Brother PJ-663 User Manual

©Copyright 2011 BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.

P-touch Template Manual

Model Name: MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663

Created by: Brother Industries, Ltd.

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Machine Model: MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663

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Contents

Introduction	4
What is P-touch Template?	4
How to use P-touch Template	5
P-touch Template Settings Tool User’s Guide	6
P-touch Template Limitations	11
Precautions	19
Appendix: Specifications	22

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Introduction

This material provides the necessary information for directly controlling the transferred templates in MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663.

This information is provided assuming that the user has full understanding of the operating system being used and basic mastery of programming in a developer's environment.

We accept no responsibility for any problems caused by programs that you develop using the information provided in this material, affecting software, data or hardware, including the MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663, and any problems resulting directly or indirectly from them. Use this material only if you accept these terms.

This material shall not be reproduced, in part or in full, without prior approval. In addition, this material shall not be used as evidence in a lawsuit or dispute in a way that is unfavorable towards our company.

What is P-touch Template?

P-touch Template is the tool to transfer the ASCII text & binary data from a terminal unit to transferred template in the printer. Such transferred data is inserted into text object or barcode object in a template.

2. Design the template by P-touch Editor, and transfer it to printer.

1. Setting up the printer through your PC,

in accordance with the terminal unit.

3. Transfer the data (Text) from the terminal unit, and print template.

It helps the user develop the printing system which connects directly from the terminal unit. The types of terminal unit are as below.

Smartphone
Handy terminal	etc.

Notes:

*P-touch Template is not compatible with some terminal units. *Terminal unit should have an interface to transfer the data.

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How to use P-touch Template

1.Printer setting

Set up the initial printer setting by P-touch Template settings tool, in accordance with the environment of host system

or the terminal unit, which MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663 connect to.

(Please refer to PH -touch Template Settings Tool User’s Guide in page 6.)

The printer driver must first be installed via a USB connection.

*Printer image in the screen may differ depending on your product model.

2.Design the template

Design the transferred template by P-touch Editor (Please refer to P-touch Template Limitations in page 11.)

3.Transfer the templates

Transfer the templates to the printer by P-touch transfer manager.

(Please refer to MW-Series/PockeJet Software User’s Guide.)

4.Program by P-touch template commands

If any special commands are required to control

the printer, change the terminal program in accordance with the P-touch Template Command Reference. (Please refer to P-touch Template Command Reference.)

5. Connect the printer with the terminal unit and print slips etc.

Transfer the data such as ASCII text from the terminal unit to templates in the printer, and print the slips etc.

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P-touch Template Settings Tool User’s Guide

*Printer image in the screen may differ depending on your product model.

(1)Command mode setting

(2)Template number setting

(3)Delimiter setting

(4)Print start trigger setting

(5)Print start command text string setting

(6)Print start data amount setting

(7)Character code set setting

(8)International character setting

(9)Prefix character setting

(10)Non-printed character setting

(11)Line return character setting

(12) Number of copies setting

Returns (1) through (12) to their default settings.

Applies settings for (1) through (12) to the printer.

Closes the tool.

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(1)Command mode setting

·P-touch Template mode

To use P-touch Template, select the P-touch Template mode.

·ESC/P mode

·Raster mode

(2)Template number setting

Specify the template number selected as the default when the printer is turned on. However if any number of template not be transferred to the printer, then it cannot be specified such number of template.

(3)Delimiter setting

A delimiter is the symbol used to indicate when to move to the next object in the data that is being sent. Between1 to 20 characters can be specified.

(4)Print start trigger setting

Select one of the following three options for the print start trigger.

· Command Character

(Printing starts when the command character specified in (5) is received.) · Data Insertion into All the Objects

(Printing starts when the delimiter for the last object is received.) · Received Data Size

(Printing starts when the number of characters specified in (6) is received. However, delimiters are not counted in the number of characters.)

(5)Print start command text string setting

Specify 1 to 20 characters.

