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may be taken as an escape for the following charac-
ter. You can place the printer in a ‘DUMP’ mode to
see exactly what characters are being received. In
this mode, any character that comes into the printer
is printed in both its ASCII form and as a hex value.
To place the printer in dump mode, turn the printer
off, hold down the FEED key, and turn the printer
on. When a report begins to print, release the feed
key. After the first report there will be a pause, then
a second report. At the end of this report, you will
have about 3 seconds to press the feed key to enter
Communications Diagnostic (DUMP) Mode. (Refer
to pg. P1-6) If you are successful, you will see the
message “Dump Mode Entered” on the label along
with the Com port settings. You can now send your
data to the printer, then examine the resulting label
to determine if all characters received are as ex-
pected.
Q. The labels I am producing have fields missing, but
the command syntax to produce these fields
seems to be correct.
A. Insure that the entire text or bar code fields you
are trying to print are positioned within the label
borders when printed. Some commands will print
the requested field only if it will ‘fit’ on the label.
Also insure that the requested font and size speci-
fied in your label file is resident in the printer. Some
applications make use of the flash file system to
store custom fonts. If these fonts are missing, the
result is a blank field. This also applies for any .PCX
image files that may be used in your label files.
APPENDIX A (continued)
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