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Vertical and horizontal positioning

Thehorizontalpositioningcommandscontrolthehorizontalprintpositionsofcharactersonthereceipt.

The commands describe operation for 80mm paper.

Horizontal tab

ASCII HT

Hexadecimal 09

Decimal 9

Movestheprintpositiontothenexttabpositionsetbythesethorizontaltabpositions(1B44n1n2...00)command.

The print position is reset to column one after each line.

Tabtreatstheleftmarginascolumnone,thereforechangestotheleftmarginwillmovethetabpositions.

Whennotabsaredenedtotherightofthecurrentposition,orifthenexttabispasttherightmargin,linefeedis

executed.HThasnoeffectinpagemode.Ifunderlineisset,tabspacesskippedbythiscommandarenotunderlined.

Printinitializationsets32tabsatcolumn8,16,24…

Set horizontal and vertical minimum motion units

ASCII GS P x y

Hexadecimal 1D 50 x y

Decimal 29 80 x y

Value of x: Horizontal Range of x: 0 – 255 Default of x: 203

Value of y: Vertical Range of y: 0 – 255 Default of y: 203

Setsthehorizontalandverticalmotionunitsto1/xinchand1/yinchrespectively,untiltheprinterisinitialized,reset,or

powered off.

When x or yissetto0,thedefaultsettingforthatmotionunitisused.Whencombinedwithothercommands,the

calculated result is truncated to the minimum value of the mechanical pitch.

Mode Commands using x Commands using y

Standard 1B 20, 1B 24, 1B 5C, 1D 4C, 1D 57 1B 33, 1B 4A, 1B 4B, 1D 56

Page (upper left or lower right) 1B 20, 1B 24, 1B 57, 1B 5C, [1C 53] 1B 33, 1B 4A, 1B 4B, 1B 57, 1D 24, 1D 56, 1D 5C

Page (upper right or lower left) 1B 33, 1B 4A, 1B 4B, 1B 57, 1D 24, 1D 5C 1B 20, 1B 24, 1B 57, 1B 5C, [1C 53], 1D 56

Set column

ASCII ESC DC4 n

Hexadecimal 1B 14 n

Decimal 27 20 n

Value of n: 1 – 44 = Standard pitch

1 – 56 = Compressed pitch

Default of n: 1

Printstherstcharacterofthenextprintlineincolumnn.Itmustbesentforeachlinenotprintedatcolumnone.

The value of n is set to one after each line.

Exceptions

Thiscommandcannotbeusedwithsingle-ordouble-densitygraphics.

Related information

ThisisignoredinLEGACYemulationandtheparameterbytegoesintotheprintbuffer.

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