IBM PP-50 Series Palm PP
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1. e e e o e e o o e e Version 2 00 3 ed Programming Card Reader In order to use the Magnetic Card Reader MCR an application must be written to activate the MCR and store the information read on the host device usually a PDA or palm size computer The PP 50 Driver and SDKs provide a host of functions or APIs that simplify the task of activating the MCR and reading the data The following is a simple block diagram showing how this is accomplish using the PP 50 Driver SDKs and Direct Control methods Application Palm Size PC MCR data Variable PP 50 Driver SDK MCR API Device Serial Port The application calls the Driver SDK MCR API or sends the PP 50 internal MCR command depending on method used to communicate with the PP 50 Within the application a storage variable is defined and used to store returned data The read data can then be process for further use by the applications See Driver SDK documentation for programming for details Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 6 www ipcprint com eee 6 6 6 6 6 e e e e e o e o o o o o e e Version 2 00 P4 lt s Connecting External Devices Connecting external devices to the PP 50 serial port expands the capability of the PP 50 printer Bi directional communications through the serial port can be use to connect Barcode readers and other external devices such as cell phones In order to use the SDK s exte2. Note After successfully reading the data form the PP 50 into a buffer field information must then be extracted using programming language string functions Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 32 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 e e e e o e e o o o o o o Version 2 00 Appendix B External Function Example Code The example code uses the C C language to register the serial number with the SDK error DPSDKLib_OpenLibrary amp DPSDK_Ref amp Context FatalErr error errNone Can t load DPSDk ifIDPSDK REGISTER OPSDK Ref REGISTRATION NUMBER GOES HERE FrmCustomAlert InfoAlert cannot register 0 0 if DPSDK_InitPrinter DPSDK_Ref papir naia hraa GE 9600 8 1 0 send receive K_ExtCloseConnection DPSDK_Ref else FrmCustomAlert InfoAlert cannot initialize printer 0 0 error DPSDKLib_CloseLibrary DPSDK_Ref Context Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 33 www ipcprint com eee o e e e e e e e e e e o e o o e e Version 2 00 Appendix C Serial Cable Examples whe AO n s oO Infinite Peripherals Inc www ipcprint com Version 2 00 5 ga ET e barcode PDA YELLOW PC PDA HOT SYNC BLUE YELLOW BLACK Page 34
3. Using Hardware Handshaking Rechargeable battery pack 7 2V 1 3 1 5 or 1 8 AH Battery capacity 4 Rolls Alpha numeric data AC DC adapter 12V 0 5A Storage temp 25 C 70 C O 10 90 RH Reliability 50 Million pulses 50 km Weight 420 grams with battery and paper roll Thermal paper Roll 57 mm wide 40 mm 80 feet Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 3 www ipcprint com eee 6 6 6 6 6 6 e e e o o e o o e o 0 Version 2 00 FS lt s Overview The PP 50 portable thermal printer is designed specifically for use with the world s most popular palm size computers The following is a list of devices that the PP 50 currently supports Compatible products PP 50 Ill Palm Ill TRGPro Handera 330 IBM WorkPad III Symbol 1500 PP 50 V Palm V Palm Vx IBM WorkPad V PP 50 VII Palm VII PP 50 VIS Visor Deluxe Visor Pro Visor Platinum Visor Neo PP 50 500 Palm 125 130 500 505 and 515 PP 50 705 Palm 705 Tungsten W PP 50 IPAQ IPAQ 3800 3900 and 5400 series PP 50 Treo Treo 180 and 270 PP 50 Blackberry 957 PP 50 Blackberry 5810 The PP 50 can b u of applications vvere hardcopy printouts and magnetic card maang is required Y EnduUsers to print from standard palm applications Date Book Address To Do and Memo as vvell as freely resizable screen images generated by any PALM OS application or selected parts ofit Y Manufactures for shipping receiving goods date and time p
