Specifications

Basic Command
Syntax
Each com mand con sists of one or two ASCII
(case sen si tive) al pha char ac ters to iden tify the
spe cific com mand de sired. Some com mands
re quire one or more ad di tional pa ram e ters to
sup ply the printer with suf fi cient in for ma tion to
com plete the com mand. Re fer to Fig ure 1- for
the ba sic com mand syn tax.
Each com mand line must be ter mi nated with a
Line Feed (LF) char ac ter (Dec. 10). Most PC
based sys tems send CR/LF when the En ter key
is pressed. The Car riage Re turn (CR) char ac ter
is ig nored by the printer and can not be used in
place of LF.
Command Editor One method to cre ate com mand files is through
an ASCII based text ed i tor. In the DOS en vi ron -
ment, MS-DOS EDIT or BRIEF are good
choices. In the Win dows en vi ron ment,
TextPad
®
for Win dows is a good choice and is
avail able for down load of a free eval u a tion
copy at: www.textpad.com
To ex e cute the file, use the ed i tor’s print com -
mand or from the DOS prompt, use the COPY
com mand to send the file di rectly to the printer.
An ex am ple of the use of the COPY com mand
is:
COPY “FILE NAME.EXT” LPT1¿
or
COPY FILE NAME.EXT” COM1¿
For more in for ma tion on the use of the COPY
com mand, re fer to your DOS soft ware man ual.
Con fig ure the COM port to match the printer’s
se rial port set ting (typ i cally set to de faults). See
the Y com mand in sec tion 2 for de tails.
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Command Parameters Command
Specific
Data
WRITE TEXT
Command Name
Figure 1-1
Basic Command
Syntax