Printronix P3000 Series Printer User Manual


 
67Programming
Backspace
ASCII Hex Decimal
PSeries/
Serial BS 08 08
Purpose Moves
the logical print head to the left one character
space toward the first column.
Comment When
configured for backspace (in PSeries printer protocol), BS moves the
char
-
acter
position
indicator (the logical print head position) one character space to the
left
at the current character pitch setting. The code is ignored if the logical print
head
is positioned at the first character column. When the backspace code is received,
printing speed for the print line may be reduced to half.
Example
Print and backspace two character positions.