User's Manual Part 1

Intermec EasyCoder F4 – Installation & Operation Ed. 2 7

Chapter 1

Introduction

The EasyCoder F4 is a sturdy medium-duty direct thermal printer

with a printhead resolution of 8 dots/mm (203.2 dpi) and a maximum

print width of 104.0 mm (4.095 inches). It offers a large number

of useful facilities, such as....

• Flash memory SIMMs for ﬁ rmware, fonts, bar codes and

application programs

• Built-in memory card adapter

• Built-in USB and RS 232C interfaces

• Provision for one extra interface board

• Bar code wand interface for easy setup

• Keyboard and display with backlight for improved user

interface.

The EasyCoder F4 supports the unique and flexible Intermec

Fingerprint 7.31 programming language, which allows the user to

create custom-made application programs and label layouts in a

Basic-like environment. It is also designed to work with the printer

drivers for various versions of Microsoft Windows or with the

Intermec Direct Protocol programming language. The Windows

drivers allows you to design labels using standard PC applications,

e.g. Microsoft Ofﬁ ce.

The EasyCoder F4 supports 15 scalable Unicode TrueType and

TrueDoc fonts as standard. Additional fonts can be downloaded

into the printer's Flash memory, or be plugged in using a memory

card. The Unicode standard allows the use of special characters

for various languages including non-Latin fonts, such as Cyrillic,

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew etc.