PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
This appendix describes the printer’s control commands. The commands are
arranged by function. The name of each command is followed by a table like the one below:
Mode ASCII
<ESC> “X”
Both
<ESC> “X”
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| Decimal |
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| Hexadecimal | |
I‘1” | 27 | 120 | 49 | 1B | 78 | 31 |
Cl> | 27 | 120 | I | IB | 78 | 01 |
Mode: | Indicates | the | mode | in which | the | command | is recognized. | ||||||
| Std. |
| Standard | mode | (DIP | switch | on) |
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| IBM |
| IBM | mode | (DIP switch |
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| Both |
| Both | standard | and IBM | modes |
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ASCII: | Indicates | the | ASCII | coding | of |
| the | command. | Control | ||||
| characters are enclosed in pointed brackets: For example, | ||||||||||||
| < 0 > | means | character |
| code | 0. |
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Decimal: | Gives | the | command |
| in | decimal | character | codes. | |||||
Hexadecimal: | Gives | the | command |
| in | hexadecimal |
| character | codes. |
Parameters for which values must be supplied are indicated by italic letters such as n.
Many commands have alternative forms. Some commands use < ESC >
(character code 27) in Standard mode and < FS > (character code 28) in IBM
mode. Other commands have parameters that can be specified as either character
codes or digit characters, like the parameter 1 in the sample command above.
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS
Select draft quality characters
Mode | ASCII |
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| Decimal |
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| Hexadecimal | |
| ‘C., | ‘I 0 | “F” | “)” | “)” | “9” | 40 | 40 70 | 41 41 57 | 28 28 46 29 29 39 | ||
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Both | <ESC> |
| &IX” | “0” |
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| 27 | 120 | 48 | 1B | 78 | 30 |
| <ESC> |
| (‘X” | co> |
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| 27 | 120 | 0 | IB | 78 | 00 |
| < ESC | > | “I” | “0” |
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| 27 | 73 | 48 | 1B | 49 | 30 |
IBM | < ESC | > | “I” | co> |
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| 27 | 73 | 0 | 1B | 49 | 00 |
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Changes from near letter quality to draft quality. Ignored if the NLQ Type Style switch was pressed during
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