Intermec PF4I manual Description of EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial

Chapter 1—Introduction

Description of EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial

The EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial is a sturdy industrial ther- mal transfer printer with a printhead resolution of 8 dots/mm = 203.2 dot/inch (standard) or 11.81 dots/mm = 300 dpts/inch (option) and a maximum print width of 104 mm (4.095 inches) or 105.7 mm (4.161 inches) respectively. It offers a large number of useful features, such as:

•Flash memory SIMMs for firmware, fonts, bar codes, and application programs

•Built-in CompactFlash memory card adapter

•Built-in RS-232 and USB interfaces

•Provision for extra interface boards including wired and wireless EasyLAN connections

•Keyboard and display with backlight for improved user interface.

A large number of factory-installed or field-installable options are avail- able, so the printer can be configured for a wide range of applications. See Chapter 9 and Appendix A for more information.

The EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial supports the unique and flex- ible Intermec Fingerprint v8.20 programming language, which allows the user or third-party developer to create custom-made application pro- grams and label formats in a BASIC-like environment.

The printer is also designed to work with the Intermec Direct Proto- col programming language, the Intermec InterDriver and Intermec Labelshop. The InterDriver allows you to print labels from standard MS Windows applications, for example Microsoft Office.

The EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial supports 15 scaleable Uni- code TrueType and TrueDoc fonts as standard. Additional fonts can be downloaded into the printer’s Flash memory, or be plugged in using a CompactFlash card. The Unicode standard allows the use of special char- acters for various languages including non-Latin fonts, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and similar.

A version of EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial, that supports the Intermec Programming Language (IPL), is described in a special User’s Guide.

2 Intermec EasyCoder PF4i Compact Industrial—User’s Guide (Fingerprint)