Mobile Printing Systems
CPCL Programming Manual
Section 11
Printer Escape
Commands
pg. 11-4
continued
Get Extended Printer Status
Format:
ESC(0x1b) ‘i’ (0x69)
This command requests the extended status byte from the printer. Printer program versions 24 and
higher respond to this command. The extended status byte returned from the printer is in the following
format:
Bit Description
7 Ribbon status: 0=ribbon detected, 1=no ribbon detected
6 Paper supply status: 0=paper supply is OK,1=paper supply is low
5 Presentation (peeler) sensor: 0=last label removed, 1=last label not removed yet
4 Paper-jam: 1= detected, 0 = not detected
2
3 Reserved
2 Reserved
1 Reserved
0 Reserved
Notes: 1. Mask all reserved bits when reading status.
2. The PAPER JAM command must be issued prior to requesting the paper jam status.
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