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Carriage return
The printermovesthe printpo:itionbackto the left marginwhenyou send
a carriagerctumcontrolcode.Theprintpositionwill
not
movedownto the
nextline(unlesson the frontpanel'smenuyouhavesetthe AutoLineFeed
parameterON):
<CR>
Line feed commands
The line spacingcommandsdefine what a "line"means for the following
commands.The defaultverticalspacingis six lines per inch.
Youuse this LineFeedcommandto movethe printposition,not to the left
margin,butjust down the page one line:
<LF>
Variablelinefeedcommandsmovetheprintpositionbackto theleftmargin
andcitherdownorupthepage,bysomeincrementof 1/216inch.Ifthemove
putstheprintpositionbelowthebottommarginanew pagestarts.Youmove
the printpositiondownthe page with this command:
<ESC> J n
and up the page with this command:
<ESC> j n
Inbothcases,then isthenumbcrof 1/216inchincrementsyouwantto move
(maximum255).
Form feed
The Star LaserPrintcr8 only prints a page when it reccivcsa Form Feed
controlcode.If the last text in a documentdoesn'tfillup a page it may not
print immediately.
Soto makesureonedocumentdocsn'trunrightintothenext,it'sa goodidea
to makesureeach documentends with a finalForm Feed.In the rare event
youhavesetpagelengthsotwopageswillprintononesheet,thesheetwon't
print untilboth pagesare composedin memory.
The followingcommandmovestheprintpositionto thetopofthenextpage:
<FF>
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