation program or the DOS copy command To use the DOS copy command first use the DOS mode instruction to configure the PC For example MODE COM1 9600 N 8 1 P There are some sp...

Page 21: ...5 D565 D25 Microcom5 Corporation5 Thermal Printing Solutions5 012345678905 D35 A label format is coming Header information Field 1 information Field 2 information Field 3 information Field 4 informati...

Page 22: ...Communications Chapter 3 48 466 Operators Manual 16 Microcom Label Figure 8...

Page 23: ...is left blank then the default value will be used A carriage return must follow the label header parameters The value of measurement for many of the header elements is the dot There are 203 dots per i...

Page 24: ...ION Specifies the height of the label in dots WEB WEB SIZE The width measured in dots of the webbing that is found on the left side of the label GAP GAP SIZE The height measured in dots of the gap bet...

Page 25: ...18 312 306 300 294 288 282 276 270 264 258 252 246 240 234 228 222 216 204 204 198 192 186 180 174 168 162 156 150 Table 3 LCB LABEL CONTROL BYTE This parameter selects between the various gap detecti...

Page 26: ...necessary to adjust this value if using material with a sense position not located at the end of the stock The 48 466 uses the following formula to determine the SPG setting If label height is greate...

Page 27: ...ain the information necessary to position data text bar codes graphics etc on the label It is not necessary to enter values for all of the field parameters the default values will be used if left blan...

Page 28: ...Communications Chapter 3 48 466 Operators Manual 22...

Page 29: ...e front of the printer during a label print The Y coordinate increases in size from the bottom to the top of the label See Figure 9 A YB of 203 would place text one inch from the bottom of the label C...

Page 30: ...dded 20 EAN 13 Bar Code 21 EAN 8 Bar Code 22 Embedded Fonts with EAN 13 Checksum and Extended Bars Added 23 Embedded Fonts with EAN 8 Checksum and Extended Bars Added 24 MSI 1 Plessey 25 MSI 2 Plessey...

Page 31: ...67890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 2 8 Arial Narrow Bold 8pt ABCDEFG1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 3 10 Arial Narrow Normal 10pt ABCDEFG1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv 4 10 Arial Narrow Bold 10pt...

Page 32: ...UPC Readable 40 1 0123 Code 128 40 1 0123 Codabar 2 3 5 2 1 3 1 5 2 1 1 1 0123 0123 0123 Code 93 2 1 1 0123 AS 10 2 1 1 0123 MSI Plessy 1 1 1 0123 Table 5 These bar codes must be multiplied by 2 for a...

Page 33: ...line 1 Right justified above base line 2 Left justified below base line 3 Right justified below base line 4 Centered on Y axis right of X coordinate 5 Centered on Y axis left of X coordinate Characte...

Page 34: ...he next is a constant of 6 followed by three blank positions The next two positions are the X size and Y size Finally there is an attribute position All fields defaulted must be separated by commas an...

Page 35: ...R A reversed image white on black is created by setting this value to 1 and printing an on top of or under the line The AN of the other image field should also be set to a 1 for a reversed image A val...

Page 36: ...ect to the data fields 190 X beginning XB 190 dots from left edge of the print head 1068 Y beginning YB 40 dots from bottom of label 8 Character Count CC of 8 characters the amount of characters in Mi...

Page 37: ...control characters are ignored Some of these instructions are also accessible through a D sequence A Accumulator Mode Used to supply parameters for D commands These parameters must be positive integer...

Page 38: ...or the host computer to know the status of the printer as labels are produced This facilitates security in the system and flags electrical and mechanical errors Enquiries also aid the system designer...

Page 39: ...re preceded by a AXX where XX represents the data or control number Unless otherwise specified command codes should precede or follow the actual format layout They should be placed before the D57 or j...

Page 40: ...by an 8 digit 0 or 1 code For example AB10100001 D215 will configure serial port 1 for text equivalent enquiry response accept control codes disable echo and enable XON XOFF flow control 12345678 ABx...

Page 41: ...ponse If the printer has been reset and this switch has been enabled the printer will respond with to the first poll by sending the RESTARTED message If additional enquiries are made the printer will...

Page 42: ...0 No Response After Print Q Always 0 Q 1 Disable Extended ASCII 0 Enable Position 1 Extended ASCII If enabled characters over 7F hex will be processed 2 Always 0 3 Response After Print If enabled an e...

Page 43: ...7 bit 1000 852 8 bit 1001 French 7 bit 1010 863 8 bit 1011 Italian 7 bit 1100 437 8 bit 1101 Swedish 7 bit 1110 British 7 bit 1111 US English 7 bit Q Always 0 Q 1 Blow hole Sensing Enable 0 Disable Q...

