Intermec PF4I manual Media Size

Chapter 6—Setting Up the Printer

Media

The media parameters tell the firmware the characteristics of the media that will be used, so the printout will be positioned correctly and get the best quality possible.

Media Size

The size of the printable area is defined by three parameters; X-Start, Width, and Length.

X-Start

Specifies the position of the origin along the dots on the printhead.

The default X-start value prevents printing outside labels when the liner is slightly wider than the labels. If you want to maximize the print width, reset the X-start value to 0.

By increasing the value for the X-start parameter, the origin will be moved outwards, away from the inner edge of the media path. In other words, the larger X-start value, the wider inner margin and the less avail- able print width.

Width

Specifies the width of the printable area in number of dots from the origin. Thus, the sum of the X-start and width values gives the outer margin of the printable area. The width should be set to prevent printing outside the media, which may harm the printhead.

Length

Specifies the length of the printable area in number of dots from the origin along the Y-coordinate and allocates memory space for two identi- cal image buffers in the printer’s temporary memory.

The size of each buffer can be calculated using this formula:

Buffer size (bits) = [Print length in dots] x [Printhead width in dots]

Note: The temporary memory has other functions that also require some memory space. To obtain a longer print area, the memory can be increased by fitting a larger SDRAM SIMM on the printer’s CPU board as described in the Service Manual.

•The length setup also decides the amount of media feed when using “fix length strip.”

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