How to print '\n' instead of a newline?

Print "\\n" – "\\" produces "\" and then "n" is recognized as an ordinary symbol. For more information see here.

The function printchar() below will print some characters as "special", and print the octal code for characters out of range (a la Emacs), but print normal characters otherwise. I also took the liberty of having '\n' print a real '\n' after it to make your output more readable. Also note that I use an int in the loop in main just to be able to iterate over the whole range of unsigned char. In your usage you would likely just have an unsigned char that you read from your dataset.

#include <stdio.h>

static void printchar(unsigned char theChar) {

    switch (theChar) {

        case '\n':
            printf("\\n\n");
            break;
        case '\r':
            printf("\\r");
            break;
        case '\t':
            printf("\\t");
            break;
        default:
            if ((theChar < 0x20) || (theChar > 0x7f)) {
                printf("\\%03o", (unsigned char)theChar);
            } else {
                printf("%c", theChar);
            }
        break;
   }
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {

    int theChar;

    (void)argc;
    (void)argv;

    for (theChar = 0x00; theChar <= 0xff; theChar++) {
        printchar((unsigned char)theChar);
    }
    printf("\n");
}

Just use "\\n" (two slashes)