Datamax-O'Neil Workstation Programmer’s Guide

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Table of Contents

1. Programmer’s Guide

Overview ...............................................................................................1

Scope ...................................................................................................1

Referenced Documents ........................................................................1

Trademark References .........................................................................1

Datamax-O'Neil Commands .................................................................3

PCL Language ......................................................................................3

PCL Command Structure ............................................................................3

Fonts and Symbol Sets Supported ..............................................................6

Printing Unicode Characters in PCL ........................................................11

Datamax-O'Neil Barcode Command Structure .........................................11

PJL (Printer Job Language) Commands ............................................22

Standard PJL Commands ..........................................................................22

PJL File System Commands .....................................................................24

User Font Download via PJL ....................................................................24

PJL FSDELETE Command ......................................................................25

PJL FSINIT Command .............................................................................25

PJL INFO Read-Back Command .............................................................26

PJL JOB Command ..................................................................................28

PJL PERFORM Command .......................................................................28

PJL Head Cleaning Procedure/Command ................................................30

PJL Cutter, Rewinder, and Ribbon Assembly Self-Test Commands .......31

PJL GPIO Self Test ..................................................................................31

PJL GPIO Wrap Test ...............................................................................32

PJL GPIO Read Test ................................................................................32

PJL GPIO Write Test ...............................................................................33

PJL CONFIG PRINTFILE .......................................................................33

PJL CONFIG Command ...........................................................................33

PJL UPGRADE Command .......................................................................34

PJL Variables ............................................................................................35

PJL Internal Variables ..............................................................................42

Defining Internal Variables ......................................................................42

PJL Increment Command .........................................................................42

PJL Date/Time Command ........................................................................43

Hex Transfer Method ................................................................................48

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2. Appendix A

Printer Model Printable Print Widths ...................................................51

3. Appendix B

Printer Model Speed ...........................................................................53

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Overview

This Programmer’s Guide provides information about printer specific commands that are supported by the following printer(s):

•p1115

• p1120n

•p1125

• p1115s

• p1725

•w1110

The Datamax-O'Neil Performance & Workstation Series printers language is based on Hewlett Packard

barcode printing, Datamax-O'Neil has extended the language by adding barcode specific commands. Methods exist to print barcodes in a Windows® environment without using

these new commands. Examples include using commercially available barcode fonts or label design packages.

PCL 5e. Because this language does not have native support for

Scope

This document describes Datamax-O'Neil PCL barcode commands, internal variable commands and various commands specific to thermal print devices. . Knowledge of PCL is helpful but not required. A full explanation of PCL is beyond the scope of this guide, please refer to the reference documents listed below.

Referenced Documents

The following documents referenced herein shall apply unless otherwise superseded by requirements specified elsewhere in this document.

• Hewlett Packard Corporation, "PCL 5 Printer Technical Reference Manual"

• Hewlett Packard Corporation, "HP PCL/PJL Technical Reference Manual"

Trademark References

CG Triumvirate is a trademark of Monotype Imaging Inc.

CG Times, a product of Monotype Imaging Inc., is based on Times New Roman, a U.S.

registered trademark of Monotype Corporation plc.

PCL is a U.S. registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company.

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Microsoft, Windows, and MS-DOS are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation.

TrueType is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

Helvetica and Times Roman are trademarks of Linotype AG and its subsidiaries.

Univers is a U.S. registered trademark of Linotype AG and its subsidiaries.

Antique Olive is a trademark of Monsieur Marcel OLIVE.

Arial is a registered trademark of The Monotype Corporation plc.

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Datamax-O'Neil Commands

There are frequent references to Hewlett Packard’s (HP) PCL Technical Reference Manual (TRM). This document can be found on HP’s website listed in the Referenced Documents above. Datamax-O'Neil provides unique commands not within the command set found in the HP’s PCL TRM. No command defined within this document supersedes or negates any commands found within the PCL TRM. This does not imply that all commands defined within the PCL TRM are implemented by the Datamax-O'Neil Barcode Label Printers. Many commands found within the PCL TRM are irrelevant within the context of the Barcode Label Printer. Examples of these are commands for selecting discrete pages sizes such as Letter, Legal, A4, and Executive. Features such as duplexing and stapling do not currently exist in D-O Barcode Printers and these commands, if found within the data stream, are silently ignored without error.

