Epson SQ-2000 About the Manual

About the Manual

This manual contains all the information you need to operate the SQ-2000. In the first section, you’ll find the necessary details to get your SQ-2000 up and running. The second part of the manual contains information on how to take full advantage of some of the printer’s special features.

Chapter 1 shows you how to print your first document in ten easy steps. Chapters 2 and 3 include a description of the control panel, information on using your printer with word processing, and some programming tutorials. Chapter 4 describes how the printer maintains itself and contains some troubleshooting sug- gestions.

If you already know how to program a printer, you will find useful information on graphics capabilities in chapters 5 and 6. Chapters 7 and 8 contain additional programming information.

The Appendixes provide reference information for program- ming, instructions for installing an optional tractor feed unit, and specifications.

Contents

Printer Operating Manual Page Contents User-DefinedCharacters DotGraphics Using the Hex Dump Feature Programming Hints Appendixes B ASCII Code Conversion Chart C Widths of the Proportional Characters Figures Page Tables Introduction About the Manual Chapter 10steps to Printing Page Page Selecting the Right Location l-2 1 Unpacking the Printer Caution: 2 Putting on the Paper Feed Knob Note: 3 Installing the Ink Cartridge 4 Setting Up the Single-SheetPaper Guide 5 Installing the Interface Card Warning: Page 6 Connecting the Printer to Your Computer 7 Customizing the Printer 8 Loading Single-SheetPaper Page 9 Self-Testingthe Printer A Word About Selecting Paper MEMO we have ju Testing your paper Don Donnison, President All employees As you all know field in the sensing devi red sensors 10 Printing Your First Document MEMO Donnison. President are Operation Control Panel Buttons ON LINE button FF (Form Feed) button LF (Line Feed) button CLEANING button SHEET FEED button Indicators Meaning of blinking indicators Cause Rate Paper-enddetector When Ink low Buzzer Initialization Using the SQ-2000 T w o Using the SQ-2000with other application programs Programming with the SQ-2000 Computer-to-printercommunications ASCII codes Control codes ESCape Sequences Translating the ASCII code How to send control codes to printer Now RETURN RETURN ITALIC PRINTING RETURN. You Using Master Select Command Page Page M I S w i y 1 0 M I Sw i y M I S w iy MISwiy I S M I S w i y 1 6 S w i y M I S w i y 1 0 M I S w i y 2 3 Chapter3 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Printer Care and Maintenance How Automatic Print Head Cleaning Works Cleaning the print head while printing For more extensive cleaning you’ve Special cleaning Summary of Cleaning Cycles Troubleshooting Guide Troubleshooting Guide Problem Possible Cause To Solve It Check See Page Cause User-DefinedCharacters The print matrix Defining Your Own Characters Page Sending information to the SQ-2000 <ESC Page Page Printing User-DefinedCharacters Copying ROM to RAM How Print Mode Affects User-DefinedCharacters Draft mode characters Letter quality characters Proportional mode characters Mixing Print Styles Other considerations Defining Connecting Characters Page Page Characters that connect vertically Page Dot Graphics Page Page Nozzle values Syntax of the Graphics Command Using Hand-CalculatedData to Print Graphics Printing Multiple Lines of 8-DotGraphics Page Page Using the 24-DotGraphics Options Page Page Using the SQ-2000as a Plotter X2 Page Page Page Page Page Individual Graphics Options Commands Assigning Graphics Options Using the Hex Dump Feature Page Programming Hints Apple Computers TRS-80Computers IBM Personal Computers QX-10Computers Page Appendix A SQ-2000Command Summary Vertical Spacing Commands Select l/6-inchline spacing Set n/180-inchline spacing Set n/60-inchline spacing Form Feed Set page length by lines Set page length by inches Set bottom margin Cancel bottom margin Vertical tab Set vertical tabs Select a vertical tab channel Set vertical tabs in tab channels Horizontal Spacing Commands Horizontal tab Set horizontal tabs Set intercharacter space <ESC Moves last character Print Style Commands Cancel elite width print Proportional print on/off One-lineexpanded width print Cancel one-lineexpanded width print Expanded width print on/off Select compressed width print Select emphasized print Print Cancel italic print Underline on/off Select superscripts or subscripts Cancel superscripts and subscripts Character Set Commands Select international character set Graphics Commands High-speed, double-densitydot graphics Quadruple-densitydot graphics Selected density dot graphics Change dot graphics density Miscellaneous Commands Select printer Set specified data to repeat printing Set eighth-bit Clear eighth-bit Cancel eighth-bitcontrol Bell Initialize Unidirectional printing on/off Appendix B ASCII Code Conversion Chart Page Page Page Appendix C Widths of the Proportional Characters Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Appendix D Setting the DIP Switches Page Before You Change the Switch Settings How the DIP switches are identified Column DIP Switch Panel Switch Number of Interface DIP Switch Panels Function ON (up) OFF (down) SW1-1 SW1-2 SW1-3 SW1-4 SW2-1, SW2-2,and SW2-3 Page SW2-4 SW2-5 SW2-6 SW2-7 SW2-8 Appendix E Using the Optional Tractor Unit Installing the Tractor Unit Installing the Paper Separator Loading Continuous Paper Page Page Page Appendix F Specifications Printer INDEX Page Page Page syntax G Page Page Page Page Page Page Using SQ-2000Commands with BASIC Master Select Codes Control Codes by Function Vertical Spacing Commands Horizontal Spacing Commands ASCII Code Conversion Chart Page EPSON AMERICA, INC LIMITED WARRANTY