Rice Lake Condec UMC600IS User Manual

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Setting Up Custom Transmits (Smart I/O) for the UMC600IS/IQ700IS

Make sure to denote the specific file you are working
on and add some sort of file description. The indicator
formats the output according to the File 7.1 when the
gross weight is on the display. It is used to print the
gross weight only. You should not attempt to print the
tare or net weights in File 7.1 (you must use File 7.2
for gross/tare/net prinouts). If you attempt to print the
net or tare weights from File 7.1, the indicator will
consider that to be an invalid file and print the gross
weight data using its default format.

Open the manual to the Parameter Code Command
Chart (see Table 6 on page 6). This chart lists special
codes that are not actually sent to the printer, but
instead tell the indicator to send one of its internal
parameters such as weight data and time and date. All
of the parameter control codes are numbers above
127. The indicator uses an eight data bit word,
meaning that it can only send ASCII characters 1-127
(0 is a NULL and ignored by the indicator). The
parameter control codes tell the indicator to print one
of the indicator’s parameters or to call one of the
macro files.

At this point, it is recommended that you get your
indicator, printer (hook up per instructions), and
manual and follow along, or read first and then go
through programming with the indicator.

NOTE: Parameters 200-223 are used in the normal
mode.

Enter the Option Configuration Mode, then use the

ZERO

key to advance to Option 7. The display shows

OP7 of

. Press the

GROSS/NET

key to turn Option 7

ON. Press the

TARE

key to advance to File 7.1. Turn

on File 7.1 by pressing the

LB/KG CONV

key. To

access the first line of the file press

1SET POINT

key.

The display shows

01 XXX

. The left two digits show

the line number of your file. The right three digits
display the ASCII equivalent of the character you
enter. Refer to the ASCII Control Code Chart or the
Parameter Control Code Chart for the ASCII Code
you wish to enter. To initiate the print, enter a “Start of
Text" character in line 1. Press

then press

ENT

. (An

alternative way to enter the STX {002} character is to
press

then advance to the next entry by pressing

1SET POINT

, but you will not see the code you just

entered). The display momentarily shows

ENTER

, then

shows

01 002

. Since we want to print Time and Date

with our weight data, press keys

then

ENT

(This tells the indicator to print the time and date as
you have it set up in Option 3) Display shows

02 400

Press

1 SET POINT

to advance to line 3. Time and

date are on one line, so we end it with a Carriage
Return/Line Feed (CR/LF). Press

then

ENT

. The

display shows

03 013

NOTE: Leading zeroes are not required.

Press

1SET POINT

to advance to line 4. The display

shows

04 000

. Press

and

ENT

. The display shows

04 010

. Press

1 SET POINT

for line 5. According to

the Parameter Control Code Chart 200 will print the
weight as we have it set up in parameter 14. Press

and

ENT

. The display shows

05 200.

Advance to

the next line, enter the code for carriage return, next
line is line feed. Now to end this file, press

and

ENT

. To review the file, press the

2 SET POINT

key.

With each press of this key we step back one line.
Check against Table 1.

In the GROSS mode, press

PRINT

to produce a ticket

in this format:

Figure 1. Sampl

Print from File 7.1

NOTE: If the control code 400 is used in a custom
print, you MUST enable and set OPTION 3.

You can readily see that the sample print format
doesn’t exceed 30 lines of code. Let’s add a company
name or logo to the ticket. We can do this by setting
up a MACRO. This MACRO can be called into any
format we set up by using the correct Parameter
Control Code. According to the Parameter Control
Code Chart, if this information is to be used in a print
format, enter a code 600 - call Macro 1.

Line Number

Code

Code Definition

002

STX (start of text)

400

Time and date

013

Carriage return (CR)

010

Line Feed (LF)

200

Gross Wt. “LB/KG GR”

013

Carriage Return (CR)

010

Line Feed (LF)

999

End of file

Table 1. Print File 7.1 (7.1, T/D, Gross Wt.)

6:42 PM 04/16/02
8594 LB GR

This manual is related to the following products:

Condec IQ 700IS