Printek 4300 Epson FX Emulation, Select Italic Mode, Cancel Italic Mode, Master Print Mode Select

Epson FX Emulation

Select Italic Mode ESC 4

Selects italic mode. This causes italic characters to be printed by setting the MSB (most significant bit) of all following printable characters to one. The effect is to map characters from the bottom half (non-italic) of the font to the top half (italic) of the font. For this to work correctly, an Epson FX font must be selected (see ESC k). The other available fonts do not include italic characters.

Escape Sequence:	ESC	4
Hexadecimal:	1B	34
Cancel Italic Mode		ESC 5

Cancels italic mode. The MSB (most significant bit) of the following printable characters will be accepted as is. Italic characters may still be printed by transmitting characters with the MSB turned on.

Escape Sequence:	ESC	5
Hexadecimal:	1B	35
Master Print Mode Select		ESC ! n

Selects any valid combination of modes from the following table. The value of n is determined by adding together the values of the desired modes from the table.

nAttribute

010 cpi

112 cpi

4	Condensed
8	Emphasized
16	Double-Strike

32Double-Wide

64Italic

128 Underline

Example: The following escape sequence will select 12 cpi condensed, resulting in 20 cpi character spacing.

Escape Sequence:	ESC	!	5
Hexadecimal:	1B	21	05

Example: The following escape sequence will select emphasized, double-wide, and underline, for a heading that really stands out.

Escape Sequence:	ESC	!	168
Hexadecimal:	1B	21	A8

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