Microcom 470 - Manual (Page 9)

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470 Operators Manual
Introduction
The Microcom 470 is a Direct Thermal or Thermal Transfer label printer with a high resolution
(832 dots or 8 dots/mm), 4.09 inch wide print head. Through the use of dual high speed
processors, the printer has the ability to handle a wide variety of labeling tasks - even the most
demanding applications.
The resident Label Design Software (LDS) is a powerful and easy-to-use package that allows
you to create personalized label formats. It can be driven from a PC, mini-computer,
mainframe, and most special purpose computers.
Among many other features, LDS supports downloadable graphics and fonts, multiple serial
numbering, and flexible character kerning. It offers virtually unlimited text font sizes and all
popular bar code symbologies. Graphic images can be printed or stored in the printer's
memory for future use. Bitmapped Fonts, bar codes, and graphic images can be multiplied in
size and printed in 0,90,180,270 degree rotations. To offer even more flexibility, our new
scaleable or "Vector" fonts and lines can be rotated in one degree increments. Once the labels
are designed, they can be stored in the 470's memory for high speed printer access.
The 470 is capable of printing on most types of label stock or fax paper. It offers operation in a
tag/tear, peel-and-dispense, batch mode, and user-defined advance mode. It can handle blow-
hole, black-line, label gap, and continuous stock.
Many printer applications use the same label format, but change the data on every label. This
is not a problem for the Microcom 470 printer. Data may be changed without down-loading the
same fixed format, or fixed data fields, time after time. This, along with a greatly increased
communication speed, increases data access time and productivity.
Microcom also offers a complete line of software packages which allow quick and easy on-
screen label designing, along with complete database capabilities.