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E-Class DPL Programmer’s Manual 1
Preface
Who Should Use This Manual
This manual is intended for programmers who wish to create their own label production software.
Operators without programming experience may prefer to use a label-creation software package. For
programming information on models not covered in this document, a copy may be downloaded from our
web site at http://www.datamaxcorp.com.
Scope of This Manual
This manual explains the Datamax Programming Language (DPL) and its related uses in the writing,
loading and storing of programs for the control and production of label formats using the Datamax
E4203, E4204, and E4304 printers with Application (firmware) Versions 4.06 and above. This manual
contains the following chapters and appendices.
PREFACE on page 1
Contents, organization and conventions used in this manual
CONTROL CODES on page 5
Description of the attention-getter characters necessary for the printer to receive a command
sequence, and available alternate characters and line terminators.
IMMEDIATE COMMANDS on page 7
Description of the commands, listed alphabetically, that perform status queries and printer control
commands.
SYSTEM-LEVEL COMMANDS on page 11
Description of the commands, listed alphabetically, that control the printer and allow scalable font
and image downloads.
EXTENDED SYSTEM COMMANDS on page 27
Description of the commands, listed alphabetically, that control the printer.
LABEL-FORMATTING COMMANDS on page 39
Description of commands, listed alphabetically, that control the position of text and images on the
media, print or store, and end the formatting process.
FONT-LOADING COMMANDS on page 57
Description of commands, listed alphabetically, used when downloading font data in PCL-4
compatible bit-maps.