Star Micronics SB-10 w HORIZONTAL TABS

When you are tabulating reports or printing certain kinds of text,

you may find it useful to leave a number of lines blank between

sections of print. This printer’s vertical tab feature allows you to do

this with the codes shown in Table 5-5.

hNCTlON ESCAPE DECIMAL HEXADECIMAL 1

CODE CODE CODE

Set

Vertical

Tabs

<ESC> B nl n2...0 27 66 nl n2...0 IB 42 nl n2...00

Advance

to Next

Tab

<VT> 11 OB

When you turn on the printer, your vertical tabs are automatically

set at one inch apart (lines 6, 12, 18, etc.) to the bottom of your page.

To advance the page to the next vertical tab position, just enter

decimal code 11 or hexadecimal code OB.

You can also set your own vertical tabs by first entering the escape,

decimal or hexadecimal codes shown in Table 5-5. Then, enter the

line number for each vertical tab you want to set, represented in the

table by nl, n2, etc. (Your printer allows you a maximum of 12 vertical

tab positions per page.) The number of each tab setting must be

greater than the previousone (for example, typical tab settings might

be on lines 10, 15, 19, etc.).

After you have set the last tab, be sure to terminate the vertical tab

command, by entering 0 (00 for hexadecimal).

You can now move to each of your specified vertical tab positions

using the “Advance to Next Tab Position” code shown in the table.

w HORIZONTAL TABS

Horizontal tabs function similarly to those of a typewriter: they

help you print charts and tables, and create columns of information

across the page.

When you first turn the printer on, it will automatically set horizontal

tab positions every 8 spaces (spaces 9, 17,25, etc.) to the right edge

of the page. You can advance to the next horizontal tab position

with decimal code 9 or hexadecimal code 09, as shown in Table 5-6.

You can also set new horizontal tabs to your own specified po-

sitions, using the same procedures you learned for setting vertical

tabs, Remember, when you set your own tabs, you cancel all previ-

ously set tab stops.