AMT Datasouth 4000 manual Interaction Commands, Symbol Code hexadecimal

Interaction Commands

Such commands only apply to the serial port and allow the host to understand the status and configuration of the printer.

Command	Description	Response	Contents of the Response
		from printer
<SOH>#	Reset	Yes	<XOFF><XON>T
<SOH>A	Send a readable status	Yes	<8 bytes, Y/N> <CR>
	string		byte 1 : Y - printer busy
			byte 2 : Y - paper out
			byte 3 : Y - ribbon out
			byte 4 : N (always)
			byte 5 : Y - printing
			byte 6 : Y - printer paused
			byte 7 : Y - label presented
			byte 8 : N (always)
<SOH>B	Toggle pause	No
	condition
<SOH>E	Send the number of	Yes	e. g.
	labels to be printed		0000<CR>
			no label left to be printed
<SOH>F	Send status byte	Yes	n<CR>
			Same as <SOH>A, except bits 1 to 8
			corresponds to bytes 1 to 8 of <SOH>A.

Notes:

1.Control codes for the printer commands.

Symbol	Code (hexadecimal)
XON	11H
XOFF	13H
STX	02H
SOH	01H
ESC	1BH
LF	0AH
CR	0DH

2. There is no space code in each command.

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