Chapter 5 Epson Ex-800 Commands - Star Micronics 8 Series Applications Manual

The small-carriageEX-800 is one of Epson's more recent dot-matrix
printers.Becauseof the popularityof the IBM PersonalComputer,which
was marketedwith a modifiedEpson printer, thousandsof softwarepro-
grams alreadywork with Epson printercommands.
If youhavea programthatdoesn'tworkwithlascrprintercommands,you'll
almostccrtairdyfindit willworkwiththecommandsin theStarLaserPrinter
8's EX-800emulationmode.YourStarLaserPnntcr8 will printany docu-
ments you createwith standardEpsoncommands.
We followthe same sequencein this chapteras wc did in earlierchaptcm:
first somepnntcr managementandpagesetupcommands,thenwe'llcover
commandsthatmovetheprintposition,andfinallywe'llprintourdocument
with our choiceof font attributes.
EX-800 COMMANDS
What do EX-800 commands look like?
Mostcommandsin the EX-800emulationlook like this:
<ESC>C
or
<ESC>C n
in whichC is the codefor the particularcommandyou want to send.If the
commandincludesthe n sign it indicatesa numericvanablc the command
needs.For example,the EX-800commandto set the right marginis this:
<ESC>Q n
in which n is the columnnumberfor the rightmargin. So to put the right
margin at column65 you wouldsend this command:
<ESC>Q 65
MostEX-800commandsworkliketoggleswitches:onc <ESC>codeturns
on a featureand another<ESC>codeturns it off.
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