Standard ANSI Escape Sequences
The following is a list of standard ANSI printer escape sequences
for typical dot matrix printer text features:
|
Feature
|
Escape Sequence
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Name
|
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Reset printer
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Escc
|
aRIS
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Initialize printer
|
Esc#1
|
aRIN
|
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Line feed
|
EscD
|
aIND
|
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Return line feed
|
EscE
|
aNEL
|
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Reverse line feed
|
EscM
|
aRI
|
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Normal character set
|
Esc[0m
|
aSGR0
|
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Italics on
|
Esc[3m
|
aSGR3
|
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Italics off
|
Esc[23m
|
aSGR23
|
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Underline on
|
Esc[4m
|
aSGR4
|
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Underline off
|
Esc[24m
|
aSGR24
|
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Boldface on
|
Esc[1m
|
aSGR1
|
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Boldface off
|
Esc[22m
|
aSGR22
|
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Set foreground color
|
Esc[30m to Esc[39m
|
aSFC
|
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Set background color
|
Esc[40m to Esc[49m
|
aSBC
|
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Normal pitch
|
Esc[0w
|
aSHORP0
|
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Elite pitch on
|
Esc[2w
|
aSHORP
|
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Elite pitch off
|
Esc[1w
|
aSHORP1
|
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Condensed fine pitch on
|
Esc[4w
|
aSHORP4
|
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Condensed off
|
Esc[3w
|
aSHORP3
|
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Enlarged pitch on
|
Esc[6w
|
aSHORP6
|
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Enlarged pitch off
|
Esc[5w
|
aSHORP5
|
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Shadow print on
|
Esc[6"z
|
aDEN6
|
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Shadow print off
|
Esc[5"z
|
aDEN5
|
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Doublestrike on
|
Esc[4"z
|
aDEN4
|
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Doublestrike off
|
Esc[3"z
|
aDEN3
|
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Near Letter Quality on
|
Esc[2"z
|
aDEN2
|
|
Near Letter Quality off
|
Esc[1"z
|
aDEN1
|
|
Superscript on
|
Esc[2v
|
ASUS2
|
|
Superscript off
|
Esc[1v
|
aSUS1
|
|
Subscript on
|
Esc[4v
|
aSUS4
|
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Subscript off
|
Esc[3v
|
aSUS3
|
|
Normalize the line
|
Esc[0v
|
aSUS0
|
|
Partial line up
|
Esc1
|
aPLU
|
|
Partial line down
|
EscK
|
aPLD
|
|
US character set
|
Esc(B
|
aFNT0
|
|
French character set
|
Esc(R
|
aFNT1
|
|
German character set
|
Esc(K
|
aFNT2
|
|
UK character set
|
Esc(A
|
aFNT3
|
|
Danish I character set
|
Esc(E
|
aFNT4
|
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Swedish character set
|
Esc(H
|
aFNT5
|
|
Italian character set
|
Esc(Y
|
aFNT6
|
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Spanish character set
|
Esc(Z
|
aFNT7
|
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