Instruction manual

Chapter 6: Programming Information A794 Owner’s Guide
December 199962
Perform Partial Knife Cut
ASCII SUB ESC m
Hexadecimal 1A 1B 6D
Decimal 26 27 109
Partially cuts the receipt. The default setting leaves 5 mm. (0.20 inch) of paper on
the left edge. (See Setting Partial Cut Distance in Diagnostics.)
There are two codes (Hex 1A or 1B 6D) for this command and both codes perform the
same function.
Formulas
The cut edge is 144 dot rows or 18 mm (0.71 inch) above the print station.
Exceptions
The command is valid only at the beginning of a line. ASCII SUB, (0x1A), is ignored in
TM-T88 Emulation. Line Feed is executed first, if the buffer is not empty.
Generate Tone
ASCII ESC BEL
Hexadecimal 1B 07
Decimal 27 7
Generates an audible tone. Performed by the printer to signal certain conditions.
Related Information
This command is recognized in A793 Emulation and A794 Native Mode, ignored in
TM-T88 Emulation.
Select Peripheral Device (for Multi-Drop)
ASCII ESC = n
Hexadecimal 1B 3D n
Decimal 27 61 n
Value of n: 0 (bit 0), device not selected
1 (bit 0), device selected
Default: 1 (bit 0), device selected
Selects the device to which the host computer sends data.
Related Information
Other bits of n (1-7) are undefined and ignored.
When the printer is disabled by this command, it ignores transmitted data until the
printer is re-enabled by the same command.