Execute Order Home State (Xoh); Xoh Obtain Printer Characteristics - Printronix T5000R Series Programmer's Reference Manual

Execute Order Home State (XOH)

The following orders are valid only when the printer receives them in the
home state. The XOH command identifies these orders.
Erase Residual Print Data
Obtain Printer
Characteristics
Print Buffered Data
Set Media Size

XOH Obtain Printer Characteristics

This order causes a set of device self-defined fields describing printer
characteristics to be placed in the Special Data Area of the Acknowledgement
Reply and is identified with an acknowledgement type of X'46'.
See Table 7 for a detailed description of each Self-Defining field reported in
the Acknowledge Reply.
Table 7. XOH Obtain Printer Characteristics Reply
Offset
PRINTABLE AREA
0-1 X'0018'
2-3 X'0001'
4 X'00'
5 X'00'
6 X'00'
7 X'00'
8-9 X'3840'
10-11 X'0090' - X'xxxx'
Byte D68F
Count
Table 6. Execute Order Home State Commands
Order
Value
LENGTH of this Self-Defining Field
PRINTABLE AREA Self-Defining Field ID
INPUT MEDIA SOURCE
Reserved
UNIT BASE 10 inches
Reserved
L-units per UNIT BASE
WIDTH of the Medium Presentation Space in
L-units (determined by configuration setting)
The Device Control Commands
Flag CID
Function
Prevents access to resident
print data.
Used for Acknowledge
Replies.
All data in the buffer prints.
Specifies the page size.
Description
Data (Code and
Parameters)
Hex Code
0500
F300
0100
1700
29