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110 Appendix D: Printer Commands
Select Print Quality
Select font by pitch and
point
ASCII: ESC [ d Ln Hn Pn
16-digit: 1B 5B 64 Ln Hn Pn
10-digit: 27 91 100 Ln Hn Pn
ASCII: ESC DLE F P
n0
m n
1
n
2
Dec: 27 16 70 P
n0
m n
1
n
2
Hex: 1B 10 46 P
n0
m n
1
n
2
IBM
Function
Commands
(ASCII, Decimal, Hexadecimal)
H
fid
, L
fid
: sets font typeface, calculated
as (H
fid
.L
fid
=(H
fid
x 256) + L
fid
H
fwd
, L
fwd
: Sets character width (cpi),
calculated as
H
fwd
, L
fwd
=(H
fwd
x 256) + L
fwd
fa: sets spacing attribute;
n=2: prints Proportional;
n=any other value, cpi set by H
fwd
, L
fwd
Hc Lc: Code page setting, ID=Hc x
256+Lc
Code page ID (Hex) Code page name
1B5 USA
352 Multilingual
35A Multilingual 858
35C Portugal
35F Canada French
361 Norway
410 BRASCII
411 Abicomp
439 ISO 8859-15
Specifies the Print Quality setting.
Ln Hn specifies the number of param-
eter (Ln, Hn).
Number of parameter= Ln+Hn x 256
Pn: Parameter Quality setting
Pn
00H invalid
01H-3FH HSD
40H-7FH Utility
80H-FEH LQ
FFH
(depending on the menu settings)
Sets the Multipoint (scalable font) mode.
Printable font is selected by character
pitch and point.
P
n0
=3: specifies the number of parame-
ters (in bytes) to follow
Character Pitch
m=0: unchanged
m=1: Proportional
m>5: m/360 inch
Point size=(n
1
+ [n
2
x 256]) x 0.5 point
Point size can be selected between a
minimum of 8 point to a maximum of
64 point.
Notes