SATO CX Series Printer
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CX SERIES PROGRAMMING GUIDE ...................................1
INTRODUCTION ..............................................................1
THE SATO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ...........................1
SELECTING PROTOCOL CONTROL CODES ......................2
USING BASIC ...................................................................2
Printing with the Parallel Port ............................................3
Printing with the RS232 Port .............................................4
ROTATED FIELDS ..............................................................5
COMMAND DEFAULT SETTINGS ......................................5
PRINTER CONFIGURATION ..............................................6
COMMAND CODE PAGE REFERENCE ...............................7
Bar Codes ........................................................................8
Bar Codes, Expansion .......................................................13
Bar Codes, Variable Ratio .................................................15
Base Reference Point ........................................................17
Characters, Custom-Designed ..........................................19
Character Expansion ........................................................21
Character, Fixed Spacing ..................................................23
Character Pitch .................................................................24
Character, Proportional Spacing .......................................26
Clear Print Job(s) & Memory .............................................27
Continuous Forms Printing ...............................................28
Copy Image Area .............................................................29
Cutter Command .............................................................31
Fonts U, S, M, OA, OB, XU, XS & XM .................................33
Fonts WB, WL, XB & XL .....................................................35
Form Feed .......................................................................37
Form Overlay, Recall ........................................................38
Form Overlay, Store .........................................................40
Graphics, Custom .............................................................41
Graphics, PCX ..................................................................43
Journal Print .....................................................................45
Label Size & Start Position ................................................47
Lines and Boxes ................................................................48
