User's Manual

Control Code Definitions
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Set Margins
Margin settings define the horizontal print area on the page. The mini-
mum space between margins is the width of one double-wide pica charac-
ter.
Set Right Margin
Alltextintheprintbufferiscleared,thentherightmarginissetton col-
umns, using the current character pitch. This is the number of the charac-
ters from column 1 (at the left edge of the paper) to the last column before
the right margin (factory d efault = 80).
The minimum space between margins is the width of one double-width
pica character. The maximum value for this setting is the maximum num-
ber of characters ( based on the current pitch) that would fit between the
left margin and the right edge of the default printable area of the page.
Ranges shown below could vary, depending on values of other parameters
that affect character width. If the value specified is not within the allowed
range, it is ignored.
Range of n is 2–80 in Pica mode, 2–96 in Elite mode, and 2–136 in Com-
pressed mode.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 81 n 1B 51 n ESC “Q” n
SetLeftMargin
All text in the print buffer is cleared, then the left margin is set, relative to
the number of columns to the left of the first column to be printed (facto-
ry default = 0).
The minimum space between margins is the width of one double-width
pica character. The maximum value must be less than the right margin.
Ranges shown below could vary, depending on values of other parameters
that affect character width. If the value specified for this function is not
within the allowed range, it is ignored.
Range of n is 0–78 in Pica mode; 0–93 in Elite mode, and 0–133 in Com-
pressed mode.
Format
Decimal Hex ASCII
27 108 n 1B 6C n ESC “I” n