M-S Cash Drawer A794 - Manual (Page 85)

Chapter 6: Programming Information A794 Owner’s Guide
December 1999 80
Select 90 Degree Counter-Clockwise Rotated Print
ASCII ESC DC2
Hexadecimal 1B 12
Decimal 27 18
Rotates characters 90 degrees counter-clockwise. The command remains in effect until
the printer is reset or until a Clear Printer (0x10), Select or Cancel Upside Down Print
(1B 7B) or Cancel Rotated Print (1B 56) command is received.
Exceptions
This command is valid only at the beginning of a line.
Rotated print and non-rotated print characters cannot be used together in the same line.
Related Information
See “Summary of Rotated Printing” in this document.
This command is ignored in TM-T88 Emulation.
Select Pitch (Column Width)
ASCII ESC SYN n
Hexadecimal 1B 16 n
Decimal 27 22 n
Value of n: 0 = Standard pitch
1 = Compressed pitch
Default: 0 (Standard pitch)
Selects the character pitch for a print line
Formulas
The following table provides the print characteristics for both pitches on the receipt
station.
Pitch Columns,
80 mm Paper Columns,
82.5 mm Paper CPI
Standard 44 49 15.6
Compressed 56 64 20.3
Related Information
See Print Specifications for a description of both pitches.
This command and the Select Print Modes command (1B 21 n) affect pitch selection.
This is ignored in TM-T88 Emulation and the parameter byte goes into the print buffer.