FARGO electronics PrimeraPro 76500 Operating Instructions Manual

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88AppendixCPrimeraPro’sPrinterCommandsand ControlCodesThis sectioncontains asummary of thePrimeraPro ColorPrinter’scommands andcontrol codes.These commandsare used mainlyby those whowish to drive theprinter fromspecificapplications andfrom operatingsystems otherthan Windows.For moreinformation onprintercommands andcontrol codes,contact FARGO’sTechnical SupportGroup at (612)941-0050.Whenever standard ASCII (ASCII 32-127) data issent to the printer and SW2 is ON, PrimeraPro willprint out all such data as text. Therefore, SW2 mustbe ON in order to print from the DOS prompt. Theresident bit-mapped font is Letter Gothic 12 cpi. Acomplete list of the standard characters containedin this resident font is on the self-test printout.Alternate country characters are enabled byselecting the proper DIP switches as listed inAppendix A, Table A-2. A complete listing of thecharacters available along with country selectionsare listed in Appendix A, Table A-3. This mode isenabled only with Switch #2 ON.The following is a summary of printer commandsfor color output:1. Start of Graphics: $1B $00 $FF R HR is a hexadecimal number designating aribbon type.$31 = 3-color$32 = monochrome$33 = 4-colorH is a hexadecimal number designating aprinter heat setting. Range is 1 to 96; $50 isnominal. Use less than $50 for lighter print,higher than $50 for darker print.$20 = 1$21 = 2~~~~~~~~$7E = 95$7F = 962. Start of Panel: $86 CC is a hexadecimal number designating acolor panel.$30 = yellow$31 = magenta$32 = cyan$33 = black3. Raster Graphics Line: $85 R bb..b 00R is a hexadecimal number from $00 to $FFdesignating the number of times, 1 to 256, torepeat this raster line.b is raster graphics bytesn If the first byte is less than $80 it representsa count of repeated bytes, i.e. $41 $42denotes a $42 repeated 65 times.n If the first byte is greater than $80 itrepresents a count of unrepeated bytes, i.e.$83 $41 $42 $43 denotes the threehexadecimal values $41 $42 $43.A. Standard TextPrintingB. Wax ThermalColor Output