Datamax-O'Neil PrintPAD AN-09 (Easy Print) - Manual

AN-09 (Easy Print)
December 6, 2005
HOW TO SELECT BAR CODES IN EASY PRINT MODE
All bar codes in O’Neil thermal printers are resident in the printer and do not need to be downloaded. Bar Codes are
selected when you create a field entry for an Easy Print print job. In each field entry you need to specify the bar code you
want to print. To print using Easy Print, the command is PRINT and the DATA is a succession of descriptors for each
field, or “thing” to be printed (whether the “thing” is text, bar code, or graphic). Optional global parameters affect the entire
print job.
{PRINT<,GLOBALPARAMETERS>:
[FIELD 1]
•
[FIELD n]
}
Each field, regardless of what is to be printed is virtually identical. If a field is to contain a bar code, then the bar code
must be selected for that field. Each FIELD has the form:
@ROW,COL:NAME|DATA|
Begins with an “@” (0x40)
Is followed by WHERE the data is to be printed (ROW,COL). The row and column are always followed by a
colon “:” (0x3A)
That is followed by HOW is to be printed. In this case, since we are printing bar code we must include the
Easy Print name for that bar code (from the documentation as well as printed on the self test)
That is followed by WHAT is to be printed which is the DATA to be printed. Data is always delimited by a
vertical bar (0x7C) before and after the data. Optionally, a comma “,” (0x2C) can follow HOW to be printed for
modifiers (or “field parameters”) for that FIELD. Although optional and a bar code will print even without field
parameters, to get the bar code to look the way you need it to look, you will probably need to use field
parameters.
The Easy Print name for the bar codes that are present in the printer are shown on the self test. The exact list of bar
codes may vary from version to version of printer:
Available Bar Codes:
*---DESCRIPTION----* *--NAMES---*
INTLV 2of5 ratio 2:1 BCI25 (8CH)
CODE 128 (AUTO A-C) BC128 (91H)
EAN-128 (AUTO A-C) EA128 (92H)
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PDF-417 CLUSTERS 036 PD417 (99H)
CODE 93 BAR CODE 2:1 BC093 (82H)