7197 Series II Owner’s Guide Chapter 6: Commands
August 2011
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Clear Printer
ASCII:
DLE
Hexadecimal:
10
Decimal:
16
Clears the print line buffer without printing and sets the printer to the following condition:
1. Double-Wide command (0x12) is cancelled
2. Line Spacing, Pitch, and User-Defined Character Sets are maintained at current
selections (RAM is not affected)
3. Single-Wide, Single-High, Non-Rotated, and Left-Aligned characters are set
4. Printer is restarted and error status is cleared if a fault condition existed
5. Printing position is set to column one
6. Knife is homed
Example:
MSComm1.Output = Chr$(&H10)
Exceptions:
A DLE command followed by an 04 or 05 is interpreted as a “real time command”.
(See Real Time commands)