PCL Language

PCL Command Structure

General Information

As per Hewlett Packard’s specification on the syntax of escape sequences, there are two forms of PCL escape sequences: two-character escape sequences and parameterized escape sequences.

Two character escape sequences have the following form:

<ESC>X

“X” is a character that defines the operation to be performed. Two examples of twocharacter escape sequences are <ESC>E and <ESC>9. The first example resets the printer to default conditions and the second resets the left and right margins to their default value. The value of “X” may be any character within the range 0x30 – 0x7E.

Parameterized escape sequences have the following form:

<ESC>X y z1 [+|-]#[.#] z2 [+|-]#[.#] z3 … [+|-]#[.#] Zn[data]

The following characters y, #, zi and data may be optional. The parameterized character X is within the range of 0x21 – 0x2F. The group character “y” is within the range of 0x60 – 0x7E. Group characters specify the type of control being performed.

Table 1: Parameterized Character <ESC> X...

Character (X) Symbol Purpose

0x21 ! Reserved by D-O for debug firmware

0x22 “ Not Used

0x23 # Not Used

0x24 $ D-O Barcode Parameter

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Character (X) Symbol Purpose

0x25 % PCL Language Parameter

0x26 & PCL Cursor Parameter

0x27 ‘ Not Used

0x28 ( PCL Font Parameter

0x29 ) PCL Font Parameter

0x2A * PCL Graphic Parameter

0x2B + Not Used

0x2C , Not Used

0x2D - Not Used

0x2E . Not Used

0x2F / Not USed

The value field ‘#’ is a group of characters specifying a numeric value. The value is an ASCII string of characters within the range 0x30 – 0x39. The string may be preceded with an optional ‘+’ or ‘-‘ sign and may contain a decimal portion separated by the decimal point. Consider the following example:

<ESC>&l5.81C

This command will set the printer to print 33 lines per label on a 4 inch high label. The value specified is the number of 1/48 inch increments between rows (5.81 = 4/33 x 48).

The parameter character is any character from the ASCII table within the range of 0x60 – 0x7E. This character specifies the parameter to which the previous value field applies. This character is used when combining escape sequences as described below in the section titled “Combining Escape Sequences.”

The Termination Character is any character from the ASCII table within the range 0x40 – 0x5E. This character specifies the parameter to which the previous value field applies. This character terminates the escape sequence.

The Binary Data is eight-bit data (for example, graphics data, downloaded fonts, etc.). The number of bytes of binary data is specified by the value field of the escape sequence. Binary data immediately follows the terminating character of the escape sequence. Data that is to be encoded into barcode images will be considered as binary data.

Combining Escape Sequences

All escape sequences that have the same first two characters AFTER the “<ESC>” (the parameterized and group character) can be combined into a single escape sequence. For example, the three commands (each begins with the <ESC> character) are of the type “EC&l”.

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The following:

<ESC>&l1O<ESC>&l2A <ESC>&l5.81C

can be combined into the following single escape sequence:

<ESC>&l1o2a5.81C

In the example above, the capital ‘O’ becomes a lower case ‘o’, the ‘A’ of the second command becomes an ‘a’ and the ‘EC&l’ are dropped from the second and third commands. The printer commands are performed in the order they are combined, from left to right.

Barcode Clipping

PCL normally clips print objects at the dot level on the logical page boundary. Barcodes clipped in this manner can easily go undetected. Because of this, any portion of a barcode that falls beyond the boundaries of the logical print area will be dropped and a shaded rectangle will be printed, inscribing the area within the logical print page where the barcode would have been. This will provide visual evidence to the user the barcode has been clipped and is therefore invalid.

Barcodes that are not generated internally by the printer will not be clipped in this manner and may not be readable by scanning devices.

Cursor Positioning Commands

The PCL cursor refers to the Current Active Position (CAP) which identifies the current position on the label where a print command begins laying out page data. The cursor can be moved anywhere within the logical page using a combination of the horizontal and vertical cursor position commands and control codes. Although there are many different ways to move the cursor, there are three types of cursor positioning units. These include PCL Units, Decipoints, and Row/Column units.

