Star Micronics 8 Series manual What do EX-800 commands look like?

The small-carriageEX-800 is one of Epson’s more recent dot-matrix printers.Becauseof the popularityof the IBM PersonalComputer,which was marketedwith a modifiedEpson printer, thousandsof softwarepro- grams alreadywork with Epson printercommands.

If youhavea programthatdoesn’tworkwithlascrprintercommands,you’ll almostccrtairdyfindit willworkwiththecommandsin theStarLaserPrinter 8’s EX-800emulationmode.YourStarLaserPnntcr8 will printany docu- ments you createwith standardEpsoncommands.

We followthe same sequencein this chapteras wc did in earlierchaptcm: first somepnntcr managementandpagesetupcommands,thenwe’llcover commandsthatmovetheprintposition,andfinallywe’llprintourdocument with our choiceof font attributes.

EX-800 COMMANDS

What do EX-800 commands look like?

Mostcommandsin the EX-800emulationlook like this:

<ESC>C or <ESC>C n

in whichC is the codefor the particularcommandyou want to send. If the commandincludesthe n sign it indicatesa numericvanablc the command needs.For example,the EX-800commandto set the right marginis this:

<ESC>Q n

in which n is the columnnumberfor the rightmargin. So to put the right margin at column65 you wouldsend this command:

<ESC>Q 65

MostEX-800commandsworkliketoggleswitches:onc <ESC>codeturns on a featureand another<ESC>codeturns it off.

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