Zebra Technologies EPL2 Printer User Manual


 
Table of Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
Command Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2
Basic Command Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Command Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3
Placing Elements in the Print Image . . . . . . . . . . 1-4
Text (Fonts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
Bar Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-7
Programming Sequences Affect Graphic Results . . . . 1-8
Printer Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Printer AutoSense Feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Determining Printer Firmware Version . . . . . . . . . 2-2
Programming Mode Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3
Media Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4
Command Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
A
Command - ASCII Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-4
Asian Character Font Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8
AUTOFR
Command - Automatic Form Printing . . . . . . . 3-9
B Command - Bar Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11
b Command - 2D Bar Code - MaxiCode Specific Options . . 3-16
b Command - 2D Bar Code - PDF417 Specific Options . . . 3-20
C Command - Counter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-27
C Command - Cut Immediate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-29
D Command - Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-30
dump Command - Enable Dump Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 3-31
eR Command - User Defined Error/Status Character . . . . 3-32
EI Command - Print Soft Font Information . . . . . . . . . . 3-33
EK Command - Delete Soft Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-34
ES Command - Store Soft Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-35
f Command - Cut Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-40
FE Command - End Form Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-41
FI Command - Print Form Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-42
FK Command - Delete Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-43
FR Command - Retrieve Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-44
FS Command - Store Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-45
GG Command - Print Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-47
GI Command - Print Graphics Information . . . . . . . . . . 3-48
GK Command - Delete Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-49
GM Command - Store Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-50
GW Command - Direct Graphic Write . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-52
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