Xerox FS 5250 Defining a Permanent Escape Character, Removing Permanent Escape Character

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Xerox FS 5250, User’s Guide

8.5. Defining a Permanent Escape Character

The paragraph "Defining a Temporary Escape Char acter", only described the saving of the escape character in the temporary memory .

If you wish to define and save a permanent escape character in the printer, you will have to use Function 48, Select Perma nent Escape Character, and immediately save the settings in the permanent memory . See the description of Y48 in either XES or PCL.

NOTE:

If the character used in Function 48, Select Permanent Escape Character, is different from the one specified as temporary escape character, the latest specified character will take prec dence immedi- ately.

An example of the commands defining the permanent escape charac ter is shown below.

PCL

XES

&&??%

&&??%

%Y48,08%

%Y48,4C%

>X1

>X1

Syntaxes of the command strings defining the permanent escape character to be 08 (the character ">") instead of the temporary escape character "%".

8.6. Removing Permanent Escape Character

If you wish to remove the permanent escape character , you will have to follow the procedure below:

1.Set Function 48, Select Permanent Escape Character, to "00" (No escape character).

2.Define a new temporary escape character as described in "Defining a Temporary Escape Character".

3.Save the settings using the command "<ESC> X1".

Examples of these commands are shown below.

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