Star Micronics 8 Series Printer User Manual


 
Carriage return
Theprintermovestheprintpo:itionbackto theleftmarginwhenyousend
acarriagerctumcontrolcode.Theprintpositionwill
notmovedowntothe
nextline(unlessonthefrontpanel’smenuyouhavesettheAutoLineFeed
parameterON):
<CR>
Line feed commands
The line spacingcommandsdefinewhata “line”meansfor the following
commands.The defaultverticalspacingis six linesper inch.
YouusethisLineFeedcommandto movetheprintposition,notto theleft
margin,butjust downthepageoneline:
<LF>
Variablelinefeedcommandsmovetheprintpositionbacktotheleftmargin
andcitherdownorupthepage,bysomeincrementof 1/216inch.Ifthemove
putstheprintpositionbelowthebottommarginanewpagestarts.Youmove
theprintpositiondownthepagewiththiscommand:
<ESC> J n
andup thepagewiththiscommand:
<ESC> j n
Inbothcases,then isthenumbcrof1/216inchincrementsyouwanttomove
(maximum255).
Form feed
The Star LaserPrintcr8 only prints a page when it reccivcsa Form Feed
controlcode.If thelasttextina documentdoesn’tfillup a pageitmaynot
printimmediately.
Sotomakesureonedocumentdocsn’trunrightintothenext,it’sagoodidea
tomakesureeachdocumentendswitha finalFormFeed.In the rareevent
youhavesetpagelengthsotwopageswillprintononesheet,thesheetwon’t
printuntilbothpagesare composedin memory.
Thefollowingcommandmovestheprintpositiontothetopofthenextpage:
<FF>
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