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Device Font List
Control Font
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# Star SP500 Windows Printer Driver
- Device Font

This printer driver supports a variety of built-in, or resident, fonts.

These fonts have a variety of font sizes and they offer clearer printing than True Type fonts. The control font is used to control the printer by commands embedded in a character-based print job.

## Device Font List

The device fonts which are supported by this printer driver are listed below.
Please specify the correct fonts and font size through the configuration of your applications.
Specifying 9 dots is equivalent to 9 points for Microsoft Word or Excel.

Font Name | Width (dots) | Height (dots) | Characters per 63mm or 210 Dot Line | Detail
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Printer 4.5cpi | 18 | 9 | 11 | Printer Fonts (ANK Fonts)
Printer 4.5cpi Tall | 18 | 18 | 11
Printer 7cpi | 12 | 9 | 17
Printer 7cpi Tall | 12 | 18 | 17
Printer 8.5cpi | 10 | 9 | 21
Printer 8.5cpi Tall | 10 | 18 | 21
Printer 9cpi | 9 | 9 | 23
Printer 9cpi Tall | 9 | 18 | 23
Printer 14cpi | 6 | 9 | 35
Printer 14cpi Tall | 6 | 18 | 35
Printer 17cpi | 5 | 9 | 42
Printer 17cpi Tall | 5 | 18 | 42
Simplified Chinese | - | - | - | 2byte Fonts
Traditional Chinese | - | - | -
Control | - | - | - | Control Fonts
ESC_FONT | - | - | -

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## Control Fonts

Control fonts can be used to control printer functions.
The control font is used to execute various printer actions, and is not used for printing.

The operations that can be executed through the control font are shown below.

Characters | Function
--- | ---
A | Drive cash drawer 1 (50ms)
B | Drive cash drawer 1 (100ms)
C | Drive cash drawer 1 (150ms)
D | Drive cash drawer 1 (200ms)
E | Drive cash drawer 1 (250ms)
d | Drive cash drawer 2 (200ms)
6 | LF output
7 | CR output
F | Auto cutter: Full-cut
P | Auto cutter: Partial-cut
G | Print NV Bit Image 1 in regular mode
H | Print NV Bit Image 2 in regular mode
I | Print NV Bit Image 3 in regular mode
J | Print NV Bit Image 4 in regular mode print
K | Printer NV Bit Image 5 in regular mode
Q | Print NV Bit Image 1 in double-width mode
R | Print NV Bit Image 2 in double-width mode
S | Print NV Bit Image 3 in double-width mode
T | Print NV Bit Image 4 in double-width mode
U | Print NV Bit Image 5 in double-width mode
V | Print NV Bit Image 1 in double-height mode
W | Print NV Bit Image 2 in double-height mode
X | Print NV Bit Image 3 in double-height mode
Y | Print NV Bit Image 4 in double-height mode
Z | Print NV Bit Image 5 in double-height mode
[ | Print NV Bit Image 1 in 4x mode
] | Print NV Bit Image 2 in 4x mode
^ | Print NV Bit Image 3 in 4x mode
_ | Print NV Bit Image 4 in 4x mode
` | Print NV Bit Image 5 in 4x mode
a | Specify alignment: Align left
b | Specify alignment: Align center
c | Specify alignment: Align right
e | Set new line to 1/8 inch
f | Set new line to 1/6 inch
g | Select international characters: USA
h | Select international characters: France
i | Select international characters: Germany
j | Select international characters: England
k | Select international characters: Denmark I
l | Select international characters: Sweden
m | Select international characters: Italy
n | Select international characters: Spain I
o | Select international characters: Japan
p | Select international characters: Norway
q | Select international characters: Denmark II
r | Select international characters: Spain II
s | Select international characters: Latin America
t | Set black/white inversion print
u | Cancel black/white inversion print
v | Customer display: Start data transfer
w | Customer display: End data transfer
x | Customer display: Display clear

Note: Specified characters will be ignored if they are not supported by the printer.
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## Legal Information

Copyright 2010 Star Micronics Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.