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Printer operation commands – Epson 8900 Series User Manual

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TI Model 880 Printer Emulation 4-11

From the US ASCII character table, the ASCII character whose
decimal value is 50 is the ASCII character 2. Thus, in this example,
you set the value of n to 2.

Printer Operation Commands

These commands allow the host computer to control some basic
printer functions.

Sound Bell

Control character: BEL
Hexadecimal:

07

This command causes the printer to sound a short tone.

Transmit Configuration Report

Escape sequence:

ESC

[

c

Hexadecimal:

1B

5B

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The host computer sends this command to request a report of the
current printer configuration. A configuration report contains
hexadecimal codes that inform the host of the current printer configu-
ration.

Example. The following is a typical configuration report.

[880;14;27;36;41c

Each of the two-digit numbers is a hexadecimal configuration code
that indicates the following.

Code

Configuration

14

The current printer communication mode is direct-connection
with pin 11 of the serial interface active for ready.

27

The current baud rate setting is 4800 bits per second.

36

The printer is set for 7-bit operation with even parity
checking.

41

The current ASCII language version is U.S.