NCR RealPOS 5976-1 Series - Read Display ID String; Display ESC Character; Select Character Set n (Default = 1)

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Read Display ID String
Format
1B 19
Returns
“NCR 5976, 497-0478048,V1.13.01,<S/N:(11 bytes)>” in Hex format
Note: The quotation marks “” are not part of the string and are not
returned.
Description
This command is a request for the Retail Display to return an ASCII string with
detailed product information. Since true bi–directional communications are not
available for the parallel interface, a unique interface utilizing the Strobe line as a
clock line and the Ack line as a data line is be used.
Display ESC Character
Format
1B 1B
Description
This command is a request for the ESC character to be displayed to the current cursor
position.
Select Character Set n (Default = 1)
Format
1B 20 – 1B 33
Description
This set of commands chooses one of the six supported internal character sets or, if an
external character set is present, one of not less than 20 character sets.
• Character set 1 is defined as PC Code Page 858 (International).
• Character set 2 is defined as Katakana (Japanese).
• Character set 3 is defined as Cyrillic (Eastern European).
• Character set 4 is defined as Baltic.
• Character set 5 is defined as Polish.
• Character set 6 is defined as Multilingual Latin with the € symbol.
Note: The function where n is set to between 7 and 20 requires an External Memory.