User Manual and Technical Gui de The O'Nei l microFlash Series of Printers Definitions • 119
Easy Print Mode
Easy Print is a programming method used to produce receipts and labels
with complex or stored graphics. It allows you to design a custom
receipt, ticket or report with borders, lines, logos, bar codes, text and
stored graphics in any arrangement or rotation to suit your needs.
Field Option
An option used in Easy Print Mode that allows the user to enlarge the
size of a font, bar code or graphic.
Firmware Version
The version of the internal software that controls the microFlash.
Flash Memory
Memory that is programmable and changeable. Flash memory allows a
user to upgrade a printer using a personal computer, whenever it is
necessary to change operating system, fonts, graphics, or configurations.
The user never has to send the printer back to the factory for an update.
The printer never has to wait for a computer to send graphics, since
graphics are stored in flash memory.
Flow Control
A method of controlling the communications between a hand-held
computer and a peripheral device, such as the microFlash.
Format
Refers to the lay-out of the receipt that will be stored for repeated use.
Includes the location of every object on the receipt, such as the bar code,
signature, and graphics. The format is given a name for later reference.
Global Option
An option in Easy Print Mode which allows a user to rotate an image or
stop the paper at a specified number of dot-lines or at a given mark on the
paper.
Handshaking
The method of controlling the communications between a computer and
a peripheral device such as the microFlash.
Infrared
Any for m of w ireles s communi cations .