HP PCL Cursor Position Commands 5-5
When used with proportionally-spaced fonts, the backspace centers the overstriking charac-
ter on the character being overstruck. After printing the overstrike character the cursor po-
sition will be at the same position before the backspace. Each movement back equals the
distance of the last symbol or space. If the cursor is on the left margin, no movement oc-
curs.
HT
– Horizontal Tab
The HT control code moves the cursor to the next tab stop on the current line. Tab stops
start on the left margin and occur at every eighth column to the right edge of the addressa-
ble print area. If the right margin is crossed by a new tab request, the new value is set at the
right margin. When the HMI value is 0, the command is ignored.).
VERTICAL CONTROL (ROWS)
ESC &a#R
Decimal:
027 038 097 # 082
Hex:
1B 26 61 # 52
#: number of rows
Use this vertical control command to move the current vertical cursor (or active print posi-
tion) along the current column position on a new line.
If you specify a positive value (using a plus sign (+)) in the value field (#), the new position
will be down from the current cursor position. If you specify a negative value (using a mi-
nus sign (–)) in the value field (#), the new position will be above the current cursor posi-
tion. By not specifying a sign, you obtain an absolute distance that is referenced from the
top margin of the addressable print area.
If you specify an absolute or negative relative value outside of the addressable page area,
the cursor will move to the edge of the addressable page area. You can specify a positive
relative value to move the cursor down and off the current page. You can move the cursor
into the perforation region because this command allows the printer to ignore the perfora-
tion skip mode. The printer, however, will only advance the cursor to the top of form of the
page following the next page (thus, form feeding a blank page).
You can specify a value to four decimal places.
Summary of Contents for Intellibar M412
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