Epson 8900 Series manual Character Pitch Commands, Set Intercharacter Space

Character Pitch Commands

The character pitch commands let you choose between 10 and 12 cpi or adjust the horizontal spacing between characters. The character pitch is the horizontal distance from the center of one character to the center of the next character.

Set Character Pitch to 10 cpi

Escape sequence: ESC P

Hexadecimal: 1B 50

This command selects 10 cpi character pitch and cancels 12 cpi character pitch if it has been previously selected.

Set Character Pitch to 12 cpi

Escape sequence: ESC M

Hexadecimal: 1B 4D

This command selects 12 cpi character pitch for either draft or LQ printing.

Set Intercharacter Space

Escape sequence:	ESC	SP	n
Hexadecimal:	1B	20	n

This command adjusts the space between text characters (for both draft and LQ printing) by an amount specified by the variable n where n can be any value in the range of 0 through 128. The design of each character of the standard character sets allows a certain amount of space to the right of the character. The Set Intercharacter Space command can add one or more 1/120 inch units of space to the existing character space, depending upon the value of n. For example, if the variable n is set to 12, the printer adds 12/120 (0.1) inch of space to the existing space.

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