The size of a PCL unit is determined by the value specified by the Unit of Measure command. The format of this command is <ESC>&u#D where # is the number of units per inch. The “units per inch” value is a discrete value from the following set of values: {96, 100, 120, 144, 150, 160, 180, 200, 225, 240, 288, 300, 360, 400, 450, 480, 600, 720, 800, 900, 1200, 1440, 1800, 2400, 3600, and 7200}. If the Unit of Measure is not set, the default value is 300.

A decipoint, in PCL terminology, is 1/720 inch or one-tenth of a PCL point. A PCL point is exactly 1/72 inch as opposed to a typographic point which is approximately 1/72 inch. Decipoints are resolution independent. Labels that are designed using units of decipoints will be resolution independent and are therefore easily portable across PCL printers of different resolutions. This is the preferred unit of measure in label design.

Cursor Positioning after Printing Barcode

PCL has a procedure for cursor positioning after printing a text character. Set the Current Active Position (CAP) to the right at a distance equal to the width of that character, ready

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for the next character to be rendered. With raster images, the CAP is moved vertically to the next dot row below the raster image previously rendered and then returned to the horizontal start position of the raster image. The terminus CAP of the barcode is selectable with the commands described below.

Set the Current Active Position (CAP) to the right of the last printed text character at a distance equal to the width of that character so the next character can be rendered. With raster images, the CAP is moved vertically to the next dot row below the previously rendered raster image and returned to the horizontal start position of the raster image. The terminus CAP of the barcode is selectable with the commands described below.

Orientation and the Influence on Label Dimensions

HP PCL defines the portrait orientation to be the page configuration where the X dimension moves to the left along the short edge of the paper and the Y dimension moves downward along the long edge of the paper. This seems perfectly reasonable until both the label stock and the arbitrary dimensions a label may have on a given roll of media are considered. As an example, for the common label stock size of 4” by 6”, it is obvious the label is in the portrait orientation. For 4” by 3” label stock, HP PCL regards this label as being in the landscape orientation and will automatically rotate the text, images, rules, and coordinates by 90 degrees to maintain the portrait orientation with respect to the shorter distance on the side. This may not be what an experienced user of thermal printers would expect to see. In order for the same image to be produced on a shorter label, the printer must be programed to produce the image in the landscape orientation. Orientation takes precedence over label dimensions. If the printer is in the portrait orientation, HP PCL will rotate the image to align it to the short edge of the label.

This subtle design characteristic may cause problems with users of legacy label printers therefore we have chosen to modify this behavior to be more in-line with thermal printers.

Fonts and Symbol Sets Supported

Resident Scalable Fonts

The table below provides a list of the 53 resident scalable fonts and the escape sequence needed to select that font as the current primary font. The <ESC> tag represents the escape character 0x1B. The <symset> tag represents the symbol set to use with the selected font (see section 13 below). The <ptsize> tag represents the requested point size of the font, up to two decimal places. The <pitch> tag represents horizontal spacing of a fixed pitch font in characters per inch.

Refer to the Symbol Set Mapping Table resident symbol sets. The tags must be replaced with their appropriate values. Developers may choose to define their own symbol sets.

Note: The resident fonts for your printer may vary in number from those listed in this

table.

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Table 2: Fonts and Escape Sequences

Font Name Escape Sequence

Albertus Medium <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s1b4362T

Albertus Extra Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s4b4362T

Antique Olive <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b4168T

Antique Olive Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b4168T

Antique Olive Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b4168T

Arial <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b16602T

Arial Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b16602T

Arial Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b16602T

Arial Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s3b16602T

Clarendon Condensed Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v4s3b4140T

Coronet <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b4116T

Courier <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h0s0b4099T

Courier Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h1s0b4099T

Courier Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h0s3b4099T

Courier Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h1s3b4099T

Garamond Antiqua <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b4197T

Garamond Kursiv <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b4197T

Garamond Halbfett <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b4197T

Garamond Kursiv Halbfett <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s3b4197T

Letter Gothic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h0s0b4102T

Letter Gothic Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h1s0b4102T

Letter Gothic Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h0s3b4102T

Marigold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b4297T

CG Omega <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b4113T

CG Omega Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b4113T

CG Omega Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b4113T

CG Omega Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s3b4113T

CG Times <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b4101T

CG Times Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b4101T

CG Times Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b4101T

CG Times Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s3b4101T

Times New Roman <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b16901T

Times New Roman Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b16901T

Times New Roman Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b16901T

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Font Name Escape Sequence

Times New Roman Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s3b16901T

Univers Medium <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b4148T

Univers Medium Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s0b4148T

Univers Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s3b4148T

Univers Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v1s3b4148T

Univers Condensed Medium <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v4s0b4148T

