Genicom LA36 manual Options, Introduction

Introduction

•Various character sets. For the DEC PPL2 protocol, 31 character sets (twenty-five 94- character sets and six 96-character sets) are available. For IBM Proprinter X24E and XL24E protocol, set 1, set 2, and 30 default sets (code pages and specific character sets) are available. For Epson ESC/P2 protocol, 15 national character sets and 30 default sets (code pages and specific character sets) are available.

•Multiple fonts. The printer has nineteen resident fonts: Ten bit-map fonts — Draft, High-speed (HS) Draft, High-impact (Hi) Draft, Courier 10, Pica 10, Prestige Elite 12, Compressed 17, Boldface PS, OCR-A 10, and OCR-B 10; nine outline fonts — Timeless, Courier and Nimbus Sans, each in upright, italic, and bold; three outline fonts

— Courier in upright, italic, and bold (available for the Epson ESC/P2 protocol only); and nine Barcode fonts — Code 3 of 9, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Matrix 2 of 5, EAN 8, EAN 13, UPC-A, Codabar, and Postnet.

•High-speed printing. At 10 cpi, print speed ranges from 113 cps for letter quality to 360 cps for high-speed draft quality.

•128K bytes of input buffer. 128K bytes are available for storing input data and downloading custom fonts. A minimum download buffer capacity is available separately.

•Simple switching of paper types. The ability to “park” continuous forms makes it easy to switch between continuous forms and single sheets.

•Bottom feeding capability. The tractor unit is removable and can be converted to push- feed or pull-feed. Installing the tractor unit on the platen allows the paper to be fed through the slot at the bottom of the printer.

•Automatic tear-off advancing. With factory settings of the Set-Up mode, continuous forms’ perforations are automatically advanced up to the tear bar at the end of each job so that forms can be torn off. The tear-off feed can be also activated by pressing the Pause button.

•Auto viewing. Paper (continuous forms or single sheets) is automatically advanced at the end of each printing so that the last printed line can be read.

•Maintenance-free.The printer only requires periodic cleaning and changing of the ribbon cartridge.

•Windows printer driver. Printer drivers for Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows 98 are delivered with your printer. The printer driver is a control program to be installed on your computer for controlling document printing on your printer (for example, controlling the page size, the paper orientation, and so on). It receives print data from your application software, converts the data into commands that the printer can execute, and sends the commands to the printer.

Options

Printer add-on options are listed below. For details, see Appendix A “Supplies and Options”.

•Color kit. You can turn your monochrome printer into a color printer. Seven-color printing using a color ribbon is possible if supported by your software.

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