Instruction manual

A758 Owner’s Guide Chapter 7: Programming Guide
September 1999 127
Horizontal Positioning Commands
The horizontal positioning commands control the horizontal print positions of
characters on the receipt and slip.
Horizontal Tab
ASCII
:HT
Hexadecimal
:09
Decimal:
9
Moves the print position to the next tab position set by the Set Horizontal Tab
Positions (1B 44
n
1
n
2 ... 00) command. The print position is reset to column one
after each line.
Tab treats the left margin as column one, therefore changes to the left margin will
move the tab positions.
When there are no tabs defined to the right of the current position, or if the next
tab is past the right margin, line feed is executed (both slip and receipt.) HT has
no effect in page mode. Printer initialization sets 32 tabs at column 9, 17, 25, …
Set Column
ASCII
:ESC DC4
n
Hexadecimal
: 1B 14
n
Decimal:
27 20
n
Value of
n
:
Receipt Slip
1 - 44 (Standard) 1 - 66 (Standard)
1 - 56 (Compressed) 1 - 80 (Compressed)
Default of
n
:
1
Prints the first character of the next print line in column
n
. It must be sent for
each line not printed at column one. The value of
n
is set to one after each line.
Exceptions:
The command cannot be used with Single- or Double-Density graphics.