ä What are escapesequences?Generally, an escape sequence consists of an ESCape control character(ESC = decimal 27 or hexadecimal 1B) followed by one or more charac-ters, which represent commands to the printer. Please note that thisescape character has nothing to do with the ESC key on your computerkeyboard.For example, the control character ESC followed by the character “4”tells your printer to print the subsequent text in italics.MTPL sequences Apart from the standard Escape sequences and control codes yourprinter is equipped with MTPL sequences. These sequences provide alarge number of additional ways to control your printer. Many functionscan only be carried out using the MTPL sequences as you will see whenyou look at the list of available command codes.What are control codes? Control codes are similar to escape sequences because they instruct theprinter to do a specific function. However, unlike escape sequences, con-trol codes do not begin with the ESC control code. Instead, they consistof special single-character non-printing commands (e.g. LF, FF, DC2).BACK QUIT?PRINTReference manual Emulations113
