IJL/3 Specifications

Standard RS-422 or RS-232 serial port:
- protocol is x-on/x-off
- connector is 9-pin D-type
Baud rates: 9600 and 19.2K
Maximum text length: 128 characters
Label indent: 0.00-99.99" (0.01" resolution)
Power-on test: LED pass/fail indicator

Character height: 1/8"
Resolution: 96 dpi
Character frame: 12 dot vertical, 12 to 16 dot horizontal, typical
Prints numbers, letters, punctuation, graphics and logos
Maximum document speed:
- Arbitrary graphics (including black areas): 13 ips (33 cm/sec); for 11" pages: up to 70 pages per minute
- Characters (no black areas): 20 ips (50 cm/sec); for 11" pages: up to 100 pages per minute
Ink supply life:
- 10 million dots per cartridge
- about 250,000 characters
A Hewlett Packard thermal print head with integral ink cartridge is used. Cartridge replacement takes less than 1 minute

Initialization commands:
- hardware reset that re-boots the IJL controller
- software reset command
Setup commands:
- set the label indent (imprint position on the page)
- set the print width (distance between dot columns)
- set the print direction (right to left or left to right)
- set the print orientation (right side up or up side down)
Print commands:
- set the print message
- arm the head to be triggered by the photocell
- cancel photocell arming / cancel print in progress
Font selection:
- two ROM resident fonts are included on board
- a RAM font can be downloaded
- bit maps can be downloaded for printing arbitrary graphics, logos, special symbols
- bar code fonts can be downloaded from the host or are available as a options
Status query is available at all times