(6)Print start data amount setting

The amount of data that must be received before printing can begin can be set between 1 and 999.

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(7)Character code set setting

Select one of the following three character codes. For character code tables, refer to the character code tables in the P-touch Template Command.

·Windows1252

·Windows1250

·Brother standard

(8)International character setting

Select one of the following as the character set of the country.

·USA

·France

·Germany

·Britain

·Denmark

·Sweden

·Italy

·Spain

·Japan

·Norway

·Denmark II

·Spain II

·Latin America

·Korea

·Legal

The following 12 codes are switched depending on the country selected from those mentioned above.

23h 24h 40h 5Bh 5Ch 5Dh 5Eh 60h 7Bh 7Ch 7Dh 7Eh

For the characters that are switched, refer to the international character set table in the P-touch Template Command.

(9) Prefix character setting

Change the prefix character code. Specify as a one-character character code.

The prefix character is the code for the first character that identifies commands that can be used in P-touch Template mode.

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(10) Non-printed character setting

The characters specified here are not printed when data is received. Specify 1 to 20 characters.

(11) Line return character setting

The line return code is used when feeding data to indicate that the following data should be moved to the next line in a text object. One of the following four line return codes can be selected, or 1 to 20 characters can be specified as the line return code.

1.^CR

2.\0D\0A

3.\0A

4.\0D

(12)Number of copies setting

Specify the number of copies. A number between 1 and 99 can be specified.

Others

· ini file

After the [Set] button (in the main dialog box or the Communications Settings dialog box) is clicked, the settings are saved when the dialog box is closed.

(MW-145BT)

C:\Documents and Settings\(user_account_name)\Application Data\Brother \Printer Settings\Pts3532.ini

(MW-260)

C:\Documents and Settings\(user_account_name)\Application Data\Brother \Printer Settings\Pts3432.ini

(PJ-623)

C:\Documents and Settings\(user_account_name)\Application Data\Brother \Printer Settings\pts3236.ini

(PJ-663)

C:\Documents and Settings\(user_account_name)\Application Data\Brother \Printer Settings\pts3436.ini

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· Typing text into text boxes (3), (5), (9) and (10)

Characters that can be entered as text can be typed in, and control codes can be entered as ASCII codes (00 to FF) with \ in front of them.

Example: PRINT: [PRINT] TAB control code: [\09] Return control code: [\0D] \: [\\]

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P-touch Template Limitations

■ Relating to text objects

(Please also refer to RelationshipH between the P-touch Editor setting and the printer image in page 20.)

Fonts specified in P-touch Editor are converted to Helsinki, Letter Gothic or Brussels, depending on the font shape, when the data is sent to the printer.

(The font is converted according to the following rules: fixed pitch: Letter Gothic; serif: Brussels; sans serif: Helsinki. With symbol fonts, symbols are converted to text objects if text input mode has been entered, and the font is converted to one of the three described above. If the text input mode has been exited, symbols are converted to image objects and the selected font is not converted.)

·Character sizes specified in P-touch Editor are converted to the closest built-in character size when the data is sent to the printer.

·Character sizes specified in P-touch Editor are all made the same size within an object.

·If “At Printing” is selected, a time stamp specified in P-touch Editor is not printed. If “At Printing” is not selected, the time stamp is printed with the date and time that the data was created in P-touch Editor.

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“At Printing” setting

(To cancel the “At Printing” setting for a date/time in P-touch Editor, display the properties for the Date and Time object, and then clear the “At Printing” check box.)

·Horizontal alignment settings (“Justify” or “Equal Length”) specified in P-touch Editor are changed to the left alignment setting.

·The setting for line spacing with a line return specified with the P-touch Editor can be set between 0 and 255 dots.

(A negative line spacing setting cannot be used in P-touch Editor. In addition, since there is an upper limit (about 21 mm) for the line width with the printer, a line spacing setting larger than this limit specified in P-touch Editor will not be applied on the printer.)

