Selecting Emulations
The emulations offered by Printer Mobile Thermal Printers allow for a great deal of language commonality
between the various series of Printek printers as well as compatibility with systems and software that have been
created for printers offered by other manufacturers.
The Printek MtP Series printers offer Printek, O’Neil, ZPL-II and CPCL emulations plus a Printek Mt3
emulation to allow the printers to work with existing three inch applications.
The printer’s default emulation may be selected through the control panel set up as described in the printer’s
Operator’s Manual. To select an emulation temporarily, the host system may send an escape sequence as
described below.
Select Emulation ESC ESC n
This command selects emulation mode n by which future commands will be interpreted as described in the
following table. The selected mode will be in effect until another Select Emulation command is received or
until the printer is reset via an escape sequence appropriate for the current emulation, or the printer is manually
reset by entering/exit the front panel set up mode or cycling power on the printer.
Once the emulation has been selected, please refer to the section of this manual that describes the commands
available for that emulation.
Example: The following escape sequence will set the printer to Mt3 Emulation.
Escape Sequence: ESC ESC 4
Hexadecimal: 1B 1B 04
n Emulation
0 Test (reserved for factory use)
1 Printek Emulation
2 O’Neil Emulation
3 ZPL-II Emulation
4 Mt3 Emulation
5 CPCL Emulation
6 Hex Dump Mode
? Previously Selected Emulation
@ Default Emulation
If more than one emulation has been selected, ESC ESC ? will return to the previously selected emulation. This
is particularly useful when the previous emulation is unknown. Please beware that the memory (stack) is only
one level deep.
ESC ESC @ will return to the default emulation, as specified by the “Emulation” value in the Interface setup
menu.
Note: Numeric values may be specified as either a binary or an ASCII value. As such, the example above
may be sent as either 1B 1B 04 or 1B 1B 34.
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