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AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE (ANSI) LABELED TAPES
1-12 XEROX LASER PRINTING SYSTEMS TAPE FORMATS MANUAL
Printer carriage control conventions
The ANSI control characters for IBM tapes are shown in table 1-7.
The processing parameters for ANSI carriage control are as follows.
Table 1-7.ANSI control characters for IBM tapes
Hexadecimal control characters
USASCII GRAPHIC USASCII TAPES EBCDIC TAPES Control function
blank 20 40 Space one line before printing.
0 30 F0 Space two lines before
printing.
- 2D 60 Space three lines before
printing.
+ 2B 4E Suppress space before
printing.*
1 31 F1 Skip to channel 1 and print.
2 32 F2 Skip to channel 2 and print.
3 33 F3 Skip to channel 3 and print.
4 34 F4 Skip to channel 4 and print.
5 35 F5 Skip to channel 5 and print.
6 36 F6 Skip to channel 6 and print.
7 37 F7 Skip to channel 7 and print.
8 38 F8 Skip to channel 8 and print.
9 39 F9 Skip to channel 9 and print.
A 40 C1 Skip to channel 10 and print.
B 42 C2 Skip to channel 11 and print.
C 43 C3 Skip to channel 12 and print.
*A record with a write-type control character immediately followed by a record with the
“Write (no space)” control character will be processed according to the job descriptor entry
option selected for overprint handling.
ANSI
INITIAL BOF
DEFAULT (OVR,SP1P)
ADVTAPE YES
MASK X’FF’
ASSIGN See values in table 1-7