^FC — Field Clock: real-time-clock delimiters

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^FC — Field Clock: real-time-clock delimiters

Goal

Set real-time-clock delimiters with ^FC.

Description

^FC declares the delimiter characters for real-time-clock tokens, so date and time fields expand on RTC-equipped printers. (It has nothing to do with colour — ZPL is monochrome.)

Example

^XA
^FC%,{,#
^FX Clock delimiters registered for RTC tokens.
^FO20,20^A0N,28,28^FDTokens expand on RTC printers^FS
^XZ

Result

Delimiters registered; tokens stay literal here and expand into dates on RTC printers.

Article author: Andrei Olegovich