Specifications

Printek Emulation
Example: The following control code will return the status of the print buffer, the magnetic card reader, and the
battery voltage.
Control Code: SYN
Hexadecimal: 16
The three sample status strings that would be returned in response to this command are as follows.
Print Buffer Status: ESC B 0 0 4 2 CR LF 1,344 bytes in input buffer.
Hexadecimal: 1B 42 30 30 34 32 0D 0A
MCR Status: ESC M 0 1 2 4 CR LF Twelve seconds remain to read 1 & 2.
Hexadecimal: 1B 4D 30 31 32 34 0D 0A
Battery Voltage: ESC V 7 1 2 3 CR LF Battery Voltage is 7.123 Volts
Hexadecimal: 1B 56 37 31 32 33 0D 0A
Query Printer Firmware Version ESC P (
This command returns a string containing the printer’s firmware version designation as three ASCII digits. The
three digits may be interpreted by adding a decimal point between the first two digits as shown in the example
below.
Example: This following escape sequence requests the printer’s firmware version.
Escape Sequence: ESC P (
Hexadecimal: 1B 50 28
A sample string returned in response to this command is shown below and indicates that the firmware version is
“1.00”.
Firmware Version: ESC ( 1 0 0 SPACE CR LF
Hexadecimal: 1B 28 31 30 30 20 0D 0A
Query Printer Model and Hardware Revision Level ESC P )
This command returns a string containing three digits that represent the printer model and a single character
that represents the printer’s hardware revision level. The printer models indicated by the three digits are as
follows:
Model String
Printer Model Indicated
400 MtP400
401 MtP400 SL
402 MtP400 with MCR
403 MtP400 SL with MCR
404 MtP400 LP
406 MtP400 LP with MCR
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