User`s manual

Chapter 2

General Commands

A1aaaabbbb – Media Size

This command can be used to set the media size. It moves the default origin

towards the left, and causes the page-bitmap to clip at the specified length.

Without this command, the width is equal to the maximum width, and the

length is the maximum length. The maximum length on SATO printers is by

default 7 inches (<ESC>AR cmd), can be expanded to 49.2 inches with the

<ESC>EX0 command.

NOTE:

STGL has the ability to set the maximum physical page-length in the

Media-Size menu. This value is used when no AR, EX0 or A1

command is present in the host data. On continuous media, the

actual printed page length depends on the size of the printed data.

The printer will feed as long as there is data to print, up to a maximum

of the current physical page length. On gapped media, the feed

length is determined by the gap detection.