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Esc – apply/cancel underlining, Apply/cancel underlining – Brother RJ-4040 User Manual

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ESC/P Command Reference

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5. Control Command Details

ESC –

Apply/cancel underlining

ASCII: ESC

-

n

Decimal: 27

45

n

Hexadecimal: 1B

2D n

Parameters

n=0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 48 (“0”), 49 (“1”), 50 (“2”), 51 (“3”), 52 (“4”)

Description

Applies or cancels underlining.

n=4 or 52 (“4”): Applies underlining with a width of 4 dots.

n=3 or 51 (“3”): Applies underlining with a width of 3 dots.

n=2 or 50 (“2”): Applies underlining with a width of 2 dots.

n=1 or 49 (“1”): Applies underlining with a width of 1 dot.

n=0 or 48 (“0”): Cancels underlining.

This command is valid anywhere in a text line.

The underlining specified with this command is a continuous line.

Spaces between characters and words are also underlined.

Areas with the “specify absolute horizontal position” (ESC $) and “specify relative horizontal position”

(ESC \) commands are not underlined.

4/203 inch (4 dots) is added to the line feed amount for lines that include underlined characters.

The underline is positioned as follows:

Underline

Underline Position

1 dot wide

Between 2/203 inch (2 dots) and 3/203 inch (3 dots) below the characters

2 dots wide

Between 1/203 inch (1 dot) and 3/203 inch (3 dots) below the characters

3 dots wide

Between 1/203 inch (1 dot) and 3/203 inch (3 dots) below the characters

4 dots wide

Between 1/203 inch (1 dot) and 4/203 inch (4 dots) below the characters

ABCDE ABCDE ABCDE

(1-dot width) (3-dot width)

Example

Code:

ABC ESC - 1 ABC ESC - 0 ABC FF

Print result: ABCABCABC

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