Document Outline

• Product Enhancements
• Liability Disclaimer
• FCC Compliance Statement
• 1.1 General Specifications
• 1.2 Printing Specifications
• 1.3 Media Specifications
• 2.1 Fonts
• 2.2 Graphics
• 2.3 Bar codes
• 2.4 Special Features
• 2.5 Options
• 3.1 Unpacking and Inspection
• 3.2 Printer Power
• 3.3 RS232 Serial Communication Interface
  • 3.3.1 RS-232 Serial Cables
• 3.4 USB Communication Interface
  • 3.4.1 USB Driver Setup
• 3.5 Parallel Communication Interface
• 3.6 Ethernet Communication Interface
  • 3.6.1 Device Installer
• 3.7 Cash Drawer Option
• 3.8 AUX Option
• 3.9 Niceware Windows Driver
  • 3.9.1 Niceware Windows Driver Setup and Configuration
  • 3.9.2 Advanced Windows Driver Features
    • 3.9.2.1 Stock Types
    • 3.9.2.2 Custom Commands
    • 3.9.2.3 Import/Export Settings
• 3.10 MICPrinter USB Windows Driver
• 3.11 Loading Media
• 3.12 Print Button and Status Indicator Light
  • 3.12.1 Print Button
  • 3.12.2 Status Indicator Light
• 3.13 Printer Modes
  • 3.13.1 Idle Mode: GREEN
  • 3.13.2 Halted Mode: RED
    • 3.13.2.1 Clear >LOW STOCK< error
    • 3.13.2.2 Clear error with “single button error clear”
    • 3.13.2.3 Automatic Stock Eject on >LOW STOCK<
  • 3.13.3 Paused Mode: Solid or Flashing AMBER
  • 3.13.4 Diagnostic Mode
    • 3.13.4.1 Entering Diagnostic Mode
    • 3.13.4.2 Statistics Label
• 3.14 TOF Sensor
• 3.15 Media Roll Holder Option
• 3.16 Wristband Media Adapter Option
• 4.1 Control Characters
• 4.2 LDS Design Exercises
  • 4.2.1 Format Creation
• 4.3 Label Design: An Overview
• 4.4 Label Header
  • 4.4.1 HFM (Number of Fields in Layout)
  • 4.4.2 LSX (Print Head Size X)
  • 4.4.3 LSY (Label Size Y)
  • 4.4.4 WEB (Web Size)
  • 4.4.5 GAP (GAP Size)
  • 4.4.6 DPS (Print Speed)
  • 4.4.7 LCB (Label Control Byte)
    • 4.4.7.1 Die-Cut and Blow-Hole Media (setting = 0)
    • 4.4.7.2 Continuous Media (setting = 2)
    • 4.4.7.3 Black Line Media (Reflective) (setting = 3)
  • 4.4.8 AGD (Activate Gap Detector)
  • 4.4.9 SPG (Steps Past Gap)
  • 4.4.10 OFX (Offset X Direction)
  • 4.4.11 OFY (Offset Y Direction)
• 4.5 Sample Header
• 4.6 Label Format Fields
  • 4.6.1 TSN (Text String Number)
  • 4.6.2 XB (X Beginning Coordinate)
  • 4.6.3 YB (Y Beginning Coordinate)
  • 4.6.4 CC (Character Count)
  • 4.6.5 TCI (Text Conversion Identifier)
  • 4.6.6 CGN (Character Generator Number)
    • 4.6.6.1 Embedded Fonts
    • 4.6.6.2 Downloadable Fonts and Graphics
    • 4.6.6.3 Embedded Bar Codes
  • 4.6.7 FO (Field Orientation)
  • 4.6.8 FJ (Field Justification)
  • 4.6.9 CMX (Character Multiplier X Direction)
  • 4.6.10 CMY (Character Multiplier Y Direction)
  • 4.6.11 CS (Character Spacing)
  • 4.6.12 TSP (Text Starting Position)
  • 4.6.13 ,,, (Reserved Spaces)