4. 32h If the line contains symbols the height of which cannot fit into the set size the line is automatically expanded to the required value ESC 3 Setting line height n 203 inches Code 1Bh 33h n n 0 to 255 The default value is n 22h 1 6 inches Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 19 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 e e e e e e e o o o e e Version 2 00 Y4f lt lt lt Command Details Cont ESC Data Input Control Code 1Bh 3JDh n n may have a value between 0 to 255 but only the LS bit is of importance Value 0 The printer is selected Value 1 The printer is not selected When the printer is not selected it does not receive data and the only command which is executed is ESC n with the most LS bit 1 The printer is selected by default ESC Mag stripe card reading Code 1Bh 3Fh n When the command is received the LED illuminates in red and the printer expects the cardrio be swiped through the reader If after 10 seconds no card has been swiped 1 nand is automatically deactivated The printer returns the contents of the tract been read ending with 00h If nothing has been read only 00h n isa parameter defining the tracks we wish to read For a three track reader the possible values are bit 1 if set reads Track 1 bit 2 if set reads Track 2 bit 3 if set reads Track 3 bit 4 if set a prefix byte is added before the every track Setting bit 4 the tra
5. GS h Set the Printing Position of the bar code duplicate text Code 1Dh 48h n n has a value between 0 and 3 or 0 or 3 included and sets the exact location of the duplicate text Duplicate Text 0 NoPrinting_ Above the bar code Below the bar code Both above and below the bar code GS T Sets the font of the bar code duplicate text Code 1Dh 66h n n may have the following values 0 Font A 1 Font B Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 26 www ipcprint com eee ee e e e e co e e e o e e Version 2 00 2 Command Details Cont GS Loading a graphic image logo GS Code 1Dh 2Ah n1 n2 Di Dn n1 has a value between 1 and 127 and sets the horizontal size of the image N2 has a value between 1 and 248 and sets the vertical size of the image Di is the graphic image data The data consists of n1 n2 bytes from left to right and downward n1 bytes in each horizontal line n1 8 dots and n2 lines Each bit sets one dot 1 corresponds to black The total number of bytes cannot be greater than 16kB The command defines a graphic image made up from a number of dots defined with n1 and n2 The image is stored after switch OFF The loaded image is printed out with the command GS GS Printing a downloaded graphic image Code 1Dh m sets tl pich may be Mode Name Dots in Vertical Dots in Direction Horizontal Di
6. that starts with the ASCII code ESC or GS directly to the PP 50 printer via device serial port For example ASCII CODE ESC E 1 DECIMAL 27 69 01 HEXADECIMAL 1B 45 01 OR ASCII CODE GS x 1 DECIMAL 29 119 01 HEXADECIMAL 1D 77 01 description J 21 ESC S Setting interface baud rate 22 ESC T Printing short diagnostic information Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 13 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 e e e e o e e o o o o e e Version 2 00 3 Bm lt lt Command List Cont Command Description Printing the bar code Set the position of the bar code duplicate text Set the font of the bar code duplicate text Loading a graphic image logo int the downloaded graphic image Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 14 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o e e e e e o e o o o o o o e Version 2 00 3 ef Commands Details HT Horizontal Tab Command HT Code 09h Outline Shifts the printing position to the next horizontal tab The horizontal tab position is set by ESC D The default tab setting is at each 8 characters 9 17 25 etc of font A LF Paper Feed Command LF Code 0Ah Prints data from the buffer and feeds paper to the set line pitch CR Print Line command Code ODh This ESC SP Sets the space between the characters Code 1Bh 20h n 0 lt n lt 20h The entered data is binary The distan
7. the application must register the serial number that has been supplied to you by IPC These external function can not be access without first registering using the DPSDK_REGISTER function DPSDK_REGISTER This function must be called before any other external communication If the registration is unsuccessful no external communication will be made DPSDK_ExtOpenConnection ernal connection with device attached to PP 50 s port The printer e successfully before The function sleeps the printer ends initializes a new one with the specified parameters current ci DPSDK_ExtSendData Sends data to external device DPSDK ExtReceiveData Receives data from external device DPSDK ExtCloseConnection Closes the external connection initializes a normal connection with PP 50 and awakes it Note For more information on using the External Device functions refer to the Reference htm files included with the PP 50 Drivers and SDK Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 8 www ipcprint com eee 6 6 o 6 6 e e e e o oo o o e e Version 2 00 Ps Palm Devices The SDK and Shared Library is designed to aid software engineers in the development of PALM OS applications to be used with the PP 50 thermal printer The PP 50 Shared Library is compatible with Metrowerks Code Warrior AppForge for VB and Satellite Forms development tools with use of separate SDKs for the above mention IDE The followin
