Note2 : limitation of ”ESC cA” and “ESC rA”

*During rotated printing mode (Left90, right90), these escape sequences will not work. *These will not work if they are not the first character of a line.

*It is not possible to use these on PrintBitmap method.

4.6.2.4 Printable bitmap format in OPOS

The printable bitmap formats are formats that meet all the following conditions.

BMP files

Monochrome, 16-color (4 bit), 256-color (8 bit)

Uncompressed

4.6.3ESC/POS command

See “ESC/POS Application Programming Guide“ about the method.

4.6.4 Tips for Visual Basic

When programming with Visual Basic, limitations prevent data from 81h through 9Fh and from E0h through FEh from being sent as characters. Therefore, you may be not able to print a part of

Page 0 (for example )in Visual Basic.

However, you can use the following procedure to send this data.

Dim Send_ data(0) As Byte

Send_data(0) = &h81 ’1 byte of sending data

MSComm1.Output = Send_data

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