ESC/ P Command Reference

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Table of contents
Chapter 1. General Information..................................................................................................................... 5
1-1) About this Manual ............................................................................................................................ 5
1-2) Paper size and printable area information...................................................................................... 6
1-3) Character and text information ....................................................................................................... 8
1-3) Overview of document creation.......................................................................................................11
1-4) Standard flow..................................................................................................................................
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1-4) Status and Error handling ............................................................................................................. 14
1-4-1) Status information:......................................................................................... 14
1-4-2) Error information:........................................................................................... 17
1-4-3) Error description............................................................................................. 17
Chapter 2. Command information ............................................................................................................... 20
2-1) Character/style se
lection commands.............................................................................................. 20
2-2) Text printing commands................................................................................................................. 22
2-3) Line feed amount commands.......................................................................................................... 29
2-4) Horizontal movement commands................................................................................................... 30
2-5) Vertical movement commands........................................................................................................ 33
2-6) Paper formatting............................................................................................................................. 37
2-7) Printer control commands .............................................................................................................. 37
2-8) Graphics commands........................................................................................................................ 38
2-9) Advanced commands....................................................................................................................... 41
Chapter 3. Appendix....................................................................................................................................
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3-1) Control code Lists ........................................................................................................................... 52
3-2) Character table ............................................................................................................................... 55
Standard character code table
for ESC/P codes ....................................................... 55
Eastern European character code table (Windows-1250) ........................................ 56
Western European character code table (Windows 1252)........................................ 57
International character set ....................................................................................... 58