Printek Mt3-II manual Programming Information, Ascii Control Characters, Printer Font Commands

Configuration and Data Connectivity

Programming Information

This section lists the printer control command strings. Refer to the Mt Series Programmer’s Manual for complete details. Further information for developers is available on the Mt Series Developers CD-ROM.

ASCII Control Characters

Character	Hex / Dec	CONTROL ACTION
EOT	04 / 04	End Of Text
BS	08 / 08	Back Space
HT	09 / 09	Horizontal Tab
LF	0A / 10	Line Feed
VT	0B / 11	Vertical Tab
FF	0C / 12	Form Feed
CR	0D / 13	Carriage Return
SO	0E / 14	Shift Out
SI	0F / 15	Shift In
XON	11 / 17	Transmitter On.
AUXON	12 / 18	Printer on.
XOFF	13 / 19	Printer receiver is off
NORM	14 / 20	Return to default 42 column mode
AUXOFF	15 / 21	Printer to Host: printer is off
CANCEL	18 / 24	Cancel and reset printer BUFFER
ESC	1B / 27	Escape
EXTEND	1C / 28	Extended print
EXTEND OFF	1D / 29	Extended print off/Normal print

Printer Font Commands – Courier Character Set

Font Name	Character size (WxH)	Command String
24 CPI normal	8x21	ESC k 5
21 CPI normal	9x21	ESC k 4
19 CPI normal	10x21	ESC k 3
16 CPI normal	12x21	ESC k 2
12 CPI normal	16x21	ESC k 1
13 CPI rotated	14x16	ESC k 0

Printer Font Commands

Command String	Printer Action
ESC F 1	Selects “International” character set
ESC F 2	Selects “PC Line Draw” character set
ESC U 1	Enable emphasized print
ESC U 0	Disable emphasized print

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