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AN-07

December 5, 2005

OVERVIEW OF THERMAL EASY PRINT PRINTING

If your print job is more than a succession of lines of text, you might want to consider Easy Print. This control language

alternative to Line Printer mode permits not only text but also bar codes, stored graphics, rotated images and rotated

fields within those images – plus a lot more. Easy print was designed to be minimally cryptic – once your job is encoded,

as a human you should be able to read the control codes in the job and know what the printed image will look like.

To send any command, including the print command, in Easy Print, you must first sen

d the three byte command ESC EZ

(0x1b 0x45 0x5A). The printer will then remain in Easy Print until (1) it falls asleep, (2) it is reset, or (3) a command to

switch to another

All Easy Print commands begin with the opening curly brace “{“ (0x7B) and end with the closing curly brace “}” (0x7D).

Inside the b

races is the command. If any data is required, a colon “:” (0x3A) separates command from data, and the data

follows the command. The general form of all Easy Print commands is:

{[COMMAND]<:DATA>}

To print using Easy Print, the command is PRINT a

nd the DATA is a succession of descriptors for each field, or “thing” to

be printed (whether the “thing” is text, bar code, or graphic). Optional global parameters affect the entire print job:

{PRINT<,GLOBALPARAMETERS>:

[FIELD 1]

[FIELD 2]

•

[FIELD n]

}

Each field, regardless of what is to be printed is virtual

ly identical. Each FIELD has the form:

@ROW,COL:NAME<FIELD PARAMETERS>

|DATA|

Begins with an “@” (0x40)

Is followed by WHERE the data is to be printed (ROW,COL

). The row and column are always followed by a

colon “:” (0x3A)

That is followed by HOW is to be printed (NAME)

That is followed by WHAT is to be printed which is the

DATA to be printed (except for the case of stored

graphics). Data is always delimited by a vertical bar (0x7C) before and after the data. If no data is required,

as in the case of stored graphics and lines, then only a single vertical bar is required

Optionally, a comma “,” (0x2C) can follow HOW to be printed for m

odifiers (or “field parameters”) for that

FIELD

Each field can be modified by a set of “Field Parameters” that ca

n increase the height and or the width of the field, can

rotate the field 90 degrees to the left or right, or rotate 180 degrees. And the field can be printed inverse (i.e. white on

black rather than black on white).

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Summary of Contents

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AN-07 December 5, 2005 OVERVIEW OF THERMAL EASY PRINT PRINTING If your print job is more than a succession of lines of text, you might want t

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FIELD PARAMETERS GENERAL INVERSE (I) Adding the word “INVERSE” or the letter “I” will cause whatever the field to be printed WHITE on BLACK

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And just as the field can be modified, the entire image can be modified through “Global Parameters”. The image can be rotated 90 degrees

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QSTOPN Cancel whatever QSTOP values were configured into Flash memory QSTOPT nnn Sets the printer to stop nnn dotlines after a QMARK is det

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HOW to print the data Each Bar Code, Font, or Graphic has a five character name and a one character name. While you can use either in Easy P

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Example 5 The bar code printed in example 4 was very dense and very short (narrow element was .005” and it was only .025” tall). The followi

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Example 9 So far, all of our examples have contained only one field. Most print jobs are much more complex and contain multiple fields. To

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