8. must be a n after decompression The compression in the 11h and 12h modes is similar to the PCX monochrome graphic format If the two MS bits in the current byte are 1 then the rest define a repeat counter from O to 63 and the next byte will contain the repeated data If at least one of the two MS bits is O the byte contains data and is directly used If data for the printer contains a byte with the two most MS bits 1 it must be sent similar to the two bytes with counter 1 The data for both modes is sent horizontally from left to right and downward Each byte contains 8 dots units are black and the start is marked by the MS bit Infinite Peripherals Inc www ipcprint com Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont ESC Set Cancel Character Underline Code 1Bh 2Ah n The printed character is underlined to its full width with the exception of the part skipped by the horizontal tab Inverted and rotated to 90 characters are not underlined The attached table shows the type of possible lines depending on the set value of n 0 or 30h No underlining 1or 3th Single thickness underline 2 or 32h Double thickness underline ESC Printing diagnosticimiormation self test Code rit ontaiming current parameters including printing density temperature of the printing head battery level mode RS232 or IrDA and baud rate in case RS232 is selected ESC 2 Setting 1 6 inch line height Code 1B
9. IN FINTTEs a u Ns Fron INFINITE PERIPHERALS PP 50 PDA Printer Developer s Guide i ET TE PERIPHERALS I PROVIDER OF CUSTOM RECEIPT FRINTING SOLUTIONS ATLANTA CHICAGO DALLAS LOS ANGELES NEW YORK M anufactured by Datecs www ipcprint com Contents Technical aa 3 Ta AAP e os 4 Compatible T adi NAA 4 Printer Control Methods es 5 Programming Card Reader nica ii cia 6 Connecting External Devices in 7 External Devices Functions duen ini ia ad nee 8 PARADAS GAGA AA 9 Metrowerks Code Warrior for Palm OS e eeeeeeeseseseseseeeseeeeeesaeesesesasasasesaoa 9 Falch NET DeveloperStudio e eeeeeseseseseseseseseseseseseeeseseseeeseeeasaeasasasasasasasasa 9 O seceded s kores 9 Satellite AN AA 9 Blackberr DEVICES AS 10 Blackberry C SDK oi cecisceccssssvecsesscseccosssosscossscssessssessseudecsccasvsesscesdsssccssssesssestecsecessseseseess 10 Blackberry Java SDK e eeesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesesasesaaeasasasasasasasasasasasasasa 10 Packet PEDIA A A ANNA ANA ANA 11 PocketPC iPAQ Driver SDK ARM nuanca sss ss ss sss sene se ese sene se eanas se ses e se ece see anaon anes 11 Direct Control A IBANAG REA 12 PP 50 Resident Commands List e e eeeeeeeseseseseseseseseseeeseeeeseeesesesasasasasasasasasa 13 Commands Details sssscsscccssssssscscsscesecsssssscssscceeessesssscssecceeesessssscnsoessse
10. PocketPC driver follows the Window guideline for printer drivers with one exception Page size the page size it is calculated as proportional to given size for example A4 size is treated as page with dimensions 48mm x 68 mm User can obtain information about the driver via dc function GetDeviceCaps The driver incorporates functions such as PASSTHROUGH that enables the developers to send printer resident commands to the PP 50 through the driver Other commands such as the READCARD enable applications to retrieve d om the magnetic card reader Note For more information on using the PocketPC driver refer to the ReferencePC htm files included with the driver or SDK Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 11 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o o e e e e o e o o o o o 6 e Version 2 00 Direct Control Method The PP 50 thermal printer has a resident command set that provides Text Formatting Barcodes and Graphics printing capability Using this method gives programmers greater flexibility and control of the PP 50 however using this method also requires more programming efforts PDA Device Custom Application Print Mechanism Card Reader PP 50 PP 50 MS Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 12 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o e e e e e o e e o o o o 6 e Version 2 00 FS lt S PP 50 Resident Commands List The Direct Control and PASSTHROUGH method uses the Escape control sequence
