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Issuing Escape Commands
§ Many 2000T printer properties may be modified by issuing escape commands. The
following pages detail these commands using conventions detailed here:
Symbol Purpose
<CTRL> The next character is a control character
<ESC>, <CR>, <LF>… Control characters
<‘A’>, <‘P’>, <‘Q’>… Single quotation marks (‘’) denote constant ASCII
characters.
<n>, <L>… Italics denote variable bytes in control string.
0x00, 0xAB, 0x1F… Hexadecimal representation of a number.
Example:
8 Bit Graphic Line(s) <ESC> <‘V’> <n1> <n2> <data>
• <ESC> is the ASCII character 0x1B hexadecimal.
• <‘V’> is the ASCII character 0x56 hexadecimal.
• <n1>, <n2> are single byte variables.
• <data> is a sequence of variable data.
Font Selection
MSP FONTS ASCII range 32-255 <ESC> <‘F’> <n> (n = {‘4’ .. ‘9’})
Number of columns Matrix size Command Character pitch
64 6 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘9’>
32 CPI
48 8 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘8’>
24 CPI
42 9 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘7’>
21 CPI
40 9 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘6’>
20 CPI
32 12 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘5’>
16 CPI
24 16 x 16
<ESC> <‘F’> <‘4’>
12 CPI
