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USER’S MANUAL

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Wire dot matrix printers User’s Manual DL6400/6600 Book Page 2 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Declaration of Conformity DL6400/6600 Book Page 4 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Trademark Acknowledgment DL6400/6600 Book Page 6 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Contents 10-1 Changing Head Gap Adjustment Options 12-1 11-1 IN-1 Image and graphics reproduction Introduction Package Contents Functions Parts Inside Or continuous forms width Lists the printer parts and functions Recommended Removing Stopper Cushion Setting Up the PrinterCheck that the jam removal lever is locked Installing the Paper Guide Insert the platen knob and align it with the gear teeth Installing the Platen Knob Plug the power cord into an outlet Connecting the Power Cord Connecting the Interface Cable DL6400/6600 Book Page 6 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Choosing a Cassette Installing the Ribbon Cassette Preparing the Ribbon Cassette Installing the Ribbon Cassette Close the top cover of the printer Removing the Ribbon Cassette Lift the reverse guide and remove the old ribbon Replacing the Subcassette Paper tape Knob Lock tabs B Loading Paper Turn on the printer power switchLoading Continuous Forms Front Loading Continuous Forms Front Tractor pins Paper holders Tractors Continuous forms Close the front cover of the printer Lower the cut-sheet tray Indicator Forms Rear Cutting LoadingForms Raise the paper guide. See Installing the Paper Guide on Turn on printer powerLoading Cut Sheets Align the cut-sheet guide with the reference point Open the front tray Cut-sheet guide Cut sheet Printing on Cut Sheets Cut sheet Continuous forms Returning to Continuous Forms Operating the Printer UsingControl Panel Online Front Tractor FrictionRear Tractor Locked Load LF/FF Font Tear OFF MenuPaper Path Online + Tear OFF Alarm PowerOnline *2 Friction *2 Next Display Online *1 Turning Printer Power On Off Test Printing Test Printing Test printing sample Demonstration Pattern Printing Demonstration pattern Sensor Detection DL6400/6600 Book Page 14 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Clearing Paper Jams Continuous Forms Front Top cover Print head Paper thickness lever Cut Sheets Cut Sheets DL6400/6600 Book Page 6 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Size Paper Specifications Continuous Forms Become misaligned easily Parts do not separate orMisaligned Types of binding Single-sided zigzag spot gluing Combination of the other two 30 mm Inhibited area Cross-point cut 28 mm Area Size in mm Remarks Type Number Ream weight in g/cm Front Paste here FrontSide Labels Or more Ambient temperature 40C25.4 Formats Recommended label formats Label arrangement Preprinting Precautions Leave an interval of 8 mm 0.3 in or greater Unit mm Miscellaneous Overview Setup Mode Chapter Organization Activating Setup Mode Initial setup mode printout Mode Using Setup DL6400/6600 Book Page 5 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Setup mode summary Exit setup mode, saving the new font and spacing Printing a List of Options Default settings at shipment MENU1 Emulate Setting Required Options Changing MENU1 MENU2 Options XL24E DPL24C+ESC/P2 Letter QualityReport Draft Normal CHAR-WTimes CHAR-H None AttribItalics Condnsd TOP-MRG USA LangugeGerman Swedish PG-DHN ELOT928LATIN-P ISO-LTN SET CHR-SETItalic Graphic Disable EnableCR-CODE CR only CR & LF End-of-line wrap. Causes a carriage return plus a line Rghtend WrapFeed OVR-PRT Change other MENU1 or MENU2 options as required Select MENU1 or MENU2 ADJUST, or Config Default does not reset options handled by Hardware Hardware Changing BIT WORD-LGBuffer 2KBYTE2 XON/XOF SPACE1DTR REV-CHL Printer detects CD Printer ignores CD Changing Print Adjustment Options Cntfine CNT-ORGCUT-ORG Cutfine Rcntadj FcntadjCUT-ADJ DL6400/6600 Book Page 31 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Tearoff Manual Changing Conﬁguration OptionsAuto Tearpos Visible Cutload Auto TEAR-EN SECButton Loadtim Lock SetupALL CONT-PE DL6400/6600 Book Page 35 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Amount Changing Head Gap Adjustment OptionsPLY PLY POS.A POS.B POS.C POS.D Manual Select SAVE&END Resetting Default Values Using Diagnostic Functions Test printing SELF-TST Hex dump printing HEX-DUMP Sample hex dump Checking vertical print alignment V-ALMNT Bars offset to the left Correct vertical printing alignment You can also exit setup mode to exit V-ALMNT Flowchart in -6 shows the setup mode for the Fujitsu Setup ModeReference Listed for IBM Proprinter XL24E and Epson ESC/P2 emulations Setup Mode Reference LF code AGM Performing Online Setup Print head Ribbon cassette Correct continuous forms loading DL6400/6600 Book Page 4 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM To troubleshoot printer problems, follow the flowchart Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Maintenance Daily Inspection and MaintenanceInspection 11-2 Specifications Printer Specifications Printer specifications Parallel two pins Dimensions Aptc Consumables