  • 4.6.14 AN (Attribute Number)
• 4.7 Line Draw
• 4.8 Reverse Video
  • 4.8.1 Black Box Reverse Video
  • 4.8.2 Auto Reverse Video
• 5.1 Special Printer Control Codes
  • 5.1.1 Enquiry Responses
• 5.2 Printer Configuration Commands
  • 5.2.1 Software Switches
    • 5.2.1.1 Software Switch #1
    • 5.2.1.2 Software Switch #2
    • 5.2.1.3 Software Switch #3
    • 5.2.1.4 Software Switch #4
    • 5.2.1.5 Software Switch #5
    • 5.2.1.6 Software Switch #6
    • 5.2.1.7 Software Switch #7
    • 5.2.1.8 Software Switch #8
  • 5.2.2 Communication Port Configuration
    • 5.2.2.1 Baud Rate
    • 5.2.2.2 Set Serial Port Source Command (Non-volatile- ^D108)
    • 5.2.2.3 Set Serial Port Source Command (Volatile - ^D109)
    • 5.2.2.4 Ethernet Telnet Pass-Through Mode
  • 5.2.3 Print Head Size Commands
• 5.3 General Purpose I/O
• 5.4 Specialized Print Modes
  • 5.4.1 Synchronous Print Mode
  • 5.4.2 USB Image Print Mode
  • 5.4.3 Contrast Adjustment Commands
    • 5.4.3.1 Adjust Contrast Window (Volatile - ^D35)
    • 5.4.3.2 Adjust Contrast Base (Non-volatile - ^D36)
  • 5.4.4 Slice Buffer Size and Set Starting Slice Number Commands
  • 5.4.5 Printer Restart / Reboot Commands
  • 5.4.6 Registration Commands
  • 5.4.7 Auto-size Commands
  • 5.4.8 AutoHeader Commands
• 5.5 AutoLoad Media Commands
  • 5.5.1 AutoLoad + Form Feed
  • 5.5.2 AutoLoad + Top-Of-Form
• 5.6 Printing Commands
  • 5.6.1 Basic Printing Commands
• 5.7 Label Header Parameter Override Commands
  • 5.7.1 Serial Number Commands
• 5.8 Text String Commands
• 5.9 Cutter Configuration Commands
  • 5.9.1 Cutter Type
  • 5.9.2 Kiosk Cutter Commands
    • 5.9.2.1 Kiosk Cutter Mode
    • 5.9.2.2 Kiosk Cutter Advance Distance Command
  • 5.9.3 Volatile Cutter Operation
  • 5.9.4 Cutter Hold-off
• 5.10 Dispensing Commands
  • 5.10.1 Tag/Tear Operation
  • 5.10.2 Peel-and-Dispense Operation
  • 5.10.3 Load Advance/Retract Distance and Load Advance Delay
• 5.11 View Printer Configuration and Statistics
• 5.12 Memory Commands
• 5.13 Printer Code Update
• 5.14 Miscellaneous Commands
• Memory
• 6.1 FLASH Data Types
• 6.2 RAM Data Types
• 6.3 Using the BMP2MIC.exe GRAPHIC Conversion Utility
  • 6.3.1 BMP2MIC.exe GRAPHIC Conversion Utility Procedure
• 6.4 Graphic Download Methods
  • 6.4.1 Uncompressed Graphic Downloads
  • 6.4.2 Compressed Binary GRAPHIC Downloads
• 6.5 Advanced GRAPHIC Format Conversion for Programmers
  • 6.5.1 Save Compressed Graphics to RAM (D107)
  • 6.5.2 Save Compressed Graphics to FLASH (D133)
  • 6.5.3 Binary Compression Algorithm
  • 6.5.4 Uncompressed FONT to RAM (^D104)
• 6.6 Graphic Image Data Format
• 6.7 Downloadable Graphics Commands
• 7.1 FLASH Data Types
• 7.2 RAM Data Types
• 7.3 Using the Font Conversion Utilities
