Epson 8900 Series manual Horizontal Motion Commands

Horizontal Motion Commands

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

Backspace

Control character: BS

Hexadecimal: 08

This command causes the printer to print the current print buffer contents and then move the print position 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 print position to the next horizontal tab stop. These tab stops can be the ones set by the Set Horizontal Tab Stops command or the ones set by 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 contents of the current 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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