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A758 Owner’s Guide Chapter 7: Programming Guide
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Command Descriptions
Printer Function Commands
The printer function commands control the following basic printer functions and
are described in order of their hexadecimal codes:
♦
Station Select
♦
Platen Control
♦
Resetting the printer
♦
Cutting the paper
♦
Opening the cash drawers
Clear Printer
ASCII:
DLE
Hexadecimal
:10
Decimal:
16
Clears the print line buffer without printing and sets the printer to the following
condition:
♦
Receipt station is selected
♦
Double-Wide command (0x12) is cancelled
♦
Line Spacing, Pitch, and User-Defined Character Sets are maintained at
current selections (RAM is not affected)
♦
Single-Wide, Single-High, Non-Rotated, and Left-Aligned characters are set
♦
Printer is restarted and error status is cleared in a fault condition
♦
Printing position is set to column one
♦
Slip platen is opened
♦
Slip printhead is homed
♦
Knife is homed
Exceptions:
In printers with the Parallel interface, this command also returns paper exhaust
to the paper status line if an alternate status has been requested. A DLE
command followed by an 04 or 05 is interpreted as a “real time command”.
(See Real Time commands)