ESC/ P Command Reference
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. General Information
- Chapter 2. Command information
- 2-1) Character/style selection commands
- 2-2) Text printing commands
- ESC 4 Apply italic style
- ESC 5 Cancel italic style
- ESC E Apply bold style
- ESC F Cancel bold style
- ESC G Specify double printing
- ESC H Cancel double printing
- ESC P Specify pica pitch
- ESC M Specify elite pitch
- ESC g Specify micron pitch
- ESC p Specify proportional characters
- ESC W Specify double-width characters
- SO Specify auto-cancelling enlarged characters
- ESC SO Specify auto-cancelling enlarged characters
- SI Specify half-width characters
- ESC SI Specify half-width characters
- DC2 Cancel half-width characters
- DC4 Cancel auto-cancelling double-width characters
- ESC - Apply/cancel underlining
- ESC ! Global formatting
- ESC SP Select character spacing for ANK characters
- ESC X Select alphanumeric/kana character size
- 2-3) Line feed amount commands
- 2-4) Horizontal movement commands
- 2-5) Vertical movement commands
- 2-6) Paper formatting
- 2-7) Printer control commands
- 2-8) Graphics commands
- 2-9) Advanced commands
- Chapter 3. Appendix
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B or b: Beginning of bar code data
? (generate check digit)
Generates a check digit when “?” is in the bar code data
The position of “?” is irrelevant as long as it is within the bar code data.
E or e (deleting brackets on GS1-128)
e0: ON (deleted)
e1: OFF (not deleted)
Backslash: End of bar code data
Both 00H through 09H and 30H through 39H are recognized as the parameter numbers 0
through 9.
If there is no type command or if the type command is invalid, Code 39 is used.
The number of characters that can be entered for each type is as follows:
MW-120 and MW-140BT TypeE:
t0: 2 to 20 characters
t1: 3 to 22 characters
t5: 7 characters (for EAN-8)
12 characters (for EAN-13)
11 characters (for UPC-A)
t6: 6 characters
t9: 4 to 22 characters
*MW-120 TypeF, MW-140BT TypeF, MW-145BT and MW-260:
t0: 2 to 50 characters
t1: 3 to 64 characters
t5: 7 characters (for EAN-8)
12 characters (for EAN-13)
11 characters (for UPC-A)
t6: 6 characters
t9: 4 to 64 characters
ta: 1 to 64 characters
tb: 1 to 64 characters
[Description]
・ Specifies a bar code image.
*The following 2D codes are available for MW-120 TypeF, MW-140BT TypeF, MW-145BT and MW-260.










