Paxar 9430RX User Manual
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Introduction 1-3
C o n t r o l C h a r a c t e r s
The following characters are reserved and used to control the printer. The
printer provides single-byte responses to the host of its status.
Char.
Control
Hex Dec Control
Action
EOT
^D
0x04
04
End Of Text
Signals to the host device that the printer is
in idle mode and the print buffer is empty.
BS ^H
0x08
08 Backspace
Removes the previous character in the print
buffer.
HT
^I
0x09
09
Horizontal Tab
Advances to the next tab position (from the
following list) or to the beginning of the next
line: 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37.
LF
^J
0x0A
10
Line Feed
Advances to beginning of next line.
VT ^K
0x0B
11 Vertical
Tab
Advances 5 lines.
FF ^L
0x0C
12 Form
Feed
Advances 10 lines.
CR ^M
0x0D
13 Carriage
Return
Advances to beginning of next line.
SO ^N
0x0E
14 Shift
Out
Switches to 36-column print mode
SI ^O 0x0F
15 Shift
In
Switches to 57-column print mode.