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Specifying the line spacing setting in P-touch Editor

Numbering settings specified in P-touch Editor are invalid.

(The text specified as the default numbering text is printed with P-touch Template.)

Default numbering

For the numbering text specified in P-touch Editor and shown above, “100” is the default; therefore, “No. 100” will be printed when printing with the printer.

·Character styles specified in P-touch Editor are all made the same style within an object.

·If the “Long Text” setting is selected below “Text Layout” in P-touch Editor, the vertical alignment setting is normally set for top alignment.

·If the “Fixed Frame Size (Wrap)” setting is selected under “Text Layout” in P-touch Editor, the object size does not change, and the text size is reduced.

(“Fixed Frame Size (Wrap)” is a setting that was added for inserting long text. Since it is possible that the text size may become extremely small if the wrapping feature is no longer applied, we recommend that “Fixed Frame Size” be selected when paper with a

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fixed size or fixed length is specified in P-touch Editor, or that “Automatic Length” be selected when an automatic media length is specified.)

1.Shrink to Fit: The text object size is fixed, and the text size is changed depending on the text length.

2.Clip Text: The text object size is fixed, and the text size is fixed. If the text is too long, the text is not printed.

3.Long Text: The text object width is fixed, and the text size is fixed. If the text is too long, the text object height is increased.

4.Automatic Length: The text object height is fixed, and the text size is fixed. If the text is too long, the text object width is increased.

5.Free Size: The text size is fixed. If the text is too long, the text object width is increased. If a new line is started, the text height is increased.

Specifying a Text Layout setting

Click the button circled in red to display a drop-down list, and then select the desired option.

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■Relating to bar codes ●Bar codes

·When trying to transfer a template containing a bar code that is not compatible with the printer, an error will occur while transferring and the template cannot be transferred to the printer.

The following bar codes are compatible with the printer. 1D bar codes

CODE39, I-2/5,UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-13, EAN-8, CODE128, GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128), CODABAR

2D bar codes

PDF417, QR Code, Micro QR Code, DataMatrix

·If data containing characters incompatible with the protocol are fed into the bar code object, that bar code object is not printed.

·The bar code size may differ from that in the print result with P-touch Editor.

·Since CODE128/GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128) can easily be printed slightly larger, we recommend leaving larger margins when creating templates in P-touch Editor.

·If data fed into a bar code in a template created with P-touch Editor causes an extremely long bar code, the bar code may not be fully printed.

·Do not insert line returns immediately before or immediately after the bar code data. Otherwise, it will be considered as part of the bar code data. In that case, the bar code will be created containing the line return code, or the bar code will not be printed since data incompatible with the bar code protocol is entered.

·A delimiter or print start text string should be entered immediately after the bar code data. ●1D bar codes

·The ratio setting for 1D bar codes specified in P-touch Editor is invalid. Normally, this is fixed at 3:1.

·A 1D bar code taller than the maximum printing width is converted as follows; MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663 taller than 96 mm → 96 mm

MW-145BT

taller than 69 mm → 69 mm

·The number of characters that can be entered for each protocol is shown below. CODE39: 1 to 50 characters (not including “*” on both sides)

I-2/5: 3 to 64 characters EAN-8: 7 characters EAN-13: 12 characters UPC-A: 11 characters UPC-E: 6 characters

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CODABAR: 4 to 64 characters (with “A”, “B”, “C” or “D” at the beginning and end) CODE128: 1 to 64 characters

GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128): 1 to 64 characters

When trying to transfer data exceeding the ranges describe above, an error will occur while transferring. If the data that is fed does not meet the minimum limit, the bar code is not printed. If the data exceeds the maximum limit, only the data to the maximum limit is applied. However, if the data exceeds 64 characters, the bar code is not printed.

· If a template is created in P-touch Editor with an extremely low bar code bar height, the bars may not be printed.

