User`s manual

9–39Epson FX Emulation
Select Italic Printing
ASCII Code ESC 4
HEX Code 1B 34
Purpose Turns on italic character printing.
† Comment The printer substitutes underlining for italic character printing. White
spaces skipped by HT are not underlined. Character graphics (IBM
graphic set hex B0 to DF and F0 to FE) cannot be italicized.
Cancel Italic Printing
ASCII Code ESC 5
HEX Code 1B 35
Purpose Turns off italic character printing.
† Comment This command turns off the underlining the printer substituted for
italic character printing.
Select Italic Character Set
ASCII Code ESC t n
HEX Code 1B 74 n
Purpose Selects the italics character as characters from hex 80 to hex FF.
where n = hex 1 selects the roman character set
n = hex 0 selects the italics character set
† Comment The roman character set is assumed to be the IBM Graphics Code
Page 437. The printer substitutes underlining for italics, but must
change the upper character set to have the same characters as the
lower character set. In underline mode, blank spaces between HT
stops are not underlined when they are skipped by the1 HT
command.