User's Manual

Control Code Definitions
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6820 Series 80-Column Printer User’s Manual
Select Half-Speed Printing
Half -speed mode is turned on to provide quiet printing, and more accurate
print positioning during text mode printing.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 115 1* 1B 73 01* ESC “s” 1*
Cancel Half-Speed Printing
Half-speed mode is turned off (factory default), and continues with normal
speed printing.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 115 0* 1B 73 00* ESC “s” 0*
Set Inactivity Time for Sleep Mode
The time period, for which the printer waits during inactivity before it
goes into low-power mode, is set (in n seconds). The factory default is 10
seconds.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 122 n 1B 7A n ESC “z” n
Line Feed
Perform Line Feed
The c ontents of the print buffer is printed, then cleared, a nd the character
count is reset to zero; then the print head advances to the next print line,
using the current spacing. The position of the carriage is not affected and a
carriage return is not executed.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
10 0A LF
Perform n/216-inch Line Feed
The paper to immediately advanced n/216 of an inch. This d oes not affect
subsequent line feeds. Range of n is 0–255.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 74 n 1B 4A n ESC “J” n