Printronix T4204 manual Setting The Page Length

C Setting The Page Length

Observe the following considerations when you set the Page Length value (the length of the leading edge to the trailing edge of the label) in the Printer Control menu, or set the Host Forms Length via host software:

•When using continuous media (no gaps, notches, holes, or black marks), the physical page length will be based on the Page Length value in the Printer Control menu or the Host Form Length value sent via host software. The user selected page length will dictate what the physical length will be.

•When using non-continuous media (with gaps, notches, holes, or black marks) the Physical Page Length is established by the distance between the trailing edge of the gap, notch, hole, or black mark.

•Logical Page Length, also refered to as the printer control page length or the Host Form Length, is usually the same measurable length as the Physical Page Length, but it can be programmed to be greater or less than the physical length of the label material installed on the printer. This results in the image being clipped off, moved to the next physical page, or having a blank space on the remaining portion of the physical page.

•In the default case any form or page length sent from an emulation (the ^L or ^H command in VGL and the length defined within the ~CREATE statement in PGL) will be used to force the page length.

•The media sensors (Transmissive or Reflective) are used to detect the Top-of-Form position, based on the trailing edge of the gap, notch, hole, or black mark. If the page length you have selected (either from the secondary control panel or through the host) does not match the physical page length, then the printer will attempt to map the logical page onto the physical page.

If the logical page length is less than the physical page length, the printer will leave white space at the end of the label so that the next logical page will start at the beginning of the next physical page. If the user-selected (logical) page length is greater than the physical page length, the printer will clip the page to fit onto the physical page when the Clip Page option is enabled under the Printer Control menu. In this case, the printable data that was not printed is lost. With Clip Page disabled, the remaining printable data would be printed starting at the Top-of-Form position on the next page, after a paper advance.

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