7197 Owner’s Guide Chapter 6: Commands
November 2002
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Rotates characters 90 degrees counter-clockwise. The command remains in effect until the
printer is reset or until a Clear Printer (0x10), Select or Cancel Upside-Down Print (1B 7B),
or Select or Cancel Rotated Print (1B 56) command is received.
Example:
• MSComm1.Output = Chr$(&H1B) & Chr$(&H12)
Exceptions:
This command is valid only at the beginning of a line.
Rotated print and non-rotated print characters cannot be used together in the same line.
Related Information:
See Summary of Rotated Printing in this chapter.
Select Pitch (Column Width)
ASCII: ESC SYN n
Hexadecimal: 1B 16 n
Decimal:
27 22 n
Value of n:
0 = Standard Pitch
1 = Compressed Pitch
Default:
0 (Standard pitch)
Selects the character pitch for a print line.
Formulas:
The following table provides the print characteristics for both pitches.
Pitch Columns CPI
Standard 44 for 80 mm
paper
15.6
32 for 58 mm
paper
Compressed 56 for 80 mm
paper
20.3
42 for 58 mm
paper
Example:
• MSComm1.Output = Chr$(&H1B) & Chr$(&H16) & Chr$(n)
Related Information:
See “Technical Specifications” for descriptions of character pitches (print modes).
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