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RASCAL Programmer’s Manual
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4-2 TC9450PM Rev. C 8/11/98
Status Response (\S)
The printer responds to the Request Printer Status (^S) command with the Status
response. See “Status Flags” in this chapter for more information.
NOTE:If the battery is low or the receive buffer is full, you can still receive the
Status response by sending an ENQ character (hexadecimal 05) to the
printer.
Syntax
\S¦0¦version¦status_flag_1¦status_flag_2¦status_flag_3¦
last_batch¦\
version
The software version.
status_flag_1,
status_flag_2,
status_flag_3
Three status flags, each represented by a byte. Because
each bit in these bytes represents a different error, you
must translate the bytes into a bit string to determine the
status of the printer.
For example, you might receive @ for status_flag_1,
which translates to 01000000. By consulting "Status
Flags" in this chapter, you see this means there are no
errors.
last_batch Two bytes in the format Px, where x is the identifier of the
format used in the last batch. The identifier is a space if
you haven't run any batches since you powered on or reset
the computer.
Example
\S¦0¦2.0¦@¦@¦@¦P1¦\
This response indicates the printer is running version 2.0 software, and no errors
occurred in the batch that used format 1.