String – CognitiveTPG DLXi User Manual

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S T A N D A R D P R I N T E R C O M M A N D S

STRING

Function

Prints text (ASCII characters) on a label using CSI

fonts. These are non-proportional, non-compressed
bitmapped fonts.

Explicit Form

STRING type

(eximage,exspace,xmult,

ymult) x y characters

Implicit Form

S type

(eximage,exspace,xmult,ymult) x y

characters

Parameters

type

Specifies the basic font size, in dots.
There are seven font sizes: 3X5, 5X7,

8X8, 9X12, 12X16, 18X23, and
24X31.
The number preceding the X is the

approximate character width. The
number following the X is the

character height. You can specify
the font type just by height, if you

wish.
Not all printers support all fonts.

Refer to

Table 4, Printer Font

Support

for more information.

NOTE: The 3X5 fonts are uppercase
only.

x y

Horizontal and vertical starting

position for the upper left corner of
the first character in a string.

character
s

ASCII string to be printed.

The following parameters are contained in

parentheses and are optional:

eximage

Produces bolder forms of all

character sets by printing the
character the number of times

specified, offset by one dot column

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Revision F, January 2012, CognitiveTPG

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