CONTENTS
CHAPTER
1
INTRODUCTION ...............................................
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1.1
Introduction ...................................................
l-l
CHAPTER 2
SPECIFICATIONS .............................................
2-l
2.1
Printer Specifications .........................................
2 - 1
2.2
Ribbon Specifications ..........................................
2-3
2.3
Installation Conditions ........................................
2-3
2.4
Optional Unit
..................................................
2-6
2.5
Forms Specification ............................................ 2
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11
2.5.1
General note about forms ................................... 2
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11
2.5.2 Dimensions
................................................. 2
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12
2.5.3
Multiple-part forms ........................................ 2
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15
2.5.4
Ambient conditions for forms ............................... 2
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18
2.5.5
Purchase order for forms ................................... 2
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18
2.6
Format Control Tape
(FCT)
...................................... 2
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19
2.6.1
Medium quality ............................................. 2
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19
2.6.2 Dimensions
................................................. 2
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19
CHAPTER 3
CONFIGURATION .............................................. 3
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1
3.1
Mechanical Unit ................................................
3-2
3.2 Control Unit
...................................................
3-3
CHAPTER 4
DPC-COMPATIBLE INTERFACE ...................................
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4.1
Operation Outline ..............................................
4-l
4.2
Interface Signals ..............................................
4-2
4.2.1
Interface signal lines .....................................
4-2
4.2.2
Physical specifications of interface signals
...............
4-6
4.3
Character and Control Codes ....................................
4-a
4.3.1
Character codes ............................................ 4
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10
4.3.2 Control codes
.............................................. 4
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10
4.4 Format
control ................................................. 4
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11
4.4.1
Definition of the top of forms
(TOF)
and the bottom
of form
(BOF)
.............................................. 4
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11
4.4.2
Specification of a forms feed format
.......................
4
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12
4.4.3
Skip and Space commands .................................... 4
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CHAPTER 5
CENTRONICS-COKPATIBLE
INTERFACE
............................
5
- 1
5.1
Operation Outline ..............................................
5-l
5.2
Interface Signals
..............................................
5-2
5.2.1
Interface signal lines .....................................
5-2
5.2.2
Physical specifications of interface signals
...............
5-a
5.3
Character and Control Codes .................................... 5
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11
5.3.1
Character codes ............................................ 5
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12
5.3.2
Control codes .............................................. 5
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12
5.4 Format Control
................................................. 5
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14
5.4.1
Loading from the mainframe to the VFU
......................
5
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15
5.4.2
Loading from an FCT to the VFU ............................. 5
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16
5.4.3
Format specification from the operator panel
,,
..............
5
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16
5.5
VFU Commands ................................................... 5
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17
5.5.1
n-Line Skip command ........................................ 5
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17
5.5.2
Skip to Channel-n commands ................................. 5
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18
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