58 • Custom Receipts and Labels User Manual and Technical Guide The O'Neil microFlash Series of Printers
Easy Print Mode
Easy Print is the easiest of all possible modes of printing. It uses
“English-like” commands. You can go to Easy Print from Line Printer
Mode by entering an ESC EZ.
Easy Print Mode allows you to design a custom receipt, ticket or report
with borders, lines, stored graphics, logos, bar codes and text in any
arrangement or rotation to suit your needs. Unlike Line Printer Mode,
Easy Pr int allow s you to use stored gra phics. Thus , anythi ng you prin t
will be printed lightning fast. You can create images that are missing
only variable data, which will be supplied when the image is printed.
The microFlash can store from one to 100 different formats in internal
memory, depending on the size of the format and the amount of memory
available in your microFlash (1M or 4M).
The printed receipt might contain your company logo at the top, a
signature line at the bottom and an identifying bar code in the middle.

Easy Print Command G en eral Format

There are four things to remember about all Easy Print Commands.
1) They all look like this: {Command:Info rmation} where
“information” is the set of instructions (if any) the printer needs to
carry out a command.
2) For some commands, no “information” is necessary in the sense
used above.
3) For some commands, the information the printer needs is somewhat
more complex, e.g. the Print Command.
4) For some commands, there are “global options” which modify the
entire command.
Always use Easy Print for graphics you will use multiple times, such as a
compan y logo. By s toring a gr aphic in fl ash memor y, you mini mize
communications between the host computer, thus increasing your print
speed. Your hand-held computer sends only the variable data to the
printer in order to print receipts.
If the printer is asleep, null characters must precede any Easy Print or
Line Printe r commands. If the printer is awake, it does not need null
characters in either mode.