Chapter 10: IBM - Standard Functions
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If Skip Over Perforation is set at Yes in the printer menu, a bottom
area of one inch (2.54 cm) is skipped to the next Top of Form. The
number of lines to be skipped can be selected with the above Skip
command. The command ESC O switches off the Skip over Perfora-
tion function.
The commands for setting page length similarly switch off Skip
over Perforation. The actual menu setting for the function Skip
Over Perforation is selected. If page formatting is taken over by the
software, e.g. a word processing program, you should switch off
Skip over Perforation by setting Skip Over Perforation in the print-
er menu to No. If the value for Page Length Control is set to by
MENU Setting, no skip over perforation is executed with cut
sheets.
Function Dec. Hex. ASCII
Set left and right 27 88 1B 58 ESC X
margins n
1
n
2
n
1
n
2
n
1
n
2
n
1
: left margin (0 to 254)
n
2
: right margin (0 to 255)
In this command the parameters n
1
and n
2
define the left and right
margins. The margin values are entered in character columns. The
margin positions depend on the actual current pitch. Once the mar-
gins are set the positions are retained even after changing the pitch,
provided the margins have not been expressly reset (absolute posi-
tion). If you only want to change one margin position, just enter the
value 0 for the margin not to be changed.
Note that the value for the right margin must be larger than the left
margin by the number of character columns given in the table. The
right margin must not exceed the maximum values given below
(see table below).
Pitch Narrow printer Wide printer
left n
1
right n
2
left n
1
right n
2
10 cpi / proportional 0-70 10-80 0-126 10-136
12 cpi 0-84 12-96 0-151 12-163
15 cpi 0-105 15-120 0-189 15-204
17.1 cpi 0-119 18-137 0-215 18-233
20 cpi / proportional 0-140 20-160 0-252 20-255
Set margins
Margins should always be set
at the start of a line.
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