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Figure E-6. Pin feed bolder adjustment

Next, open the pin feed covers as shown in Figure E-7 and feed the paper under the paper separator and into the paper slot; push the paper through until it comes up between the ribbon guide and the platen.

Figure E-7. Open pin feed cover

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Contents

LX-80™PRINTER User’s Manual FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT FOR AMERICAN USERS WARNING NOTICE: Contents LX-80Features 6 Print Enhancements and Special Characters 7Page Formatting User-Defined Characters Introduction to Dot Graphics Appendixes ASCII Codes and Character Fonts Control Codes in Numeric Order Control Codes by Function FTroubleshooting and Advanced Features G Printer Maintenance H Technical Specifications I The Parallel Interface List of Figures List of Tables Introduction About This Manual WLQ emphasized ABCDEFGHIJKLMnopqrstuvwxyz Chapter Setting Up Your LX-80Printer Printer Location Paper Feed Knob Installation Ribbon Installation Page Page Ribbon Replacement Paper Loading Control Panel Page Test Pattern Connecting the LX-80to Your Computer First Printing Exercise SelecType Table 2-1.SelecType modes 1 NLQABCDEFGHIJKL,MNopqrst,uvwxyz Using SelecType is a simple four-stepprocess: 1)Enter SelecType mode Turning SelecType Mode On Using SelecType First SelecType Exercises Testing Your Software for the Reset Code Mode Combinations Page emphasized Near Letter Quality SelecType Cautions and Tips Elements of Dot Matrix Printing Bidirectional Printing Changing Pitches ..a NLQ Mode Page Printer Control Codes ESCape Code Printer Codes Embedded codes Inserted codes Programming Languages LX-80Features Pica Printing Cancelling Codes Resetting the Printer Pitch Comparison 5 WIDTH LPRINT 10LPRINT CHRrG(27) “x”CHR$(l); 20 FOR X=65 TO 30LPRINT CHR$(X); 40 NEXT X: LPRINT Page Print Enhancements and Special Characters and 20 PRINT "Which ESCape code do you 30 INPIJT "want to test";A$ 40 PRINT "What kind of printing 50 INPUT "does it produce";B$ 60 LPRINT CHR$(27)A$ tiiiiil Expanded Mode Italic Mode Underline Mode Master Select "Master Se1 sample Superscript and Subscript Special Characters International Characters Page Page Graphics Character Set Page Page Formatting Justification with NLQ Skip Over Perforation Line Spacing Page Paper-OutSensor User-DefinedCharacters Designing Process Figure 8-2.Correct and incorrect designs First definition program 100 DIM F(9) 110 FOR I=1 TO 120 PRINT "WHICH ROWS HAVE DOTS IN COLUMN";1 Running the program Second definition program 90 FOR P=58 TO 63: LPRINT CHR$(P);: NEXT P 100 K=l: IF K>3 THEN A=58 ELSE A=60 130 LPRINT CHR$(27)"&"CHR$(O)CHR$OCHR$(A-1tK);140 FOR Z=l TO K 150 LPRINT CHR$(128); 160 FOR X=1 TO 170 READ R Defining NLQ Characters NLQ grid Page Page First NLQ definition program "x"CHR$(l) 40 LPRINT CHR$(27)"&"CHR$(O)"<("; 50 LPRINT CHR$(O)CHR$(lZ)CHR$(0); 60 FOR X=1 TO 70 READ C: LPRINT CHR$(C); When LX-80 You Introduction to Dot Graphics Dot Patterns Print Head Graphics Mode Pin Labels • 0 0 First Graphics Program data Multiple-LineExercise 30 LPRINT CHR$(27>"K"CHR$(lOO)CHR$(O); 50NEXT TO 50: Density Varieties Mode Density Alternate Description LPRINT CHR$(27)"*"CHR$(M)CHR$(Nl)CHR$(NZ); LPRINT CHR$(27)"@?Y"CHR$(S); CHR$(27)"Z"CHR$(128)CHR$(7); CHR$(27)"L"CHR$(N Design Your Own Graphics Page Page Graphics Programming Tips Semicolons and command placement 20 LPRINT CHR$(27)“K”CHR$(50)CHR$(0) 30 LPRINT CHR$( 27 ) ” 1 40 FOR G=l TO 50: LPRINT CHR$(74): NEXT G of the more String variables 10 G$zCHR$(27>+"K"+CHR$(l00)+CHR(0) 30B$~~CHR$(42)tCMR$(85) 40 I,PRINT CHR$(27)"1"; 50FOR Rr-1TO 60LPRINT G$; Appendix A ASCII Codes and Character Fonts printing A-2 Special Graphics Characters Dec Hex Character Hex Character A-3 Character A-4 Draft International Characters A-5 Appendix B Control Codes in Numeric Order Page Page ESC Dec Symbol Function ESC Dec Hex Symbol Page Page ESC 83 53 S ESC 87 57 W ESC 90 5A Z Page Page Low High High Symbol Dec BEL Control Key Chart Appendix C Control Codes by Function Print Enhancement Mode and Character-SetSelection Special Printer Features Forms Control Page Format tab User-definedCharacters Dot Graphics Appendix D The DIP Switches Switch 1 ON Page Appendix E Using the Optional Tractor Unit Tractor Unit Installation separator Loading Continuous Paper Page Page Appendix F Troubleshooting and Advanced Features Page Paper-outsensor SelecType Solutions Method Other software Cancelling Functions with SelecType Page Beeper Error Warnings Data Dump Mode Page Coding Solutions POKE 14312, N 100 IF I’E:RK( 1431%)<>63 THEN 100 IF PEEK(49601)>127 ‘I’fIEN 200 POKE 49296, N problems 10 DATA 21E83’7CH7E20FC211100397E32E837C9 30 FOR I’=3 TO TJ:N(E\$) STFY 50 IF’ IS>9 THEN B-H ‘70 IF T>9 THF:N T-T- 7 80 POKE A,R*l6 + T 110 POKE 16422,187 Solutions for Specific Systems Applesoft BASIC solutions Apple II solutions TRS-80TM solutions IBM-PCTM solutions WIDTH I,PRINT FOR X-lTO 10: rF x-53TIN x=10 : NEXT Appendix G Printer Maintenance Appendix H Technical Specifications .122 in 4” to 10” Environment Interface Appendix The Parallel Interface Page BUSY Page INDEX J-1 J-2 J-3 J-4 J-5 J-6 J-7 Page Control Codes by Function Near Letter Quality Mode Character Width (Pitch) Character Weight Print Enhancement “-0 Special Printer Features Line Spacing Forms Control Page Format User-definedCharacters ESC “&” ESC “:” ESC “%” Defines characters in user RAM Copies the character set from ROM to RAM. Activates ROM or RAM character set Dot Graphics ASCII Codes Control Keys EPSON AMERICA, INC LIMITED WARRANTY