3-12 Creating and Printing Formats
Positioning Fields You may need to use some of these supply positioning control characters to
position the fields on the format. The data stream can also write spaces to the
printer before it prints text to position a field.
You can also change the line spacing between lines or before a line. See
“Selecting the Line Spacing” in this chapter for more information.
NOTE: There are .157-inch no-print zones on the left and right sides of the
format, and a .7-inch no-print zone at the top of the format.
Char. Hex Control Action
CR 0x0D Carriage Return - Advances to beginning of next line.
LF 0x0A Line Feed - Advances to beginning of next line.
FF 0x0C Form Feed - Advances 10 lines.
NORM 0x14 Switches to 57-column print mode.
SI 0x0F Shift In - Switches to 57-column print mode.
SO 0x0E Shift Out - Switches to 36-column print mode
HT 0x09
Horizontal Tab - Advances to the next tab position (from
the following list) or to the beginning of the next line:
5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37.
VT 0x0B Vertical Tab - Advances 5 lines.