Star Micronics 8 Series manual Select Orientation command

The Select Orientation command

The SelectOrientationsupersetcommandlets youchangethe “attitude”in whichthe Star LaserPrinter8 prints.

To changefromoneorientationto theotheryousendthisSelectOrientation Escapesequence:

<ESC> [ O n

For the value n you put O(zero) for portraitorientation,

or 1 (one) for landscapeorientation.

When you send this command to print in landscapemode, the printer automaticallyrotatesits currentfont so that it printsas landscape.

The spot or line whereprintingstarts on the page is sometimescalled the origin or top ofform. The originchangeswhen you switchorientations. That startingprintpositionis in theupperleft cornerfor a portraitpage,but in the lower left comer for a landscapepage.

The Star LaserPrinter8 lets youmixportraitandlandscapeorientationson the samepage.Becausethestartingprintpositionchangeswhenyouswitch orientationsthough, you have to rememberto re-orient commandsthat move the print position. If you don’t want to allow the printer to mix orientations,usethe frontpanelprogrammenuto changethe COMMAND parameterFF on ROTATEvalueto NO.

Youprobablywon’twanttochangeorientationallthatoften.Everytimeyou do,th~StarLaserPrinter8 alsoresetsthepagemarginsto itslimits,andalso how it defineslines and columns.So wheneveryou give the SelectOrien- tationcommandyoumaywantto followit withEscapesequencesto change thesideandtopmarginsandpaperlengthsettings.(Alternatively,youcould putrheprinterofflineandresetthesefromthefrontpanel,asdescribedunder LAYOUTearlier.)

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