EcLine EC-3150 Owner's manual

EC-3150
Barcode Thermal Printer
Programming Manual

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CONTENTS
Setup and System Commands............................................................................................................................................1
1. SIZE ........................................................................................................................................................................1
2. GAP.........................................................................................................................................................................2
3. BLINE.....................................................................................................................................................................2
4. OFFSET ..................................................................................................................................................................4
5. SPEED ....................................................................................................................................................................5
6. DENSITY................................................................................................................................................................5
7. DIRECTION and Mirror Image..............................................................................................................................6
8. REFERENCE..........................................................................................................................................................6
9. SHIFT......................................................................................................................................................................8
10. CODEPAGE............................................................................................................................................................9
11. CLS .......................................................................................................................................................................10
12. FEED.....................................................................................................................................................................10
13. BACKFEED & BACKUP ....................................................................................................................................11
14. FORMFEED .........................................................................................................................................................12
15. HOME...................................................................................................................................................................13
16. PRINT ...................................................................................................................................................................14
17. SOUND.................................................................................................................................................................15
18. LIMITFEED..........................................................................................................................................................16
19. SELFTEST............................................................................................................................................................16
Label Formatting Commands ..........................................................................................................................................17
20. BAR ......................................................................................................................................................................17
21. BARCODE............................................................................................................................................................18
22. BITMAP................................................................................................................................................................22
23. BOX ......................................................................................................................................................................24
24. ERASE ..................................................................................................................................................................25
25. PUTBMP...............................................................................................................................................................26
26. PUTPCX ...............................................................................................................................................................27
27. QRCODE ..............................................................................................................................................................28
28. REVERSE.............................................................................................................................................................31
29. TEXT ....................................................................................................................................................................32
Status Polling Commands (RS-232)...............................................................................................................................33
30. <ESC>!?................................................................................................................................................................33
<ESC>!R...............................................................................................................................................................34
31. ~!@ .......................................................................................................................................................................35
32. ~!A ........................................................................................................................................................................35
~!C ........................................................................................................................................................................35
33. ~!D ........................................................................................................................................................................36
34. ~!F.........................................................................................................................................................................36
35. ~!I..........................................................................................................................................................................37
36. ~!T.........................................................................................................................................................................37
File Management Commands ..........................................................................................................................................38
37. DOWNLOAD .......................................................................................................................................................38
38. EOP .......................................................................................................................................................................40
39. FILES ....................................................................................................................................................................41
40. KILL......................................................................................................................................................................41
41. MOVE...................................................................................................................................................................43

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42. RUN ......................................................................................................................................................................43
BASIC Commands and Functions..................................................................................................................................44
43. ABS( ) ...................................................................................................................................................................44
44. ASC( ) ...................................................................................................................................................................45
45. CHR$( ).................................................................................................................................................................46
46. END ......................................................................................................................................................................47
47. EOF( ) ...................................................................................................................................................................48
48. OPEN ....................................................................................................................................................................49
49. READ....................................................................................................................................................................51
50. SEEK.....................................................................................................................................................................52
51. LOF( ) ...................................................................................................................................................................54
52. FREAD$( )............................................................................................................................................................55
53. FOR…NEXT LOOP.............................................................................................................................................56
54. IF…THEN…ELSE…ENDIF LOOP ...................................................................................................................57
55. GOSUB…RETURN .............................................................................................................................................60
56. GOTO....................................................................................................................................................................61
57. REM ......................................................................................................................................................................62
58. INT() .....................................................................................................................................................................63
59. LEFT$() ................................................................................................................................................................64
60. LEN() ....................................................................................................................................................................65
61. MID$() ..................................................................................................................................................................66
62. RIGHT$()..............................................................................................................................................................67
63. STR$()...................................................................................................................................................................68
64. VAL() ....................................................................................................................................................................69
65. BEEP.....................................................................................................................................................................70
Device Reconfiguration Commands...............................................................................................................................71
66. SET COUNTER....................................................................................................................................................71
67. SET KEY1, SET KEY2 ........................................................................................................................................72
68. SET PEEL .............................................................................................................................................................73
69. SET TEAR & SET STRIPPER .............................................................................................................................74
70. SET HEAD............................................................................................................................................................75
71. SET RIBBON........................................................................................................................................................75
72. SET COM1............................................................................................................................................................76
73. SET PRINTKEY...................................................................................................................................................77
74. SET REPRINT ......................................................................................................................................................79
75. PEEL .....................................................................................................................................................................79
76. KEY1, KEY2 ........................................................................................................................................................80
Printer Global Variables ....................................................................................................................................................81
77. @LABEL ..............................................................................................................................................................81

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Document Conventions
This manual uses the following typographic conventions.
Convention Description
[expression list] Items inside square brackets are optional, expression
maximum length 2*1024 bytes;
<ESC> ESCAPE (ASCII 27), control code of status
polling command, which returns the printer
status immediately, no matter the printer is
ready or not.
~ (ASCII 126), control code of status polling
command, which returns the printer status
only when the printer is ready.
Space (ASCII 32) characters will be ignored in the
command line.
“ (ASCII 34), beginning and ending of expression
CR, LF (ASCII 13), (ASCII 10) is placed at the
end of command line.
Note: 200 DPI: 1 mm = 8 dots Times New Roman font in bold and italic type
is used for note.

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Setup and System Commands
1. SIZE
Description
This command defines the label width and length.
Syntax
(1) English system (inch)
SIZE m, n
(2) Metric system (mm)
SIZE m mm, n mm
Parameter Description
mLabel width (inch or mm)
nLabel length (inch or mm)
Note: 200 DPI: 1 mm = 8 dots
For metric system, there must be a space between parameter and “mm”.
Example
(1) English system (inch)
SIZE 3.5, 3.00
(2) Metric system (mm)
SIZE 100 mm, 100 mm
See Also
GAP, BLINE