Colour Plotter Printer Control Codes - Sharp mz-800 Technical Reference And User's Manual

11-13 Colour plotter printer control codes
Control codes used in the text mode
• Text code ($01)
Places the printer in the text mode.
• Graphic code ($02)
···Same as the BASIC PMOOE statement. Places the
printer in the graphic mode.
• Line up ($03)
···Same as the BASIC PSKIP statement. Moves the
paper one line in the reverse direction. The line counter
is decremented by 1.
• Pen test ($04)
···Same as the BASIC PTEST statement. Writes the
following patterns to start ink following from the pens,
then sets scale == 1 (40 chr/line), colour
=
0.
Black Blue Green Red
DODO
• Reduction scale ($09)+($09)+($09)
Reduces the scale from 1 to 0 (80 chr/line).
• Reduction cancel ($09) + ($09) +($OB)
Enlarges the scale from 0 to 1 (40 chr/line).
• Line counter set ($09) + ($09) + (ASCII)z +(ASCII)
I
+
(ASCII)
0
+($00)
···Same as the BASIC PTEST statement. Specifies the
number of lines per page as indicated by the
3
ASCII
bytes code. The maximum number of lines per page is
255. Automatically set to 66 when the power is turned
on or the system is reset.
• Line feed ($0A)
···Same as the BASIC PTEST statement. Moves the
paper one line in the forward direction. The line counter
is incremented by 1.
• Magnify scale ($OB)
Enlarges the scale from 2 to 1. (26 chr/line)
• Carriage return ($00)
Moves the carriage to the left side of the print area.
• Back space ($0E)
Moves the carriage one column to the left. This code
is ignored when the carriage is at the left side of the
print area.
• Form feed ($OF)
Moves the paper to the beginning of the next page and
resets the line counter to 0.
• Next colour ($1 0)
Changes the pen to the next colour.
Character scale
• The character scale is automatically set to 1 (40 chr/
line) when the power is turned on. Afterwards, it can
be changed by the control codes and commands.
• In the graphics mode, the scale can be changed within
the range 0 to 63.
• The scale is set to 1 when the mode is switched from
graphics to text.
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