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TTPM2 Installation and Programming Manual
September, 99
The variable information additions to the previous example are:
!"#+#$&'$
This defines a variable text field that will be filled with data sent to the printer
prior to the print command. The contents of the field will be erased after
printing. The field definition, however, is not erased.
"
These are the characters that will be printed in the variable text field defined
above.
/#####"
0000015
is the data string to be encoded on the magnetic stripe. !M in-
structs the printer to use track 2, and ISO code the message with a density
of 75 bits/inch.
To print and encode a document with the seat number 16 all we have to do is to send the
following to the printer:
/#####
This will then produce the following printout.
Figure 25. Printout example
This Demonstration Show will, of course, be held at many different locations and at differ-
ent dates and times. It is therefore necessary to define variable information print fields for
seat number, place, date, and time.