SATO M-8485Se - Page 90

Section 6. Interface Specifications
Head Status
(
SOH + HC
)
Upon Receipt of an SOH (hexadecimal 01) followed immediatel
y
by an ASCII HC
causes the printer to retur n a 1 byte Head Fault Status Word bounded by an
STX-ETX pair that reports the current operating status of the print head. Before the
printer will respond to this command, it must be in the Head Check Mode (DSW2-3 =
On).
BYTE
NUMBER
HE
X
V
ALUE
DESCRIPTION
1 00 Print Head OK
01 Electrical Fault in Print Head
S
y
stem
V
ersion Information
(
SOH + SB
)
Upon Receipt of an SOH (hexadecimal 01) followed immediately by a ASCII SB
causes the printer to return a 50 byte Printer Status Word bounded by an STX-ETX
p
air that re
p
orts the s
y
stem version of the
p
rinter.
BYTE
NUMBER
V
ALUE DESCRIPTION
1-50
A
SCII Firmware Version Information
Memor
y
Status
(
SOH + EB
)
Upon Receipt of an SOH (hexadecimal 01) followed immediately by an ASCII EB
causes the printer to return a 24 byte Memory Status Word bounded by an STX-ETX
p
air that re
p
orts the current user memor
y
allocation.
BYTE
NUMBER
V
ALUE DESCRIPTION
1-4 Hex Free Font Memor
y
5-8 Hex Total Font Memory
9-12 Hex Free Form Overlay Memory
13-16 Hex Total Form Overlay Memory
17-20 Hex Free Graphic Memory
21-24 Hex Total Graphic Memory
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