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CHAPTER 5: PRINTER COMMANDS
The 465 printer has a large and versatile collection of command codes to meet the special needs
of labeling applications. Most of the commands use a ^D control sequence, however the printer
also recognizes a selected number of other control sequences.
For all the commands listed in this manual, the 465 will recognize either the one-character control
character or the two-character caret and alpha character sequence. In other words, for a PC
keyboard, the same command can be generated either by holding down the control key and
pressing the letter or by entering two characters -the ^ (a caret, the character generated if you
press the Shift key and the 6) and an alpha character (upper or lower case).
To protect against errors, in situations where two-character caret-alpha sequences are used
exclusively as printer commands, control character recognition can be disabled. This is done
either through software dip switch #1 position 3 (^D21) or command ^A1^D935.
Some main-frame and mini-computers cannot use the ASCII '^' character. In these cases
substitute the ASCII pipe symbol '|' or use the one character control-code representation.
The caret symbol can be used in text or barcodes by preceding it with another caret.