Font Orientation; Transparent Print Data; Underlining Text - Brother HL-Series Technical Reference Manual

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Font orientation

The printer's built-in fonts are all portrait fonts. If you switch the orientation of the logical page to landscape and
select a font, the printer will automatically create the landscape font in its memory. This saves you having to make
the landscape font available by installing a card/cartridge or by downloading the font, but takes up printer memory
and may cause the printer to run out of space when trying to compose complex page layouts.

Transparent print data

Esc&p#X (character codes)
(27)(38)(112)#(88)
• This command enables you to print characters which are normally unprintable.
• # is the number of bytes of data that follow the command.
• Each byte of data is interpreted as a character code and the corresponding character in the currently selected
symbol set is printed (if there is one). You can use this command to print the symbols in the character set
which do not appear on the keyboard.
• If there is no character in the current symbol set corresponding to a specified code, a space is printed.
• The command is useful when using character sets like the IBM All Character Set in which every single code
has a corresponding character.
• Any control codes within the data will have no effect. The control code byte is treated as a character code.

Underlining text

Esc&d#D
• This command enables the underline facility.
• This command disables the underline facility.
• # is either 0 or 3. A value of 0 signifies fixed underlining, 3 specifies floating underlining.
• Fixed underlining means that the underline is drawn in the same place for all the characters of a particular
font.
• Floating underlining means that the underline is drawn in the same place for all the characters on a particular
line.
Esc&d@
Esc(s110T
Esc(s134T
Esc(s132T
Esc(s133T
Esc(s135T
<1Bh><26h><70h>#<58h>
(27)(38)(100)#(68)
(27)(38)(100)(64)
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Esc)s110T
Esc)s134T
Esc)s132T
Esc)s133T
Esc)s135T
<1Bh><26h><64h>#<44h>
<1Bh><26h><64h><40h>
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