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What is a Smart Label
Printer ®?
What is slap?
Why do I need slap to use
the printer?
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What is a Smart Label Printer ® ?
Seiko Instruments manufacture a range of printers designed especially for
printing stick-on labels. These printers are vastly superior to
general-purpose printers (laser, inkjet or dotmatrix) for producing labels:
* no toner or ink needed
* print labels one-at-a-time or
hundreds-at-a-time with no waste!
* very quiet and very small: suitable for
desktop use
* use very little power
* very simple to load labels (no messing with [picture of an SLP-220]
tractors again)
* no need to replace very expensive
fusing-rollers or print-heads that have
become "glued-up".
* no danger of the labels being shredded by
the printer!
Visit Seiko Instruments for more information.
Note: "Smart Label Printer" is a registered trademark of Seiko Instruments
USA Inc.
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What is slap?
slap is a UNIX program that prints labels on a Smart Label Printer. Typical
applications include:
* address labels
* labels for audio cassettes, CDs, videos
* diskette labels
* labels for file-folders, notebooks
* ID badges
* labels, labels, labels - use your imagination...
slap is a command-line program - a GUI version is planned for the future.
Currently it only prints plain text, but you can choose any of several
typefaces - it is distributed with a set of 16 bitmap fonts, each in 6
point-sizes.
slap can automatically detect which model of SmartLabel printer you are
using, and adapts accordingly.
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Why do I need slap to use a Smart Label Printer?
The Smart Label Printers are bitmap printers - unlike most printers, they do
not themselves convert character data into a pattern of dots. That is a job
for software running on the host computer.
These printers also use special-purpose communication- and command-protocols
- which have to be handled by software running on the host computer.
Under UNIX, slap does both these jobs - see the manpage.
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