Intermec PF2 4i User manual

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User’s Guide

ZSim v5.XX

for EasyCoder®

PF2/4i, PX4/6i,

PM4i and PD41

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ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide iii

Contents

What is ZSim? ............................................................................... 1

System Requirements ..................................................................... 1

ZSim v5.XX vs. v4.XX ...................................................................1

Loading ZSim to Your Printer ........................................................1

Conﬁguring ZSim – PF, PM and PX Printers .................................2

Navigating the ZSim Conﬁguration Menu ......................2

Conﬁguring ZSim – PD41 ............................................................3

Conﬁguring ZSim for the First Time .............................................4

Conﬁguring ZSim through text downloads ......................4

Using the Conﬁguration Menu ........................................7

Initial Setup Conﬁguration Menu .....................8

Conﬁguration Command Menu, Part 1 ............9

Conﬁguration Command Menu, Part 2 ..........10

Conﬁguration Command Menu, Part 3 ..........11

Understanding the Conﬁguration Commands .............................12

Allow Reverse ..................................................12

Calibrate .........................................................12

Change Caret ..................................................12

Change Delimiter ............................................12

Change Tilde ...................................................12

Change Y-pos ..................................................12

Clear Permanent .............................................. 12

Default Start Adjust ........................................12

Default Stop Adjust .........................................13

Factory Defaults ..............................................13

Feed Action .....................................................13

Input Port .......................................................13

Label Length ...................................................14

Label Width ....................................................14

Line Analyzer ..................................................14

Log to Card .....................................................14

LTS .................................................................14

Media Contrast ...............................................14

Media Type .....................................................15

Optimize Bar Code Magniﬁcation ..................15

Optimize Batch ...............................................15

Optimize Image Magniﬁcation ........................16

Paper Type .......................................................16

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Peel Oﬀ Length ...............................................16

Permanent Save ...............................................16

Print Conﬁguration Label ...............................17

Print Mode ......................................................17

Redo Conﬁg ....................................................17

Reset Tuning ...................................................17

Save Current ...................................................17

Select Character Set .........................................17

Simulation Resolution .....................................18

Units ...............................................................18

Use Last Saved .................................................18

X-Oﬀset ..........................................................18

Y-Oﬀset ...........................................................18

Troubleshooting ZSim .................................................................19

Entering Passwords ......................................................................20

Modes............................................................................20

Selecting Characters .......................................................21

ZPL Commands Supported by ZSim ...........................................22

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide v

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Important: Carefully read this Intermec Printer Interpreter License

Agreement (hereafter “License”) before installing or using the

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ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 1

What is ZSim?

ZSim is a Zebra™ interpreter program that allows you to use your legacy

Zebra programs on an Intermec EasyCoder PF2i, PF4i, PF4i Compact

Industrial, PM4i, PX4i, PX6i or PD41 printer with Fingerprint. All you

need to do is download the ZSim program onto your printer, conﬁgure

a few settings, and start sending Zebra commands. e ZSim program

comes either factory installed (not on PD41), stored on a CompactFlash

card, or as a Field Installer ﬁle for user installation (not described in this

manual).

System Requirements

ZSim v.5.XX requires Fingerprint ﬁrmware version 8.60 or later, with the

exception of the PD41 which requires at least version 10.0.0.

e printer must be equipped with a minimum of 8 MB of DRAM.

ZSim v5.XX vs. v4.XX

Version 5 of ZSim provides signiﬁcantly improved throughput for batch

printouts. Support for upgrade of ﬁrmware, conﬁguration and setup

using Wavelink Avalanche has been added (not described in this manual).

Loading ZSim to Your Printer

1 Turn oﬀ your printer.

2 Insert the ZSim CompactFlash card in the card slot on the back of

your printer. e card should slide easily into place. See illustration on

next page.

3 Turn on your printer.

e download process starts automatically. Your printer screen will

display a series of messages .

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Memory card slot

ZSim CompactFlash card

Make sure you

insert the card

properly by

looking at the

arrows on the

card. Do not use

force to insert

the card.

4 Turn oﬀ the printer and remove the ZSim card when the screen

prompts you.

