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7 Printer Control Codes and Resident Fonts
Character Hex/Dec
CONTROL
ACTION
EOT
04/04
End Of Text
BS
08/08
Back Space
HT
09/09
Horizontal Tab
LF
0A/10
Line Feed
VT
0B/11
Vertical Tab
FF
0C/12
Form
Feed
CR
0D/13
Carriage
Return
SO
0E/14
Shift Out – Select double wide print
SI
0F/15
Shift In – Clear double wide print
XON
11/17
Transmitter On.
AUXON
12/18
Printer on.
XOFF
13/19
Printer receiver is off
NORM
14/20
Return to default 42 column mode
AUXOFF
15/21
Printer to Host: printer is off
CANCEL
18/24
Cancel and reset printer buffer. Default to Standard font.
ESC 1B/27
Escape
EXTEND 1C/28
Extended
EXTEND OFF
1D/29
Extended print off/Normal print
Status All
Report Buffer, power timer and battery status
Status buffer
Report number of characters received in buffer
Printer Command Strings
Printer Function
ESC+F+1 (default)
Standard ASCII and International character set
ESC+F+2
Hebrew ASCII and Hebrew character set
ESC+F+3
IBM PC ASCII and IBM PC character set
ESC+1+Null
SELECT 1 DOT SPACING
ESC+0+Null
SELECT 3 DOT SPACING (default)
ESC – G
Select 6-bit graphic print mode
The graphic character set
From character '?'(3FH) to TILDA (7EH), CR & LF
ESC - ‘A’
Select Text Print Mode. Cancel Graphic mode.
ESC – ‘P’ – alpa
Time and date print and Format control
ESC – ‘M’ - ‘000’ - cr
Disable the power down timer
ESC - ‘M’ - ‘nn0’ - cr
sets the power down timer to nn seconds
ESC – ‘M’ - ‘C’
Reset Auto power down to 20 seconds
ESC – ‘M’ - ‘nnm’ - cr
Select optional Magnetic Card reader
^B
Request printer Status Report:
Report Format
Print buffer:
<ESC> <B><4 ASCII digits><CR><LF>
Battery Voltage: <ESC> <V><4 ASCII digits><CR><LF>
Magnetic card reader:<ESC> <M><4 ASCII digits><CR><LF>
