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'''ESC/P''' is a set of printer-control commands introduced by Epson for use in printers, primarily the dot-matrix variety. Most commands are "escape sequences" consisting of the ESC character followed by various other characters, but some of the other [[ASCII]] [[C0 controls]] are also used. In some cases, numeric parameters are passed to commands in the form of binary representations, where if they are 16-bit integers, [[Endianness|little-endian]] form is used.

Commands can do things such as set different character sets, fonts, and formatting, as well as transmitting [[Epson Printer Bitmaps|bitmap graphics]] for printing, or cause the printer to print [[bar codes]]. The specific supported features vary between printer models.

A different command set, [[ESC/POS]], is used in Epson point-of-sale (POS) systems.

Command languages such as this, which intersperse a few control and escape codes with mostly plain-text content sent to a printer, have mostly gone out of use in favor of fully-graphical printer drivers sending page layouts to inkjet and laser printers.

== Documentation ==
* [https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/general/escp2ref.pdf ESC/P reference manual]]

== Other links ==
* [[Wikipedia:ESC/P|Wikipedia article]]
* [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13715950/writing-a-bitmap-to-epson-tm88iv-through-esc-p-commands-write-to-nvram Writing a bitmap to Epson TM88IV through ESC/P commands (Write To NVRam)]

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 == Documentation ==
-* [https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/general/escp2ref.pdf ESC/P reference manual]]
+* [https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/general/escp2ref.pdf ESC/P reference manual]
 == Other links ==
 * [[Wikipedia:ESC/P|Wikipedia article]]
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13715950/writing-a-bitmap-to-epson-tm88iv-through-esc-p-commands-write-to-nvram Writing a bitmap to Epson TM88IV through ESC/P commands (Write To NVRam)]

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