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In page printing mode, when a print data is specified at a position that exceeds a logical paper length, the
data is decoded after automatic form feed.
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In page printing mode, when ANK double-height character printing (ESC w) is executed at the head of a page, the
double height characters cannot be fully printed, with their top area missed. In such a case, leave a one-line space before
printing double height characters.
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To return from page printing mode to line printing mode, turn off the power and then turn it on again, or specify line
printing mode separately.
<Restriction on page length in line printing mode>
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Page length can be specified up to 22 inch (22×203=4466 dots)
<Setting the Line Printing Mode>
Default is line printing mode. The following shows an example of program (BASIC) for switching from page printing
mode to line printing mode.
LPRINT CHR$(&H1B); “~L”; CHR$(1); CHR$(0); CHR$(0);
Line printing: dl = 0
Fixed at 0
Line printing mode: n1 = 1
<Setting the Page Printing Mode>
The following shows a program for setting paper length to 8 inches in landscape mode.
LPRINT CHR$(&H1B); “~L”; CHR$(3); CHR$(0); CHR$(1); CHR$(88); CHR$(6);
Landscape printing: dl = 1
Fixed at 0
Page printing mode: n1 = 3
Next, convert the paper length to be set into dots.
In this case, the paper length is set to 8 inches. Therefore:
8 inches × 203 dpi = 1624 dots
Next, obtain parameters d2 and d3 from the number of dots.
Divide 1624 dots, the number of dots of paper length, by 256.
1624 / 256 = 6 …… 88
Specify 88, the remainder of 1624 dots divided by 256, in d2.
Specify 6, the quotient of 1624 dots divided by 256, in d3.
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