These commands cause the printer to print characters at about 60 percent of their normal widths. For example, for a character pitch of 10 cpi, one inch of text contains about 17 characters instead of the normal 10. These commands are valid for either draft or LQ printing.

Cancel Compressed Print

Control character: DC2

Hexadecimal: 12

Select Letter-Quality Print

Escape sequence:

ESC

x

SOH

Hexadecimal:

1B

78

01

Cancel Letter-Quality Print

Escape sequence:

ESC

x

NUL

Hexadecimal:

1B

78

00

This command cancels LQ print and returns the printer to the draft print mode.

Select Text-Underline Print

Escape sequence:

ESC

-

SOH

Hexadecimal:

1B

2D

01

After receiving this command, the printer underlines all subsequent text characters (including the space character) until it receives a Cancel Text-Underline Print command.

Cancel Text-Underline Print

Escape sequence:

ESC

-

NUL

Hexadecimal:

1B

2D

00

Select Boldface Print

Escape sequence:

ESC

G

Hexadecimal:

1B

47

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Epson 8900 Series manual Cancel Compressed Print