Horizontal Motion Commands

The horizontal motion commands control the horizontal motion of the printhead, including the direction and distance of each movement.

Backspace

Control character: BS

Hexadecimal: 08

This command causes the printer to print the current contents of the print buffer and then move the printhead one character to the left. This command is valid at any point to the right of the left margin but not at or to the left of the left margin. The printer ignores the Backspace command if either full or right margin justification has been selected.

Tab Horizontally

Control character: HT

Hexadecimal: 09

This command moves the printhead horizontally to the next horizontal tab stop. These tab stops can be the ones set by the Set Horizontal Tab Stops command (ESC D n1...n32) or the default horizontal tab stops. The default tab stops are at 8-character intervals (in the default character size) between the left and right margins.

Carriage Return

Control character. CR

Hexadecimal: 0D

This command causes the printer to print the current contents of the print buffer and then return the printhead to the left margin. This command may be accompanied by a Line Feed command to move the printhead to the next print line position.

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Epson 8900 Series manual Control character. CR Hexadecimal 0D