cab CompactFlash card tool

Table of Contents

  1. General
  2. Features Description


General

The CompactFlash gives features like

Start this tool by using CompactFlash toolbar button (Toolbar button to call CompatFlash Tool ...) or going to menu bar /Tools/CompactFlash Admin. A split browser window (Picture 1) appears.

CompactFlash Tool ...

Picture 1: CompactFlash Tool

On the left side the root path of the current computer system is visible. The right side shows the printer's IP address and its FTP path. Above both windows a toolbar is shown with most of the tool's features. Each browser supports a pop-up menu for copying and deleting files and viewing a file's property.

!Warning! Tip: The local directory on start-up could be pre-define in the cab Network Manager properties. !Warning!

!Warning! IMPORTANT !Warning!

To use this tool and the printer's FTP capabilities you have to activate the PIN function. The tool and its features must have root privileges, anonymous connection for browsing is not supported.

If the connection to the printer or to the FTP server failed, a message in the browser panel will appear - !Warning! No route to ... Please check whether the printer is online and its pin is set properly. If no card is found at the printer CompactFlash drive - !Warning! No card found on .. will be displayed. Please make sure the card is in its drive.


Features Description

Backup (Toolbar button - Backup)

With backup you can save the content of the printer's CompactFlash card to a local drive on your computer. The files will be stored and compressed in a backup file, so it saves space on your storage medium. To start backups press the "Backup" button. Select a folder where to save the backup files and name it. Without giving it a name, the backup would not start. Press "Backup" button in the file selection dialogue to start.

Restore (Toolbar button - Restore)

To restore the content of a CompactFlash card use Restore. Restore will decompress the backup file and copy the files in it to the card. Select the backup files, which you want to restore by navigating to its place on your storage medium. Press "Restore" to start.

Format CompactFlash card (Toolbar button - Format)

Format will free all disk space on your CompactFlash card. All data on this card will be lost permanently. It will be structured with four folders: fonts, images, labels and misc.

!Warning! Warning: All data on the card will be lost permanently !Warning!


Copying and deleting files

Sometimes it might be necessary copying or replacing files on your local storage medium and CompactFlash card. Therefore, you could use the possibility given by a browser panel pop-up menu. With the pop-up menu you could copy files to the other medium or delete a file. You also could view a file's properties. The properties of a file will be shown in a dialogue, giving you information about its name, type and size.

Rename files

With "Rename" in a labels pop-up menu you can change a file name by entering its new name in the appearing rename dialogue.

!Warning! Note: Renaming a file means copying the selected file to a copy of itself, because no real rename functionality is implemented on the ftp server. Make sure enough memory space is free on your CompactFlash card. The file to be renamed will be deleted after this process only if a new file could be written. So you cannot loose a file through renaming ... !Warning!

!Warning! Note: Changing a file's extension will possibly place it into another folder !Warning!

Execute label

Selecting the option "Execute" from a label's pop-up menu lets the printer loads that label from the card and execute it.

!Warning! Tip: If you want to view it first before you execute it, use the "Edit" option and use the LabelEditor's "Execute" !Warning!

View, edit and execute labels

To view and edit labels select a labels "Edit" option. This will start our LabelEditor. For more details, please refer to user guide's about LabelEditor.

Since firmware version 2.95 FTP-Printing is supported. This feature allows you to print labels stored on your local system by just transferring, using the copying mode, them to the "execute" folder in the printers root directory.

Beside label it is also possible to view and edit files with the extension TMP, LOG, FMT and TXT.

!Warning! Important: All files edited, using the cab LabelEditor will be saved in UNICODE !Warning!