Univers Condensed Medium Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v5s0b4148T

Univers Condensed Bold <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v4s3b4148T

Univers Condensed Bold Italic <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v5s3b4148T

Symbol <ESC>(19M<ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b16686T

Wingdings <ESC>(579L<ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b31402T

OCR A <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<pitch>h0s0b23584T

OCR A Fixed <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h0s0b23584T

OCR B <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<pitch>h0s0b23590T

OCR B Fixed <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s0p<pitch>h0s0b23590T

VeraMono <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v3s0b23410T

CG Triumvirate <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b26708T

CG Triumvirate Bold Condensed <ESC>(<symset><ESC>(s1p<ptsize>v0s0b26714T

Symbol Sets

Symbol sets are used to map character codes to the associated character image. The most familiar symbol set is the ASCII character mapping for characters occupying the character codes ranging from 0x20, which is the space character, through 0x7E, which is the tilde ‘~’ character. These symbol sets are used to support the internationalization of labels.

Table 3: Symbol Sets

PCL

Symbol Set

10U PC8 PC-8 PC-8

8U ROMAN8 Roman-8 Roman-8

PJL Symbol

Name

Control

Panel Name

Symbol Set Description

4U ROMAN9 Roman-9 Roman-9

0N ISOL1 ISO-L1 ISO 8859-1 Latin 1

2N ISOL2 ISO-L2 ISO 8859-2 Latin 2

4N ISOL4 ISO-L4 ISO 8859-4 Latin 4

5N ISOL5 ISO-L5 ISO 8859-9 Latin 5

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PCL

Symbol Set

6N ISOL6 ISO-L6 ISO 8859-10 Latin 6

9N ISOL9 ISO-L9 ISO 8859-15 Latin 9

26U PC775 PC-775 PC-775

5M PSMATH PS MATH PS-Math

8M MATH8 MATH-8 Math-8

15U PIFONT IP FONT Pi Font

6J MSPUBL MS PUBL Microsoft Publishing

11U PC8DN PC-8 DN PC-8 Danish/Norwegian

12U PC850 PC-850 PC-850 Multilingual

17U PC852 PC-852 PC-852

13U PC858 PC-858 PC-858 Multilingual

9T PC8TK PC-8 TK PC-Turkish

9J PC1004 PC-1004 PC-1004

19U WINL1 WIN L1 Windows CP1252 Latin 1

9E WINL2 WIN L2 Windows CP1250 Latin 2

PJL Symbol

Name

Control

Panel Name

Symbol Set Description

5T WINL5 WIN L5 Windows CP1254 Latin 5

19L WINBALT WINBALT Windows CP1257 Baltic

7J DESKTOP DESKTOP Desktop

10J PSTEXT PS TEXT PS Text

1U LEGAL LEGAL Legal

1E ISO4 ISO-4 United Kingdom Code Set

0U ISO6 ISO-6 7 Bit ASCII Code Set

0S ISO11 ISO-11 7 Bit Western Europe (Swedish)

0I ISO15 ISO-15 7 Bit Western Europe (Italian)

2S ISO17 ISO-17 7 Bit Western Europe (Spanish)

1G ISO21 ISO-21 7 Bit Western (German)

0D ISO60 ISO-60 7 Bit Western Europe (Norwegian)

1F ISO69 ISO-69 7 Bit Western Europe (French)

9U WIN30 WIN 3.0 Windows CP1252 (obsolete)

12J MCTEXT MC TEXT MC Text

18N UCS2 UCS-2 Unicode 2 Byte Encoding

0E ROMANEXT RomanExt Roman Extensions

579L WINGDINGS WindDings Wingdings Font

14L ZAPDINGBATS ZapDingBats Windows Dingbats Font

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12U

PC85

PCL

Symbol Set

19M SYMBOL Symbol Symbol Font

PJL Symbol

Name

Control

Panel Name

Symbol Set Description

The table below (PC-850 Symbol Set) is an example of character code mapping and the character image associated with that code.

