Star Micronics TCP300II Series Montageanleitung

TCP300II Series

Product Specifications Manual

Commands

First Release: October 21, 2005

Star Micronics Co., Ltd.

Special Products Operating Division

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Table of Contents

1. APPLICATION 1

2. PRECAUTIONS FOR PROGRAMMING AND FOR HANDLING 1

3. COMMUNICATION SPECIFICATIONS 2

3-1. Communication Procedures -------------------------------------------------------------------------2

3-2. Transmission Control Matrix-------------------------------------------------------------------------4

3-3. Transmission Control Matrix (Reader Type)----------------------------------------------------5

3-4. Command and Response Transfer Formats ---------------------------------------------------6

3-5. Transfer Control Characters -------------------------------------------------------------------------6

3-6. Cards for Processing ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------7

3-7. Retrying and Verifying---------------------------------------------------------------------------------7

3-8. Reading the Buffer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8

3-9. Commands and Status Lists ------------------------------------------------------------------------9

4. COMMAND DETAILS 12

4-1. Magnetic Stripe Commands ------------------------------------------------------------------------12

4-2. Print and Erase Commands ------------------------------------------------------------------------24

4-3. Card Commands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45

4-4. Information Display Commands -------------------------------------------------------------------48

4-5. Cleaning Command -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------52

4-6. Other Commands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------53

5. MATERIALS 62

5-1. Switching Firmware -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------62

5-2. Error Display --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63

5-3. Loading Setting Cards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------63

5-4. Self-test Operation-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------63

5-5. Recommended Timeout------------------------------------------------------------------------------64

1. APPLICATION

This manual describes the commands relating to the TCP300II series printers.

2. PRECAUTIONS FOR PROGRAMMING AND FOR HANDLING

•The volatile memory writing life is approximately one million times. The expect

ed life will be reached by frequent use, which can cause problems in the operation

of the printer. Therefore, only use the model set command (91h) and the cleanin

g yes/no command (5Bh) when starting up the system.

Note that the parameters that can be set by the model setting command (91h), des

cribe the font size and character spacing with the escape sequence in the print dat

a setting command (41h).

• The print head and erase head are hot. To prevent a dangerous situation, do not

carelessly open the transport path.

• A warning buzzer is installed to ring when the cover is opened. It is possible to send and

receive commands, and to process cards in this state, but to prevent a dangerous situation,

close the cover quickly.

• The buzzer will ring and the LED will flash when the transport path is opened. In this state,

commands cannot be received and cards cannot be processed.

• Closing the transport path after opening it will reset the device. Always reset the

magnetic data and print data because the memory expanded on the memory is destroyed.

• Magnetic reading and writing can experience errors by damaged magnetic data caused

by dirty magnetic cards and external magnetic fields. Carefully handle those errors.

Particularly, you should develop a system for recovering erroneous cards when writing errors

occur.

• Printing times can vary depending on the ambient temperature and temperature of the

thermal head. In particularly low temperature locations, processing of cards may take more

time than usual, but this is not a system failure. Rewriting to magnetic cards will be repeated

several times (when the device is set to rewrite several times) when they are dirty from

repeated magnetic reading and writing, or if magnetic data is damaged by an external

magnetic field. Therefore, the timeout setting to the response after sending a command

should be set to a value higher than the one recommended.

• Turn off the power before switching the interface cartridge or changing settings.

• To maintain print quality and magnetic reading and writing performance, clean the device

once a day. If possible, consider such a warning system to operate when starting up the

device every day.

• Dirt adhering to the magnetic card will cause the magnetic head and transport rollers to wear

out. Avoid using dirty cards.

• Magnetic reading and writing performance will drop if the magnetic head and magnetic card

cannot be brought close together. Do not place adhesive tape on or bend magnetic

cards.

• When the cleaning lamp flashes, clean the device. (This is when the cleaning warning

setting is enabled.)

3. COMMUNICATION SPECIFICATIONS

3-1. Communication Procedures

This device communicates with its host using block transmissions of resend requests.

When communications are started from the host, the host will transmit a command block to

the reader/writer.

When the reader/writer receives the command block, it will respond with either of the

characters of ACK (normal), NAK (resend request) or DLE (reject).

If the reader/writer responds with the ACK characters, the device will execute the command

that was sent by the host.

When the command has been executed, the reader/writer returns a response block to the

host.

The host needs to respond either the ACK or NAK characters in response to the returned

response block.

If the host responds with the ACK characters, the command is completed, and it is ready to

send the next command.

When the reader/writer receives a command block, it calculates the command block BCC,

and compares it with the BCC sent by the host.

If the calculated BCC and the received BCC do not match, the reader/writer responds with the

NAK characters. When the reader/writer has responded with the NAK characters, the host

resends that command block.

In the same way, the reader/writer should calculate on the host side the BCC of the response

block that is sent.

If the BCC values sent by the reader/writer do not match the results that are compared, the

host must respond with the NAK characters.

When the host responds with the NAK characters, the reader/writer resends the response

block.

There is no limit to the number of times to resend requests or sequences. Therefore, the host

side must be controlled.

If the reader/writer detects an error in the command block sent by the host, it will respond with

the DLE characters. When the reader/writer responds to the command block sent by the host

with the DLE characters, the command that was sent becomes invalid and no response block

is subsequently sent.

