Appendix B Printing To The Labelwriter Duo Tape Printer; Command Language; Esc> B - Dot Tab; Esc> D - Bytes Per Line - Dymo LabelWriter 450 Duo Label Printer Technical Reference Manual

Appendix B Printing to the LabelWriter Duo Tape
Printer

Command Language

The DYMO tape printers use a subset of the LabelWriter command language described
earlier in this manual. Due to the nature of printing on tapes, some tape-specific
commands have been added.
The LabelWriter Duo printer has a 128-dot print head. All LabelWriter Duo printers
support 6-mm, 9-mm, 12-mm, 19-mm and 24-mm tape cartridges.
<esc> B – Dot Tab
The Dot Tab command operates the same way that the equivalent command in the
LabelWriter command set operates. The dot tab value is specified as the number of pixels
to skip from the left print edge. A dot tab value of 3, for example, will cause data to begin
printing 24 pixels from the left edge of the print head.
For any particular print head, the maximum value is defined to be:
(number of dots / 8) - 1
For a 128-dot print head, the maximum value is 15. Dot tab values greater than the
maximum allowed value will revert to the defined maximum. For example, if a value
higher than 15 is specified for the Dot Tab command on a 128-dot print head, the dot tab
value is reduced to 15 at print time. The minimum value for the Dot Tab command is 0.
<esc> D – Bytes per Line
The Bytes per Line command operates the same way that the equivalent command in the
LabelWriter command set operates. The bytes-per-line value specifies how many bytes of
data the printer can expect to receive for the current dot line.
The maximum value for bytes per line for the 96-dot print head is 12; the maximum value
for the 128-dot print head is 16. Additionally, the total of the dot tab setting and bytes per
line cannot exceed 12 (or 16 for the 128-dot print head). If the total exceeds 12 (or 16),
the total number of bytes per line is reduced at print time to 12 (or 16).
The minimum value for bytes per line is 0. If the bytes per line are set to 0, the printer
will print one blank line every time it receives a <syn> character.
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