Questions tagged [escp2]

"ESC/P, short for Epson Standard Code for Printers or Escape/P, is a printer control language developed by Epson to control computer printers. It was mainly used in dot matrix printers and some inkjet printers, and is still widely used in many receipt thermal printers."

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How to detect if a printer support ESC/P 2 in VB6?

Not all printer support ESC/P 2, my question is it any method to detect is a printer support ESC/P 2 before we send the codes to the printer? Programming language is VB6.
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How to get the c/c++ standard representation of all the esc/p2 and pcl commands?

I found a reference manual for esc/p2. ESC / Select vertical tab channel — · · C-67 ESC 0 Select 1/8-inch line spacing · · · C-51 ESC 1 Select 7/72-inch line spacing — — · C-60 ESC 2 Select 1/6-inch line spacing · · · C-53 ESC 3 Set n/180-inch line…
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Read currently selected font from a running dot matrix printer

There's this program called OKI DIPUS UTILITY which is supposed to read some information from an attached printer and facilitate switching the print quality, font, character pitch, etc. However, I haven't been able to make it work and I'm wondering…
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Programmatically select 17cpi pitch on Epson LQ-590II dot matrix using ESC/P 2

This printer has control panel settings for 10cpi, 12cpi, 15cpi, 17cpi, 20cpi pitch. However all the ESC/P references I find only have escape sequences for selecting up to 15cpi. It would seem reasonable to assume that since it's on the control…
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