Zebra Technologies EPL2 - Manual (Page 8)

Command
Conventions
The manual uses the following typographic
conventions to describe commands.
Example Description
A Commands (Case Sensitive)
p
1
,p
2
,p
3
Required parameters
[p
1
, p
2
, p
3
] Optional parameters
{Choice 1|Choice 2}
Indicates a mandatory choice be-
tween two or more items. You
must include one of the items un-
less all of the items are also en-
closed in square brackets.
This text should be →
on one line
The line-continuation character
(→) indicates that code is contin-
ued from one line to the next and
should be typed all on one line.
↵ Line feed character.
“NAME”
The name of a form or graphic in
double quote marks.
“DATA”
The text or bar code data in dou-
ble quote marks.
The (\) character designates that
the character following is a literal
and will encode into the data
field. Refer to the following exam-
ples:
To Print Enter into Data Field
” \"
“Company” \"Company\"
\ \\
\code\ \\code\\
“PROMPT”
An ASCII text field that will be
transmitted to the host (via the se-
rial interface) each time this com-
mand is executed.
Attention!!
All commands and alpha character command
parameters are case sensitive!
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