Intermec EasyCoder PF2i User manual

User’s Guide
EasyCoder PF2i
Bar Code Label
Printer
(Fingerprint Version)

User’s Guide
EasyCoder PF2i
Bar Code Label
Printer
(Fingerprint Version)

ii EasyCoder PF2i Bar Code Label Printer User’s Guide (Fingerprint Version)
Intermec Technologies Corporation
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Document Change Record
This page records changes to this document. The document was
originally released as Revision -00.
Version
Number Date Description of Change
-00 5/2003 Supports original Fingerprint version (v8.00).
-01 10/2003 Revised to support Fingerprint v8.10.
Information about EasyLAN Wireless interface
added.
-02 2/2004 Revised to support Fingerprint v8.20 and
Intermec Shell v8.1. Information on Intermec
Ready-To-Work Indicator added. New setup
node for LSS test added. More bar codes
supported.
-001 3/2008 Revised P/N 1-960578-02 to 934-033-001.
Bring into Adobe FrameMaker 8.0.

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Contents
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Contents
Before you Begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Global Services and Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Warranty Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Web Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Telephone Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Service Location Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Who Should Read This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiv
Related Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xiv
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Description of EasyCoder PF2i printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Safety Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Product Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Rear View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Media Compartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Media Supply Roll Post . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Media Supply Positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Print Mechanism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Controls and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Indicator Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Beeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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3 Starting Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Startup Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Memory Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Switching On the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4 Media Load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Tear-Off (Straight-Through) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Tear-Off With Quick-Load (Straight-Through). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Peel-Off (Self-Strip) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
External Supply (Fan-Fold) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5 Thermal Transfer Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Ribbon Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6 Setting Up the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Default Setup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Reading the Current Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Setup Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Serial Communication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Baud Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Data Bits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Stop Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
New Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Receive Buffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Transmit Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Feed Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Start Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Stop Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Recommended Feed Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Media Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Media Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Paper Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Testfeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Print Defines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Head Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Testprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
LSS Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
LTS (Label Taken Sensor) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Returning to Factory Default Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
7 Setup Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Entering Setup Mode at Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Navigating in Setup Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Setup Mode Overviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
8 Intermec Shell Startup Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Starting with Intermec Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Intermec Shell v8.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Line Analyzer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
9 Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Transfer Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Side Doors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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Integral Liner Takeup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Media Supply Hub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3-Inch Adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Label Taken Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Real Time Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
CompactFlash Protection Plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Interface Boards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
10 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Intermec Ready-To-Work Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
11 Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Printhead Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
External Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Cleaning the Media Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Printhead Replacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Media Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
12 Adjustments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Narrow Media Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Label Stop Sensor (LSS) Position Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Printhead Pressure Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Ribbon Break Shaft Adjustment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Installing the Quick-Load Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Label Taken Sensor (LTS) Adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

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A Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Technical Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
B Media Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Media Roll Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Non-Adhesive Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Self-Adhesive Strip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Self-Adhesive Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Tickets with Gaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Tickets with Black Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
C Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
RS-232 Interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
USB Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Bar Code Wand Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Optional Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
D Intermec Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Direct Thermal Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Thermal Transfer Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Transfer Ribbons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Bar Code Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Recommended Paper Type Settings (Europe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Recommended Paper Type Settings (North America) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

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Before you Begin
This section provides you with safety information, technical
support information, and sources for additional product
information.
Safety Information
Your safety is extremely important. Read and follow all warnings
and cautions in this document before handling and operating
Intermec equipment. You can be seriously injured, and
equipment and data can be damaged if you do not follow the
safety warnings and cautions.
This section explains how to identify and understand dangers,
warnings, cautions, and notes that are in this document. You may
also see icons that tell you when to follow ESD procedures.
A warning alerts you of an operating procedure, practice,
condition, or statement that must be strictly observed to avoid
death or serious injury to the persons working on the
equipment.
A caution alerts you to an operating procedure, practice,
condition, or statement that must be strictly observed to
prevent equipment damage or destruction, or corruption or
loss of data.
This icon appears at the beginning of any procedure in this
manual that could cause you to touch components (such as
printed circuit boards) that are susceptible to damage from
electrostatic discharge (ESD). When you see this icon, you
must follow standard ESD guidelines to avoid damaging the
equipment you are servicing.
Note: Notes either provide extra information about a topic or
contain special instructions for handling a particular condition or
set of circumstances.

