Function Symbol
Decimal
Value
Description
Backspace
B
S
8
Move one column left unless at left margin, in
which case no action is taken.
Horizontal Tab
H
T
9
Move to the next horizontal tab stop. The tab
stops are at the left margin, and every eight
columns to the right of the left margin.
Line Feed
L
F
10
Move to the next print line while maintaining
current column position.
Form Feed
F
F
12
Move to the first line at top of the next page while
maintaining current column position.
Carriage Return
C
R
13
Move to the left margin on the current print line.
Shift Out
S
O
14
Select characters that follow from the current
secondary font until receipt of a Shift In.
Shift In
S
I
15
Select characters that follow from the current
primary font until receipt of a Shift Out.
Escape
E
C
27
Indicates the beginning of a special control
sequence (escape sequence).
Space
S
P
32
Move one column to the right unless already at
the right margin, in which case no action is taken.
Table A-3.
Control Codes
Printer Commands A-23
Summary of Contents for PCL 5
Page 8: ...Contents 4 ...
Page 174: ...5 8 Memory Usage ...
Page 198: ...A 24 Printer Commands ...
Page 201: ...8U Roman 8 R8 7J DeskTop DT Internal Symbol Set Charts B 3 ...
Page 202: ...0N ISO 8859 1 Latin 1 E1 19U Windows 3 1 Latin 1 W1 B 4 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 203: ...12U PC 850 Multilingual PM 10U PC 8 Code Page 437 PC Internal Symbol Set Charts B 5 ...
Page 204: ...12J MC Text MC 10J PS Text TS B 6 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 205: ...11U PC 8 Danish Norwegian PD 13J Ventura International VI Internal Symbol Set Charts B 7 ...
Page 206: ...1U Legal LG 14J Ventura US VU B 8 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 207: ...6J Microsoft Publishing PG 9U Windows 3 0 Latin 1 WO Internal Symbol Set Charts B 9 ...
Page 208: ...17U PC 852 Latin 2 PE 9T PC Turkish PT B 10 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 209: ...9E Windows 3 1 Latin 2 WE 2N ISO 8859 2 Latin 2 E2 Internal Symbol Set Charts B 11 ...
Page 210: ...5N ISO 8859 9 Latin 5 E5 5T Windows 3 1 Latin WT B 12 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 211: ...9J PC 1004 Code Page 1004 PU 26U PC 775 Code Page 775 PV Internal Symbol Set Charts B 13 ...
Page 212: ...19L Windows Baltic WL 6N ISO 8859 10 Latin 6 E6 B 14 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 213: ...6M Ventura Math VM 8M Math 8 M8 Internal Symbol Set Charts B 15 ...
Page 214: ...5M PS Math MS 15U Pi Font PI B 16 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 215: ...19M Symbol Font AS 579L Wingdings Font L Internal Symbol Set Charts B 17 ...
Page 216: ...9L Ventura ITC Zapf Dingbats DV 10L PS ITC Zapf Dingbats DS B 18 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 218: ...13L ITC Zapf Dingbats series 300 D3 B 20 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
Page 221: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion Internal Symbol Set Charts B 23 ...
Page 222: ...Table B 2 Roman 8 Character Conversion continued B 24 Internal Symbol Set Charts ...
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