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Copyright © Diebold Nixdorf Contents About this Guide ....................................................................................................................... 1 How to use this guide ......................................................................................................................... 1 Where to find the basics .................................................................................................................... 1 Where to find advanced technical information ................................................................................. 1 Support 1 Diagnostics and Configuration ................................................................................................... 2 Start-up Diagnostics ........................................................................................................................ 2 Runtime Diagnostics ........................................................................................................................... 3 Remote Diagnostics ............................................................................................................................ 3 Accessing the remote diagnostic tallies ......................................................................................... 4 Indicators ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Error conditions and correcting them ............................................................................................ 5 Communication of printer status to the host application .............................................................. 5 Printer configuration .......................................................................................................................... 6 Configuring the printer ................................................................................................................... 7 Communication interface settings ................................................................................................. 8 Diagnostics modes .......................................................................................................................... 8 Enable or disable data scope mode................................................................................................ 9 Enable or disable receipt test mode ............................................................................................. 10 Electronic Journal Datascope Diagnostic ...................................................................................... 10 Printer emulations ............................................................................................................................ 10 Printer settings and functions ...................................................................................................... 11 Programming the Printer ........................................................................................................ 14 Overview of commands .................................................................................................................... 14 Comparison to A793 ......................................................................................................................... 14 Two-color commands (comparison A794 to TH250) ....................................................................... 16 Character appearance ...................................................................................................................... 17 Width specifications ......................................................................................................................... 17 Print zones ........................................................................................................................................ 18 Print zones for 80mm paper ......................................................................................................... 18 Emulation modes .............................................................................................................................. 19 Print setup in emulation modes ................................................................................................... 19 Programming Commands ........................................................................................................ 21 Commands listed by function ........................................................................................................... 21 Command conventions..................................................................................................................... 29 Command descriptions ..................................................................................................................... 29 Printer actions .............................................................................................................................. 29 Perform full knife cut .................................................................................................................... 30 Perform partial knife cut .............................................................................................................. 30 Generate tone............................................................................................................................... 30 Select peripheral device (for multi-drop) ..................................................................................... 31 Initialize printer ............................................................................................................................ 31 Select sensors to stop printing ..................................................................................................... 31 Enable or disable panel button .................................................................................................... 32 Generate pulse to open cash drawer ........................................................................................... 33 Set current color ........................................................................................................................... 34 Select cut mode and cut paper ..................................................................................................... 34 Set paper type (ColorPOS®) .......................................................................................................... 35 Related information ...................................................................................................................... 36 Print and paper feed ..................................................................................................................... 38 Text characteristics commands .................................................................................................... 48 Double-byte fonts ......................................................................................................................... 64 Graphics ........................................................................................................................................ 68 Status ..................................................................................................................................... 89 Status command introduction .......................................................................................................... 89 Batch mode ................................................................................................................................... 89 Real time commands .................................................................................................................... 98 Rules for using real time commands ............................................................................................ 99 Automatic Status Back ................................................................................................................ 104 Unsolicited status mode ............................................................................................................. 107 Bar codes 110 QR code Overview ...................................................................................................................... 110 Select printing position of HRI characters .................................................................................. 113 Select pitch of HRI characters ..................................................................................................... 113 Select bar code height ................................................................................................................ 114 Print multiple barcodes .............................................................................................................. 116 Print GS1 DataBar, null terminated ...........................................................................................