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Updated April 2, 2009
v When landscape mode is used without the check flipper, the document should be
v To position the printing in landscape mode to the correct position, the system
v Line feeding is 5 steps per mm or 21 steps per line, at 6 lpi.
v All landscape printing must be done with one printing pass. Therefore:
v There is no error recovery for landscape printing.
v Set print station to document landscape mode to print the face of the check as it
Landscape printing commands
1. ESC f (x) (y): Set up document wait time
2. ESC c 0 X'08': Select document station - landscape print mode:
3. Send print lines to be printed in this station.
4. Final handling.
inserted so that the right edge is at the top of the printer, and the bottom edge is
against the printer's right wall.
must send line feeds. The printer assumes that the top of form for a document in
landscape mode is the far left edge of the document (to a maximum of 80 mm
from the bottom of the form).
– Double-high printing is not allowed.
– User-defined characters greater than 9 dots high are not allowed.
comes out of the flipper machanism.
Same as for portrait mode.
A
If the document was not previously loaded:
v The document present indicator blinks until a document is
detected.
v Once detected, the document will be grabbed by the printer and
fed to the right margin on the document. Because the document
is inserted on its side, this is at the top of the printer.
v If a document is not detected within the wait time (specified in
the ESC f command), the printer sends error status to the
system, and continues to wait.
The system can either cancel the print buffer, deleting all data in
the print buffer, or wait for a document to be inserted.
The printer appears to be hung until an action is taken.
B
If the document was previously loaded, the printer feeds the paper
to the right margin on the document.
The number of characters that can be printed on a line depends on the
width of the document. The print area is:
v 63 mm high, starting 17 mm from the bottom of the document
v The entire width of the document less 34 mm from the right edge and 10
mm from the left edge
You have an option on final handling, finish printing and either eject the
document or open the document throat to allow manual removal of the
document:
4a. FF: Print and Eject Document.
Finish printing and eject the document.
4b. ESC q or ESC < X'01': Open Document Throat
Finish printing and release the document from the printer's rollers.
Appendix D. EIA-232 programming information
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