Control Codes
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Documented Extended Control commands The Epic 880TM has a number of Extended Control commands designed to make
operation and maintenance of the printer easier for the host application. For further
details, refer to the TransAct® Extended Control discussion in Chapter 8.
[ESC] ~V Return Firmware Checksum
ASCII [ESC] ~ Z
Hexadecimal 1BH 7EH 5AH
Decimal <27> <126> <90>
IPCL none
EPOS [ESC] ~ Z
Description The [ESC] ~ Z command is an extended diagnostics command that
returns the Firmware checksum. It does not need to be proceeded with an enabling
command. The return is 4 bytes formatted as follows:
~Z<CKH><CKL>
[ESC] ~F Return Firmware Identification
ASCII [ESC] ~ F
Hexadecimal 1BH 7EH 46H
Decimal <27> <126> <69>
IPCL none
EPOS [ESC] ~ F
Description The [ESC] ~ F command is an extended diagnostics command that
returns the Firmware Identification string. It does not need to be proceeded with an
enabling command. The return is 14 byte null terminated string containing a 2 byte
command ID and a 12 byte firmware ID and revision number. The format is as
follows:
~FPE8800-1.06<0>