Tally Genicom Matrix Printer manual Enq, Ascii ENQ, = Busy

Enquiry for Status			ENQ
Data Structure	ASCII	ENQ	enquiry for status
	hex.	05
	dec.	5
Description	With this code it is possible to get a status byte from the printer:

Status byte:	Bit 0
	Bit 1
	Bit 2
	Bit 3
	Bit 4
	Bit 5
	Bit 6
	Bit 7

1

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

=BUSY

=offline

=paper end

=always 1

=cover open

=buffer overflow

=parity or framing error

=always 0

This code concerns only serial data transfer with ENQ/STX protocol.

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