User's Manual

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Zebra Cameo Printer
The Zebra “Cameo ” Printers are portable direct thermal receipt printers, (not
label printers – the Encore below prints labels). Bar codes can be printed on the
receipts, but you can’t print labels.
One model of this printer is available with a magnetic stripe reader, allowing
magnetic stripe input to the RF Terminal using the @R (serial input) command.
• The Cameo printer with magstripe input is capable of reading Track 1,
Track 2 or Tracks 1&2. See your Portable Printing Systems
Programming Manual for the correct character string to send in the
@S command to turn on the magstripe reader. In order to receive
magstripe input from the printer, you must then use the @R serial input
command (see page 6-2 for details).
• When the Terminal sends data to the host, it sends it in the following
format:
RF Terminal ID + DATA + CR
Typically, the data is simply a string of characters, but in the instance
of data coming from the magstripe reader, there are some additional
characters you need to be aware of. The magstripe reader sends its data
in the following formats:
Track 1:
TRACK1 DATA + CR + LF
Track 2:
TRACK2 DATA + CR + LF
Track 1&2:
TRACK 1 DATA + CR + LR + TRACK 2 DATA + CR + LF
So, when the RF Terminal transmits the data to the host, it will be in
the following format:
RF Terminal ID + TRACK 1 DATA + CR + LF + CR
RF Terminal ID + TRACK 2 DATA + CR + LF + CR
and
RF Terminal ID + TRACK 1 DATA + CR + LF
+ TRACK 2 DATA + CR + LF + CR
For some, the extra CR’s and LF’s will not pose a problem, but for others
they may require you to do some additional programming in your host
application. Again, see your Printing Systems Pro-gramming Manual
on the CD ROM shipped with the printer.