Epson 8900 Series manual Select PC1 Character Set, Select PC2 Character Set

Character Set Commands

The character set commands let you choose between the IBM PC1 and IBM PC2 character sets and print specified characters from either of these character sets.

Select PC1 Character Set

Escape sequence: ESC 7

Hexadecimal: 1B 37

Select PC2 Character Set

Escape sequence: ESC 6

Hexadecimal: 1B 36

Print Single Specified Character

Escape sequence:	ESC	^	c
Hexadecimal:	1B	5E	c

This command causes the printer to print from the All Characters character set the single character specified by the variable c. The variable c can be any hexadecimal code from the character set, including those from columns 0, 1, 8, and 9.

Print Multiple Specified Characters

Escape sequence:	ESC	\	n1	n2	data
Hexadecimal:	1B	5C	n1	n2	data

This command causes the printer to print from the All Characters character set the number of characters indicated by the variables n1 and n2 and specified by the data term. The total number of characters to be printed following this command is equal to n1 + (n2 x 256), where the valid ranges of both nl and n2 are 0 through 255. Thus the maximum number of characters that can be specified by this command is 255 + (255 x 256) equals 65,535. The data term is a list of the hexadecimal codes of the characters to be printed, including the characters from columns 0, 1, 8, and 9 of the All Characters character set.

IBM Proprinter XL Emulation 7-16