Configuring ZSim – PF, PM and PX Printers

e ﬁrst time you turn on your printer after loading the ZSim program,

you will be prompted to go through a series of conﬁguration screens to

optimize the printer settings. After setting your initial conﬁguration, you

can access the ZSim Conﬁguration menu at any time by pressing Setup

and entering the password (1138).

Navigating the ZSim Configuration Menu

While you are going through the ZSim Conﬁguration menu, use the

following table to help you navigate. e menu tree consists of nodes and

entry points. e conﬁguration menu tree is implemented in the printer

through lead texts and prompts which appear in the display. ere are

Nodes and Entry points.

A Node is deﬁned by a text string terminated with a slash on the ﬁrst

display row. is means you still have level(s) below with new nodes or

just an Entry point.

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 3

An Entry point is for input purpose, where you may enter some

parameter value or turn on/oﬀ a function. It is deﬁned by lead text on

the ﬁrst display row (without ending slash) and a cursor or the value

“on/oﬀ” on the second display row.

Key Description

Setup Open and close the ZSim or Fingerprint menu

ZSim password: 1138

Fingerprint password: 8311

F1 Move to the previous item/alternative on this level

F2 Cancel input

Move to the previous level in the menu

F3 Move to the next item/alternative on this level

F4 Move to the next level in the menu

F5 In online mode: displays communication parameters and memory status

Enter Accept input

Select the item in the menu

Move to the next level in the menu

Feed Feed one label

Pause Pause

C Backspace (input mode)

Set a function ON/OFF (menu)

Cut media, if cutter is mounted

. (Dot) Sign, switch between + and -

Configuring ZSim – PD41

Running ZSim on the PD41 works a bit diﬀerently since the printer

only has one key and no LCD display. Listed below are the standard key

functions:

Action Description

FEED Key press < 1 sec, when ZSim is idle

CALIBRATE& 1 < Key press < 4 sec, when ZSim is idle

CONFIG LABEL Terminates calibration

BREAK ZSIM 5 < Key press < 10 sec, when ZSim is idle

PAUSE-batch Key press < 1 sec when ZSim is printing, EXIT with same proc.

CANCEL-batch Key press > 1 sec when ZSim is in PAUSE-batch mode

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Configuring ZSim for the First Time

After you power on your printer, the ZSim menu takes you to the Initial

Setup Conﬁguration menu.

Note: For the EasyCoder PD41, the conﬁguration is generated

automatically since no menu is available. More information

can be found in the next section.

1 Turn on your printer.

e printer steps through an initialization process that ends with

the printer displaying “Starting Up Please Wait!” before it tries to

ﬁnd the media. Once the printer ﬁnds the media length, the ﬁrst

Conﬁguration menu item appears:

Initial Setup

Enter=Start

2 Step through the Initial Setup Conﬁguration menu changing any

incorrect values. You can view an illustration of the Initial Setup

Conﬁguration menu on the next page.

When you are through setting the values, the printer prints a

conﬁguration label and prompts you to save the conﬁguration. e

Ready light now turns on and the printer screen displays a message

similar to the following message:

ZSim 5.XX

Network

You are now in ZSim Online mode.

3 Start sending Zebra commands to the printer.

Configuring ZSim through text downloads

Text ﬁle conﬁguration is the preferred method to conﬁgure a PD41

printer running ZSim. All parameters can be set by downloading a text

ﬁle to the printer, with the following format:

^ZX[ParamName,]ParamNo,ParamValue^FS

All commands required for setting the parameters are deﬁned in the table

below. It also contains a few commands for making easy setup changes.

Make sure you download and execute the commands one at a time, to

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 5

ensure a secure update. Verify that the update has been carried out by

printing a conﬁguration label.

Note: e default instruction preﬁx “^” and the default

delimiter “,” are used in the samples at the end of the section.