  • 7.3.1 SFP2MIC.exe Program
  • 7.3.2 TTF2MIC.exe Program
• 7.4 Font Download Methods
  • 7.4.1 Compressed Binary Commands
    • 7.4.1.1 Save Compressed FONT to RAM (D127)
    • 7.4.1.2 Save Compressed FONT to FLASH (D135)
  • 7.4.2 Uncompressed FONT to RAM (^D104)
  • 7.4.3 Save FONTS to FLASH (^D135)
• 7.5 Font Structure
• 7.6 Downloadable Font Command Summary
• 8.1 Types of Bar Codes
  • 8.1.1 Universal Product Code – Version A (UPC-A), TCI 12
  • 8.1.2 Universal Product Code – Version E (UPC-E), TCI 13
  • 8.1.3 Universal Product Code (UPC-E, send 6 digits), TCI 14
  • 8.1.4 Interleaved 2 of 5 (I2 of 5), TCI 15
  • 8.1.5 Code 3 of 9 (Code39), TCI 16
  • 8.1.6 European Article Numbering System 13 (EAN-13), TCI 20
  • 8.1.7 European Article Numbering System 8 (EAN-8), TCI 21
  • 8.1.8 Modified Plessey (MSI 1), TCI 24
  • 8.1.9 Modified Plessey (MSI 2), TCI 25
  • 8.1.10 Modified Plessey (MSI 3), TCI 26
  • 8.1.11 GS1 Databar, TCI 35
    • 8.1.11.1 GS1 Databar Omni-Directional
    • 8.1.11.2 GS1 Databar Truncated
    • 8.1.11.3 GS1 Databar Stacked
    • 8.1.11.4 GS1 Databar Stacked Omni-directional
    • 8.1.11.5 GS1 Databar Limited
    • 8.1.11.6 GS1 Databar Expanded
    • 8.1.11.7 How to Print an GS1 Databar Barcode
  • 8.1.12 Postnet (ZIP+4), TCI 36
  • 8.1.13 Postnet (ZIP+6), TCI 37
  • 8.1.14 MaxiCode, TCI 38
  • 8.1.15 Code 128 (Automatic Compression), TCI 40
  • 8.1.16 Code 128 (Manual Compression), TCI 41
  • 8.1.17 Codabar (Rationalized), TCI 42
  • 8.1.18 Code 93, TCI 43
  • 8.1.19 PDF-417, TCI 46
  • 8.1.20 Datamatrix, TCI 47
  • 8.1.21 Intelligent Mail Barcode, TCI 48
  • 8.1.22 Planet Code, TCI 49
  • 8.1.23 UCC/EAN 128, TCI 50
  • 8.1.24 UCC/EAN Text Information, TCI 51
• 8.2 Bar Code Rotation
• 8.3 Bar Code Human Readable Text
• 9.1 What is Code Page Switching?
• 9.2 Character Sets
• 9.3 Code Pages
  • 9.3.1 Code Pages
  • 9.3.2 Danish Code Page
  • 9.3.3 860 Code Page
  • 9.3.4 Spanish Code Page
  • 9.3.5 850 Code Page
  • 9.3.6 German Code Page
  • 9.3.7 865 Code Page
  • 9.3.8 Swiss Code Page
  • 9.3.9 852 Code Page
  • 9.3.10 French Code Page
  • 9.3.11 863 Code Page
  • 9.3.12 Swedish Code Page
  • 9.3.13 437 Code Page
  • 9.3.14 Italian Code Page
  • 9.3.15 British Code Page
  • 9.3.16 USA Code Page
• 10.1 Maintenance Schedule
• 10.2 Thermal Printer Cleaning Card
• 10.3 Internal Cleaning
• 10.4 Print Head Maintenance
• 10.5 Replacing the Drive Roller
• 10.6 Adjusting Printhead Pressure
• 11.1 Troubleshooting Tips
• 1: General Index
• 2: List of Figures
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• 24: List of Tables
• Appendix A: Limited Warranty
• Appendix B: RMA Procedure
• Appendix C: ^D Command Summary
• Glossary
• Appendix D: User Notes