32 Line Matrix Printer LinePrinter Plus Programmer's Reference

Attribute Set and Reset Codes

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Attribute Set and Reset Codes

Set and reset are another way of saying turn on and turn off, select and

deselect, or enable and disable.

Some printer features are set and reset with an escape sequence and the

numbers 1 or 0. In such cases you can represent 1 and 0 as hexadecimal

codes 01 and 00, or as the ASCII codes for the numerals 1 and 0

(hexadecimal 31 and 30).

NUL Code

NUL (Hex 00) is ignored by the printer and can be used as a fill character;

however, it can not be used to add blank spaces since it is not a space

character. NUL can also be used as a parameter terminator for the Set

Horizontal Tabs (page 121) or Set Vertical Tabs multibyte control code (page

141).

NOTE: Hex 80 in the 0437 PC Character Set and hex 7F in the 0850 PC

Character Set are treated as a NUL; however, these two controls can

not be used as parameter terminators.

Switching Between the Emulations

The printer supports several different emulations. PCL-II is the default. P-

Series, Proprinter III XL, and Epson FX-1050 are all a part of the LinePrinter

Plus emulation.

The following command switches from PCL-II to Epson:

ESC%-00002X

To switch from Epson to PCL-II, send the following command to the printer:

ESC|};KD