Specifications
Appendix
One method of creating a form feed after each address is to turn on a feature called Line
Mode. Line Mode will automatically force a form feed after a specific number of lines that you
set up in the menu of the printer. For instance, if every address in a list has four lines, you would
program in four lines in the Line Mode selection of the DA-590 menu and the printer would
form feed after printing four lines.
A second method is to send the following three characters %0C (the per cent symbol
followed by a zero and a capital or uppercase letter C) either before or after each address.
When using this method, the menu choice HEX TO ASCII must be turned ON in the printer.
There should be no other instances of the % symbol in the list. Occasionally the % symbol is
used to indicate c/o for in-care-of. These other % symbols must be removed from the
database. With the HEX TO ASCII feature turned on in the printer, the % symbol is
interpreted as a trigger symbol and the two characters following the symbol are interpreted as
hexadecimal characters. 0C hexadecimal is a form feed.
A third method is placing the < (less than) symbol before the first character of an address and
the > (greater than) symbol after the last character in the address. For this method to work the
Delimiter < > menu selection must be turned ON in the DA-590.
If you have to select a one up label format in a program, rather than a plain document, you can
use any of the above methods.
Windows®:
Windows programs work a bit differently. The basic information outlined above still applies.
Generic/Text Only is the driver of choice in Windows. The Windows95 Generic/Text Only
driver has bugs in it. We recommend that the Windows 3.x Generic/Text Only driver,
TTY.DRV , be copied over the Windows95 Generic/Text Only driver of the same name. If
the Generic/Text Only driver has been loaded, it can be found in the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM
subdirectory. If it has not been loaded you will have to load it from your original Windows
diskettes before copying it.
In most Windows. programs, a page break creates an acceptable form feed for the DA-590
printer. All that is usually necessary is to have one address per page. Be careful not to send an
additional form feed from the your program.
If necessary, the HP DeskJet 500 driver may be used with the DA-590. A few Windows.
programs will not work with the Generic/Text Driver, such as Microsoft Access and ACT!
for Windows. In these cases you will have to use the HP DeskJet 500 driver. Once again
we are finding that the Windows95 HP DeskJet 500 driver has bugs in it. The same
procedure as used for the Generic/Text Only driver will work here as well.