Epson 8900 Series Epson FX Printer Emulation Commands, Epson FX Emulation Commands, Form Format

Epson FX Printer Emulation Commands

Your printer, when operating in the Epson FX emulation mode, can respond to both escape-sequence commands and the standard US ASCII control characters. The following table lists the FX printer commands.

	Epson FX Emulation Commands
Command	Command Name
Printer Operation
DC1	Select Printer
DC3	Deselect Printer
BEL	Sound Bell
CAN	Cancel Line
DEL	Delete Character
ESC @	Initialize Printer
ESC =	Set MSB to 0
ESC >	Set MSB to 1
ESC #	Cancel MSB Control
ESC <	Select Unidirectional Printing for One
	Line Only
ESC U SOH	Select Unidirectional Printing
ESC U NUL	Cancel Unidirectional Printing
Form Format
ESC C n	Set Form Length to n Lines
ESC C NUL n	Set Form Length to n Inches
ESC N n	Select Automatic Perforation Skip
ESC O	Cancel Automatic Perforation Skip
Font Selection
ESC k SOH	Select LQ Gothic Font
ESC k NUL	Select LQ Courier Font
Margin Control
ESC a NUL	Select Left Margin Justification
ESC a STX	Select Right Margin Justification
ESC a ETX	Select Full Justification
ESC a SOH	Select Text Centering
ESC 1 n	Set Left Margin at Column n
ESC Q n	Set Right Margin at Column n

Epson FX Printer Emulation Mode 8-6