Page 44: ...ware dip switch 6 12345678 ABxxxxxxxx Not Used Not Used Not Used Not Used Not Used Not Used Not Used Always 0 Position 1 Always 0 2 Not Used 3 Not Used 4 Not Used 5 Not Used 6 Not Used 7 Not Used 8 No...

Page 45: ...the following command string will print a total of 150 labels three copies of each serial number and 50 different numbers A3 D73 A50 D75 D35 1 74 Infinity Print Prints a batch of labels but will cont...

Page 46: ...uld be set to 1 before auto sizing black line stock A1 D475 XX 91 Load Value for Printer to See Valid Gap Obtained from the auto size D39 command This value states the translucent properties of stock...

Page 47: ...y of the week 1 SUN 2 MON 3 TUE 4 WED 5 THR 6 FRI 7 SAT The optional clock produces a string of text that is accessed through use of a TSN of 0 See Table 10 for definitions of field parameters The tex...

Page 48: ...e formats using the clock function D575 35 0 410 100 12 16 2 4 2 60 2 235 0 410 25 12 1 5 4 235 1 410 200 20 1 5 45 D565 D25 EUROPEAN DATE FORMAT5 D35 D575 35 0 410 100 12 16 2 4 2 60 2 105 0 410 25 1...

Page 49: ...mmands The next three commands deal with single serial number functions XX 84 Load Text String Number to increment decrement Tells the printer which text string number to increment or decrement See se...

Page 50: ...is executed Therefore this must precede a D3 command The only difference between this command and D73 is in the ability of this command to increment and decrement serial numbers in the batch A sample...

Page 51: ...be changed There is no way to erase or change a single slot USAGE Before sending the first downloadable format file graphic or font the RAM must be initiated by sending D1005 When this command is iss...

Page 52: ...e fixed data on the label File 2 is the file that initiates processing of file 1 and includes all variable data for the format File 2 also prints the label File 3 shows how a second saved format would...

Page 53: ...A2 D595 D575 4 620 161 18 35 73 35 1 120 110 50 1 115 2 120 80 70 1 105 3 120 60 70 1 105 4 120 40 70 1 105 D565 D25 MICROCOM CORPORATION5 8333 A GREEN MEADOWS DR N 5 WESTERVILLE OH 430815 614 548 626...

Page 54: ...lso be defined by the user if used in conjunction with the D95 command There are three modes of operation 0 Disable tag tear operation 1 Advance after every label Causes the paper to be advanced to th...

Page 55: ...irst line of new text entered following a D25 will overwrite text line two If two new text strings are entered the existing text lines two and three will be over written If three new text strings are...

Page 56: ...1 25 6 307 503 30 1 35 7 60 207 29 1 55 7 416 277 20 16 2 4 2 50 25 8 60 149 29 1 55 9 60 090 29 1 55 10 60 031 29 1 55 D565 D25 SHIP FROM 5 MICROCOM CORPORATION5 8333 A GREEN MEADOWS DR N 5 WESTERVI...

Page 57: ...images Note The 48 466 does not differentiate between graphics and fonts They are both accessed by using a TCI of 8 Therefore a font and a graphic cannot have the same CGN number A graphic is simply a...

Page 58: ...l width if 90 270 or cell height if 0 180 1E00 default character spacing 0020 first character 20 last character 20 default character 04000000 character offset 1E00 character height 2800 character widt...

Page 59: ...SUMMARY The following commands refer to the use of downloadable fonts and graphic images A D Command 100 Clear User RAM This command will clear all downloaded fonts graphics and stored label formats 1...

Page 60: ...Downloadable Graphic Images Chapter 6 48 466 Operators Manual 54...

Page 61: ...lowing section details the process required to convert and load user defined fonts The conversion utility JET2466 EXE is available on request This DOS utility converts fonts from the popular SFP forma...

Page 62: ...iptor defines the character attributes unlike DCS above the signed quantities use the normal C conventions CHAR1 label word dw HGT height of character cell data dw WID width of character cell data dw...

Page 63: ...12th digit is the checksum and should be omitted because the printer will automatically insert the correct value if a checksum is not sent Caution The printer will accept and print an invalid check d...

Page 64: ...used Failure to use valid numbers may result in incorrect bar codes European Article Numbering System Version 13 EAN 13 TCI 20 EAN 13 is not generally used in the United States It contains 13 digits a...