11. T Printing short diagnostic information Code 1Bh 54h ESC V Setting Canceling 90 rotated symbols Code 1Bh 56h n n may have a value between 0 to 255 but only the LS bit is of importance 0 Cancel 90 rotation of symbols 1 Set to 90 rotation of symbols Rotated symbols are not underlined Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 22 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 o 6 6 6 o e e o e e o e e o o o o 6 e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont ESC Y Selecting the print intensity level Code 1Bh 59h n n is between 0 and 5 or between 0 and 5 including 0 or 0 Set intensity 70 1 or 1 Set intensity 80 2 or 2 Set intensity 90 3 or 3 Set intensity 100 4or 4 Set intensity 120 5 or 5 Set intensity 150 Higher intensity printing may lead to lower printing speeds The default value is 3 100 ESC Specifying the relative horizontal printing position Code 1Bh l 0 lt al shift in dots LS byte 0 lt n i ift in dots MS byte The shift is n1 256 n2 dots Positions before and after the line are unacceptable Shifting to the left of the current position is done by entering the addition to the necessary digit up to 65536 N 65536 N ESC Returning data on battery voltage and printer head temperature Code 1Bh 60h Two bytes of information are returned the first is the voltage in tenths of a volt p
12. at the beginning of the line The set shift is n1 FS amp Enable the table of symbols JIS FS amp Code 1Ch 26h FS Disable the table of symbols JIS FS Code 1Ch 2Eh FSC Enable Disable the Shift JIS FS C setting Code 1Ch 43h n n may have the following values Qor 0 The Shift JIS is not been enabled 1or T The setting Shift JIS is enabled Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 28 www ipcprint com eee o o e o e e e o e o o o o o e e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont FS Set attributes for printing in the JIS and Shift JIS modes Code 1Ch 21h n n has a value between 00h and FFh where the separate bits have the following meanings Function ValueO Valet Undefined Undefined Double width Enabled Double height Enabled Undefined Undefined Underline 7 Enabled Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 29 www ipcprint com eee 6 6 6 6 e e e e e e e e e e o o e e Version 2 00 3 Ps PP 50 Serial Port Pin Assignments Connecting to an external device through the PP 50 serial port requires the use of custom cables not supplied by Infinite Peripherals To aid in the building of these special cables the following is the PP 50 s serial port pin assignment Ne a PANG E A STISI TI ME ce PNG e O Y PP 50 only applies to new boards AA For PDA E _ a 12 Direct battery or 5V
13. ce between the characters is measured in dots 1 203 inches The initial value is n 0 When the width of characters is doubled the distance between them is relatively doubled too ESC Setts the Absolute Position for print Code 1Bh 24h n1 n2 0 lt f1 lt EF Horizontal shift in dots LS byte 0 lt f2 lt 0 Horizontal shift in dots MS byte The shiftis n1 256 n2 dots After the end of the line no positions are acceptable Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 15 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 QC e e o e e o o o o 6 e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont ESC Select cancel custom selected characters for printing Code 1Bh 25h n n may have a value between 0 and 255 but only the LS bit is of importance O Loadable symbols are selected 1 The in built font is selected ESC amp Load custom selected symbols Code 1Bh 26h a n m D11 D m n 1 k 20h lt n lt mFFh a is the number of the sub command which can be Qor 0 Copies the in built font A over the loadable font A All parameters after ma ne number of the command are not entered ies the in built font B over the loadable font B All parameters after f the command are not entered onsecutive symbols for font A 12 x 24 Defines a set of consecutive symbols for font B 9 x 16 10 13 20r 2 3 0r 3 n is the ASCII code of the first and mis the ASCII code of the last
