Star Micronics 4111 Printer User Manual


 
You can also move the cursor 8 columns at a time horizontally by use of the
horizontal tab command. Simply send a tab character:
<HT>
to do this. Reverse tabbing is not possible.
4.4.8 Moving the print position vertically
You can use similar unitsto move the printpositionvertically: lines, dots, or
decipoints. Both lines and decipointscan be fractions to two decimal places.
You can also move the print position absolutely down from the top edge of
the page, or relati}’ely,away from the current print position. Again, to show
you want to move away from the current print position you put a plus (+) or
minus (–) sign before the number of units you want to move.
The important difference about moving vertically up or down is what the
printer does when the print position hits the page top or bottom. If you try to
move above the top margin, the print position stays right at the margin. And
if you move the print position down off the page, the page is ejected and
printing continues on the next page.
4.4.9 Vertical moves: bylines, decipoints and
dots
To move the print position vertically a certain number of lines, send the
command:
<ESC> &a n R
in which for n you enter the number of lines you wish to move the print
position. So to move to line45, measured from the top edge of the page, you
send the command:
<ESC> &a 45R
But to move 45 lines down from the current print position, you send:
<ESC> &a +45R
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