SATO M-8400RV Manuale Utente
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SATO RISC Printers
1. Introduction
Programming Manual
4. You may want to minimize keystrokes and program size by assigning
the <ESC> character to a string variable since this character is used
quite often.
quite often.
The following two examples in BASIC show a typical example using these
hints. Both of these examples use the Standard Protocol codes.
hints. Both of these examples use the Standard Protocol codes.
1.5 Printing with the Parallel Port
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E$=CHR$(27)
Sets the “E$” string as an
<ESC> character
<ESC> character
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WIDTH “LPT1:”,255
Sets the width of the output to
255 characters
255 characters
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LPRINT E$;"A";
Sends an “<ESC>A” command
code to the LPT1 parallel port
code to the LPT1 parallel port
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LPRINT E$;"H400";E$;"V100";E$;"XL1SATO";
Sends the data “SATO” to be to
be placed 400 dots horizontally
and 100 dots vertically on the
label and printed in the “XL”
font.
and 100 dots vertically on the
label and printed in the “XL”
font.
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LPRINT E$;"Q1";
Instructs the printer to print one
label.
label.
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LPRINT E$; “Z”;
Tells the printer that the last
command has been sent. The
printer can now create and print
the job.
command has been sent. The
printer can now create and print
the job.