Chapter 14: Epson - Standard Function
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Multifunction commands
Function Dec. Hex. ASCII
Select print quality, 27 33 n 1B 21 n ESC ! n
pitch and font
With this command you can select different print functions by me-
ans of a single sequence. The parameter n defines here the combina-
tion of print quality, pitch and font in accordance with the follo-
wing table:
Print function Hexadecimal Decimal
Underline 80 128
Italic 40 64
Double width 20 32
Enhanced 10 16
Emphasized 08 8
Condensed printing 04 4
Proportional printing 02 2
12 cpi 01 1
10 cpi 00 0
If, for example, you want to print a section in a document underli-
ned, double width, emphasized and enhanced, you would normal-
ly have to send four different control commands to the printer.
When using a multifunction command you only need to read off
the values for the individual functions from the following table:
Underline = 128
Double width = 32
Enhanced = 16
Emphasized = 8
Add up the values found and set the result for parameter n in the
multifunction command.
n = 128 + 32 + 16 + 8 = 164
As soon as you send this command all nine of the above functions
are activated or deactivated according to the parameter n. In order
to determine which print attributes you can obtain with this com-
Print quality, pitch
and font
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