4-4 Application Development Information Rev. B

1. Open the properties of printer.
2. Click the “utility“ tab.
3. Click the “EPSON Control FontA“ button.
4. Click the “operation“ tab.
5. Edit a control font. The following table shows example definitions.
6. When the printer receives data of the defined control font A, the printer beeps as described.

4.3.3 ESC/POS command

The beeper function is able to be operated by commands. See the “ESC/POS Application
Programming Guide“ for details.
4.4 Various Status Categories
This printer is able to send various status reports to the host PC. This section describes the kind
of statuses and handling.
The statuses are useful for the following situations.
Deined Command data Tone Description
1B284104003031010A 1280Hz 1000ms beeping
1B284104003032010A 4100Hz 1000ms beeping
1B284104003033010A 1280Hz 200ms beeping
1B284104003034010A 4100Hz 200ms beeping
1B284104003035010A 1280Hz 200ms beeping -> 200ms off -> 200ms beeping
1B284104003036010A 4100Hz 200ms beeping -> 200ms off -> 200ms beeping
1B284104003037010A 1280Hz 500ms beeping
1B284104003038010A 4100Hz 500ms beeping
1B284104003039010A 1280Hz 200ms beeping -> 200ms off -> 200ms beeping ->
200ms off -> 200ms beeping
1B284104003039010A 4100Hz 200ms beeping -> 200ms off -> 200ms beeping ->
200ms off -> 200ms beeping
Status Categories Description
Roll Paper cover status Roll paper cover is open or closed
FEED button status Paper feed button is pressed or not
Error status Various error information (Off-line / On-line), (detail of the error;
Mechanical error, autocutter error, auto-recovery error,
unrecoverable error)