Figure: 1 - 1 PC-850 Symbol Set

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Printing Unicode Characters in PCL

To print Unicode characters, the symbol set 18N (UCS-2) should be used to set handling to Unicode mapping together with UTF-8 text parsing method. Refer to the following syntax:

<ESC>&t83P<ESC>(18N<ESC>(sn1Tdata …

The 83P in <ESC>&t command signifies the UTF-8 text parsing method. The 18N in <ESC>( command sets the Unicode mode. The n1T is used to select a font in the

<ESC>(s command where n1 is the typeface id of the font. Immediately following are the characters to print in UTF-8 format. Refer to the example below:

This prints the characters “ض α?강萁“ (an Arabic, Greek, Thai, Korean and Chinese symbol) assuming the font supports all of these characters. The font selection command parameters are “1p” for proportional spacing, “16v” for point size of 16, “0s” for no italic, “0b” for no bold and “9999T” for typeface ID.

Datamax-O'Neil Barcode Command Structure

Command Structure Syntax

As stated earlier, printer commands are performed in the order that they are combined, from left to right. There are several barcode parameters that are only relevant to a subset of the total number of barcodes provided.

All Datamax-O'Neil barcodes and their support parameters will begin with the following sequence:

<ESC>$b... 0x1b 0x24 0x62

There are several escape commands associated with barcodes. Any escape command that modifies a property of a barcode will only affect the currently selected barcode. For a label design with multiple barcode types, modification of one or more barcode properties does not affect the properties of any other barcode type.

The following commands illustrate how one might handle modifying the default parameters for multiple barcode types on a single label. Note that the examples below have line numbers. For ease of reading each line is separated by a carriage return and line feed. When sending this data to the printer, all the lines in the examples should NOT have a carriage return and line feed except where you see the symbol “CRLF”. The “CRLF” symbol indicates a carriage return/line feed combination should be inserted into the data stream. The “<ESC>” symbol indicates the escape character (hex value 0x1B) should be inserted into the data stream.

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Table 4: Example of Printing Barcodes (Compressed Commands)

Commands Description

<ESC>%-12345X@PJL SET RESOLUTION =

CRL

300

@PJL SET PAPERWIDTH=2880

@PJL SET PAPERLENGTH=2880

@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCL

CRL

Reset the printer and enter into PJL mode, Set the resolution to 300 DPI

Set the label width to 2880 decipoints (4 inches)

Set the label length to 2880 decipoints (4 inches)

Select the PCL emulation

<ESC>&a2160h720v270P Set the horizontal cursor position at 2160

decipoints (3 inches) and the vertical cursor position at 720 decipoints (1 inch) and set the writing direction at 270 degrees counter clockwise from horizontal (down the label).

<ESC>$b1030c360h2a10W9876543210

Select barcode 1030 (Code 128 w/ Auto select).

Set the barcode height of this barcode to 360 decipoints and enable autoprint w/ checksum (human readable). With the currently selected barcode (1030), print the data 9876543210 (10 bytes of data)

<ESC>&a0p720h540V Set the writing direction to 0 degrees, the horizontal

cursor position at 720 decipoints horizontally (1 inch) and 540 decipoints vertically (¾ inch).

<ESC>$b1061c360h0a10W1234567890 Select barcode 1061 (Interleave 2 of 5 w/ Bearer

Bars), the height of the barcode to 360 decipoints (1/2 inch), no autoprint and print the following 10 bytes: 1234567890

<ESC>E Reset PCL (this causes any imaged data to be

printed)

<ESC>%-12345X Reset the printer and wait for more PJL commands

Table 5: Example of printing Barcodes (Uncompressed Commands

Commands Descriptions

<ESC>%-12345X@PJL SET RESOLUTION =

CRL

300

@PJL SET PAPERWIDTH=2880

@PJL SET PAPERLENGTH=2880

@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCL

CRL

<ESC>&a2160H Set the horizontal cursor position to 2160

<ESC>&720V

Reset the printer and enter PJL mode

Set the label width to 2880 decipoints (4 inches)

Set the label length to 2880 decipoints (4 inches)

Select the PCL emulation

decipoints

Set the vertical cursor position to 720 decipoints

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