Citizen PD-24, Command Reference Manual

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Setting the right margin/ESC Q
[ASCII]
ESC Q n
[Decimal] 27 81 n
[Hexadecimal] 1B 51 n
[Parameter] 1
≤ n ≤ 255
[Description]
● Sets the right margin by n columns.
● ‘n’ indicates the number of columns when taking the left end, the printers’ physical starting position of printing, as 0. ‘n
– 1’ columns from the left margin shall be the print area.
● Specify ‘n’ based on the character width currently set. Therefore, the maximum value of ‘n’ changes depending on the
character width. The character width at the time of setting includes the value of character-to-character space rate. When
10CPI, 12CPI, 15CPI, reduced printing, or double-wide enlarged printing is specified, data are processed in units of the
character width specified.
● Even when the pitch between the command position and the left margin is one character or less, at least one character is
printed.
● Upon this setting, data in the print buffer will be cleared. Be sure to set this command at the head of a line.
● For proportional printing, set the value taking character pitch as 10CPI.
● Values less than the left margin will be ignored.
● Once the right margin is set, even when character width is changed, the right margin position does not change.
● Default is 832-dot position.
Left margin Right margin
Left end
Right end
Printable area
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