Printer Control Codes - IBM Personal Computer AT Manual To Operations

Printer Control Codes
Printer control codes are special characters you have
your system unit send to your printer to get your data
printed the way you want it.
Each program you use has its own way of sending
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printer control codes, refer to the manual that came
with your program to determine how to put these codes
into your data. Your IBM Personal Computer Graphics
Printer supports all the printer control codes listed in
this section. IBM Personal Computer BASIC uses the
American National Standard Code for Information
Interchange (ASCII) decimal values to send control
codes to the printer.
The following pages contain:
• Two examples of printer control codes using IBM
BASIC.
• A Quick Reference Chart of the printer control
codes.
• A detailed description of the Quick Reference
Chart.
• Charts listing the American Standard Code for
Information Interchange (ASCII).
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