Paxar 9430R User Manual

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Control Characters A-1

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 assist in printer
control. The printer also provides single byte responses to inform the
host of the printer status.

Character 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 24-column print mode

SI

^O

0x0F / 15

Shift In

Switches to 42-column print mode.

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