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 Introduction to ESC/P2
 ======================
 
    This is a description of the ESC/P2 raster commands used by the
 gimp-print plugin and Ghostscript driver, which is a subset of the
 complete command set.  The full documents are found on
 <http://www.ercipd.com/isv/edr_docs.htm>.  Note that these are *not*
 always correct, and are certainly not complete.
 
    All ESCP/2 raster commands begin with the `ESC' character (1b hex),
 followed by either one or two command characters and arguments where
 applicable.  Older commands generally have one command character.  Newer
 commands usually have a `(' (left parenthesis) followed by a command
 character and a byte count for the arguments that follow.  The byte
 count is a 16-bit (2 byte) binary integer, in little endian order.
 
    All arguments listed here are of the form `name[bytes]' where
 `[bytes]' is the number of bytes that comprise the argument.  The
 arguments themselves are usually one, two, or four byte integers, always
 little endian (the least significant bits come first).  Presumably this
 is to match Intel processors.
 
    In some cases, the same command sequence identifies different
 versions of the same command, depending upon the number of bytes of
 arguments.
 
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