Star Micronics Dot Impact Printer - Manual (Page 24)

3-16 STAR Command Specifications
Rev. 0.70
ESC RS i n
[Name] Specify/cancel character rotated mode
[Code] ASCII ESC RS i n
Hexadecimal 1B 1E 69 n
Decimal 27 30 105 n
[Defined Area] 0 ≤ n ≤ 2
48 ≤ n ≤ 50 (“0” ≤ n ≤ “2”)
[Initial Value] Character rotation cancelled (n = 0)
[Function] Specifies direction to rotate print (clockwise) or to cancel rotation for subsequent data, according to the n
value.
n Set rotation
0, 48 Cancelled (0° rotation)
1, 49 270° rotation
2, 50 270° rotation
Rotated characters cannot be applied with underlines or upperlines.
The relationship between double-tall and double-wide is reverse to when cancelled when rotating.
When in Japanese character mode, rotation is effective for both ANK characters and Kanji characters.
Chinese character spacing is always applied with the two-byte Chinese character spacing value.
In standard specifications, rotating IBM block graphic characters is changed to vertical 8 dot fonts.
The following are precautions for 7 x 9 font character font specification.
• Characters are printed with 5 x 9 fonts (2P=1).
• Download characters registered with 5 x 9 fonts are printed.
• When rotation is cancelled, the characters return to 7 x 9 fonts. (When there is not 5 x 9 specification while rotation is
specified.)
This command is effective only a font other than the Thai font is selected as the character code table.
(Rotation is automatically cancelled when the Thai character code is selected while this command is selected.)