●CODE39

·When feeding data, the asterisks (*) at the beginning and end of the data are skipped. ●I-2/5

·The bearer bar setting specified in P-touch Editor is invalid.

●GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128)/CODE128

· If the bar code width has been set to “Minimum” in P-touch Editor, the characters below the bar code are not printed, even if the “Show Characters” setting has been selected.

●QR Code

·The version setting for a QR Code specified in P-touch Editor is invalid. The version setting must be turned off.

·The joining setting specified in P-touch Editor is invalid.

●PDF417

·Since the error correction levels for PDF417 specified in P-touch Editor are inconsistent with those on the printer, the size of the bar code may change when it is printed with P-touch Template.

·The width for PDF417 specified in P-touch Editor may change from “Minimum” to “Small”.

·The joining setting specified in P-touch Editor is invalid.

●DataMatrix

·The joining setting specified in P-touch Editor is invalid.

·Macro settings specified in P-touch Editor are invalid.

■Relating to images

·If a template containing overlapping images is transferred with P-touch Editor, all image data will be overlapping. (P-touch Editor displays the image created last on top.)

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■Others

· A maximum of 99 templates can be transferred. The transfer cannot be completed if the amount of data being transferred exceeds the followings;

MW-145BT/MW-260		512KB
PJ-623/PJ-663		5,888KB

· A single template can contain at the maximum the following numbers of objects. When trying to transfer more objects than the maximum, an error will occur and the transfer

cannot be completed.
MW-145BT/MW-260		50 objects
PJ-623/PJ-663		200 objects

·A single template can contain a total of 1000 lines of text. If it exceeds this limit, an error will occur during printing.

·The line return codes (0D0A, 0D and 0A) in print data are read, then discarded. However, when specified as special data, such as delimiters or print start text strings or line return commands, they are applied.

·The order of the objects is determined only by the last four-digit number of the object name. Objects with no numbers in their names will be at the end of the order. If objects have the same number, the order is determined in the following order: text, 1D bar codes, then 2D bar codes. If the objects are of the same type, the object created first is first in the order. We recommend that the numbers indicating the order be added at the end of the object name.

(To specify the name of an object in P-touch Editor, display the properties of the text or bar code object, and then specify the name in the “Object Name” box on the Expanded tab.)

Specifying the object name

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·When print data is fed, the command mode should be the P-touch Template mode.

·When a template is transferred to the printer, all values specified with dynamic commands are initialized.

·Printing begins when the print start text string is received, even if the print start trigger is “when all objects are filled”.

·After printing from P-touch Editor, the command mode changes to ESC/P mode or raster mode (only raster mode for MW-145BT/MW-260). In order to print a template, select the P-touch Template mode in the Printer Settings tool or, if the previous mode in the Printer Settings tool was the P-touch Template mode, turn the printer off, then on again to enter P-touch Template mode.

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Precautions

Static commands

Static commands are valid only in the following modes;

MW-145BT/MW-260		raster mode
PJ-623/PJ-663		maintenance mode

Example: To statically change the template selection number to 10

1)Switch to maintenance mode. ESC i a 01h (1Bh 69h 61h 01h)

2)Select template number 10. ESC i X n 2 01h 00h 0Ah

(1Bh 69h 58h 6Eh 32h 01h 00h 0Ah)

3) Dynamically enter the P-touch Template mode. ESC i a 03h (1Bh 69h 61h 03h)

Notes for using Bluetooth (only MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-663)

When you are connecting the printer via Bluetooth, the printer may not start to receive the data immediately after the port is opened. We advise to wait for an interval of 500 msec before sending the print data to the printer.

If you normally close and re-open the Bluetooth port between prints, we would again advise to leave 500 msec between the port being closed and re-opened.

Also, once you have sent the print data, and the printing process has begun, do not close the port. Please ensure 32 bytes of data has been received by the printer, and then close the port.

