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Summary of Firmware Release

V68.18.1Z

05/09/2013 P1040502-015

New SGD Parameter media.feed_skip and CPCL Registration Error

This SGD parameter controls the number of dot rows to skip after the trailing edge of the black

bar or gap, for CPCL labels only. This parameter is the saved (after a power cycle) version of

the second parameter in the CPCL SETFF command (see the SETFF command description in

the CPCL programming manual for more details). The default value is 5.

Note that in this release a 4 dot row registration error was corrected for CPCL labels when

using black bar media. Starting in this release, CPCL labels will begin printing

4 dot rows (~ 0.5mm) closer to top edge of the label. This is likely not visible to most users.

However, if this should not be the case the media.feed_skip parameter can be used to

compensate. To do so set the value to “9”, and this will add back the extra 4 dot rows removed

by the firmware. Since this parameter does not exist in earlier versions of firmware, adding

this setting to a configuration file would have no impact for those versions. Such a change

would allow for common registration behavior across firmware versions.

Potential Issue When Updating Firmware to V68.18.3Z

Updating printers that were initially built with firmware prior to this release may cause the

printer to feed a label on power up. Printers originally built with the V68.18.3Z re- lease will

not have this behavior. To correct this issue such that no feed is performed at power up send

the following commands (including CR/LF after each line) to the printer:

^XA^JUF^XZ

^XA^JUS^XZ

Note that this will reset the printer’s configuration. Any previously installed customer unique

configuration commands will need to be re-applied.

V68.18.1Z

Release Date: 7 June 2012

Enhancements

• Add support for 802.11 n radio, SKU QNx-xxNxxxxx-xx (US and CA only)

• Improved USB performance

• Improved 802.11 and Ethernet file download performance

• Printer no longer reboots when docked or undocked from Ethernet cradle

• SGD: added file.dir_format command, see details below

! U1 getvar "media.feed_skip"

! U1 setvar "media.feed_skip" "9"