Epson 8900 Series Printer User Manual


 
TI Model 880 Printer Emulation 4-11
From the US ASCII character table, the ASCII character whose
decimal value is 50 is the ASCII character 2. Thus, in this example,
you set the value of n to 2.
Printer Operation Commands
These commands allow the host computer to control some basic
printer functions.
Sound Bell
Control character: BEL
Hexadecimal: 07
This command causes the printer to sound a short tone.
Transmit Configuration Report
Escape sequence: ESC [ c
Hexadecimal: 1B 5B 63
The host computer sends this command to request a report of the
current printer configuration. A configuration report contains
hexadecimal codes that inform the host of the current printer configu-
ration.
Example. The following is a typical configuration report.
[880;14;27;36;41c
Each of the two-digit numbers is a hexadecimal configuration code
that indicates the following.
Code Configuration
14 The current printer communication mode is direct-connection
with pin 11 of the serial interface active for ready.
27 The current baud rate setting is 4800 bits per second.
36 The printer is set for 7-bit operation with even parity
checking.
41 The current ASCII language version is U.S.