Normal sequence

Host Reader/writer

Command Sent →Command received

ACK received ←ACK sent

Command processed

Response received ←Response sent

ACK sent →ACK received

Sequence resent

Host Reader/writer

Command Sent →Command received

NAK received ←NAK sent

Command resent →Command received

ACK received ←ACK sent

Command processed

Response received ←Response sent

NAK sent →NAK received

Response received ←Response resent

ACK sent →ACK received

DLE Sequence

Host Reader/writer

Command sent →Command received

DLE received ←DLE sent

See section 2-5. Transmission Control Characters for details regarding ACK, NAK and

DLE character codes.

3-2. Transmission Control Matrix

Event

Host status ACK received NAK received DLE received Response received No response

Idling Read and discarded Read and discarded Read and discarded Read and discarded Nothing occurs

After command is

sent

waiting to receive

ACK

ACK received

Resend command

block or process as

communication error Command withdrawn Reset TCP

If timeout error,

process timeout error

After ACK received

waiting to receive

response

Reset TCP Reset TCP Reset TCP

Receive response

block, respond with

ACK or NAK

Do nothing or process

timeout error

After response

received ACK Reset TCP Reset TCP Reset TCP Reset TCP Send next command

After response

received NAK Reset TCP Reset TCP Reset TCP

Receive response

block, send ACK or

NAK

If timeout error,

process timeout error

Notes:

1. There is no time limit to send ACK after receiving a command block. Responses can be up to three seconds.

2. There is no limit to the number of times to resend for transmission errors of command blocks or response blocks.

Therefore, the host side must be controlled.

3. There is no time limit from sending ACK to starting to send the response block. When issuing a command while inserting a card, execute the

command after inserting the card. Therefore, when not inserting a card, the execution of the command stops, and the response block transmission

stops. Commands can be deleted using the reset command (5Fh), or the card insertion wait status cancel command (54h).

4. The reset command (5Fh) can be executed even while another command is being executed. If the reset command (5Fh) is issued while another

command is being executed, that command will be terminated. Therefore, there is no response block for that command that was executed before

the reset command (5Fh). To execute the reset command (5Fh), wait approximately 3 seconds for the visual card reader/writer to initialize.

3-3. Transmission Control Matrix (Reader Type)

Event

TCP status STX received ETX received Other receptions ACK received NAK received No response

1 Idling →2 Read and

discarded→1

Read and

discarded→1

Read and

discarded→1

Read and

discarded→1 →1

2 Command received Buffering →2 Buffering →3

If data error

DLE sent →1

If data normal

buffering →2

If data error

DLE sent →1

If data normal

buffering →2

If data error

DLE sent →1

If data normal

Buffering →2

→2

3 BCC received

If BCC matched

→4

If BCC does not

match

NAK sent→1

If BCC matched

→4

If BCC does not

match

NAK sent→1

If BCC matched

→4

If BCC does not

match

NAK sent→1

If BCC matched

→4

If BCC does not

match

NAK sent→1

If BCC matched

→4

If BCC does not

match

NAK sent→1

→3

4 Wait for ACK after

response sent

Read and

discarded→4

Read and

discarded→4

Read and

discarded→4 →1 Response

resend →4 →4

When a priority command, such as Reset command, is sent while another command is being executed, that command is canceled, and a priority

command response is returned.

3-4. Command and Response Transfer Formats

Command Transfer Formats

STX Commands Data String ETX BCC

Response Transfer Formats

STX Commands Status Data String ETX BCC

Data string must be within 1024 bytes.

BCC is an exclusive logic sum from the command to ETX.

3-5. Transfer Control Characters

The following shows the transmission control character codes and functions.

BCC is an exclusive logic sum from the command to ETX.

Character Code Function

STX 02h Text start symbol

ETX 03h Text end symbol

ACK 06h Normal response

NAK 15h Resent request

DLE 10h Reject response

LF 0Ah Line feed of printed line

ESC 1Bh Start escape sequence

BCC - Block check character

3-6. Cards for Processing

The cards that can be processed are called readable and writable cards.

When the card is inserted into the inlet, it is a process targeted card.

When the process is completed, the card idles in the machine, and is a process targeted card.

When idling in the device, the idling card is a process targeted card regardless of whether

there is a card at the inlet.

Cards discharged from the device are removal waiting cards and are no longer process

target cards.

To process these cards, they must be removed from the device once, and then reinserted, or

they can be processed by employing the removal wait cancel command (55h).

3-7. Retrying and Verifying

The visual card reader/writer will retry to read or to write to a card when it fails to read or write

data to the magnetic stripe. (This is when a retry count is set.)

When the set number of failures to read or to write is reached, reading or writing is canceled.

The device rereads the magnetic stripe after writing thereto. If the data that it reads does not

match the data that was written, it detects a writing error.

This reading of the data is called ‘verifying' and is performed automatically.

The default value for retries is set to two times (total of three).

3-8. Reading the Buffer

It is possible to read the buffer when a card that has been read/written is idling. The buffer

read commands (29h, 2Ah, 2Bh) obtains the read data stored in the read buffer on the visual

card reader/writer.

It is possible to get the read data on the track by using the buffer read commands (29h, 2Ah,

2Bh) without transporting a card. The result is high speed reading of the card.

The card will be transported and read if the card is not idling or by using the buffer read

commands (29h, 2Ah, 2Bh) when the read/write operation has not been performed before

executing the buffer read commands (29h, 2Ah, 2Bh).

This buffer read commands (29h, 2Ah, 2Bh) is a similar operation to the read cache.

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