Brother HL-Series Technical Reference Manual page 321

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DV - Define Variable Text Path
DV [ path [, line ]] [;]
path : text printing path - horizontal or vertical, and left to right, right to left, upwards or downwards.
line: the effect of a line feed.
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This command determines the printing direction for labels and the carriage return point.
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Permissible values of path are 0, 1, 2 and 3. If path = 0 labels are printed horizontally and left to
right - normal printing. If path = 1 labels are printed vertically downwards - characters appear in a
vertical column. If path = 2 labels are printed horizontally and right to left - words appear
backwards. If path = 3 labels are printed vertically upwards - characters appear in a vertical column,
reading from bottom to top.
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The value of line must be either 0 or 1. If line = 0, each time a line feed is encountered the current
pen position is moved at an angle of 90° to the path in a clockwise direction. Hence, if path = 1 the
second line of text is printed to the left of the first line. If line = 1 each time a line feed is
encountered the current pen position is moved at an angle of 90° to the path in an anticlockwise
direction. Hence, if path = 2 the second line of text is printed below the first line.
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If you do not use a DV command the default text path is horizontal, left to right: line feeds will
move the pen position at 90° to the text clockwise. This is equivalent to using the command DV0,0;
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If you omit both parameters the text path is horizontal, left to right.
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