Specifications

TD Command - Date Recall & Format Layout
Description Use this com mand to de fine the date for mat and
print date data. The TD vari able is in serted
within a Text or Bar Code com mand's DATA
pa ram e ter to print the date. The TD vari able
sup ports off set ting day by up to 253 days (see
ex am ples be low for us age).
This com mand only works in print ers equipped with
the Real Time Clock time and date op tion.
Syntax TDp
1
[|p
2
|p
3
]
Parameters p
1
, p
2
, p
3
= The pa ram e ters de scribe the
for mat of the date dis play. At lease one
pa ram e ter must be sup plied. Each pa -
ram e ter can be any of the ac cept able
val ues listed be low.
Value De scrip tion
y2
Year displayed as 2 digits (95)
y4
Year displayed as 4 digits (1995)
me
Month displayed as 3 letters (JAN)
mn
Month displayed as 2 digits (01)
dd
Day displayed as 2 digits (15)
| = Sep a ra tor char ac ter. The sep a ra tor may
be any ASCII char ac ter value be tween
032 and 063. The sep a ra tor char ac ter is
printed be tween the re sults of each of
the sup plied pa ram e ters.
Power-Up De fault For mat - mn-dd-y4
Examples: If the cur rent date is Jan u ary 15, 2000:
TDy2/me/dd¿ :00/JAN/15
TDdd-me-y4¿ :15-JAN-2000
TDdd,mn,y4¿ :15,01,2000
TDdd/me/y2 :15/09/00
A100,100,0,4,1,2,N,"To day is"TD :To day is 15/09/00
A100,200,0,4,1,2,N,"Next Week-"TD+07 :Next Week-22/09/00
A100,300,0,4,1,2,N,"Next Month-"TD+30 :Next Month-15/10/00
A100,400,0,4,1,2,N,"Two Months-"TD+61 :Two Months-15/11/00
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