Cognitive Solutions A776, B780 manual Select page mode

Chapter 5: Programming commands  109

Select page mode

ASCII	ESC L
Hexadecimal	1B 4C
Decimal	27 76

Switches from standard mode to page mode. After printing has been completed either by the print and return to standard mode (FF) command or select standard mode (1B 53) the printer returns to standard mode. The developed data is deleted after being printed. For more information see page mode in this document.

This command sets the position where data is buffered to the position specified by select print direction in page mode (1B 54) within the printing area defined by set print area in page mode (1B 57).

This command switches the settings for the following commands (which values can be set independently in standard mode and page mode) to those for page mode.

•Set right-side character spacing (1B 20)

•Select 1/6-inch line spacing (1B 32)

•Set line spacing (1B 33)

It is possible only to set values for the following commands in page mode. These commands are not executed.

•Select or cancel 90 degree clockwise rotation (1B 56)

•Set counter-clockwise rotation (1B 12)

•Select justification (1B 61)

•Select or cancel upside-down printing (1B 7B)

•Set left margin (1D 4C)

•Set print area width (1D 57)

The table that follows shows the difference in memory allocation in page mode when using monochrome and two- color paper. Two-color paper mode requires extra memory in order to differentiate between non-black and black.

Paper type	Total memory	Area of
	allocated (kBytes)	construction (mm)
Monochrome 40.5		72 wide × 72 high
paper
Two-color	81.0	72 wide × 72 high (dots)
paper		72 wide × 72 high (energy)
Slip paper	20	200 wide × 704 high (full dots)

Exceptions

The command is enabled only when input at the beginning of a line.

The command has no effect if page mode has previously been selected.

For the A756 emulation mode this command has a different definition. The select page mode function is not available in the A756 emulation mode.

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