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Relationship between the P-touch Editor setting and the printer image

	P-touch Editor setting					Printer image
	Text Option (Text Layout)				Width				Height		Printed
	Text		Details-	Wrap	Frame Size	Text			Frame Size	Text	image
	Layout		Options	Text		Size				Size
			Clip Text		Fix				Fix		1
					If the text is too	Fix			If the text is too	Fix
	Fixed										(See
					long, the overflow				long, the overflow
	Frame				text is not printed.				text is not printed.		below)
	Size		Shrink to Fit		Fix	Auto			Fix	Auto
			Clip Text	check	If the text is too				If the text is too
			Shrink to Fit	check	long, even with	The text is			long, even with	The text is	2
	Fixed				the minimum	automatically			the minimum	automatically
											(See
	Frame				text size, the	maximized			text size, the	maximized
											below)
	Size				overflow text is	to fit the			overflow text is	to fit the
	(Wrap)				printed outside	frame size.			printed outside	frame size.
					the frame.				the frame.
	Long				Fix				Even the
	Text				The overflow text						3
						Fix			overflow text is	Fix
					is automatically						(See
									printed outside
					sent to the new						below)
									the frame.
					line.
	Automatic								Fix
	Length								If the text is too	Auto
					Even the				long, even with	The text is	4
					overflow text is	Fix			the minimum	automatically
											(See
					printed outside				text size, the	maximized
											below)
					the frame.				overflow text is	to fit the
									printed outside	frame size.
									the frame.
	Free				Even the overflow	Fix			Even the overflow	Fix	5
	Size				text is printed				text is printed		(See
					outside the frame.				outside the frame.		below)
Printed image
1			2		3	4				5

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Making a template in order to save time before starting to print

●Perform the following operation to convert permanent objects into images.

·In the [Text Properties] dialog, select the [Expanded] tab and check “Text Cannot Be Edited”.

·When the [Expanded] tab is not seen in the [Text Properties] dialog, click [Tools] – [Options] – [General], and check [Display Expanded Tabs of Object Properties] in the [Others] box.

●Specify the Text Options (Text Layout) settings so that the text size is fixed.

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Appendix: Specifications

BROTHER MW-145BT/MW-260/PJ-623/PJ-663 P-touch Template specifications

	Printing method			[MW-145BT/MW-260]		[PJ-623/PJ-663]
				Raster printing (PTCBP mode)		Raster printing (PTCBP mode)
				ESC/P printing		ESC/P printing
				P-touch Template printing		P-touch Template printing
						Maintenance printing
	Resolution (dpi)			300 dpi × 300 dpi
	Text	Font		Bitmap fonts: Helsinki, Brussels, Letter Gothic Bold
Printing				Outline fonts: Helsinki, Brussels, Letter Gothic
		Size (dots)		Bitmap fonts: 24 x 24, 32 x 32 (dots)
				Outline fonts: 33 - 400 dot (22sizes)
		Character style		None, Bold, Italics, Outline, Shadow, Shadow + Outline
		Horizontal		Left, Center, Right
		alignment
		Rotate		Portrait, landscape
	Bar code		Protocols *1	CODE39, ITF (I-2/5), EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, CODABAR,
				CODE-128, GS1-128 (UCC/EAN-128), QR Code (model 1, model 2,
				micro QR), PDF417 (Standard, Truncate), DataMatrix (ECC200
				Square, ECC200 Rectangular)
			Width	Large, Medium, Small, Extra Small

*1 BarStar Pro Encode Library (DataMatrix, MaxiCode, PDF417, RSS) Copyright © 2007 AINIX Corporation.

All rights reserved.

QR Code is registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED in JAPAN and other countries.

QR Code Generating Program Copyright © 2008 DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED

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©Copyright 2011 BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD.

P-touch Template Command Reference

Version 1.0.0

Model Name: For the following mobile thermal printers (Western language model) PJ-623

PJ-663

Created by: Brother Industries, Ltd

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