Star Micronics LC24-300 Printer User Manual


 
We can guess from this that the paper is probably -
international A4 size.
. If you use this feature with fanfold paper, only the top
message will be printed.
The printer is ready to start printing normally after it
has printed the bottom message.
Hexadecimal dump mode
This feature is most useful for programmers and sup-
port staff who need to check that the printer is really
receiving the expected data. In this mode, the printer
does not act on so-called “control codes”; codes which
cause the printer to perform an action such as feeding
paper. Characters are printed in the following way:
A space is printed with its hexadeci
mal value (20).
. .
72 65 20 77 72 69 7 I f YOU a re wr i t-i
6E 67 20 79 6F
6F 77 6E 20 70 72 6F 67 own prog
72 61 6D 73 73 65 6E 64 20 6F 75 74
send out
70 75 74
68 65 20 70 72 69 6E 74
65 72 2C 20 69 74 20 69 73 20 73 6F 6D 65 74 69
er , i t i s someti
60 65 73 20 75 73 65 66 75 6C 20 74 6F 20 70 72 mes usef U1 to pr
69 6E 74 20 6F 75 74 20
74 68 65 20 72 61 77 20 Int out the raw
64 61 74 61 20 74 68 61
74 20 74 68 65 20 70 72 data th# t the pr
69 6E 74 65 72 20 69 73
2.0 72 65 63 65 69 76 69 inter is receivi
6E 67 2E OA 57 68 65 6E 20 79 6F 75 20 70 65 72
ng .When
you per
‘i;;T[v$::;i
Non-printable (con%l) characters are
sh&vn as periods, and printed with their
hexadecimal values.
Printable characters are printed with their hexadecimal
values on the left, and the characters on the right. This
kind of format is familiar to anyone who has used the
MS-DOS DEBUG command.
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