EPC1800 SERIES OPERATION MANUAL
[Description]
Each of the counters consist of a 16 bits register except the “Time On” counter that has
32 bits. The transmission of each counter starts by the LSB and ends at MSB. In order
to obtain any counter it is required to send the correspondent command and
immediately read 2 or 4 bytes
(b0, b1,
b2
,
b3
)
depending on the counter required.
Finally in order to obtain the absolute value of the counter proceed as follow:
counter value = 16777216 x
b3
+ 65536 x
b2
+ 256 x
b1
+
b0
[Notes]
●
The “Meters” counter only registers complete meters, any portion of a meter that has
been printed before turning the printer off will be discard.
●
For the “Cuts” counter to increment the full cut or partial cut command has to be sent
to the printer.
●
The maximum number of each counter is 65536 counts except “Time On” counter
that records up to 2
32
seconds → 1193046 hours → 49710 days uninterruptely.
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