Page 65: ...c Compression TCI 40 Code 128 is a very high density variable length full alphanumeric bar code It contains 3 separate character sets A B and C and separate shift characters to access them in the same...

Page 66: ...mple The UCC 128 shipping container specification requires the 128 bar code to start in subset C and contain the character function 1 The following format example illustrates how this is done D575 1 8...

Page 67: ...formation It can encode the characters 0 through 9 ABCD and four different start stop characters Code 93 TCI 43 Code 93 is a high density full alphanumeric variable length bar code Through the use of...

Page 68: ...scanners Multiply the Y co ordinate to the proper height For example Multiply the Y co ordinate CMY by 203 to create a one inch tall bar code If the bar code is in a ladder or vertical orientation 90...

Page 69: ...git s to text lines To design with these TCI s select a text character generator number and multiply as with any other text field Place this field underneath the MSI bar code TCI 3 works in this same...

Page 70: ...Bar Codes Chapter 8 48 466 Operators Manual 64...

Page 71: ...inable black background Reversed imaging can be produced by manually placing a black box on top of or under an existing image by using the line command and setting the attribute numbers AN to a value...

Page 72: ...48 466 Operators Manual 66...

Page 73: ...the default values HFM LSX LSY WEB GAP DPS LCB AGD SPG OFX OFY 0 832 443 10 10 48 0 1 479 0 0 The following is a list of FONT BAR CODE AND GRAPHIC IMAGE field mnemonics TSN XB YB CC TCI CGN FO FJ CMX...

Page 74: ...bar code 17 Embedded Fonts with UPC E Checksum and Extended Bars Added 20 EAN 13 Bar Code 21 EAN 8 Bar Code 22 Embedded Fonts with EAN 13 Checksum and Extended Bars Added 23 Embedded Fonts with EAN 8...

Page 75: ...e printing of a batch of labels Equivalent to C 5 Send Printer Status Equivalent to E 11 Print a Test Label Equivalent to K 12 Print a Blank Label Equivalent to L 21 Change SW1 Software dip switch 1 A...

Page 76: ...e 4 101 ROM or Saved Format File 5 110 ROM or Saved Format File 6 111 ROM or Saved Format File 7 Q 1 Use Saved Format File 0 Rom Format Q 1 Print Button Enable 0 Disable Q 1 Disable Button Use 0 Enabl...

Page 77: ...01 Danish 0010 860 0011 Spanish 0100 850 0101 German 0110 865 0111 Swiss 1000 852 1001 French 1010 863 1011 Italian 1100 437 1101 Swedish 1110 British 1111 US English Q Always 0 Q 1 Blow hole Sensing...

Page 78: ...YY W return 31 Show Clock This command will send the date and time to the serial port 32 Reset Machine Restores printer to power up settings Also used to set the EEPROM fields in memory Section 5 3 3...

Page 79: ...s to the printer the end of the label fields and precedes the text fields in a format file 57 Enter Label Format Mode This tells the printer that information for a label is following XX 58 Process Sav...

Page 80: ...XX 85 Load increment decrement step value This is the value that the single serial number is incremented or decremented 86 Single Serial Number Status 0 Disable increment and decrement 1 Enable increm...

Page 81: ...after copies count 3 Advance when idle 98 Peel and Dispense Mode Section 2 1 2 0 Turn off peel and dispense mode 1 Turn on peel and dispense mode 2 Custom Applicator Mode peel and dispense with no de...

Page 82: ...r memory not the size of unused User Memory which can still be obtained by the D101 command 106 Load font or graphic 161 RAM checksum control If enabled this command will cause the printer to verify t...

Page 83: ...SWITCHES Hard Switch 1 123456 xxxxxx 0 No Parity 1 Enable Parity 0 Odd Parity 1 Even Parity 0 8 Data Bits 1 7 Data Bits Baud Rate Select 000 300 Baud 100 600 Baud 010 1200 Baud 110 2400 Baud 001 4800...

Page 84: ...Quick Reference Command Summary Appendix A 48 466 Operators Manual 78...

Page 85: ...r Y Direction 27 Character Spacing 26 28 52 55 57 59 Cleaning Instructions 9 Clear Text 35 50 70 Clock 21 28 41 42 72 73 Contrast 3 8 38 62 72 Control Codes 14 31 34 50 69 how to use 31 Default Label...

Page 86: ...3 Printing Commands 39 Reset 7 33 35 72 Resolution 1 3 Revision Number 7 72 Serial Number 7 39 43 44 74 Serial Port 11 12 32 34 36 42 45 46 72 73 75 76 Speed 1 3 13 15 18 19 21 38 48 62 73 Status Lab...

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