14. cks are prefixed with a single byte for better recognition of where they start If other 3 bits are set to 1 all the 3 tracks read For example ESC 7 number 7 representing the first 3 bits on will read all the 3 tracks but will not divide the tracks with some prefix you are still able to get the contents tho While ESC 15 all 4 bits on will read the 3 tracks and will return to you the information divided by some prefix byte ESC Initializing the printer Code 1Bh 40h Clears the printing data from the buffer The printer switches to its default settings similar to when switching the printer ON The data in the serial buffer is not cleared Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 20 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 o o e e e e o e e o o o o o e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont ESC D Setting the Horizontal Tab Positions Code 1Bh 44h n1 nk 00h ni has a value from 0 to 255 ni indicates the sequence number of the column counted from the beginning of the line minus 1 In order to define tab position in column 9 we will have to enter 8 The length of the tab is equal to the width of the character multiplied by the digit ni which is defined by this commana from the beginning of the line The width of the character at this point includes the distance between the characters and is doubled when double increase is set The maximum number of tab positions is 32 ESC D clears t
15. eseesssscosossseeees 15 PP 50 Serial Port Pin Assignees aa aaahhh 30 PP 50 Carrier Pin Assignments od 31 Pin Assignments for the PP 50 Palm III carrier 31 Pin Assignments for the PP 50 Palm V carrier e e eee 31 Pin Assignments for the PP 50 Visor carrier eeeeeeeeeesesesesese 31 Infinite Peripherals Inc www ipcprint com e oe Version 2 00 PPD CHAE A are dt wa NANANA 32 Card Reader Example 67 ss ssssgeaztrsasgszs seiras unig etagr tiag zR sesoi sissi osobi oset esnia 32 APDO RR 33 External Function Example Code sssssssscscccssssssssssscccssscsscsssssccecccscssssssssccccsssesssssssssscesseesens 33 Appendi MA Ga AA A 34 Serial Cable Examples sicciiso vesh NANANA NABARIL AA AR 34 Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 2 www ipcprint com eeee 6 o 6 6 6 e e e e e e o e e o o e e Version 2 00 3 Ps Technical Data Printing method Line thermal dot printing Printing speed up to 50 mm per second Dot density 8 dot mm 203 dpi Horizontal and Vertical Resident fonts A 12x24 B 9x16 Loadable fonts C 12x24 D 9x16 Logo Registration 1 Black amp White BMP format 1 bit per pixel E ize 384 x 240 Printing columns E S 32 columns Font B D 42 columns Serial Communications Default 57600 N 8 1 Baud Parity Data Bits Stop Bit
16. g configuration is required to use the Printer SDK Shared Library with the development systems mentioned above Metrowerks Code Warrior for Palm OS CodeWarior 8 0 CodeWarior 6 0 To use the PP 50 printer SDK Shared Library with Code Warrior the DPSDKLib prc file must be loaded onto the Palm device The DPSDKLib h heade ist be included in all Code Warrior projects Place the file DPFN o in your library path or in the current directory and add in to the string of Linker options of the project The file DatecsPrinter h must be placed in the current directory or in the Palm SDK include directory AppForge To use Palm Printer SDK for AppForge the AppForgeSDK prc file must be loaded onto the Palm device The AppForgeSDK bas code module must be added to AppForge projects Satellite Forms To use Datecs PalmPrinter drivers for Satellite Forms the two files DP4SF prc and DPASF inf must be in Satellite Forms extensions directory Note For more information a set of readme and Reference html files is with the SDK of each of the mentioned IDE above Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 9 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 o 6 6 6 o o e e e e o e o o e o o o e Version 2 00 3 Ss Blackberry Devices The Blackberry SDK and Shared Library is designed to aid software engineers in the development of C and Java OS applications to be used with the PP 50 thermal printer The PP 50 Shared L
