Avery Dennison Monarch 9855 MLI - Manual

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MONARCH® printers or the MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER™.
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M L I Q U I C K R E F E R E N C E
Avery Dennison’s MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER™ (MLI™) and this Quick Reference
are intended to help you use the MONARCH® 9855™ printer, which was set up for use with ZIH
Corp.’s ZPL II®. If you have any questions about using a MONARCH® printer with these data
streams, please contact your Monarch representative.
This Quick Reference lists the ZPL II® commands that the 9855 printer can interpret with any
special notes, if applicable.
Note:
Information in this document supercedes information in previous versions. Check our
Web site ( www.monarch.com ) for the latest release and documentation information.
S e l e c t i n g t h e I n t e r p r e t e r
When you turn on the printer, you must set
the interpreter to MLI or MPCL to print non-
MLI data streams.
1.
From the Main Menu, select Setup.
2.
Press  or  until you see
SETUP
 Interpreter
3.
Press Enter/Pause.
INTERP RETER
MPCL 
4.
Press  to see MLI, then press
Enter/Pause
.
The printer reboots automatically after
selecting an interpreter. This process
may take several seconds.
When you print test labels with MLI set as
the interpreter, the model number appears
as M9855MLI.
O v e r v i e w o f D i f f e r e n c e s
 ZPL II® formats have a reference point at
the upper left-hand corner of the printed
label. The MONARCH 9855 printer’s
reference point is at the lower left-hand
corner of the printed label.
 The MONARCH 9855 printer is center-
justified and the maximum supply width is
4.2 inches wide. The maximum image
size is 4.0 inches. The printer must be
set for the width of the loaded supply.
See “Entering the Supply Width,” for
more information.
 The MONARCH 9855 printer calibrates
when it receives the first byte of data
from the host or whenever the printhead
is closed.
 The MONARCH 9855 printer using the
MONARCH LANGUAGE
INTERPRETER™ only reports the
following errors: 409-426; 497, 499, and
703-793. Refer to your printer’s
Operator’s Handbook
or the optional
Packet Reference Manual
for
descriptions of these errors.
E n t e r i n g t h e S u p p l y W i d t h
The printer must be set for the width of the
loaded supply. Follow these instructions
any time you load supplies with a different
supply width. After you load supplies, select
Supply Width
from the printer’s Main Menu.
You see
Supply Width
[203/812]: +812
1.
Enter the supply width in dots, where
one inch equals 203 dots. For example,
two-inch wide supply equals 406 dots.
Feed/Cut
acts as a toggle switch to
change the value by 10 or 1. To
make the supply width 711 for 3.5-
inch wide supply (from the default of
812), press  once (the display
shows 811). Press Feed/Cut once
and then press  ten times (the
display shows 711).
2.
After you display the value you want,
press Enter/Pause. You return to the
Main Menu.