and OptionsD86B-1138-C353 for DL6600 Pro D86B-1138-C359 for DL6600 Pro DL6400/6600 Book Page 2 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Command Sets Fujitsu DPL24C DC2 Condensed characters offESC T Select underline type ESC M Space Backspace Carriage return Elite 12 cpiPica 10 cpi ESC P ESC LF ESC O Horizontal tab execution DC1 CanDC3 ESC = Select font m with source and style set by n ESC % m nBits 0 and 1 Font device selection Resident font ≤ n1 ≤ 255 0 ≤ n2 ≤ = n1 ⋅ 256 + n2 Ex. n = Select character spacingn/360 inch, font attributes≤ n1 ≤ 255 0 ≤ n2 ≤ Fixed 10 cpi 12 pt Bits 4 and 5 Speciﬁes the quality of characters to be reg ESC NUL m nIstered Bit-Image Graphics EAN Codabar nw-7 EAN Sound bell Enable paper-out sensorBEL Ignore the paper-out sensor BOLDFCE, Pica 10, Corresp Cour 10, Prstg 12, ComprsdDownld 0, Downld ESC % LETTER, REPORT, Draft SHADOW, Bold NONE, ITALICS, CondnsdESC E ESC F ESC G ESC H NO-SLSH, Slash DC1/DC3 ENABLE, DisableCR-ONLY, CR & LF LF-ONLY, LF & CR Unchanged Normal Double Single M4 controls character width DC4Unchanged Normal Double Set line spacing to 7/72 inch Space Backspace Carriage return Elite characters on≤ t 1 ≤ 255, 0 ≤ t 2 ≤ 255, t 3 = 0, t 4 = 180 or ESC B NUL ESC D NUL C 1 c Ignore command 181 Code Clear input bufferESC Q # Downloading ESC EM E ESC EMESC EM R Underline on or off ESC n On n = 1, off n = ESC n 1 n Select line Set pica Space Backspace Carriage return Set eliteSet line spacing to n/360 inch 0 ≤ n ≤ ESC + n ESC D Horizontal tab execution Set horizontal tabs⋅ 256/360 inch *1 = 2, n 2 = ≤ d 1 ≤ 255 0 ≤ d 2 ≤ ⋅ 256/360 inch *1 ESC C n = 2, n 2 = ≤ d 1 ≤ 255 0 ≤ d 2 ≤ ≤ n 1 + n 2 ⋅ 256 ≤ Character codes DEL Delete characterESC % n ESC * m n 1 n 2 data ESC X m n 1 nGraphics type m graphics Print raster image graphics ESC @ Enter online setup mode ESC e Online data DL6400/6600 Book Page 32 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Parallel Interface Interface Information ACK Dstb Slct Inprm This signal is used to indicate that data is This signal is set low when the printer isReady to send data to the host. During Data transfer, it is used as data bit Figure C-1 Data transmission timing Data Transmission Timing Figure C-2 Data transmission timing RTS Serial InterfaceCTS Serial Options When the printer is turned onReady ETX/ACK selectable TD RD Cable Wiring Figure C-1 Cable wiring DSR-enabled control ON/XOFF Serial ProtocolsETX/ACK Those of set 2 also vary with the national character set Character Sets DL6400/6600 Book Page 2 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 3 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 4 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 5 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 6 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 7 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM LITHUA1 Lithuanian LITHUA2 Lithuanian MIK DL6400/6600 Book Page 10 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 11 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 12 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 13 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 14 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM DL6400/6600 Book Page 15 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Ecma ECMA94 LITHUA2 MIK LATN2-TMacedon ABG ABY PG-MAC ELOT927 DL6400/6600 Book Page 18 Friday, July 31, 1998 1142 AM Using the LCD/LED Type Control Panel Control panel components LCD screen Indicator lights Unload Buttons Menus and functions Points to remember about basic menusExecutes form feed Changes the font, print quality, and pitch Executes line feed Executing a micro line feed Executing a form feed or line feedTo execute a form feed or line feed To execute a micro line feed 1/180 inch per step To reset the printer Resetting the printerTearing off continuous forms To tear off continuous forms Changing print font, quality, and pitch temporarily Letter Report Draft Selecting MENU1 or MENU2 Entering setup mode Enabling or disabling lock modeSetup mode initial menu appears Exiting setup mode Selecting options Using the Setup Menus Selections are not in effect until they are saved Starting functions Example of operations Save Exit from Setup SELF-TEST Alignment Saving changed options Selecting options in MENU1 and MENU2 Using the Save function Exit from Setup Press F1 until SELF-TEST appears under Func Printing the self-test Correcting vertical character displacement Power-on Special Functions Stop MessagesUSE Save Exit Where xxxx is -128 to +127 Where line 001 is the top-of-formInternal test Printer is performing its Appears for 2 seconds immediately Exit Stop GO Speed Incr Decr MICRO↑ Exit Save Operational error messages Messages indicating user-correctable problems LCD model Cover open Cover is open Shut the cover Error Table E-5 Warning errors list #EAppendixE Page 30 Wednesday, September 2, 1998 1005 AM Buffer overflow Space for download data, or check the format Table E-6 lists nonfatal error messages alphabeticallyDownload data Or check the interface cable Cour Messages indicating fatal errorsPrestg Compress Fatal Index Index Platen Platen knob IN-4 IN-5 IN-6 Fujitsu Offices C147-E041-03EN