[ParamName] ParamNo ParamValue Default Comment

Label length 1 Calibrated N/A

Y-Oﬀset 2 0 +/-999 dots

X-Oﬀset 3 0 +/-999 dots

Sim resolution 4 sysvar(21) 6,8 or 12

Label width 5 sysvar(22) Depends on head

Print Mode 6 T(Tear-oﬀ) T, P, R, C

Start Adjust 7 Depends on model

Stop Adjust 8 Depends on model

Peel Oﬀ 9 Depends on model

Cut Oﬀ 10 Depends on model

Feed action at

power up

11 1 0=no action, 1=feed,

2=calibrate

Feed action at

head down

12 1 0=no action, 1=feed,

2=calibrate

In Port 13 auto net1:, uart1:, parallel

Default Media

Darkness

14 15 1-30

Optimize Barcode

Size

15 0 0-9

LTS-sensor 16 1/0 auto 1=ON 0=OFF

Optimize Image

Mag.

17 1/0 1 1=ON 0=OFF

Allow Reverse

18 1/0 1 1=ON 0=OFF

Permanent Save 19 1/0 0 1=ON 0=OFF

Format Instruc-

tion Preﬁx

20 ^ Any ASCII char.

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[ParamName] ParamNo ParamValue Default Comment

Control

Instruction Preﬁx

21 ~ Any ASCII char.

Command

Delimiter

22 , Any ASCII char.

Units inch/mm 23 1/0 0 0=inch, 1=mm

Optimize Batch 24 -1/0 -1 ON/OFF

Y-oﬀset in percent 25 0 Skid comp.+/-0.1-

5.0

Character Set 26 0 0 Single byte char. set

Media Type 50 0/1/2 0 0=GAPS, 1=STRIP,

2=MARK

Paper Type 51 auto TT or DT (setup)

XSTART 52 0 (setup)

Factory default 53 1

Debug oﬀ/on 54 0/1 0 0=OFF, 1=ON

Line Analyser 55 1 OFF 1=ON

Baudrate 60 115200 9600,…,115200

Char.length 61 8 8,7

Parity 62 NO NO,EVEN,..

Stop Bits 63 1 1,2

Flowcontrol,

RTS/CTS

64 ENABLE ENABLE/DISABLE

65 DISABLE ENABLE/DISABLE

Xon/xoﬀ data to

host

66 DISABLE ENABLE/DISABLE

Xon/xoﬀ data

from host

67 DISABLE ENABLE/DISABLE

Sample 1 Change Start Adjust to -130:

^ZX Start Adjust,7,-130^FS or ^ZX7,-130^FS

Sample 2 Change Print Mode to peel-oﬀ:

^ZX Print Mode,6,P^FS or ^ZX6,P^FS

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 7

Using the Configuration Menu

You need to update conﬁguration commands when you perform

functions such as changing media. You can access the Conﬁguration

menu at any time by pressing Setup. For help locating the command you

want to change, see the Conﬁguration Command Menu.

See the section ”Understanding the Conﬁguration Commands” later in

this guide for a description of most of these commands.

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Initial Setup Configuration Menu

Input all COM/IP-

Initializing

COM/IP...

Init COM/IP-Para.?

No=F2 Yes=ENTER

Initial Setup

<ENTER> = Start

Load Media!

<ENTER> = Continue

Sim.Resolution:

[203/300/152 (DPI)]

Paper Type:

[Direct Thermal/...]

Print Mode:

[Tear Off/Peel Off/...]

Media Type:

[Non Cont. Gap/Cont/...]

Calibrating

Media ...

Measured Length

4,178 in...

Cancel = F2

Input Port:

[Serial,Parallel/...]

Head Lifted

Head Lowered

Head Lift

Printing Config

Label ...

Save Config?

Redo=F2 Ok=ENTER

Saving Config

.....................

Parameters...

Enter

ZSim X.XX

Serial

Media Length Ok?

No=F2 Yes=ENTER

Change COM/IP?

No=F2 Yes=ENTER

Start Up

READY

ENTER

Ser/Network

Parallel

Waiting Media

Load New Media!

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 9

Label Length

(mm/inches) XXXX

Calibrate

Units

Media

Media Contrast

Media Type

Media Size

Media Contrast

Continuous

Non Cont. Mark

Non Cont. Web

Label Length

(mm/inches)

Label Width

X-oﬀset (dots)

Y-oﬀset (dots)

Label Width

X-oﬀset (dots)

XXX

Y-oﬀset (dots)

XXX

Print Mode

Tear Oﬀ

Peel Oﬀ

Rewind

Cutter

inches

Paper Type

Thermal Transfer

Direct Thermal

(mm/inches)

(mm/inches) XXXX

Configuration Command Menu, Part 1

Note: X, XX, XXX, XXXX represent the actual value set.

