User`s manual

Chapter 1 The T5000 Series Label Printer

Standard Features

• Your thermal printer has the standard LinePrinter Plus

(LP+) emulation

which provides direct compatibility with Printronix P-series printers. In

addition, the printer has co-resident IGP

/PGL

and IGP/VGL emulations

which provide printer system commands for text, barcodes, graphics,

lines, and boxes.

• Direct thermal printing and thermal transfer (thermal transfer is not

supported on 4 inch DT models).

• Standard interfaces:

• Serial: RS-232 and RS-422

• Parallel: Centronics

-compatible parallel, IEEE

1284 compliant

parallel

NOTE: The interface cable needed to connect the printer to the host device is

supplied by the user.

• Supports over 20 types of bar codes.

• Download fonts, forms, and graphics to printer memory.

The standard resident fonts are Letter Gothic Bold (#93779), Courier Bold

(#93952), CG Triumvirate Bold Condensed (#92250), OCR-A (#90993),

and OCR-B (#91409). All other fonts are optional.

• High resolution printhead for sharp graphics and text.

• Label Taken Sensor for detecting removal of labels in Tear-Off mode (and

in Peel-Off mode when optional rewinder is installed).

• Tear-Off mode for positioning the label at the tear-off position and

detecting its removal before printing the next label.

• Tear-Off Strip mode for printing a specified number of labels and

positioning the last label at the tear-off position.

• 8MB DRAM memory.

• 4MB Flash memory.

• Auto Label Mapping

for compatibility with programs written for Printronix

Line Matrix printers.

• Ventless system for operation in environments with airborne particulate

matter without compromising performance.