Cognitive Solutions A799 Manual De Usuario

Chapter 3: Programming the Printer

Revision D 12/09

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Character appearance

The appearance of text can be changed using the following print modes:
•  Standard
•  Compressed
•  Double-high
•  Double-wide
•  Upside-down

•  Rotated
•  Underlined
•  Bold
•  Reverse

•  Italic
•  Strike-through
•  Scaled
•  Shading

Width specifications

Standard

•  Characters per inch: 15.6
•  Characters per line: 44
•  Cell size: 13 X 24 dots

Print zones

Print zones for 80mm paper

Specifications of print zone for 80mm paper:

Compressed

•  Characters per inch: 20.3
•  Characters per line: 56
•  Cell size: 10 X 24 dots

• 576 dots (addressable) @ 8 dots/mm,

centered on 80mm

• Standard mode: minimum margins:

2.0mm (.079 inches)

• Top margin to manual tear-off:

17.8mm (0.70 inches)

• Top margin to knife cut:

19.0mm (0.75 inches)

Note: The application centers 44 standard character cells (13 X 24 dots), or 56 compressed character cells (10 X 24

dots), or 576 addressable bits of graphics across an 80mm wide receipt. Minimum print line height is 24 dots for text or

graphics. Standard print line spacing is 27 dots (i.e., 3 extra row dots).
The A799 adds a 27 dot high font, so standard print spacing is 30 dots.