NCR 5021 Printer Emulation Commands

The calculated offset does not have to fall on a character boundary and the number of codes does not have to be a whole multiple of seven (7). For example, the following command would alter the lower portion of the character assigned the value 41H and the top portion of the character assigned the value 42H:

1BH,5BH,7EH,12H,00H,EAH,0FH,7FH,0EH,BFH,0DH,DFH,0BH,EFH,05H,57H,0 7H,F7H,07H, F7H,07H,F7H,OFH,FFH

Hexadecimal

 

Decimal

 

ASCII

1B 5B 7F vv, yy, yy, xx, xx, xx, xx

 

27 91 127 vv, yy, yy, xx, xx, xx, xx ESC [ ~ vv, yy, yy, xx, xx, xx, xx

 

Value of vv

Value of yy

 

 

 

 

 

0-80H

0000-061FH

The value of vv is the VLI(in binary).

The value of yy is a binary address of the location within the character set to write the first twelve-bit dot pattern.

The value of xx is a word. Each word contains a twelve-bit dot pattern representing one row of dots of a 12 x 7 character matrix (in binary). Maximum number of words is 63. The twelve least significant bits of each word make up the dot pattern.

Print Characteristics Commands

These commands affect the appearance of printed information. They control the following:

Character formatting

Line spacing

The commands are listed in numerical order of their hexadecimal codes.

8–12

3255 4073–002

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