Programmer's Guide
POSjet
®
1500
Codes and Commands
Nov-07
Rev M
Page 91
Standard Emulation
The standard control codes for the POSjet
®
1500 printer are extensions and subsets of the PcOS IBM emulation
provided on other Ithaca
®
products. In some cases, an application designed for an Ithaca
®
Series 50 Printer with
IBM code sets will function with a POSjet
®
1500 printer.
IPCL Codes
Ithaca
®
Printer Control Language (IPCL) codes are part of PcOS and designed to control a printer without using
control characters (i.e. characters less than 20H). Only the standard PcOS emulation supports IPCL.
In rare cases, an IPCL code will interfere with the text that is to be printed. The IPCL translator can be disabled
with an [ESC] y <4> command.
EPOS Emulation
ESC/POS
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is referred to here as EPOS. The POSjet
®
1500 printer supports two Epson emulations. One emulation
is for the TM-U325, and the other is a general EPOS emulation that has extensions that do not match any Epson
printer.
The TM-U325 emulation is designed to allow POSjet
®
1500 printers to be used with applications that are designed
for Seiko Epson TM-U325 printers.
The EPOS emulation is an extension of the TM-U325 emulation that removes some of the limitations imposed by
the TM-U325 and allows fuller use of the POSjet
®
1500 features.
It is intended that the standard Ithaca
®
PcOS emulation be used for new applications. Not all features of
POSjet
®
1500 Printers are supported by EPOS. Specifically, the ability to print color horizontal graphics is
not supported.
Ithaca
®
Microline Emulation
The POSjet
®
1500 Printer supports several Microline emulations. These emulations allow the POSjet
®
1500 Printer
to replace some older Ithaca
®
M50 printers with Microline commands. This emulation is not documented here.
Refer to our Microline Emulation Programmer’s Guide (12-03244) for more information.
Application Development
To aid application development, several chapters in this manual are designed to help the programmer understand the
POSjet
®
1500 Printer. The next chapter provides a detailed description of each of the commands. Subsequent
chapters provide explanations of how the printer works including a description of the internal print buffer,
communications link, and interaction between the host computer and printer.
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ESC/POS is a registered trademark of the Seiko Epson Corporation.
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