Epson ESC/P Commands Arranged by Topic

HT

Tab Horizontally

Format:

 

ASCII code:

HT

Decimal:

9

H e x a d e c i m a l : 09

Comments:

Advances the print position to the next horizontal tab setting. The default settings are at intervals of eight characters in the default, character size, and tab positions are not affected by subsequent changes in character sire.

ESC D

 

 

 

 

Set Horizontal Tabs

Format:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASCII code:

ESC

D

nl

n2 . .

.

.

.

0

Decimal:

27

68

nl

n2 . .

.

.

.

0

Hexadecimal:

1B

44

nl

n2 . .

.

.

.

00

.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments:

This command allows setting of up to 32 horizontal tabs, which are entered as nl, n2, n3, etc. (from 1 to 255) with the 0 character or any value less than the previous one &erminating the command. ESC D 0;clears all tabs. The settings on power up or after an E-SC @ cummand.are every ei&t characters. The tab settings do not Me .if the character size is changed. For proportional printing, the size of 10 cpi characters determines the tab positions.

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