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§ Many 3000T printer properties may be modified by issuing escape commands. The
following pages detail these commands using conventions detailed here:
Symbol Purpose
<CTRL>
The next character is a control character (see table 11.1)
<ESC>, <CR>, <LF>…
Control characters (see table 11.1)
<‘A’>, <‘P’>, <‘Q’>…
Single quotation marks (‘’) denote constant ASCII characters
<n>, <L>…
Italics denote variable bytes in control string
0x00, 0xAB, 0x1F…
Hexadecimal representation of a number.
§ Example:
§ 8 Bit Graphic Line(s) <ESC> <‘V’> <n1> <n2> <data>
<ESC> is the ASCII character 0x1B hexadecimal.
<‘V’> is the ASCII character 0x56 hexadecimal.
<n1>, <n2> are single byte variables.
<data> is a sequence of variable data.
Font Selection
MSP FONTS ASCII range 32-255 <ESC> <‘F’> <n>
n = {‘2’ .. ‘9’}
Number of columns Matrix size Command Character pitch
96 6 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘9’>
32 CPI
72 8 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘8’>
24 CPI
64 10 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘7’>
19 CPI
64 10 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘6’>
19 CPI
48 12 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘5’>
16 CPI
36 16 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘4’>
12 CPI
36 24 x 26
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘3’>
12 CPI
24 24 x 26
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘2’>
8 CPI