Using Smart Keyboard Downloader
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Executive Summary
Smart programmable keyboard is the easiest way to build a stand-alone printing system and works as a small portable PC to save valuable working space. It offers the unique capability of communicating with virtually every brand of bar code printer on the market today.
Smart keyboard allows users to upload or download files as well as connect an input device such as a CCD scanner to its additional RS232 interface. You can generate desired label layouts through in easy-to-use BASIC-like language interpreter. By downloading into the flash memory of the keyboard a stand-alone printing system can be built instantly.
Such printing system can be applied to many applications including retail, transportation, distribution and manufacturing environments.
NiceLabel software is used to design the label layout on the PC computer. When the label is properly designed it can be transmitted to the Smart Keyboard. The utility Smart Keyboard Downloader will take care of this process. It will also prepare the BASIC script needed by the keyboard to print the label. The label layout and BASIC program are downloaded to the keyboard and stored in the built-in SRAM. The user can select one of the downloaded layouts, sets the values for the variables and prints the required amount of labels. The values can be typed in using the keyboard or acquired from the secondary serial port (COM2).
When the layouts are stored in the Smart Keyboard, the Keyboard is disconnected from the computer and is used for your stand-alone printing solution. The layouts in the keyboard are printed without connection to the NiceLabel software. NiceLabel is not processing the labels and because of this fact some limitation apply to the label layout design.
The supported Smart Keyboard model is KU-007 manufactured by the company TSC (Taiwan Semiconductor). It can be found under different brand names on different markets.
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