Controlling the configuration of the printer Standard commands
46 T5023/5023+ - Programming Guide
Setting the MSB to 1
Function:
ESC > sets the most significant bit (MSB) of all incoming data to 1. Thus it is pos-
sible to print italic or graphics characters or characters defined by the user for
programs on computers, which only transfer 7- bit data (access to character ta-
ble range from hex 80 to hex FF).
ESC
27
1B
>
62
3E
ASCII character
Decimal
Hexadecimal
The MSB setting via ESC > is deleted by the following ESC seuences:
–ESC @ (Initializing the printer)
–ESC = (Deleting the most significant bit)
–ESC # (Deleting the MSB specification).
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