Paxar 6015 User Manual

Monarch

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6015 Printer

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WARNING

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.

CANADIAN D.O.C. WARNING

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus set out in the Radio Interference Regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.

Le présent appareil numérique n’émet pas de bruits radioélectriques dépassant les limites applicables aux appareils numériques de la classe A prescrites dans le Réglement sur le brouillage radioélectrique édicte par le ministère des Communications du Canada.

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MONARCH is a registered trademark of Monarch Marking Systems, Inc. Paxar is a trademark of Paxar Corporation. 6015 is a trademark of Monarch Marking Systems, Inc. 3Com and Palm Computing are registered trademarks of Palm Computing, Inc., 3Com Corporation, or its subsidiaries.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction............................................................................................... 1

Creating Data Streams.............................................................................. 1

Conventions Used in this Manual................................................................ 2

Creating Formats ....................................................................................... 3

Creating Text Fields.................................................................................3

Selecting Character Sets ....................................................................... 3

Formatting Text.................................................................................... 4

Creating Graphic Fields ............................................................................ 5

Creating Bar Code Fields.......................................................................... 6

Specifying Particular Bar Codes............................................................. 7

Positioning Fields .................................................................................... 8

Configuring the Printer............................................................................... 9

Selecting Operating Modes........................................................................ 9

Setting the Print Contrast .......................................................................... 9

Setting the Power Mode.......................................................................... 10

Checking the Battery Voltage................................................................... 11

Using the Power-Off Timer ......................................................................12

Checking Version Information..................................................................13

Communicating with the Organizer ........................................................... 13

Miscellaneous Control Characters ............................................................14

Sample Data Stream................................................................................. 15

INTRODUCTION

The Monarch® 6015™ printer works with application programs written for the Palm III™ series of organizers or the Symbol® SPT 1500. With these Palm Computing® connected organizers, the printer can print receipts for retail, healthcare, or industrial environments. Palm Computing is a subsidiary of 3Com® Corporation.

The application writes a data stream of commands (in the printer's control language) to the printer. It writes these commands either directly or through the Symbol Application Programming Interface (API). For information about the API, refer to Symbol's Web site (www.symbol.com).

Refer to the 3Com/Palm Computing Web site (www.palm.com) for more information about the Palm III series of organizers. Also, refer to the Stevens Creek Web site (www.stevenscreek.com) for various organizer applications.

The purpose of this manual is to describe the printer's control language. The commands can be either of the following:

♦ control characters (in hex format) that control the printer directly

(physically manipulating the print buffer's contents, for example).

♦ character sequences that adjust the printer's performance or help you

design the receipts to print.

Creating Data Streams

Creating a data stream involves coding a sequence of commands in the printer's control language. Then, you embed the data stream in the application, which writes it to the printer.

To create a data stream:

Draw a rough sketch of how you want the receipt to look. For example,

a graphic may appear at the top, followed by the name of your organization, followed by a list of items purchased. Your receipt could be organized any number of ways.

Code the commands to implement your receipt design. See "Creating

Formats" for more information.

3. Add any commands to the data stream related to how the printer performs. For example, at the data stream's beginning, enter the command to choose the operating mode. See "Configuring the Printer" for more information.

Embed the data stream in the application and test what you have

written.

Conventions Used in this Manual

Following are the conventions used in the syntax descriptions of each command.

Symbol Description

- Separates items in the command sequence. < > Indicates a variable with a single-byte value. ' ' Indicates the value is a literal. Enter the value as it appears or

use the ASCII hex values for the same characters.

( ) Indicates a variable of any length. # # Indicates a variable of an exact length. ESC

CR-LF

These conventions make it easier for you to read the commands' syntax descriptions. They are not part of the data streams. For example,

ESC-'F'-'1' may be the syntax description, but the application writes 1BF1 (1B

46 31 hex) to the printer.

Indicates the beginning of a command sequence. Enter 1B hex for this item.

Indicates the end of a response from the printer. In the response, it is represented as

The printer ignores commands

with syntax errors.

0D 0A hex.

CREATING FORMATS

A format is the design of a receipt that the application prints with the printer. It consists of fields placed at various places on the format. Fields can contain text, graphics, and bar codes.

This chapter describes the commands used to create formats.

Creating Text Fields

Text fields can contain letters, numbers, and symbols. To specify text appearing on the format you create, write the text directly to the printer. There is no special command to use. There are, however, commands/control characters to select a character set to use and to format the text.

Selecting Character Sets

The printer can use the ANSI or ASCII character sets. These character sets are preloaded in the printer. ANSI characters are the default.

Command Description

ESC-'F'-'1' Selects ANSI characters. ESC-'F'-'2' Selects ASCII characters.

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