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Programming Codes Ithaca
®
8000 Programmer’s Guide
Page 158 Rev D 100-06908
Miscellaneous Control
[ESC] 8 Disable paper out sensor
ASCII [ESC] 8
Hexadecimal 1BH 38H
Decimal <27> <56>
IPCL &%PF
EPOS none
Description The [ESC] 8 command temporally disables the paper out sensor. The
printer does not stop printing or go off-line when it senses it is out of
paper. The inquire commands still return paper out status.
[ESC] 9 Enable paper out sensor
ASCII [ESC] 9
Hexadecimal 1BH 39H
Decimal <27> <57>
IPCL &%PO
EPOS none
Description The [ESC] 9 command enables paper sensing and is intended to reverse
the effect of the disable paper out sensor command. If the printer is out
of paper when the command is issued, it goes off-line.
[ESC] X Set left/right print margins
ASCII [ESC] X <n
1
> <n
2
>
Hexadecimal 1BH 58H <n
1
> <n
2
>
Decimal <27> <88> <n
1
> <n
2
>
IPCL none
EPOS [ESC] l, [ESC] Q
Description The [ESC] X <n
1
> <n
2
> command sets left and right print margins in
characters from the home position. Where n
1
= left margin and n
2
= right
margin, the absolute position depends on the current print pitch. If the left
and right margins are set to the right of the current horizontal position, the
new margins become valid in the same line. If the left margin is set to the
left of the current horizontal position and the right margin set to the right
of the current horizontal position, the right margin setting becomes valid in
the same line, but the left margin setting becomes valid in the next line.
When the left and right margins are set to the left of the current horizontal
position, both left and right margin settings appear to become valid in the
next line because an auto-CR is performed by the subsequent data.