Datamax E4203 manual Preface, Who Should Use This Manual Scope of This Manual

Preface

Who Should Use This Manual

This manual is intended for programmers who wish to create their own label production software. Operators without programming experience may prefer to use a label-creation software package. For programming information on models not covered in this document, a copy may be downloaded from our web site at http://www.datamaxcorp.com.

Scope of This Manual

This manual explains the Datamax Programming Language (DPL) and its related uses in the writing, loading and storing of programs for the control and production of label formats using the Datamax E4203, E4204, and E4304 printers with Application (firmware) Versions 4.06 and above. This manual contains the following chapters and appendices.

PREFACE on page 1

Contents, organization and conventions used in this manual

CONTROL CODES on page 5

Description of the attention-getter characters necessary for the printer to receive a command sequence, and available alternate characters and line terminators.

IMMEDIATE COMMANDS on page 7

Description of the commands, listed alphabetically, that perform status queries and printer control commands.

SYSTEM-LEVEL COMMANDS on page 11

Description of the commands, listed alphabetically, that control the printer and allow scalable font and image downloads.

EXTENDED SYSTEM COMMANDS on page 27

Description of the commands, listed alphabetically, that control the printer.

LABEL-FORMATTING COMMANDS on page 39

Description of commands, listed alphabetically, that control the position of text and images on the media, print or store, and end the formatting process.

FONT-LOADING COMMANDS on page 57

Description of commands, listed alphabetically, used when downloading font data in PCL-4 compatible bit-maps.

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