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Global Services and Support
Warranty Information
To understand the warranty for your Intermec product, visit the
Intermec web site at www.intermec.com and click Support >
Returns and Repairs > Warranty.
Disclaimer of warranties: The sample code included in this
document is presented for reference only. The code does not
necessarily represent complete, tested programs. The code is
provided “as is with all faults.” All warranties are expressly
disclaimed, including the implied warranties of merchantability
and fitness for a particular purpose.
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Who Should Read This Manual
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configuring, and maintaining the EasyCoder PF2i printer.
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the EasyCoder PF2i printer, and how to install, configure,
operate, maintain, and troubleshoot it.
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1Introduction
This chapter introduces the EasyCoder PF2i printer. The chapter
covers the following topics:
• Description of EasyCoder PF2i printer
• Safety Summary
• Product Identification

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Description of EasyCoder PF2i printer
The EasyCoder PF2i printer is a sturdy medium-duty direct
thermal printer with a printhead resolution of 8 dots per mm
(203.2 dots per inch) and a maximum print width of 56 mm (2.2
inches). Optionally, it can be provided with a thermal transfer
mechanism. The EasyCoder PF2i printer offers a large number of
useful features, such as:
• Flash memory SIMMs for firmware, fonts, bar codes, and
application programs
• Built-in CompactFlash memory card adapter
• Built-in RS-232 interface and USB interfaces
• Provision for extra interface boards including wired and
wireless EasyLAN connections
• Keyboard and display with backlight for improved user
interface
A large number of factory-installed or field-installable options are
available, so the printer can be configured for a wide range of
applications. See “Options” on page 89 and “Technical
Specifications” on page 127 for more information.
The EasyCoder PF2i printer supports the unique and flexible
Intermec Fingerprint v8.20 programming language, which allows
the user or third-party developer to create custom-made
application programs and label formats in a BASIC-like
environment. A version of EasyCoder PF2i printer, that supports
Intermec Programming Language (IPL), is described in
EasyCoder PF2i Bar Code Label Printer User’s Guide (IPL Version)
(P/N 934-031-xxx).
EasyCoder PF2i is also designed to work with the Intermec
Direct Protocol programming language, the Intermec InterDriver
and Intermec Labelshop. The InterDriver allows you to print
labels from standard MS Windows applications, for example
Microsoft Office.
Intermec LabelShop is a series of label-design programs that work
under various versions of MS Windows.

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The EasyCoder PF2i supports 15 scalable Unicode TrueType and
TrueDoc fonts as standard. Additional fonts can be downloaded
into the printer’s Flash memory, or be plugged in using a
CompactFlash card. The Unicode standard allows the use of
special characters for various languages including non-Latin
fonts, such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Hebrew, and similar.
Safety Summary
Intermec assumes no responsibility regarding the CE Directive if
the printer is handled, modified, or installed in any way other
than that described in Intermec’s manuals.
• Read this manual carefully before connecting the printer.
• Moving parts are exposed when the side door is open, so
ensure that the door is closed before you operate the printer.
• Do not open the front/left-hand cover. Dangerous voltage!
• Do not remove the bottom plate. Dangerous voltage!
• Do not put your fingers inside the print mechanism when the
power is on.
• Place the printer on an even surface which can support its
weight of approximately 5.5 kg (12 lbs.) plus supplies.
• Do not spray the printer with water. If you are using a hose to
clean the premises in an industrial environment, remove the
printer or protect it carefully from spray and moisture.
• Carefully read the warning text on the envelope before using a
cleaning card.
Product Identification
The machine label is attached to the printer’s rear plate and
contains information on type, model, and serial number as well
as AC voltage. It also contains various signs of approval.

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2Installation
This chapter explains how to unpack and install the EasyCoder
PF2i printer and also describes the printer’s various parts in
detail. It covers the following topics:
•FrontView
•RearView
•MediaCompartment
•PrintMechanism
•Connections
• Controls and Indicators