Star Micronics NB-15 user manual Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Setting Up Your Printer

Where shall we put it? What have we here?

Removing the printer cover Removing the packing tube Removing shipping screws Installing the platen knob Installing the ribbon cartridge Installing the mute cover Installing the interface board Installing the font cartridge

Getting to Know Your Printer

Controls and parts of the printer Parts of the printer

Controls and indicators Extra functions

Other controls

Selecting and loading paper Loading single sheets Loading sprocket-feed paper

Adjusting the print head

Extra functions with the control panel Self-tests

Hex dump Panel modes

Setting print start position Setting the top of form

Setting the left and right margins Connecting the printer

Using Commercial Software

First, some terminology

Using your printer with SuperCalc

Using your printer with word processors

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Contents USER’S MANUAli Tatement Special Message to the New Owner Table of Contents Chapter Controlling with Basic CHR$Chapter Special Features of the Printer Functions of the Connector Signals Appendix G Serial Interface Specifications TRS-80 BasicSetting UP Your Printer Page Tion and movement for both removing and replacing the cover Page Print head Printer Slide the I/F board into the slot Page Getting to Know Your Printer Page Page Page Selecting and Loading Paper ‘igure 2-4. Raise the paper guide for loading single sheets You can insert a sheet of paper by using the release lever To align paper that is not in straight Sprocket cover You can raise While trrnirrgon the power Self-test DIP switch 2-2 on Efgh!jklmnopqr¶tuvwxyz~ ?lSS&‘ TOF During normal operation Connecting the Printer Page Memo Using Commercial Software Page Ascii Using Your Printer with Word Processors Page Memo Controlling With Basic PR#O ListNEW Lprint Testing RUN ESC W Lprint CHR$27WCHR$l Lprint CHR$27WCHR$49 Lprint CHRS27Wl Memo Printing Text Lprint CHR$27 xl ESC Lprint Undelined OFF ESCLprint Overlined Boldface on Escso When you run this program you should get this Demonstration Condensed Here’s what you should get from this program OFF Elite mint Summary notes Memo Formatting Text This is what you will get This Line Spacing is SET to Run the program again. Now the results will look like this Here is what your printer will produce Line Number Lprint CHRS12IOI ESCNCHR$n Lprint this is LINE1 Next This is Line Return TWO Three Four ONE This command sets the horizontal tab to every eight columns Next Try thisprogram tosee how this works Lprint CHR$11 First TAB Lprint CHR$llFIFTH TAB CHR$O Lprint 2ND TAB of CHANNEL’ Memo Special Features Printer Lprint CHR$7 ESCVCHR$O Here is what this program will print Lprint CHR$27il Printing direction commands Function Control code Next Lprint Lprint Eighth bit controls Next J 129 LPRINTCHR$27 LPRINTCHR$27= Lprintlprint Double This is Double Sized Printing Next Lprint Lprint CHR$IPage Creating Your OWN Characters Print Matrix Defining Your OWN Characters Usethisgridoronesimilartoittodefineyourown draftcharacters Wrong 128 Assigningavalueofcharacterspace Characterdesignsforthetwographsymbols Page Read MM LPRINTCHR$MM Next M Next N Lprint LPRINTCHR$I Next Lprint Lprint CHR$I NextLprint LPRINTGERMANYCHR$9 Lprintscales Data 1, 9, 2, 31,253,64, 32, 1,128,80 Read MM Lprint CHR$MM Next MMO+ml +m2 105 106