Using Standard Characters; Select Vertical Tab Channel - Brother HL Series Technical Reference Manual

Escbnm1m2m3...NUL
• You can set up to eight different sets of vertical tab stops and select any of these sets for use at any
time. Each set of tab stops is called a channel - channels are numbered from 0 to 7.
• Channel 0 normally holds the settings you have selected with the Esc B command, or equally spaced
tab settings that you have set with the Esc e 1 command. However, you can also set the channel 0 tab
settings using the Esc b command.
• To set the tab stops held in channels 1 to 7 you must use the Esc b command.
• This command enables you to set up to sixteen vertical tab stops for each channel based on the
current line space setting.
• n is the channel number whose tab stops are to be set.
• m
specifies the tab based on the current line space setting.
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• The value of m
must be in the range 0 to 255.
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• The tab stops must be set in ascending order. If you specify a channel's tab settings in any other
order, any previous settings made for that channel are cleared.
• Vertical tab settings are not affected by subsequent changes in the line spacing setting.
• Esc b n 0 clears the vertical tab settings set for channel n.
• You can select a channel using the Esc / command and move the print position to its tab stops using
the VT control code.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(98); CHR$(1); CHR$(10); CHR$(20); CHR$(0);
'Set tab stops at lines 10 and 20.

Select vertical tab channel

Esc/n (27)(47)n
• This command allows you to select a set of vertical tabs (or channel) that you defined using the Esc b
command.
• All subsequent vertical tab commands use the selected tab channel's settings.
• n must be in the range from 0 to 7.
• The default channel is channel 0. Channel 0 is the current channel when the printer is first switched
on or after a reset with the Esc @ command.
• There are no default vertical tab settings for any channel.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(47); CHR$(5); 'Select vertical tab channel 5
Vertical tab
VT (11)
• The VT control code (ASCII 11) moves the current print position one vertical tab stop down the
page. The current vertical tab channel's settings are used.
• If you have not previously selected a vertical tab channel with the Esc / command, channel 0, the
default channel is used.
• If you have not set any vertical tab stops for the current channel with either the Esc B, Esc b, or Esc
e 1 commands, the print position is moved down one line using the current line space setting.
• If there are no tab stops below the current print position a line feed is performed.
• If no tab stops have been set a carriage return and line feed are performed.
LPRINT CHR$(11); ' Vertical tab
6.5.

Using Standard Characters

Set pitch to 10 characters per inch
EscP (27)(80)
This command sets the printing pitch to 10 characters per inch (cpi).
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(80); 'Set pitch to 10 cpi
(27)(98)nm1m2m3...(00) <1Bh><62h>nm1m2m3...<00h>
<1Bh><2Fh>n
<0Bh>
<1Bh><50h>
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