Avery 9855 MLI User Manual

MLI QUICK REFERENCE

Avery Dennison’s MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER™ (MLI™) and this Quick Reference

are intended to help you use the MONARCH® 9855™ printer, which was set up for use with ZIH Corp.’s ZPL II®. If you have any questions about using a MONARCH® printer with these data streams, please contact your Monarch representative.

This Quick Reference lists the ZPL II® commands that the 9855 printer can interpret with any

special notes, if applicable.

Note: Information in this document supercedes information in previous versions. Check our

Web site (www.monarch.com

) for the latest release and documentation information.

Selecting the Interpreter

When you turn on the printer, you must set the interpreter to MLI or MPCL to print nonMLI data streams.

1. From the Main Menu, select Setup.

2. Press  or  until you see

SETUP  Interpreter

3. Press Enter/Pause.

INTERP RETER MPCL 

4. Press  to see MLI, then press Enter/Pause.

The printer reboots automatically after selecting an interpreter. This process may take several seconds.

When you print test labels with MLI set as the interpreter, the model number appears

as M9855MLI.

Overview of Differences

 ZPL II® formats have a reference point at

the upper left-hand corner of the printed label. The MONARCH 9855 printer’s reference point is at the lower left-hand corner of the printed label.

 The MONARCH 9855 printer is center-

justified and the maximum supply width is

4.2 inches wide. The maximum image size is 4.0 inches. The printer must be set for the width of the loaded supply. See “Entering the Supply Width,” for more information.

 The MONARCH 9855 printer calibrates

when it receives the first byte of data from the host or whenever the printhead is closed.

 The MONARCH 9855 printer using the

MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER™ only reports the following errors: 409-426; 497, 499, and 703-793. Refer to your printer’s

Operator’s Handbook or the optional Packet Reference Manual for

descriptions of these errors.

Entering the Supply Width

The printer must be set for the width of the loaded supply. Follow these instructions any time you load supplies with a different supply width. After you load supplies, select

Supply Width from the printer’s Main Menu.

You see

Supply Width [203/812]: +812

1. Enter the supply width in dots, where

one inch equals 203 dots. For example, two-inch wide supply equals 406 dots.

Feed/Cut acts as a toggle switch to

change the value by 10 or 1. To make the supply width 711 for 3.5inch wide supply (from the default of

812), press  once (the display

shows 811). Press Feed/Cut once

and then press  ten times (the display shows 711).

2. After you display the value you want, press Enter/Pause. You return to the

Main Menu.

ZPL II is a registered trademark of ZIH Corp. ZIH Corp. and Avery Dennison are not related in any way, and ZIH Corp. has not licensed or otherwise sponsored the MONARCH® printers or the MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER™.

MONARCH , MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, MLI, and 9855 are trademarks of Avery Dennison Corporation.

Interpreted ZPL II® Commands

The following is the list of ZPL II commands interpreted by the MONARCH 9855 printer’s MONARCH LANGUAGE INTERPRETER™.

Imaging

ZPL II Cmds

^A ^DF We only support

^B2 ~DG No rotation of graphics. ^ID ^B3 ~DY No rotation of graphics. ^IL No support for bar

^B7 If the number of rows or

^B8 We support o, h, and f. ~EG

^B9 We support o, h, f, and

^BA ^FD ^LR Applies to text, line, or

^BC We support modes N, A,

^BD We support modes 2, 3,

^BE We support o, h, and f. ^FO ^MM We support t and c. ^BK ^FR Applies to text, line, or

^BL ^FS ^RF No support for ^RFr or

^BM

^BU We support o, h, f, and

^BX The bar code size is

^BY ^FX ^XF ^CF ^GB No support for rounded

~DB No support for double-

Notes:

columns is not specified, the bar code size is different.

and D.

and 4.

The printer only uses one mod-10 check digit.

different. Only use the value of 200 for the error correction level, no rectangular symbols or custom formats.

wide character fonts.

ZPL II Cmds

~EF ^IS No support for bar

^FB Use only for text

^FH ^LS

^FN ^LT

^FT The X and Y

^FV This command works

^FW ^XA

^XZ

Notes:

downloading to RAM.

Graphics cannot be erased from within a format.

justification.

box fields.

coordinates must be specified.

the same as the ^FD command.

corners.

ZPL II Cmds

^GF No rotation of graphics.

~JA

^LH

^MU

^RT Does not read an RFID

^WT Number of retries, etc.

^XG No magnification.

Notes:

codes in images.

box fields.

^RFe.

tag, but is required if an ^HV command is used.

are not used.

Parser

ZPL II Cmds

^CC ~CC ^CM ^CD ~CD

Do not change the delimiter to a period (.) character.

ZPL II Cmds

^CT ~CT

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