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RTC ZPL II Commands

ZPL II Samples

47867L-001 Rev. A 05/25/2005

ZPL II Samples

The ZPL II scripts shown on this page establish the initial settings for the date and time clock.

The script below then references these settings to provide the output shown in Figure 1

on page 13.

Setting the date and time for the Real Time Clock only needs to be done once. The date and

time are maintained by an on-board battery when the printer is reset or the printer is turned

Off (

O).

To set the date and time to April 23, 1999 at 2:30 PM, the following command string should be

sent to the printer:

^XA

^ST04,23,1999,02,30,0,P^FS

^XZ

To initialize the Real Time Clock and set up two offset values (offset #2 set to 3 months and 1

hour in the future, offset #3 set to 1 year in the past), the following command sequence should

be sent to the printer:

^XA

^SL

^SO2,3,0,0,1,0,0^FS

^SO3,0,0,-1,0,0,0^FS

^XZ

The above ZPL II scripts initialize the RTC date and time and must be sent to a printer to

provide proper date and time parameters for the ZPL II script below.

The following ZPL II script illustrates the various methods of printing the date and time

initialized in the script above within separate fields on continuous media. Figure 1 on page 13

illustrates the printout of this script on a label.

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