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Configuration Command Menu, Part 2

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 11

Configuration Command Menu, Part 3

Input Port Network

Parallel

Serial

COMParams

IPParams

Select Character Set

XXXX

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Understanding the Configuration Commands

Use the following conﬁguration command descriptions to understand

the parameters you are setting with the ZSim program.

Allow Reverse

Purpose: Allows reverse printing on the label, both for the

entire label (^LR) and for speciﬁc ﬁelds (^FR).

Default: On

Calibrate

Purpose: Measures the label length and calibrates the sensors.

Change Caret

Purpose: Changes the format instruction preﬁx to another

ASCII character.

Default: ^ (ASCII 94)

Change Delimiter

Purpose: Changes the ZPL delimiter character.

Default: , (ASCII 44)

Change Tilde

Purpose: Changes the command instruction preﬁx to another

ASCII character.

Default: ~ (ASCII 126)

Change Y-pos

Purpose: Skid compensation for long labels. All ﬁelds will

move the speciﬁed percentage from their absolute

position. Interval: -5.0% to +5.0%. Keys: F2 =

decrease value of Y-position, F3= increase value.

Clear Permanent

Purpose: Causes all formats and images stored in the printer’s

permanent memory to be erased.

Default Start Adjust

Purpose: Moves the origin back or forward from the edge of

the label by [dots] before printing starts. is value

can be either positive or negative.

positive start adjustment means that the speciﬁed

ZSim v5.XX User‘s Guide 13

length of media will be fed out before printing starts.

negative start adjustment means that the speciﬁed

length of media will be pulled back before printing

starts.

Default: Printer Model: PF2/4i PM4i PX4/6i PD41

Start Adjust (dots): -100 -100 -133 -80

Default Stop Adjust

Purpose: Determines how much media in [dots] feeds through

after printing is completed. is setting is used to

make sure that the labels are in the correct position

for tear oﬀ operation. is value can be either positive

or negative.

positive stop adjustment means that the normal

media feed after printing is completed will be

increased by the speciﬁed value.

negative stop adjustment means that the normal

media feed after printing is completed will be

decreased by the peciﬁed value.

Default:

0 dots

Factory Defaults

Purpose: Sets all of the ZSim program values back to their

original settings.

Feed Action

Purpose: Sets the feed action that occurs at Start Up and When

Head Down. Choices include No Media Feed, Feed

to Web, Media Sensor Calibration, and Set Label

Length.

Default:

Feed to Web

Input Port

Purpose: Sets the type of input port you are using on your

printer. You can set this value to parallel, serial, or

network.

Default:

Network

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Label Length

Purpose: Speciﬁes the length of the labels in [inches] or [mm]

depending on the units selected. is parameter

is automatically set during the Initial Setup

Conﬁguration process.

Note:

You can only set the label length if the Media

Type is set to Continuous.

Label Width

Purpose: Speciﬁes the width of the label in [mm] or [inches].

You should set the width to prevent labels from being

printed outside of the printable area, which may harm

the printhead.

Default:

Full width of printhead:

EasyCoder PF2i: 56 mm (2.2 inches)

EasyCoder PF4i & PM4i: 104 mm (4.1 inches)

EasyCoder PX4i: 112 mm (4.5 inches)

EasyCoder PX6i: 166 mm (6.6 inches)

EasyCoder PD41: 104 mm (4.1 inches)

Line Analyzer

Purpose: Determines whether to print received data on the

label.

Default:

Oﬀ

Log to Card

Purpose: Logs the received data to a ﬁle on a CompactFlash

card. You can use the log ﬁle for later analysis.

Default:

Oﬀ

LTS

Purpose: Turns the label taken sensor (LTS) on or oﬀ.

Default:

Oﬀ

Media Contrast

Purpose: Adjusts the darkness and contrast of the printout.

You can adjust this value from 0 to 30. Has inﬂuence

only on the Fingerprint setup parameter “contrast.”

A value of 15 corresponds to the Fingerprint contrast

value 0%.

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