~NT - Set Currently Connected Printer Transparent

~NT makes the currently connected RS-485 printer transparent. The printer no longer filters on the network ID that ^NI set, and acts on everything sent down the bus. ~NT is the single-printer counterpart of ~NR. On Z Series printers the guide says ~NT behaves exactly like ~NR, and every printer on the network receives the transmission. On those printers the distinction does not hold.

Syntax

~NT

Support

Recognised, deliberately skippedparsed: none · state: none · rendered: none

Accepted and skipped, because it configures the printer rather than the label. It cannot change the rendered output, and Labelary skips it too.

Like ~NR, this changes which physical printers on a bus listen, not what they print. The guide notes that on Z Series printers it behaves exactly as ~NR, so every printer on the network receives the transmission. The renderer does not parse this command. It reports IGNORED_COMMAND at info severity, which does not reach X-Warnings. Labelary is also silent, so the rendered label is identical in both engines. — not pinned by a test

Labelary renders this command.

Parameters

~NT takes no arguments.

Behavior

~NT takes no arguments. Which printer it affects depends on which one a previous ~NC connected, so it is not self-contained: with no printer selected it has nothing to act on. The guide restricts it to RS-485 printer communications, with ~NC, ^NI and ~NR.

A rendering request has a single recipient and no ID filtering to disable.

The renderer ignores this command and reads no arguments. It reports IGNORED_COMMAND at info severity, which does not reach the X-Warnings header. Labelary is also silent, so the rendered label is identical in both engines.

Like ~NR, ~NT prints nothing on its own and must accompany a format.

Example

Connecting to printer 005 and making it transparent before sending a format. The rendered output is the format alone:

~NC005
~NT
^XA
^FO40,60^A0N,50,50^FDThis printer^FS
^XZ

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~NR Set All Network Printers TransparentPuts every printer on an RS-485 network into transparent mode, so all of them accept what follows.
~NC Network ConnectWakes one printer on an RS-485 multi-drop network by calling its network ID number.
^NI Network ID NumberAssigns this printer its ID on an RS-485 multi-drop network.
^NT Set SMTPPoints the printer at an SMTP server so it can e-mail alerts.