IBM A00 Select 12 CPI (ESC M), Begin Skip Perforation (ESC N), End Skip Perforation (ESC O), Select 10 CPI (ESC P), Select Right Margin (ESC Q), Select Character Set (ESC R)

Select 12 CPI (ESC M)
1B 4D
This control selects 12 characters-per-inch printing.
Begin Skip Perforation (ESC N)
1B 4E NN
This control sets the number of lines to be skipped at the bottom of each page.
Once this function is activated, it stays active until the End Skip Perforation (ESC
O) or Set Page Length (ESC C) control is received, or the printer is initialized.
NN is a one-byte hexadecimal value that specifies the number of lines to skip at the
bottom of each page. This value must be greater than zero and less than the length
of the page in lines (from 0 to 127). If the value is not valid, the control is ignored.
Once Begin Skip Perforation is activated, the number of lines that may be printed
on a page is the page length minus NN.
End Skip Perforation (ESC O)
1B 4F
This control ends skip perforation.
Select 10 CPI (ESC P)
1B 50
This control selects 10 CPI printing and is normally used to cancel 12 CPI.
Select Right Margin (ESC Q)
1B 51 NN
This control sets the right margin to N columns at the current character width.
Where NN is the number of columns from the right edge of the physical page to the
end of the print line.
Select Character Set (ESC R)
1B 52 NN
This control specifies an international character set as shown in the table below and
is available in both DP and NLQ. The following values for NN are:
NCharacter Set
Hex Codes
23 24 40 5b 5c 5d 5e 60 7b 7c 7d 7e
0 USA #$@[\ ] |‘{¦}˜
1 France #$à°ç§|‘ éùè..
2 Germany #$§ÄÖÜ|‘ äöüβ
3 United
Kingdom £$@[\ ] |‘{¦}˜
236 4247 Printer ModelA00 User’s Guide