Appendix

C

PrimeraProÕs

Printer

Commands

and Control

Codes

This section contains a summary of the PrimeraPro Color PrinterÕs commands and control codes. These commands are used mainly by those who wish to drive the printer from specific applications and from operating systems other than Windows. For more information on printer commands and control codes, contact FARGOÕs Technical Support Group at (612)

941-0050.

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A. Standard Text Printing

B. Wax Thermal Color Output

Whenever standard ASCII (ASCII 32-127) data is sent to the printer and SW2 is ON, PrimeraPro will print out all such data as text. Therefore, SW2 must be ON in order to print from the DOS prompt. The resident bit-mapped font is Letter Gothic 12 cpi. A complete list of the standard characters contained in this resident font is on the self-test printout. Alternate country characters are enabled by selecting the proper DIP switches as listed in Appendix A, Table A-2. A complete listing of the characters available along with country selections are listed in Appendix A, Table A-3. This mode is

enabled only with Switch #2 ON.

The following is a summary of printer commands for color output:

1.Start of Graphics: $1B $00 $FF R H

R is a hexadecimal number designating a ribbon type.

$31 = 3-color

$32 = monochrome $33 = 4-color

H is a hexadecimal number designating a printer heat setting. Range is 1 to 96; $50 is nominal. Use less than $50 for lighter print, higher than $50 for darker print.

$20 = 1 $21 = 2

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$7E = 95 $7F = 96

2.Start of Panel: $86 C

C is a hexadecimal number designating a color panel.

$30 = yellow $31 = magenta $32 = cyan $33 = black

3.Raster Graphics Line: $85 R bb..b 00

R is a hexadecimal number from $00 to $FF designating the number of times, 1 to 256, to repeat this raster line.

b is raster graphics bytes

■If the first byte is less than $80 it represents a count of repeated bytes, i.e. $41 $42 denotes a $42 repeated 65 times.

■If the first byte is greater than $80 it represents a count of unrepeated bytes, i.e. $83 $41 $42 $43 denotes the three hexadecimal values $41 $42 $43.

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76500, 76505, 76502, 76503, 76504 specifications

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