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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[Bar code data]: maximum bar code data size:
It is 1,850 characters of alphanumeric, 2,710 characters of numeric or 1,108 bytes of binary to input the
data for bar code. The characters of 2 byte-code are handled as a binary data.
Note: Above “maximum characters” is applied when the lowest level of error correction is set. It may be
decreased by higher levels of error correction and lower leles of compression.
Data end sign.
For 2D bar codes, 3 backslashes “\\\” should be inserted at the end of the data.










