SATO CX208/212 manual Printing with the Parallel Port, Printing with the RS232 Port

CX208/212 Programming Guide

2.If you are using the printer’s RS232 interface, it is necessary to set the COM port on the PC such that the CTS and DSR signals will be ignored. Send your OPEN “COM” statement in the following way:

OPEN “COM1:9600,E,8,1,CS,DS” AS #1

This sets the RS232 communication parameters of the host PC’s COM1 port for 9600 baud, Even parity, 8 Data bits, 1 Stop bit and directing the port to ignore the CTS and DSR control signals.

3.You may want to minimize keystrokes and program size by assigning the <ESC> character to a string variable since this character is used quite often.

The following two examples in BASIC show a typical example using these hints. Both of these examples use the Standard Protocol codes.

Printing with the Parallel Port

5	REM Parallel Example	Identifies the program as a parallel port
		print label. The “REM” prevents this data
		from being sent to the printer and
		displays it only on the screen.
10	E$=CHR$(27)	Sets the “E$” string as an <ESC>
		character
20	WIDTH “LPT1:”,255	Sets the width of the output to 255
		characters
30	LPRINT E$;"A";	Sends an “<ESC>A” command code to
		the LPT1 parallel port
40	LPRINT E$;"H400";E$;"V100";E$;"WL1SATO";	Sends the data “SATO” to be to be
		placed 400 dots horizontally and 100
		dots vertically on the label and printed in
		the “WL” font.
50	LPRINT E$;"Q1";	Instructs the printer to print one label.
60	LPRINT E$; “Z”;	Tells the printer that the last command
		has been sent. The printer can now
		create and print the job.

Printing with the RS232 Port

5	REM RS232 Example	Identifies the program as a RS232 port
		print label. The “REM” prevents this data
		from being sent to the printer and
		displays it only on the screen.
10	E$=CHR$(27)	Sets the “E$” string as an <ESC>
		character.
20	OPEN “COM1:9600,N,8,1,CS,DS” AS #1	Opens the COM1 port for output and
		sets the parameters as 9600 baud, No
		parity, 8 Data bits, 1 Stop bit and
		instructs the port to ignore the CTS and
		DSR control signals.
30	PRINT #1,CHR$ (2);	Sends an <STX> (ASCII Code a
		decimal “2”) to the printer instructing it to
		prepare to receive a message.

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