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Mobile Printing Systems

CPCL Programming Manual

Section 10

Advanced

Utilities

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Magnetic Card Reader (MCR) Command

This command can be used to configure and activate the Magnetic Card Reader (MCR). The MCR

command will be ignored by printers not equipped with a Magnetic Card Reader.

The MCR command can be issued in a label file (! 0 200 … PRINT), or in a utilities command session

(! UTILITIES … PRINT). This command activates the MCR. When the printer is turned on, the MCR is not active

by default until the MCR command is received. To make the MCR active on power-up, the MCR command

can be issued from autoexec.bat or run.bat files.

The data transmission indicator of the printer (either an LED or an icon on an LCD) will blink while the

MCR is active. When the MCR times out or after a successful read (provided the MCR is not in MULTIPLE

read mode,) the MCR will deactivate, thereby returning the data transmission indicator back to its normal

state.

Format:

{command} {time-out} {options}

Where:

{command}: MCR

{time-out}: time-out is the inactivity shut-down time, in 1/8th of a second. For example, time-out=80

for a 10-second inactivity time-out (10

8), or time-out=160 for a 20-second inactivity time-out (20

seconds

8). The MCR timer starts ticking once the last option of MCR command is received by

the printer. When MCR times out, it will not read a new card until a new MCR command is issued.

The only exception to this rule is when MCR is in MULTIPLE read mode. See below for description

of MULTIPLE read mode. A time-out of 0 will instruct the printer to never time-out, and wait for a

successful read.

{options}: The options listed below can be specified in any order, and must be separated with spaces.

The last option must be terminated with cr/lf (carriage-return / line-feed) characters. Options are

accumulative, meaning that “MCR 10 ERRORS T1” and “MCR 40 T2” are equivalent to “MCR 40

ERRORS T1 T2”. The time-out field is not accumulative, and only the last specified time-out is used.

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