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If the printer will not turn on, check the com port and cable. Now select option 2 (Get printer status)

from the menu. If there is no response, you probably have mismatched baud rates.

Q. There seems to be missing or garbled characters sent to the printer.

A. Some systems may alter characters before they are sent to the printer. The ‘\’ character for example

may be taken as an escape for the following character. You can place the printer in a ‘DUMP’ mode

to see exactly what characters are being received. In this mode, any character that comes into the

printer is printed in both its ASCII form and as a hex value. To place the printer in dump mode, turn

the printer off, hold down the FEED key, and turn the printer on. When a report begins to print,

release the feed key. After the first report there will be a pause, then a second report. At the end of

this report, you will have about 3 seconds to press the feed key to enter Communications Diagnostic

(DUMP) Mode. (Refer to pg. P1-6) If you are successful, you will see the message “Dump Mode

Entered” on the label along with the Com port settings. You can now send your data to the printer,

then examine the resulting label to determine if all characters received are as expected.

Q. The labels I am producing have elds missing, but the command syntax to produce these elds

seems to be correct.

A. Insure that the entire text or bar code fields you are trying to print are positioned within the label

borders when printed. Some commands will print the requested field only if it will ‘fit’ on the label.

Also insure that the requested font and size specified in your label file is resident in the printer. Some

applications make use of the flash file system to store custom fonts. If these fonts are missing, the

result is a blank field. This also applies for any .PCX image files that may be used in your label files.

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