r 2. ANSI
The TallyGenicom imple m entation of ANSI X3.64 is the native control protocol for the 7265 printer, as it is for a variety of other TallyGenicom impact matrix printer families. The control functions presented here are a superset of ANSI control sets familiar to our customers. For the most part, ANSI drivers written for other TallyGenicom printers should only need to be modified as features introduced on the 7265 Series printers are exercised. Examples of such new features include
Enabling the application to select among emulations provides access to some of the 7265 features not supported in emulated products. Toward this end, the printer can be commanded to maintain the current status of fonts, pitches, tabs, margins and so forth across emulation changes. Although some minute differences due to translations from, say, columns to decipoints may be discernible when switching from one emulation to another, the printer is quite predictable when switching from another emulation to ANSI and then back again.
The 7265 is a decipoint machine. Locations and dimensions such as tabs, margins, absolute and relative positions, and form lengths are described in ANSI control sequences in units of 1/720 inch. If you have the choice of describing your page in one or another of the supported emulations, consider that ANSI gives you more flexible control of locations of objects on the page.
In this chapter we include spaces between characters in escape sequences for clarity. ESC H, for instance, is easier to read than is ESCH. Where the space character forms a component of a control sequence, then it is designated by <SP> .
Listed below are the control codes interpreted by this printer, along with page numbers where you can find detailed descriptions.
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