Buffered Printing

Note

This section is applicable to Series ii only.

Printers start to accumulate print data when Buffered Printing Setting is enabled and start to print under any of the following conditions:

  • When the following commands are received:
    • FF, Print and return standard mode
    • ESC BEL, Generate tone
    • ESC L, Select page mode
    • ESC i, Full cut
    • ESC m, Partial cut
    • GS V, Select cut mode and cut paper
    • US t, Print Configuration Form
  • When the accumulated print lines is 80 or more.

Status command will be executed even when Buffered Printing is enabled.

When Buffered Printing is enabled, GS ! command set height magnification of 3x or larger is ignored.

When Buffered Printing is disabled and height magnification is set to 3x or larger by GS ! command, subsequence set m =1 forces the height magnification to 2x.

ESC { n Select or Cancel Upside & Down Printing Mode is ignored when Buffered Printing is enabled.

Accumulated data is cleared by the Clear Buffer command.