Print Enhancement Commands

The print enhancement commands enable your printer to improve or enhance the print quality. Print enhancements include such things as expanded, compressed, LQ, and underlined text as well as boldface and shadow printing.

Select Expanded Print

Control character: SO

Hexadecimal: 0E

This command causes the printer to double the horizontal dot spacing and then make a second pass to fill in the dots for one line only. This mode is terminated by a carriage return.

Cancel Expanded Print

Control character: DC4

Hexadecimal: 14

Select Compressed Print

Control character: SI

Hexadecimal: 0F

This command reduces the width of all subsequently printed characters to about 60 percent of their normal widths.

Cancel Compressed Print

Control character: DC2

Hexadecimal: 12

Select Letter-Quality Print

Escape sequence:

ESC

q

Hexadecimal:

1B

71

Escape sequence:

ESC

e

Hexadecimal:

1B

65

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Epson 8900 Series manual Select Expanded Print, Cancel Expanded Print, Select Compressed Print, Cancel Compressed Print