Epson 410 Printer User Manual


 
Chapter 5 Printer Commands
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5.3.10 MISCELLANEOUS PRINTER COMMANDS
^A ^D Command
2 Text string entry mode: Precedes the text strings that are supplied to the
various fields in the label. Text strings must be followed by a carriage return.
(Equivalent to ^B)
5 Send Printer Status: See section 5.3 (Equivalent to ^E)
29 Printer Statistics: The information produced is equivalent to the status label in section
2.1.3.
0 Print statistics to serial port
1 Print statistics on a label
2 Clear the printed labels variable in the statistics
3 Clear the printed inches variable in the statistics
32 Soft Reset: Restores printer to power-up settings.
33 Display Model and Revision Number: Displays important reference numbers
to the screen.
35 Contrast Window Adjust: Adjusts to a percentage of current contrast base.
Used for slight variations in paper and should be turned down for ladder style
(vertical) bar codes. If this command does not sufficiently lighten or darken the
contrast, use the Adjust Contrast Base command (^D36, section 5.3). Values for
^A are shown below:
1 60% of Base
2 70% of Base
3 80% of Base
4 90% of Base
5 Base (default)
6 110% of Base
7 120% of Base
8 130% of Base
9 140% of Base
38 Epson Emulation: The 410 printer will emulate an Epson printer in this mode.
There is also an Epson emulation on power-up feature as explained in section
5.3.1. The following ^A parameters define mode of operation. This function is no
longer supported.
1 40 column Epson emulation
2 80 column Epson emulation
XX 55 Select Default Label Layout: Select from the ROM power-up label layout. Only
used if you have a special lay-out embedded into ROM. ^A selects which one (1-
8), if more than one are present.