Black Box A/C-7P RO, A/C-7S RO manual Advanced Features, Command Pass-Thru

A/C-7P RO, A/C-7S RO

6. Advanced Features

There are several advanced features in the A/C-7 RO for accessing special functions of the printers, which are not normally available on the IBM system printers:

•Command Pass-Thru™

•Custom User Strings

•SCS Mode Transparent Data

•Bar Code Printing

•Color Printing

•I-O Graphics Language™

Each of these features is described below.

6.1 Command Pass-Thru™

The Command Pass-Thru feature allows access to all of the built-in features of your printer, even if these features aren’t normally available through the host software. Command Pass-Thru lets you place printer-specific command sequences into the data sent to the printer. The A/C-7 RO recognizes these special sequences and “passes the command through” to the printer. The steps below describe how to use Command Pass-Thru.

1.Find the command for the print feature in the printer’s user’s guide.

2.Convert the printer command to hexadecimal.

3.Place the beginning delimiter &% (or the custom delimiter as defined with command 40) in the document at the point you want the feature to take effect. This signals the start of the print feature. Enter the beginning printer command, then enter the ending delimiter &% (or the custom delimiter as defined with command 39). No spaces are allowed.

4.Move the cursor to the point in the text where you want to end the print feature. Enter the delimiter followed by the ending printer command and then the delimiter again, into the document.

For example:

The command ESC &d0D begins underlining and ESC &d@ ends underlining. First convert the start command to the hexadecimal 1B 26 64 30 44 and the ending command to 1B 26 64 40. And, if the delimiter is the default &% (hex 50 6C), then enter the commands as follows:

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