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An Introduction to the
Operating Instructions for the
Linx 5900 & 7900 Printers
Linx 5900 & 7900
17 How To Use Keyboard Shortcuts
This document describes how to use keyboard shortcuts to access printer pages or common
functions on the 5900 and 7900 printers.
18 How To Use Advanced Editing
This document describes some additional options that you can use to edit messages on the
5900 and 7900 printers.
19 How To Use a Different Keyboard
This document describes how to use different keyboards on the 5900 and 7900 printers. It
tells you how to access the extended character sets from the keyboard and the additional
character set through the character selector for the European keyboard. This document also
tells you how to use the Pinyin system for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and the
Korean character selector.
20 How to Use the 7900 Food Grade Printer
This document contains information for anyone who uses the 7900 Food Grade printer. The
guide includes information about how to clean the MidiEC printhead.
21 How to Use the USB Connection
This document describes how to use the USB connection of the 5900 and 7900 printers to
save messages from the printer to a USB memory stick and transfer messages and logos to
the printer from a memory stick. This document also tells you how to make a backup of the
printer settings to a memory stick. You can restore the settings to the same printer, or
transfer the settings to another printer.
22 How to Use Prompted Fields
This document describes how to create prompted fields for the 5900 and 7900 printers.
Prompted fields are fields within a message that require the user to enter or select text
before a message is printed. They reduce the need to edit a message and make sure that all
message data is entered before a message is printed. Prompted fields also allow you to
reuse message content between messages. For example, you can copy messages, and then
edit the prompted fields that they contain.
23 How to Use Dynamic Message Orientation
This document describes how to configure message orientation settings and printer
hardware for traversing operations on the 5900 Dairy Coder printer. This functionality is
available on the 7900 printer through the use of orientation sequences (see How to Create
Text and Orientation Sequences).