7197 Series II Owner’s Guide    Chapter 6:  Commands 
 August 2011 
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Transmit Peripheral Device Status 
ASCII:  ESC u 0 
Hexadecimal:  1B 75 0 
Decimal: 
27 117 0 
 
 Bit 0  Bit 1 
Return Value: 
1 = Drawer 1 closed  1 = Drawer 2 closed 
  0 = Drawer 1 open  0 = Drawer 2 open 
 
(Bits 2-7 are not used)   
 
Transmits current status of the cash drawers. One byte is sent to the host computer. In 
DTR/DSR protocol the printer waits for DSR = SPACE. If a drawer is not connected, the 
status will indicate it is closed. 
  Example: 
  MSComm1.Output = Chr$(&H1B) & Chr$(&H75) & Chr$(&H0)