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Epic 3000 Programmer's Guide
Testing the Printer Overview ......................................................................................... 26
Using Self-Test, Configuration, and Hex Dump Mode ............................................ 26
Entering Self-Test, and Configuration mode ...................................................... 26
Testing the printer .............................................................................................. 26
TEST-Receipt ................................................................................................ 26
TEST-Head Test ............................................................................................ 26
Configuring Options ........................................................................................... 26
TEST- Configuration ...................................................................................... 27
Factory Test ....................................................................................................... 27
Level 0 Diagnostics ............................................................................................... 27
Cold Power On .............................................................................................. 27
Boot Loader Maintenance Mode ............................................................................ 28
Configuring Your EPIC 3000 Printer ................................................ 28
Configuration Mode Overview ....................................................................................... 28
How to Change Configuration Settings .......................................................................... 28
Entering into Configuration Mode .......................................................................... 28
Using Configuration Mode ............................................................................................. 29
Remote Configuration ................................................................................................... 29
Programming Codes ........................................................................ 30
Control Codes Overview ............................................................................................... 30
Nomenclature ................................................................................................................ 30
Standard Emulation ............................................................................................... 30
IPCL Codes ........................................................................................................... 31
EPOS Emulation.................................................................................................... 31
Application Development ............................................................................................... 31
Ithaca Control Codes and Commands ........................................................................... 31
PcOS Printer Control Codes .................................................................................. 31
Quick PcOS Reference Chart ................................................................................ 32
Low Level Paper Motion Control ............................................................................ 37
Print/Paper Motion ............................................................................................. 37
Horizontal Motion Control ...................................................................................... 37
Vertical Motion Control .......................................................................................... 39
Feed to Black Dot .................................................................................................. 45
Character Pitch ...................................................................................................... 46
Character Font ...................................................................................................... 49
Character Sets and Code Pages ........................................................................... 50
Codepage description files ................................................................................. 50
Double-Byte and Multi-Byte Code Page Description Files ..................................... 52
Code page selection .............................................................................................. 52
Print Control Characters ........................................................................................ 57
User Defined characters ........................................................................................ 58
Character Attributes ............................................................................................... 59
Page Mode ............................................................................................................ 65
How to use page mode ...................................................................................... 65
Page Definition .............................................................................................. 65
Auto-cutter and page mode ............................................................................... 66
Mechanism commands in page mode ................................................................ 66
Stopping page mode definition........................................................................... 66
Printing the page ............................................................................................... 66
Page mode commands .......................................................................................... 66
Graphic Modes ...................................................................................................... 74
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