Appendix F EPSON LQ 2550 and ESC/P2 Quick Reference Appendix F EPSON LQ 2550 and ESC/P2 Quick Reference
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Table 9: (Cont.) ESC / P2 Commands Table 9: (Cont.) ESC / P2 Commands
Escape Sequence Function Escape Sequence Function
ESC X P1 P2 P3 Select font by pitch and point ESC ( t n1 n2 Pn P1 P2 Assign character table
P1 = 0 : No change in pitch Pn = Parameter of ESC t : 0, 1, 2, 3,
P1 = 1 : Selects proportional spacing "0", "1", "2" or "3"
P1 = 18, 24, 30, 36, 42, 48, 60 or 72 P1 P2 = character table
Selects fixed pitch equal to 0 0 : italic
360/m cpi 1 0 : PC 437 (USA)
pz = P2 + P3 x 256 3 0 : PC 850 (Multilingual)
pz: Point size in 0,5 points; 1 point 7 0 : PC 860 (Portugal)
equals 1/72 inch 8 0 : PC 863 (French-Canada)
pz = 0: No change in point size 9 0 : PC 865 (Norway)
pz = 16, 20, 21, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 42, 29 15 : ISO 8859-15
44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64 29 16 : ISO 8859-1
44 0 : PC 858 (Multilingual + Euro)
ESC ( U P1 P2 Set unit The character table assigned by Pn is
P1 = 01 00 selected by the ESC t command.
P2 = 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 /3600"
P2 = 10; Standard ESC t Pn Select character table
ESC c P1 P2 Set horizontal motion index (HMI) character tables which are assigned by
ESC ( t command.
Define HMI-Index Pn = 0/0 or 3/0 : Character Table 0
Change pitch value in n/360"-steps Pn = 0/1 or 3/1 : Character Table 1
HMI = P1 + P2 x 256 Pn = 0/2 or 3/2 : Character Table 2
HMI max. 3 inch Re-maps downloaded
n1 = 3, n2 = 0
one of the four tables which will be
Selects the character table to be used
for printing from among the four
Characters from the
positions 0 to 127 to the
positions 128 to 255.
Pn = 0/3 or 3/3 : Character Table 3
Default Setting
Pn = 0/0 or 3/0 : Italics Character Table
Pn = 0/1 or 3/1 : CP 437
Pn = 0/2 or 3/2 : User Defined Character
Table
Pn = 0/3 or 3/3 : CP 437