17. he set tab positions After clearing the horizontal tabulator is ESC E Set cancel bold print Code 1Bh 45h n n may have a value between 0 to 255 but only the LS bit is of importance Value 0 Bold type is activated Value 1 Bold type is canceled The command is valid only for font A 12 x 24 ESCG Set cancel bold print ESC G n Code 1Bh 47h n The command is equivalent to ESC E Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 21 www ipcprint com eee o e e e o o e o e o o o e e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont ESC J Print and feed paper by n 203 inch Code 1Bh 4Ah n n may have a value from 0 to 255 Prints the data accumulated in the graphic buffer and advances paper to n 203 inches The set shifting is valid only for the current command The beginning of the line is accepted as a new starting point for printing ESC S Setting the interface transmit speed baud rate Code 1Bh 53h n Sets th N baud rate value for the serial interface The command is not executed in the IrDA mc ossible values of the parameter n are Oor 3 1 or HP YOUU DPS 20r 2 19200 bps 3 or 3 57600 bps 4 or 4 115200 bps The set baud rate is valid only when controlling the printer via a serial cable The last set value remains valid after printer switch OFF even when it has not been operated in the IrDA mode The default value is 1 9600 bps ESC
18. ibrary is compatible with Blackberry Handheld SDK 2 5 0 and Blackberry JDE The following configuration is required to use the Printer SDK Shared Library with the development systems mentioned above Blackberry C SDK This SDK provides all required information about BlackBerry Library GSDK DLL including sample code for quick and easy implementation in the different Integrated Development Environments IDE while developing your own application with printing ability Blackberry Java This SDK provides all required information about BlackBerry Library BBerrySDK jar including sample code for quick and easy implementation in the different Integrated Development Enviroments IDE while developing your own palm application with printing ability To use this SDK please copy the file to your project s folder then add it from the project properties and include the following line to the code import sdk BBerrySDK Note For more information a set of readme and Reference html files is with the SDK of each of the mentioned IDE above Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 10 www ipcprint com eee e e e e e e e e e e e e e e o e e Version 2 00 Y4 Ss Pocket PC Devices Support for PocketPC devices come in the form of PocketPC ARM driver SDK This Driver SDK aids software engineers in the development of PocketPC applications that can be used with the PP 50 thermal printer PocketPC iPAQ Driver SDK ARM The
19. lus 20h while the second is the temperature of the printer head in Celsius plus 20h Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 23 www ipcprint com eee 6 6 6 6 6 6 o e e e e e e e e o o o o o e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont ESC a Alignment Code 1Bh 61h n n has a value between 0 and 2 or between 0 and 2 0 or 0 Left alignment tor Center aligned 2 or 2 Right aligned Default value is 0 ESC c5 Enabling Disabling The function of the LF button Code 1Bh 63h 35h n n may nave a value between 0 to 255 but only the LS bit is of importance ee Value 0 The LF button is enabled e 1 The LF button is disabled ESC d Printing and Advancing paper by n lines Code 1Bh 64h n n may have a value between 0 to 255 The data accumulated in the graphic buffer is printed out and paper is advanced to n lines The beginning of the line is accepted as a new starting position for print ESC v Receiving the printer status Code 1Bh 76h The printer returns one byte in which only bit 2 is defined Its meaning is Value 0 There is paper Value 1 No paper Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 24 www ipcprint com eee 6 6 6 6 e e e e e e e o o e e Version 2 00 P I Command Details Cont ESC x Setting the automatic Switch OFF time Code 1Bh 78h n The command sets the time duration after which the pri
20. mber of horizontal dots is n1 n2 256 The number of data bytes k is n1 256 n2 for mode 0 and 1 and n1 256 n2 for 20h and 21h The units in each data byte correspond to black dots Data is sent in vertical columns downward and from left to right 1 or 3 bytes in a column depending on the selected mode Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 17 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 o e e o e e e e e o o o o o e Version 2 00 lt Command Details Cont Vertical Direction Horizontal Direction Dot Density Dot Density 8 dot single densit 8 dot double densit 24 dot single densit 24 dot double densit 203 DPI 101 DPI 203 DPI 203 DPI Given invalid value of m or n2 the data is processed as symbols for printing The command has a second form with three new modes Code 1Bh 2Ah m n a 00h D1 Dk area is sent with a size of n 8 horizontal dots and 24 vertical dots pressing depending on m Both modes have a high density value 203 x 203 dots inc m may be 10h Non compressed data 24 lines high Byte a and byte 00h are not sent 11h Compressed data 24 lines high Byte a and byte 00h are not sent 12h Compressed data with a height of a lines 0 lt n lt 40h defines the horizontal size Di is the graphic data the number of which is n 24 bytes in mode 10h The compressed data in mode 11h must produce the same number but only after decompression The number of the bytes for mode 12h
