Star Micronics 150 manual Vertical Motion Control, Increments

Control Codes PcOS Series 150 Programmer's Guide

Vertical Motion

Vertical Motion Control

Function	Fine line feed
ASCII	[ESC] J <n>
Hexadecimal	1BH 4AH <n>
Decimal	<27> <74> <n>
IPCL	&%FM <m1> <m2> <m3>
EPOS	[ESC] J <n>
Description	This command prints the contents of the buffer (if any) and performs a line feed
	of n/216 inch. This command does not change the default line spacing value.
	The next character print position is reset to the left margin.
	EPOS Note: In EPOS mode, this command performs line feeds in n/144-inch
	increments.
		Example of Fine Line Feed[CR]
		[ESC]J<54>
		This line is 1/4" below the first.[CR][LF]
		This line is spaced at the default of
		1/8".[CR][LF]
Figure 7 Example of fine line feed		Figure 8 Data sent to printer for fine line feed
Function	Set variable line space in n/216 inch
ASCII	[ESC] 3 <n>
Hexadecimal	1BH 33H <n>
Decimal	<27> <51> <n>
IPCL	&%SV <m1> <m2> <m3>
EPOS	[ESC] 3 <n>
Description	This command sets the default line spacing in n/216 inch. Set n = 1 to 255.
	This command takes effect immediately and sets the line feed spacing used by
	[LF] to values other than 1/8 or 7/72 inch.
	EPOS Note: Line spacing of n/144 is used.
Function	Set line space to 27/216 inch
ASCII	[ESC] 0
Hexadecimal	1BH 30H
Decimal	<27> <48>
IPCL	&%ST
EPOS	[ESC] 2
Description	This command sets the text default line spacing to 1/8 or 27/216 inch which is
	the standard eight lines per inch line spacing at initial power up.

EPOS Note: In EPOS mode, this command sets 1/6-inch spacing or 6 lines per inch.

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