Tally Genicom Matrix Printer manual CSI ... n

Device Status Report (DSR)				CSI ... n
Data Structure ASCII	CSI	n	"n"	[B] device status report
hex.	9B	n	6E
dec.	155	n	110

Description For n the following parameters are available:

n	hex.	dec.	status report	direction
0	30	48	“Ready, no malfunction”	printer → computer
1	31	49	“Busy, no malfunction”	printer → computer
3	33	51	“Some malfunction detected”	printer → computer
5	35	53	Request of device status report	computer → printer

By these sequences it is possible to request the current printer status.

This sequence can only be used if the printer is connected to the computer with a serial interface or a other bi-directional interface.

The printer sends the complete sequence back to host with parameters 0, 1 or 3.

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