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HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
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FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER
Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
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Chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE 107
Chapter 8 SPECIFICATIONS Chapter 9 CHARACTER SETS
INDEX COMMAND SUMMARY 136
Chapter 1
SETTING UP THE PRINTER
LOCATING THE PRINTER
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Identifying printer parts
SETTING UP
Mounting the platen knob
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Install the ribbon cartridge and the roller unit
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Connecting the printer to your computer
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LOADING SINGLE SHEETS
Automatic loading
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Manual loading
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Loading the paper from the rear of the printer
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Loading the paper from the bottom of the printer
Paper parking
Paper unparking
LOADING MULTI-PART FORMS
ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
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Chapter 2
CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
BUTTONS AND INDICATORS
ON LINE button
PAPER FEED button
SET/EJECT/PARK button
PITCH button
FONT button
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
Short test mode
Long test mode
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Print area test mode
Stay in Panel Pitch
Stay in Panel Font
Stay in Panel Pitch and Font
Hexadecimal dump
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SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
Form feed
Top of form
Forward micro-feed
Reverse micro-feed
Changing the auto loading value
Clearing the buffer/All reset
Selecting the print color
Store Macro Definition
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Chapter 3
DEFAULT SETTINGS
HOW TO SET THE EDS MODE
FUNCTIONS OF THE EDS SETTINGS
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BIDIRECTIONAL TEST/ADJUSTMENT MODE
Chapter 4
PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
Select draft elite characters
Select NLQ characters
Select NLQ font
Select Courier characters
Select Sanserif characters
Select Script characters
Select Orator characters
Select italic characters
Select NLQ italic characters
Select upright characters
Emphasized printing
Cancel emphasized printing
Double-s trike printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Start underlining
Stop underlining
Start 0 verlining
Stop overlining
Superscript
Subscript
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Select international character set
Select IBM code page
Enable printing of a// character codes
Enable printing of all character codes on next character
Select slash zero
Select normal zero
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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
Select character size
Print double-height characters
Return to normal height
Select character height, width, and line spacing
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS Set line spacing to I/8 inch
Set line spacing to 7/72 inch
Set line spacing to I/6 inch
Set line spacing to n/216 inch
Set line spacing to nD2 inch
Execute <ES& A
Line feed
Reverse line feed
Perform one n/216-inch line feed
Perform one n/216=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 bottom margin
Cancel bottom margin
Form feed
Return to top of current page
Disable paper-out detector
Enable paper-out detector
Set vertical tab stops
Set vertical tab stops every n lines
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
Vertical tab
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin
Set right margin
Set leff and right margins
Carriage return
Set automatic line feed
Cancel automatic line feed
Backspace
Left justify
Center text
Right justify
Full justify
Set horizontal tab stops
Set horizontal tab stops every n columns
Reset all tab stops
Horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab
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Absolute horizontal tab in columns
Print normal-density 8-bit graphics
Print double-density 8-bit graphics
Print double-density, double-speed 8-bit graphics
Print quadruple-density 8-bit graphics
Select graphics mode
Convert graphics density
Print O-pin graphics
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Define draft download characters
Define NLQ download characters
Define draft download characters
Define NLQ download characters
Copy character set from ROM into RAM
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Select download character set
Shift download character area
Select draft download character set
Select draft elite download character set
Select NLQ download character set
Select NLQ italic download character set
Select ROM character set
COLOR SELECTION COMMANDS select print color
Select black
Select magenta
Select cyan
Select violet
Sekt yellow
Select orange
Select green
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Quiet print
Cancel quiet 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
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chapter 5
DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS
DESIGNING YOUR OWN DRAFT CHARACTERS
Defining the attribute data
Assigning the character data
Sample program
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DEFINING YOUR OWN NLQ CHARACTERS
Assigning the character data with the Standard mode
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U.S. EXPORTS
Assigning the character data with the IBM mode
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chapter 6
MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER
INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE WITH YOUR PRINTER
EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS
PRINTER COMMANDS
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
A>PRINT README.DOC
Name of list device
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A>COPY README.DOC PRN A>TYPE README.DOC >PRN
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PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC
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How the program works
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Double-height,
Double-sized,
Quad-sized.
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chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING
AND MAINTENANCE
TROUBLESHOOTING
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Power supply
If the POWER indicator does not illuminate, check the following:
Printing
If your printer does not print, or suddenly stops printing, check the follow- ing:
Is the ON LINE indicator illu-
If the print is faint, or uneven, check the following:
If dots are missing in the printing, check the following:
If the printout is not what is expected:
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Paper feeding
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If the ASF is not operating or is not feeding paper correctly, check the following:
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MAINTENANCE
REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD
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chapter 8
SPECIFICATIONS
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INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS
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COMMAND SUMMARY
Standard Mode
The following commands take effect with the Standard mode.
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IBM Mode
The following commands take effect with the IBM mode.
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