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SHADING PATTERN SUPPLEMENT
(Not available on 22/24/26)
The ability to shade the ticket with different patterns is available on the 44 and 46 printer. There are around
twenty patterns presently stored in the printer. More patterns will probably be added in the future. Also, we
intend to allow the customer to download their own patterns. The following commands and examples
demonstrate the SHADING function of the printer.
SHADE PATTERN IN BACKGROUND - <PAB>
The shading can be either in the foreground or the background. This command causes the shading to occur in
the background. This is the default setting for the printer.
SHADE PATTERN IN FOREGROUND - <PAF>
The shading can be either in the foreground or the background. This command causes the shading to occur in
the foreground.
SHADE PATTERN # - <PA#>
The number sent is the pattern that you want to shade with. See the chart below for the preliminary list of
patterns available. This may change slightly in the future. Pattern 14 is the default setting
Pattern #
0 - white 10 - white 20 - vertical lines
1 - very light course dot pattern 11 - very light fine dot pattern 21 - horizontal lines
2 - light course dot pattern 12 - light fine dot pattern 22 - forward diagonal lines
3 - light - medium course dot pattern 13 - light - medium fine dot pattern 23 - backward diagonal lines
4 - medium course dot pattern 14 - medium fine dot pattern 24 - square grid
5 - dark - medium course dot pattern 15 - dark - medium fine dot pattern 25 - diagonal grid
6 - dark course dot pattern 16 - dark fine dot pattern
7 - open 17 - open
8 - open 18 - open
9 - black 19 - black
ENABLE SHADING - <ES>
This starts the shading of all the following data until the disable shading command.
DISABLE SHADING - <DS>
This ends the shading of the data.
Note: When background shading text, the entire character boxsize is shaded. You can adjust this by using the
boxsize command. Also, due to the special dot history algorithms used by the printer to control print intensity
some patterns will print slightly lighter or darker depending on their rotations.