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Printing a hex dump – Printronix P5000LJ Series User Manual

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Diagnosing Problems

Printing A Hex Dump

Figure 23. Hex Dump Sample

A hex code printout (or hex dump) is a translation of all host interface data to
its hexadecimal or symbolic equivalent. A hex dump lists all ASCII character
data received from the host computer with their corresponding two-digit
hexadecimal codes. Hex dumps are used to troubleshoot printer data
reception problems.

Printable characters print as the assigned symbol; nonprintable characters
are indicated by a period (.).

See Appendix C for hex-to-ASCII conversion. Table 23 shows the procedure
for printing a hex dump.