SATO M-8485Se - Section 5. Programming; Introduction; The SATO RISC Programming Language

SECTION 5 PROGRAMMING REFERENCE
INTRODUCTION
This section presents a brief overview of the commands that are used with the
SATO “Se”
p
rinters to
p
roduce labels with lo
g
os
,
ba
r
codes and al
p
hanumeric data.
The followin
g
information is presented in this section:
• The SATO Programming Language
• Selecting Protocol Control Codes
• Using Basic
• The Print Area
• Command Codes
THE SATO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
A programming language for a printer is a familiar concept to most programmers. It is
a group of commands that are designed to use the internal intelligence of the printer.
The commands, which are referred to as SATO Command Codes, contain
non-printable ASCII characters (such as <STX> , <ETX> , <ESC> ) and printable
characters. These commands must be assembled into an organized block of code to be
sent as one data stream to the printer, which in turn interprets the command codes
and generates the desired label output. The programmer is free to use any
programming language available to send the desired data to the printer.
The command codes used are based upon “Escape” (1B hexadecimal) sequences.
T
yp
icall
y
there are fou
r
t
yp
es of command se
q
uences:
<ESC>
{
Command
}
These commands generally tell the printer to perform a specific action, like “clear the
memor
y
.”
<ESC>
{
Command
}
{
Data
}
Commands with this format tell the printer to perform a specific action which is
dependent upon the following data, like “print X labels”, where the value for X i s
contained in the data.
<ESC>
{
Command
}
{
Parameter
}
These commands set the operational parameters of the printer, like “set the print
s
p
eed to 3.”
<ESC>
{
Command
}
{
Parameter
}
{
Data
}
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