Monarch 9460 PRINTER PROCEDURES

Printer Procedures 3-1

PRINTER PROCEDURES

Applications should be written so that they run continuously when the machine is on. However, there

may be instances where you need to “go behind the scenes” to troubleshoot the printer, reload an

application, perform maintenance or set parameters.

Displaying the Ready Prompt

Before doing anything, you must display the Ready prompt on the printer.

Ready

p X

How you do this depends on whether the printer has an application loaded.

No Application

When there is no application in the printer, the Ready prompt appears automatically when you turn

on the printer.

Loaded Application

To display the Ready prompt with a loaded application:

1. Turn on the printer. In a moment, the battery charge indicator appears.

E B F

2. Press the F key with the batter charge indicator on the screen. The following menu appears:

Start Appl.

Online

E D

3. Choose Online. The Ready prompt appears.

NOTE: Online is different from Online Diagnostics in the tool box.

Accessing the Toolbox

You may need to run diagnostic tests, perform maintenance or set parameters on the printers. To do

this, access the toolbox, as follows:

1. From the Ready prompt, press the left A button (under the p icon).

Ready

p X

2. The battery charge indicator appears.

E B F

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Contents

Main Page TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page Page OVERVIEW How to Use this Manual A Review of Terms Page USING THE SOFTWARE System Requirements Quick Reference Operators Handbook Installing the Software Getting Started Page Saving a File About Projects 1. 2. 3. Building Projects Changing the Download Settings If you select COM1 - COM4: 4. If you select LPT1 LPT2: 5. Downloading a Project Editing Existing Projects Page PRINTER PROCEDURES Displaying the Ready Prompt No Application Loaded Application 1. Loading Applications Restarting Existing Applications Loading New Applications PROGRAM STRUCTURE Functions Starting a Script Files and Buffers Lookup Table Definition Temporary Storage Definition Printer Definition Scope of Field Names Script Flow Control Comments in a Script Data Storage Data Coding COMMAND REFERENCE Programming Conventions Field Names Keywords Page Special Characters Script Flow When a label is NOT defined... When a label is defined... Functional Relationships Math Commands Script Control Commands Compiler Directives Data Manipulation Commands File Management Commands Input/Output Commands ADD APPVERSION ARGREAD ASC AUTOSTART AVAILABLEDATA BITCLEAR BITMASK BITSET BITSHIFT BITTEST BSEARCH CALL param1, param2, ,paramX Example 1 Param param Page CHARTYPE CHECK Page CHR CLEAR item Example 2 Example 1 Item CLOSECOMM COMPARE CONCAT CSTRIP DATATYPE DEC DEFINE Field-type data-typ field-type Data-type Page DELAY DISABLE DIVIDE ENABLE EXIT FETCH FIELDLEN FIXDATA Buffer-field1 Example Buffer Field1 GENERATE GET HOTKEY IF buffer-field2 Buffer-fields buffer-fields Page INC INCLUDE INSERT JUMP label Example LABELCOUNT LEFT LINKFILE file-name Example 1 format-name\file-name LOCATE LOWER LSTRIP MACRO Page MID MOVE Page MULTIPLY OPENCOMM PAD PARSE , valid label Example valid labels Invalid PRINT QUERY Page READ RESTORESCREEN RETURN RIGHT RSTRIP SAVESCREEN SEEK SUB SWITCH Page SYSSET parameter2 function, parameter1, and parameter2 parameter2 parameter1 Function/Description Parameter1 Parameter2 Example TOKEN TSTRIP UPPER VALIDATE , valid label Example valid labels Invalid WHILE buffer-field1 comparison buffer-field2 Comparison Buffer-field Page Page SAMPLE SCRIPT A Page Page Page INDEX A B C D F G H I J Q R S T