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Cognitive Solutions’ C/Rx Provides Optimal Workflow, Cost,
and Performance for Your Pharmacy Printing Applications

The C/Rx printing solution offers pharmacies the ability to save time and costs associated with their prescription fulfillment process.

The C/Rx printer generates prescription labels fast and saves money on
energy and supplies. The simple media path prevents label jams and ensures long-lasting performance. Because the C/Rx is a thermal printer, no messy or expensive toner is required and it utilizes far less energy than a laser printer, a ratio of 10:1 energy consumption.

Printer Commands & Controls

Cognitive’s C/Rx printers are smart in they way they transfer data. C/Rx printers send a description of the printed page and its appearance, which results in a significantly smaller volume of information to exchange between the host computer and the barcode printer. To transfer this data, Cognitive offers various Page (or Print) Description Languages (PDL). The PDLs available with our C/Rx printers provide users with the ability to describe textual and graphic elements in a higher level representation other than ‘dots’ or a bitmap. However most of these same PDLs allow the processing of ‘graphic file formats’ typically stored as files on modern host machines (examples: .bmp, .pcx, .pdf, …, etc.)

CPL (Cognitive Programming Language): is printable-ASCII Word based and line-oriented PDL, command and control language for all Cognitive Printers. A typical print image definition formatted in CPL is composed of; 1) A Header line – defining the size and number of copies to print, 2) Various Text and Graphic Element commands lines – specifying fonts, sizes and placement of these printable image components, and 3) An End statement – instructing the Print Engine to run and create the image on printable media.

To learn more about Cognitive Solutions Command Programming Language (CPL) contact Cognitive Solutions at: 800.525.2785 ext. 497.

Other Cognitive Programming Features

Emulations
Cognitive C Series printers offer the ability to process other barcode manufacturers PDLs. The standard name given to this mixed processing of other command printing languages is called Emulations. Depending on the printer’s software architecture, the native Printer Language interpreter may be temporarily replaced with another printer company’s interpreter function or ‘emulation’.

TPCL™ - (Laser Programming Language): PCL was developed by Hewlett-Packard to control printer features across many different printing devices. It is the most commonly used industry standard printer command language. Almost any computer system is able to communicate with a PCL printer, making it the ideal command language to be adopted into the thermal printing industry.
To learn more about using TPCL as a command language contact Cognitive Solutions at: 800.525.2785 ext. 497.

EcPL (Eltron Printer Language Emulation): is primarily a Printable-ASCII based and line-oriented PDL, command and control language for some of Zebra’s (previously Eltron) Printer models. Each line of EPL typically begins with a Single character or Double character pair followed by command associated parameters to represent a particular print imaging operation.