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lC-10 user manual
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Contents
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@Copyright 1987 Star Micronics Co., Ltd.
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER 1
Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS 19
Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC 37
Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING A7
Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 53 - Appendix B PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS 59
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SETTING UP THE PRINTER
LOCATING THE PRINTER
UNPACKING AND INSPECTION Check the carton contents
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SETTING UP Mount the platen knob
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hstall the ribbon cartridge
Replace the top cover
Connect the printer to the computer
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Semiautomatic loading
Manual loading
LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS
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Paper parking
Paper unparking
TEST PRINTING
Short self test
Long se/f test
interface test
ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
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Orator Prints this way with switch t-3 OFF.
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Chapter 2
CONTROL PANEL OPERAT/O/VS
SWITCHES AND INDICATORS
Power indicator
On Line switch
This
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This is near-letter-quality Courier.
Short test pattern: On Line switch
Long test pattern: Paper Feed switch
Stay in pane/ pitch: Print Pitch switch
Stay in pane/ Sty/e: NLQ Type Style switch
Hexadecima/ dump: Paper Feed and Print Pitch switches
10 FOR I-O
*TO 255 20 LPRINT CHR$(I); 30 NEXT I 40 LPRINT 50 END
Figure 2-5. Sample hexadecimal dump
Figure 2-6. Sample hexadecimal dump with IBM-PC
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Paper
Page feed: Paper Feed and On Line switches
Forward micro-feed: On Line and Paper Feed switches
Reverse micro-fee& On Line and Print Pitch switches
Left margin: NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches
Right margin: NLQ Type Style and Paper Feed switches
Clearing the buffer: Print Pitch, On Line and Paper Feed switches
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Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER
WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Printer menu
Printer command options
Type styles
Page width
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Embedding printer commands
PRINTER COMMANDS
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Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER
WITH DOS AND BASIC
Name
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How the program works
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Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE
AND TROU5LESHOOTlNG
CLEANING THE PRINTER
REPLACING THE RIBBON
REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD
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TROUBLESHOOTING
H If the printer doesnt print:
screen:
rectly:
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TECHNICAL SPEClHCA T/Oh/S
H Printing Mechanism
H Switches and indicators
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- n Electrical Specifications
n Environmental Requirements
n Option
n lnterface Signals
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PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
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Select draft elite characters
Select NLQ characters
Select NLQ type sty/e
Select Courier characters
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Select Sanserii characters
Select Orator characters with small capitals
Select Orator characters with lower case
Select italic characters
Emphasized printing
Cancel emphasized printing
Double-strike printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Start underlining
Stop underlining
Start 0 werlining
Stop overlining
Superscript
Subscript
COLOUR PRINTING COMMANDS Select printing colour
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS Select standard character set
Select IBM character set
Select IBM character set #7
Select IBM character set #2
Select international character set
Enable printing of a// character codes
Enable printing of all character codes on next character
Select slash zero
Select norma/ zero
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS Pica pitch
Elite pitch
Condensed printing
Cancel condensed printing
Expanded printing
Cancel expanded printing
Expanded printing for one line
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Select proportional spacing
Select fixed spacing
Select master print mode
increase character spacing
Select double or quadruple size
Print double-height characters
Return to normal height
Select character size
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Select character height, width, and line spacing
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Execute < ESC > A
Line feed
Reverse line feed
Perform one n/276-inch line feed
Perform one n/276-inch reverse line feed
Feed paper n lines
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to n lines
Set page length to n inches
Set top margin
Set bottom margin
Cancel top and bottom margins
Form feed
Return to top of current page
Disable paper-out detector
Set vertical tab stops
Set vertical tab stops every n lines
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Set vertical tab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin
Set right margin
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Set left and right margins
Carriage return
Set automatic line feed
Cancel automatic line feed
Backspace
Center text
Right justify
Set horizontal tab stops
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
Reset a// tab stops
Horizontai tab
Relative horizontal tab
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
GRAPHICS COMMANDS Print sing/e-density 8-bit graphics
Print double-density 8-M graphics
Print double-density, double-speed 8-M graphics
Print quadruple-density 8-M graphics
Select graphics mode
Convert graphics density
Print g-pin graphics
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM
Define draft download characters
Define NLQ download characters
Define download characters
t
Select download character set
Select draft download character set
Select draft elite download character set
Select NLQ download character set
Select ROM character set .-
Define macro instruction
85
Execute macro instruction
OTHER PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS Set MSB to 7
Set MSB to 0
Delete last character sent
Cancel last line
immediate prinl
Cancel immediate print
Set printer off-line
Set printer on-line
Bell
Bidirectional printing
Unidirectional printing
One-line unidirectional printing
Manual feed
Auto feed
Eject paper from ASF
Set print start position on ASF
Reset printer
Appendix
CHARACTER GENERATOR
Draft character
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NLQ character
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CHARACTER SETS
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STANDARDCHARACTERSET
I x 1 1143 1 1159 1 1175 1 1191 1 1207 ( 1223 1 1239 1 1255 1
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IBM CHARACTER SET #l
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INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS
INDEX
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COLOUR PRINTER
REFERENCE CARD
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
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PRINT PITCH SELECTION
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COMMAND SUMMARY IN NUMERIC ORDER
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