Tally Genicom 5040 Manual Do Utilizador

An escape sequence consists of an ESCape control character (ESC = 
decimal 27 or hexadecimal 1B) followed by one or more characters, 
which represent commands to the printer. Please note that this escape 
character has nothing to do with the ESC key on your computer key-
board.
For example, the control character ESC followed by the character “4” 
tells your printer to print the subsequent text in italics.

Control codes give simple instructions to the printer to do a specific 
function. Unlike escape sequences, control codes do not begin with the 
ESC control code. Instead, they consist of special single-character non-
printing commands (e.g. LF, FF, DC2).

Escape sequences are transmitted to the printer by your computer soft-
ware via the printer driver. Experienced users and programmers can 
also control the printer directly via control sequences, however before 
you start working with escape sequences and control codes, we recom-
mend that you study the computer software manual. 
To enter control codes the Ctrl key and an ASCII character must be 
pressed simultaneously. For instance, by pressing Ctrl and J a line feed 
is accomplished (it is required to output the character string on the 
printer). More information concerning this topic is contained in your 
computer software manual and the corresponding Programmer’s Ap-
plication Manuals (see 

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