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ii Table of Contents VCode User Guide Connecting to the VCode with HyperTerminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Manually setting the VCode’s IP address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Installing and starting DHCP server software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Turning off Ethernet firewall software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Installing VCode software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Chapter 4. Setting up the VCode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Starting PlateTag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Turning the VCode on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 About profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Communicating with the VCode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Starting VCode Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Checking the basic applicator functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Viewing printer settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 About plate stage and head positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Setting plate stage auto-repositioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Viewing the robot pickup angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Rotating the plate stage manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Moving the plate stage to a teachpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Setting the robot pickup angle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Placing a plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 About the vertical plate stage positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Setting the heights of the plate stage positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Creating a profile to add a VCode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Working with existing profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Chapter 5. Creating label formats for printing . . . . . . . . . . 83 About label formats and the label editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Workflow for designing a label format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Loading label formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Removing unneeded label format data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Adding a label format field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Defining the value of a label format field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Changing the field format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Positioning a field on the label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Changing the size of a field on the label. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Uploading and saving a label format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 About test printing and applying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Printing one label from the Label Editor page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Printing one label from the Testing page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Printing and applying multiple labels to a plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Printing and applying identical labels to a batch of plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Table of Contents VCode User Guide iii Chapter 6. Running a print job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Batch labelling workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Setting the locations of stored files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 About print jobs and schemas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 About data sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Creating a CSV or TXT data file in a text editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Creating an Excel data source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Creating a constant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Creating a counter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Cloning a bar code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Creating a schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Configuring a schema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Selecting a CSV or TXT file data source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Opening an Excel data source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Setting the label format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Setting the drop stage value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Creating a print job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Starting a production labelling run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Labelling groups of plates with identical labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Test printing with a print job in sticky mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Chapter 7. Using the VCode’s bar code reader. . . . . . . . . 139 About the bar code reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 About installing the bar code reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Attaching the bar code reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Positioning the bar code reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Testing the reader using VCode Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Using bar code verification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 About changing the reader’s label formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Connecting the reader’s wiring harness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Communicating with the bar code reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Changing the bar code reader’s formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Chapter 8. VCode ActiveX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
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