Using Ignition to communicate and control an AX350i Domino inkjet printer

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It's been a couple of days but I wanted to let you know that I have been able to confirm this method works as well, however I do not seem to have the same luck as you with combining multiple commands. I used a modification of my script as well as yours to get:

def valueChanged(tag, tagPath, previousValue, currentValue, initialChange, missedEvents):

	ESC='1B'.decode('hex') #ESC
	EOT='04'.decode('hex') #Endo of Transmission
	#pathToTagA="[.]RequestCommandtoByteArray"
	#pathToTagB="[.]7000/WritableBytes"
	pathToTagB="[.]7000/Writable"
	#tagAValue=system.tag.readBlocking(pathToTagA)
	#tageAValue=ESC+'31433F'+EOT
	#system.tag.writeBlocking(pathToTagB, tagAValue)
	
	msg = ESC + '1C?' + ESC + 'y?' + EOT
	system.tag.writeBlocking(pathToTagB, [msg])

which returns:

image

1C? and y? both work independently but combining them doesn't seem to work. I also tried:

def valueChanged(tag, tagPath, previousValue, currentValue, initialChange, missedEvents):

	ESC='1B'.decode('hex') #ESC
	EOT='04'.decode('hex') #Endo of Transmission

	pathToTagA="[.]7000/Message"
	pathToTagB="[.]7000/Writable"
	pathToTagC="[.]Msg1"
	pathToTagD="[.]Msg2"

	tagAValue=system.tag.readBlocking(pathToTagA)
	
	ret1 = ESC + '1C?' + EOT
	system.tag.writeBlocking(pathToTagB, [ret1])
	sytem.tag.writeBlocking(pathToTagC,tagAValue)
	
	ret2=ESC + 'y?' + EOT
	system.tag.writeBlocking(pathToTagB, [ret2])
	sytem.tag.writeBlocking(pathToTagD,tagAValue)

Which returned:

image

Right now I am not sure which of the methods I will use, but thank you for helping me understand alternative methods.

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