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Control Codes

CHAPTER 2: IBM Emulation Mode Printer Commands

This section provides a detailed description of IBM emulation mode commands you can use with your printer.

Control Codes

Control codes are one-character printer commands that are used to:

Manage the printing of a job.

Control the movement of the cursor, which changes the current print position. Control secondary font selection, such as condensed and double-wide.

The first 32 characters of the Standard ASCII table are control codes. This printer uses the following control codes.

Table 2-1: Control Codes

 

 

 

Value

Value

Code Name

Symbol

Description

(Dec)

(Hex)

 

 

Sounds the printer beeper for approximately 1

 

 

Beeper

BEL

second.

7

07

Backspace

BS

Causes the printer to move the current print position one

8

08

 

 

character position to the left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horizontal Tab

HT

Moves the print head to the next horizontal tab position

9

09

 

 

specified by the ESC D command. If no tab position is

 

 

 

 

set or programmed, tabs are set by default to every 8th

 

 

 

 

column, beginning at column 9.

 

 

 

 

When no tab is set between the current position and the

 

 

 

 

right margin or if the tabs are all cleared, the code is

 

 

 

 

ignored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Line Feed

LF

Advances the paper one line on the page. An automatic

10

0A

 

 

carriage return may be optionally disabled.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lexmark 259x, 258x manual Control Codes, Second

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