7193 Owner’s Guide | Commands |
Set Character Right-Side Spacing
This command is not implemented and is ignored if received.
Hex | Decimal | ASCII |
1B 20 n | 27 32 n | ESC (SPACE) n |
Set Absolute Starting Position
Sets the print starting position to the specified number of dots (up to the right margin) from the beginning of the line. The print starting position is reset to the first column after each line.
Hex | Decimal | ASCII |
1B 24 n1 n2 | 27 36 n1 n2 | ESC $ n1 n2 |
n = Number of dots to be moved from the beginning of the line
n1 = Remainder after dividing n by 256
n2 = Integer after dividing n by 256
The values for n1 and n2 are two bytes in low byte, high byte word orientation.
Determine the value of n by multiplying the column for the absolute starting position by 10 (standard pitch) or 8 (compressed pitch). The example shows how to calculate column 29 (10 dots per column) as the absolute starting position.
28 x 10 = 280 dots (beginning of column 29) 280/256 = 1, remainder of 24
n1 = 24 | n2 = 1 |
Note: This command is also used in the graphics mode to emulate the Epson LQ- 950™ dot matrix printer. See “Graphics Commands” later in this chapter for more information.
May 1996
