Epson U230 Format, ASCII ESC A pL pH fn n c t1 t2, 1B 28 41 05 00 61 64 c t1 t2, Confidential

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TM-U230 Developer’s Guide

Be sure to consider the BinaryConversion property when transmit the data over 80h. Chr(&H1B)+"(" + "A" + Chr(&H5) + Chr(&H0) + Chr(&H61) + Chr(&H64) + Chr(&H5) + Chr(&H0A) + Chr(&H0A) is the printer command that controls the internal buzzer. The internal buzzer beeps five times at intervals of one second. Format of the ESC(A command is as follows.

[Format]	ASCII ESC ( A pL pH fn n c t1 t2
Hex	1B 28 41 05 00 61 64 c t1 t2

c:specifies the number of times for beeps t1: specifies the length of time to be ON

t2: specifies the length of time to be OFF

Refer to the TM-U230 series specification for more details of ESC(A command. Refer to OPOS manuals for the programming using OPOS.

The following explanations are the details about programming samples using Control-A font in EPSON Advanced Windows Driver.

Edit the TMCTRLA.INI as follows so that the buzzer control command ESC(A is assigned to “A”(code41) of control-A font.

[TM-U230] 41=1B284105006164050A0A

“41=1B284105006164050A0A” in the description above assigns the buzzer control command ESC(A to “A”(code41) of control-A font. This data specifies the internal buzzer to beep five times at intervals of one second.

Save the TMCTRLA.INI under the following system folder.

Windows 95/98	:\windows\system
Windows NT	:\winnt\system32\spool\Prcpocs\W32x86

Then describe as follows in your program.

Printer.DeviceName = "EPSON TM-U230 Receipt"

Printer.font.Name = " FontA"

Printer.Print "TM-U230"

Printer.Print "Buzzer Test"

Programming Samples 4-9