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SECTION 5. PROGRAMMING

INTRODUCTION

This section presents the commands that are used with the SATO “S” printers to

produce labels with logos, bar codes and alphanumeric data.

The following information is presented in this section:

• The SATO Programming Language

• Selecting Protocol Control Codes

• Using Basic

• The Print Area

• Command Codes

THE SATO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

A programming language for a printer is a familiar concept to most programmers. It is

a group of commands that are designed to use the internal intelligence of the printer.

The commands, which are referred to as SATO Command Codes, contain

non-printable ASCII characters (such as <STX>, <ETX>, <ESC>) and printable

characters. These commands must be assembled into an organized block of code to be

sent as one data stream to the printer, which in turn interprets the command codes

and generates the desired label output. The programmer is free to use any

programming language available to send the desired data to the printer.

The command codes used are based upon “Escape” (1B hexadecimal) sequences.

Typically there are four types of command sequences:

<ESC>{Command}

These commands generally tell the printer to perform a specific action, like “clear the

memory.”

<ESC>{Command} {Data}

Commands with this format tell the printer to perform a specific action which is

dependent upon the following data, like “print X labels”, where the value for X is

contained in the data.

<ESC>{Command} {Parameter}

These commands set the operational parameters of the printer, like “set the print

speed to 3.”

<ESC> {Command} {Parameter} {Data}

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