Epson￿

Commands￿

 

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Notes

 

 

Function

(ASCII, Decimal, Hexadecimal)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Define Custom ￿

ASCII: ESC & 0 [data]￿

Defines and stores in RAM up to 256

 

Character(s)￿

Dec: 27 38 0 [data]￿

utility quality character patterns.￿

 

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Hex: 1B 26 00 [data]￿

Custom character will be cleared by Ini-

 

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tialize command, Software I-PRIME

 

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command, Emulation Switch com-

 

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mand, I/F I-PRIME signal, or by turn-

 

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ing the printer off.￿

 

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If Receive Buffer Size in MENU is Set to

 

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23K, this command is Ignoved.￿

 

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Custom Character Set

ASCII: ESC % n￿

Engages/ disengages custom character

 

On/ Off￿

Dec: 27 37 n￿

set.￿

 

 

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Hex: 1B 25 n￿

n=0: Select custom character set￿

 

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n=1: Select default character set￿

 

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Select International ￿

ASCII: ESC R n￿

Select character set containing 15 special

 

Character Set￿

Dec: 27 82 n￿

characters used in foreign language

 

(set Code Page)￿

Hex: 1B 52 n￿

printing:￿

 

 

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n=0: American￿ n=26: Multilingual￿

 

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n=1: French￿

n=27: Norway￿

 

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n=2: German￿

n=28: Portugal￿

 

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n=3: British￿

n=42: Canada French￿

 

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n=4: Danish I￿

n=80: BRASCII￿

 

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n=5: Swedish￿

n=81: Abicomp￿

 

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n=6: Italian￿

n=82: ISO 8859-15￿

 

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n=7: Spanish I￿ n=83: Multilingual 858￿

 

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n=8: Japanese￿

 

 

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n=9: Norwegian￿

 

 

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n=10: Danish￿

 

 

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n=11: Spanish II￿

 

 

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n=12: Latin American￿

 

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n=13: French Canadian￿

 

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n=14: Dutch￿

 

 

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n=64: Publisher￿

 

 

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Assign character table

ASCII: ESC (t n1 n2 d1 d2 d3 Dec:

The character tables indicated by d2, d3 are

 

 

27 40 116 n1 n2 d1 d2 d3￿

stored in the four types of areas indicated by

 

 

Hex: 1B 28 74 n1 n2 d1 d2 d3

d1 (Character Table 0-3). From among the four

 

 

 

tables, one is selected by ESC t command.￿

 

 

 

n1=3, n2=0: specifies the number of parame-

 

 

 

ters (in bytes) to follow￿

 

 

 

d1=0 to 3: stored character table number.￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=0, 0: Italic￿

 

 

 

 

d2, d3=1, 0: PC 437 (USA)￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=3, 0: PC 850 (Multilingual)￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=7, 0: PC 860 (Portugal)￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=8, 0: PC 863 (Canada-French)￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=9, 0: PC 865 (Norway)￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=25, 0: BRASII￿

 

 

 

d2, d3=26, 0: Abicomp

 

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Appendix C: Printer Commands