EPL Line Mode – Direct Thermal Printers only

Your Zebra direct thermal printers support Line Mode printing. EPL Line Mode printing is designed to be command compatible with some legacy Zebra printers The Link-OS four-inch desktop printers continue Zebra’s support of Line Mode printing.

Line Mode printing is ideal for basic retail (point of sale or POS), shipping, inventory, workflow control, and general labeling. EPL printers with line mode are versatile. They are capable of printing a wide range of media and barcodes.

Line Mode printing prints only single lines the height of the largest element present in the line of text and data, whether it is a barcode, text, or a logo or simple vertical lines. Line mode has many limitations due to the single line of print. They include no fine element placement, no overlapping elements, and no horizontal (ladder) barcodes.

You can access Line Mode printing as follows:

Enter Line Mode printing by sending the printer the EPL

OEPL1

command. (See the EPL Programmers Guide (Page Mode) or the EPL Line Mode Programmers Guide. This and the other guides mentioned here are available from zebra.com/support).

Exit Line Mode printing by sending the printer the

escOEPL2

Line Mode command. See the EPL Line Mode Programmers Guide for details.

When Line Mode is activated, ZPL and EPL (EPL2) Page Mode programming will be processed as Line Mode programming and data.

With the default ZPL and EPL (EPL2) Page Mode active, Line Mode programming will be processed as ZPL and/or EPL programming and data.

Verify printer programming modes by printing out a Printer Configuration report. See Printing the Printer Configuration Report (CANCEL Self Test).