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Hermes
Apollo
A-series
This
function is
available
for:
PRODUCT MARKING AND BARCODE IDENTIFICATION
M-series
d -
d
ownload data
The d command is used to download data files to the printer. It is used to download graphics, fonts,
databases and serial files.Two methods are available to download such data to the printer:
1st Method:
The procedure which we highly recommend, unless this requires that the data has to be prepared for
downloading.
2nd Method:
will transmit the data as it is, but it may occasionally misinterpret embedded ESC characters in the
data as a printer command. ( i.e. ESC t would be misinterpreted as memory reset).
When the 2nd method is used it is also not possible to send ESC requests during the download and it
cannot be used in a RS-485 network.
d t;name[SAVE] [B:± value]
CR ESC.binary data ESC.
d t;name[SAVE] [B:± value]
CR ESC:binary data ESCend-of-data
d
= download data
t
= The type of data that will follow, using standard file name extensions:
Possible graphic formats:
BMP -
Windows bitmap format
Monochrome, 256 Colors, 24
Bit Truecolor, plane only,
uncompressed
GIF
-
Graphic Interchange Format
(GIF 87a and GIF 89a)
IMG -
GEM Image format
Monochrome
MAC -
MacPaint format
PCX -
Paintbrush format
Monochrome, 16 and 256
colors
PNG -
Portable Network Graphics
(A-series only)
TIF
-
TIFF Format© Aldus Corp
Monochrome, Greyscale and
and color. ( 4Bit and 8Bit per
pixel, RGB 8 Bit per pixel)-
Compression: Only packbits
and uncompressed.
Vector font formats:
TTF
-
TrueType font format
Database format:
DBF -
dBASE IV Database formats
others:
TMP -
Serial numbering file in ASCII format
Syntax: