P-touch Template Manual/ Command Reference
Table Of Contents
- P-touch Template Manual
- P-touch Template Command Reference
- Control Code List
- About P-touch Template
- Static and dynamic commands
- If printing does not begin (main most frequent causes)
- Control Command Details
- ^PT Specify print start trigger selection
- ^PS Specify print start command text string
- ^PC Specify print start received character count
- ^SS Specify delimiter
- ^TS Specify template selection
- ^LS Specify line spacing with line return
- ^CC Change the prefix character
- ^RC Specify line return command text string
- ^CN Specify number of copies
- ^II Initialize
- ^SR Status request
- ^VR Retrieve version Information
- ^CR Line return in object
- ^OS Specify object selection (object number)
- ^ON Specify object selection (object name)
- ^DI Direct object insertion
- ESC ia Specify command mode
- ESC iXT2 Specify print start trigger selection
- ESC iXP2 Specify print start command text string
- ESC iXr2 Specify print start received character count
- ESC iXD2 Specify delimiter
- ESC iXa2 Specify Non-Printed character text strings
- ESC iXi2 Specify command mode
- ESC iXn2 Specify template selection
- ESC iXf2 Change the prefix character
- ESC iXm2 Select character code set
- ESC iXj2 Specify international character set
- ESC iXR2 Specify line return command text string
- ESC iXC2 Specify number of copies
- ESC iXT1 Retrieve select print start trigger items
- ESC iXP1 Retrieve print start command setting text string
- ESC iXr1 Retrieve print start received character count
- ESC iXD1 Retrieve delimiter
- ESC iXa1 Retrieve Non-Printed character text strings
- ESC iXi1 Retrieve command mode setting
- ESC iXn1 Retrieve template selection number
- ESC iXm1 Retrieve character code set
- ESC iXj1 Retrieve international character set setting
- ESC iXf1 Retrieve the prefix character
- ESC iXR1 Retrieve line return command setting text string
- ESC iXC1 Retrieve number of copies
- Character code
- International character set table
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■Relating to bar codes
●Bar codes
· When trying to transfer a template containing a bar code that is not compatible with the
printer, an error will occur while transferring and the template cannot be transferred to the
printer.
The following bar codes are compatible with the
printer.
1D bar codes
CODE39, I-2/5,UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, CODE128, GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128),
CODABAR
2D bar codes
PDF417, QR Code, Micro QR Code, DataMatrix
· If data containing characters incompatible with the protocol are fed into the bar code object,
that bar code object is not printed.
· The bar code size may differ from that in the print result with P-touch Editor.
· Since CODE128/GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128) can easily be printed slightly larger, we
recommend leaving larger margins when creating templates in P-touch Editor.
· If data fed into a bar code in a template created with P-touch Editor causes an extremely
long bar code, the bar code may not be fully printed.
· Do not insert line returns immediately before or immediately after the bar code data.
Otherwise, it will be considered as part of the bar code data. In that case, the bar code will
be created containing the line return code, or the bar code will not be printed since data
incompatible with the bar code protocol is entered.
· A delimiter or print start text string should be entered immediately after the bar code data.
●1D bar codes
· The ratio setting for 1D bar codes specified in P-touch Editor is invalid. Normally, this is
fixed at 3:1.
· A 1D bar code taller than the maximum printing width is converted as follows;
MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663
: taller than 96 mm → 96 mm
MW-145BT
: taller than 69 mm → 69 mm
· The number of characters that can be entered for each protocol is shown below.
CODE39: 1 to 50 characters (not including “*” on both sides)
I-2/5: 3 to 64 characters
EAN-8: 7 characters
EAN-13: 12 characters
UPC-A: 11 characters
UPC-E: 6 characters










