User's Manual Part 2

Chapter 5 — Control Code Definitions
78 6822 Series 80-Column Printer User’s Manual
• If a vertical tab, and the next tab stop is outside the printable page
area, a form feed is executed placing the printhead at the next Top of
Form.
• Previous tab stops are cleared when new tab stops are set.
• Are not affected by subsequent changes in line spacing.
Perform Horizontal Tab
Moves the print position to the next horizontal tab stop. The tab
positions, set by ESC “D”, the Set Horizontal Tabs function, are not
affected by any changes in character pitch.
The factory default tab settings are at intervals of eight characters, in the
currently selected pitch. For the default tabs, the actual distance to each
tab position is affected by changes in character pitch.
Set Horizontal Tabs
Resets the current horizontal tabs, and new horizontal tabs are set up,
based on the current character width (pitch).
n1 is the first tab (range for tab stops: 1-160), n2 is the second tab (all
tabs in ascending order), ... are subsequent tabs (maximum tabs: 32), nk
is the last tab to set (any value less than the previous tab value acts as a
terminating character), NUL is the terminating character.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
909HT
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 68 n1 n2 ..nk 0 1B 44 n1 n2 .. nk 00 ESC “D” n1 n2 .. nk NUL