21. nter will be automatically switched off if no commands are sent there is no IrDA connection and the button LF has not been pressed n is one byte with a value between 0 and 60 including and sets the time in minutes When the value is 0 there is no automatic switch OFF The set time is stored even after the printer is switched OFF The default value is 10 minutes ESC Set Cancel Inverted Characters 180 Code IBh us n may tn e between 0 to 255 but only the LS bit is of importance aceling inverted characters a inverted characters The default value is 0 GS k Printing Bar Codes Code 1Dh 6Bh n Di 00h n sets the type of bar code and may be Bar code type ITF Di designates the bar code data The necessary number and acceptable symbols depend on the type of the bar code selected o ENE O 4 CODE 39 ES AO o 8 Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 25 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o e e e e e oo e e o o o 6 e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont GS w Selecting the horizontal size of the bar code Code 1Dh 68h n n has a value between 2 and 4 and designates the thickness of one bar within the bar code The default value of nis 3 GS h Selecting the height of the Bar Code Code 1Dh 68h n n has a value between 1 and FFh and sets the height of the bar code in dots 1 203 inches of n is 162
22. of m n 1 the consecutive symbols For defining only one symbol m n The data for the symbols is marked with Dij Each symbol from font A is defined with 48 bytes and from font B by 16 bytes The symbol from font A is set from left to right and downward two bytes for each horizontal line where only the MS half of the second is used Each bit sets one dot units are in black and the start is marked with the most MS bit The symbols are stored after the printer is switched OFF Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 16 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o e e o e e e e e e o o o e e Version 2 00 Yf lt 2 Command Details Cont ESC Setting the text printing mode Code 1Bh 21h n The entered data is binary Each bit of n has the following meaning Bn Function Value 0 Valet 0 Character Font Font A 12x24 Font B 9x16 eT ndefined T p 8 Bod Canceled set 4 Double height 5 Double width 6 Undefined Pp Undefined ______ aderlined to its full width The spaces entered with the ot underlined as well as those rotated to 90 C ESC Print graphic information Code 1Bh 2Ah m n1 n2 D1 Dk m 0 1 20h or 21h Graphic mode see the table below 0 lt f1 lt EF Sets the number of horizontal dots LS byte 0 lt A2 lt 01 Sets the number of horizontal dots MS byte Di i from 1 to k Data on the graphic image The nu
23. rection Normalmode 203 DPI 203 DPI 1 Double wide mode 203 DPI 101 DPI 2 Double high mode 101 DPI 203 DPI 3 DW DH mode 101 DPI 101 DPI When no graphic image has been loaded the command is ignored If sizes are greater than acceptable the redundant part is not printed GS Start End of a Macros Definition Code 1Dh JAh Sets the start end of a macros Not more than 2048 bytes can be defined as macros After the last data byte the command is sent once again to mark the end The macros is not deleted even after the execution of ESC printer initialization For this reason ESC may be included in it The printer is able to print during the definition of a macros Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 27 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 o 6 6 o e e e e e o e o e o o o 6 e Version 2 00 P 9 Command Details Cont GS Executing a Macros Code 1Dh 5Eh n1 n2 n3 n1 has a value between 1 and 255 the number of times the macros has been executed n2 has a value between 1 and 255 a time interval between the execution of the macros in units of 100 milliseconds n3 macros execution mode Possible values 0 Execution over a time interval set by n2 1 For every execution the LF button must be pressed GS L Left margin alignment setting Code 1Dh 4Ch n1 n2 Sets the position in dots 1 203 inches for the beginning of each printed line The executed only when sent
