ESC D

 

 

 

 

Set Horizontal Tabs

Format:

 

 

 

 

 

 

ASCII

code:

ESC

D

n1 n2

...

0

Decimal:

27

68

n1

n2

...

0

H e x a d e c i m a l : 1 B 4 4 n 1 n 2 . . . 0 0

Comments:

This command allows setting of up to 32 horizontal tabs, which are entered as n1, n2, n3, etc. (from 1 to 255) with the 0 character or any value less than the previous one terminating the command. ESC D 0 clears all tabs. The settings on power up or after an ESC @ command are every eight characters. The tab settings do not change if the character size is changed. For proportional printing the size of 10 cpi characters determines the tab positions.

Overall Printing Style

ESC x

 

 

Select Near Letter Quality or Draft

Format:

 

 

 

ASCII code: ESC

 

n

Decimal:

27

120

n

Hexadecimal:

1B

78

n

Comments:

The following values can be used for n:

0: Selects the draft mode (The decimal or hexadecimal values 0

1: Selects the near letter and 1 or the ASCII characters “0” and quality (NLQ) mode. “1” can be used.)

When NLQ is selected, the font used is either Roman, Sans Serif or user-defined, whichever is currently selected. Condensed printing is not available in NLQ.

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