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