24. regulated lt 80mA ig E switched with a jumper on the interface board of Convert the ON Feed button to HotSync button Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 30 www ipcprint com s 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 e 68 6 o e e o e o o e e o o o e Version 2 00 3 PP 50 Carrier Pin Assignments Pin Assignments for the PP 50 Palm Ill carrier Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 31 www ipcprint com 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 8 o e e o e e o o o o o o e Version 2 00 Appendix A Card Reader Example Code The example code uses the Basic language to read credit card information from the PP 50 Dim strSend as String Dim intCount as Integer Dim received as String Reveive buffer Dim datastream as String Data buffer Dim err as Integer Dim delay as Integer Time out delay Dim cardTrack as Integer Store tracks to read Initialize buffer counter and track to read receive Send the read card information command Call SerialOpen 57600 0 Open the serial port strSend chr 27 chr 63 chr cardTrack Send the read card command err SerialSend strSend 3 Send the command 3 bytes Get the card information from the serial buffer one character at a time err SerialReceive received 1 delay Do while err O And intCount lt 400 datastream datastream received Put the character read into buffer err SerialReceive received 1 delay intCount intCount 1 Loop
25. rinting inventory control and W I P management V Distributors for marking prices sales receipts shelf labeling route deliveries pallets and packages labeling and portable POS The PP 50 can also serve as a Hot Sync cradle and recharging station for palm devices with the use of an optional cable Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 4 www ipcprint com e 6 6 6 6 6 6 e 8 o e e e e e e o o e o o e Version 2 00 3 P S Printer Control Methods There are three 3 possible methods to control the PP 50 thermal printer As shown in the diagram below Applications running on various palm size devices can be use to control the PP 50 using either the direct control method or using one of the available printer drivers or SDK gray box The control method use is limited by the Driver or SDK s compatibility with the various application development tools See section on your device for details on Driver and SDK compatibility For example if the development tool you are using is not compatible with the SDK then controlling the PP 50 can be accomplish by the Direct Control method that access the PP 50 resident commands directly Pocket PC Palm Blackberry Other External Devices Devices Devices Devices E Direct PP 50 PP 50 Control Method Printer Drivers SDK Shared Library PP 50 Cradle PP 50 Serial Port PP 50 printer Resident Commands Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 5 www ipcprint com 6 eee e o e e
26. rnal functions developers must obtain a serial number and register it with the SDK from within their application For details on obtaining a serial number contact Infinite Peripherals Inc www ipcprint com The figure below is block diagram of the PP 50MS A common serial port interfaces with both the PDA device and External device Because of this configuration special functions in the SDK are use to direct the flow of data so that it can be process correctly by the intended device PP 50MS Processor gt Serial Port PDA Device In PP 50 cradle External Device Notes e Care must be taken when connecting external device to the PP 50 serial port as damage to port could result in the PP 50 not being able to communicate with the PDA e The PP 50 serial port does not implement all the signals from the RS232C Standards Refer to Serial Port Pin Assignment section for details e Drivers and SDKs have limited support for external devices External functions were added to most of the drivers and SDKs mentioned in this document however please review the Driver and SDK documentation for details Infinite Peripherals Inc Page 7 www ipcprint com e 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 o e e e e e e e o e o o o e Version 2 00 3 O External Devices Functions The following example functions are use to communicate to external devices connected to the PP 50 serial port Before calling any of the DPSDK_Ext functions
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