ActionPrinter 2250

-Interface specifications

Your printer is equipped with an 8-bit parallel interface.

Specifications and

pin assignments

The built-in parallel interface has the following characteristics:

Data format:

 

8-bit parallel

 

 

 

 

 

Synchronization:

 

STROBE

pulse

 

 

 

Handshake timing:

 

BUSY and

ACKNLG

signals

Signal level:

 

TTL compatible

Connector:

 

36-pin 57-30360 Amphenol connector or

 

 

equivalent

Default settings

The table below shows the default settings that take effect when the printer is initialized.

 

 

Item

 

 

Default setting

 

 

Top-of-form position

Current paper position or setting in the default-

 

 

 

 

setting

mode.

 

 

 

Page Length

 

Single sheets: 65 lines for A4-size paper,

 

 

 

 

61 lines for letter-size paper, 22 inches for

 

 

 

 

manual

insertion

 

 

 

 

Continuous paper: Subject to control panel

 

 

 

 

setting in the default-setting mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left

and

right

margins

Canceled

 

 

 

 

 

Line

spacing

 

1/6-inch line spacing

 

 

 

 

 

Horizontal

tab

positions

Every

eight characters

 

 

 

 

Font

selection

 

Last font selected on control panel

 

 

 

Special printing effects

Canceled

[except condensed printing)

 

 

 

 

Download

character set

Hardware

initialization: cleared

 

 

 

 

Software

initialization deselected only

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition, hardware initialization clears the data buffer.

Character Tables

You can select these character tables with the default-setting mode or by using a software command.

All tables except the italic character table are the same as the PC 437 table for hex codes 00 through 7F, so only the PC 437 and italic tables are shown completely. The rest of the tables show only the characters for hex codes 80 through FF.

PC 437 (USA, standard Europe)

PC 850 (Multilingual)

PC 860 (Portuguese)

PC 863 (Canadian-French) PC 865 (Nordic)

The table below shows the international character sets you can select with the default-setting mode and the ESC R software command. For example, when you select “Italic-France” in the default-setting mode, the characters of the “France” column on the table below are used in the italic character table.

The fit eight character sets can be selected with both the default setting mode and the ESC R command. The last five sets are available only by using the ESC R command. The value of n is used for the ESC R command.

9-Pin Printers

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