For example, say you have set the page length to 84 lines (legal size paper
at 6 lines per inch), with the top-of-page 8 lines down. You then send:
<ESC> N16
This will give you 8 lines of top margin (implied by your topof-page setting)
and 8 lines of bottom margin. The printer knows you want 84-16=68 lines
of text, so it prints those, skips 8 lines at the bottom of the first page, plus 8
more lines at the top of the next page to make up the total perforation skip of
16 lines.
text - 66 lines
perforation
skp-16iines
....... ................ . .
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..... ....... ..............
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... .......... ... .... ......
If you change line spacing after giving this command, you won’t affect these
margin settings. However, if you change page length you will have to set the
perforation skip again.
To set SkipOver-Perforation to zero lines, send this command (the letter
after the <ESC> code is the capital letter “0”):
<ES0 0
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