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Intermec Fingerprint 6.13 – Programmer's Guide
11. PRINTING CONTROL, cont'd.
1. Paper Feed, cont'd.
The relation between paper and printhead when the PRINTFEED
statement is executed decides all positioning along the Y-axis, i.e.
along the paper web. Likewise, the relation between the paper and
the cutting edge when a CUT statement is executed decides where
the paper will be cut off.
In some applications, it is essential that the printout is delivered
immediately after the printing has been triggered, e.g. by an external
device, see chapter 7.10. The PRINTFEED NOT statement is used
for such purposes.
PRINTFEED NOT
This statement does not produce any printout, but prepares the
printer by preprocessing as much of the label layout as the size of
image buffer allows. Thus the printing can start as soon as a
PRINTFEED statement is executed. The larger the image buffer,
the more processing time is saved.
The following instructions are used in connection with the actual
printing:
CUT Activates the optional paper cutter.
CUT ON/OFF Enables/disables automatic cut-off opera-
tion in connection with each PRINTFEED
statement.
LTS& ON/OFF Enables/disables the label-taken sensor.
PRINT KEY ON/OFF Enables/disables PRINTFEED execution by
means of the <Print> key.
PRINTFEED Prints a single label, ticket, tag or piece of
strip, or a batch of labels, tickets etc.
CUT
Activates the optional paper cutter. As opposed to the CUT ON/
OFF statement (see below), this statement allows you to control the
cutter independently from the PRINTFEED statements. Since
there is a longer distance from the printhead to the cutting edge than
to the tear-off edge, the paper feed will need to be adjusted by means
of the Start- and Stopadjust setup or FORMFEED statements.
CUT ON/OFF
Enables/disables automatic cut-off initiated by each PRINTFEED
statement and also allows you to decide the distance in dots by
which the paper will be fed out before cutting and pulled back
afterwards.
2. Preparing the Printing
3. Printing
Continued!