iSys V8.5e Thermal Printer - Manual (Page 60)

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Example: To send a plot that is rastered to 200 bytes/scan, send the following 6 byte header before each
and every scan of 200 bytes:
1B 2A 72 00 C8 01 00C8 hex = 200 decimal
for a plot consisting of 1728 bytes/scan, send
1B 2A 72 06 C0 01 06C0 hex = 1728 decimal
The valid number of bytes that can be sent to the V8.5E using this transfer method is as follows:
V8.5E bytes/scan menu setting valid number of bytes/scan raster data (XX YY)
Specifying XX YY at values greater than those indicated will cause the V8.5E to terminate scans incorrectly.
3) 1B 4X and control characters
Other commands that can be sent to the V8.5E Centronics adapter:
1B 41 remote clear
1B 42 remote line terminate
1B 43 remote end of transmission
1B 44 remote form feed
1B 45 remote reset
1B 50 ZZ sends blank scans to plotter from ZZ = 01 hex to FF hex
NOTE: These commands must be sent when the plotter is in print mode. The commands will be ignored and
interpreted as raster data if they are sent at any other time.
The V8.5E plotter also obeys standard control characters which must be sent when the plotter is in print
mode:
04 end of transmission
0A line feed
0C form feed
NOTE: Print mode on the V8.5E means that all bytes that are received by the plotter are interpreted as ASCII
characters and printed at 108 characters/line.