Programmer's Guide
POSjet
®
1500
Codes and Commands
Nov-07
Rev M
Page 103
Horizontal Motion Control
Several commands can be used to control the horizontal position of characters. Many applications use space control
to position fields. However, the POSjet
®
1500 Printer has the ability to control character position with horizontal
tab stops. This is done using the horizontal tab [HT] to move to those tab stops.
Function
Horizontal tab
ASCII
[HT]
Hexadecimal
09H
Decimal
<9>
IPCL
&%HT
EPOS
[HT]
Description
The [HT] command inserts spaces in the print buffer up to the next tab stop. The default tab
locations are every eight spaces.
Function
Back space
ASCII
[BS]
Hexadecimal
08H
Decimal
<8>
IPCL
&%BS
EPOS
[BS]
Description
The [BS] command moves the print buffer one character width to the left. The pointer position
cannot be moved to the left of the left margin. [BS] does not cause the buffer to be printed, the
following data is OR'ed with the previous data.
Function
Set horizontal tab stops
ASCII
[ESC] D <n
1
> <n
2
> <n
3
> ... <n
i
> 0
Hexadecimal
1BH 44H <n
1
> <n
2
> <n
3
> ... <n
i
> 00H
Decimal
<27> <68> <n
1
> <n
2
> <n
3
> ... <n
i
> <0>
IPCL
none
EPOS
[ESC] D <n
1
> <n
2
> <n
3
> ... <n
i
> 0
Description
The [ESC] D <n
1
> <n
2
> <n
3
> ... <n
i
> 0 command sets tab stops at the character columns specified
by <n>. The end of the settings is specified by a <0>. All previously set tabs will be cleared. The
restore-default procedure other than to re-specify the tabs. Column sizes are in accordance with
the current character pitch. Setting tabs that are beyond the station width is possible. A [CR] is
inserted when the tab is used. Printing begins at the home position. The power up default is every
eight spaces, i.e., 9, 17, 25, and so on.
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