M-S Cash Drawer A794 Select 90 Degree Counter-Clockwise Rotated Print, Select Pitch Column Width

Chapter 6: Programming Information A794 Owner’s Guide

Select 90 Degree Counter-Clockwise Rotated Print

ASCII	ESC DC2
Hexadecimal	1B 12
Decimal	27 18

Rotates characters 90 degrees counter-clockwise. The command remains in effect until the printer is reset or until a Clear Printer (0x10), Select or Cancel Upside Down Print (1B 7B) or Cancel Rotated Print (1B 56) command is received.

Exceptions

This command is valid only at the beginning of a line.

Rotated print and non-rotated print characters cannot be used together in the same line.

Related Information

See “Summary of Rotated Printing” in this document.

This command is ignored in TM-T88 Emulation.

Select Pitch (Column Width)

ASCII	ESC SYN n
Hexadecimal	1B 16 n
Decimal	27 22 n
Value of n:	0	= Standard pitch
	1	= Compressed pitch
Default:	0	(Standard pitch)

Selects the character pitch for a print line

Formulas

The following table provides the print characteristics for both pitches on the receipt station.

Pitch	Columns,	Columns,	CPI
	80 mm Paper	82.5 mm Paper
Standard	44	49	15.6
Compressed	56	64	20.3

Related Information

See Print Specifications for a description of both pitches.

This command and the Select Print Modes command (1B 21 n) affect pitch selection.

This is ignored in TM-T88 Emulation and the parameter byte goes into the print buffer.

80 December 1999