Printronix ANSI Printer manual Installing Printer Emulations

Chapter 1 Installing Printer Emulations

•Font Typefaces. Also referred to as print modes. The five typefaces include Near Letter Quality (NLQ), Data Processing (DP), High Speed (HS), OCR A, and OCR B.

•Character Sets. Fifty-one character sets are available. You can print the character sets in the different print modes.

•Bar codes. Several bar codes are available: Code 3 of 9, Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC A, EAN 8, EAN 13, UCC 128, and Codabar.

•Expanded/Oversize print modes.

•Forms Positioning. Several commands are available to set print position (relative or absolute).

Installing Printer Emulations

Printer emulation software is stored in flash memory. Flash memory is contained in single in-line memory modules (SIMMs) located on the controller board. Printer emulation and operating system software are loaded into flash memory at the factory, but you will install software in some situations:

•A printer software upgrade is installed

•The printer controller board has been replaced

•The flash memory SIMM has been replaced

Emulation and operating system software are stored on a CD. You will copy the appropriate file to your computer’s hard disk, then download that file to the printer. You can load software through the serial, parallel, or Ethernet NIC port of the printer.

NOTE: If the NIC is installed, you must download the code through the NIC port using ftp.

NOTE: Each printer type, line matrix, laser, and thermal, has its own CD with the specific file types for that printer. Be sure to use the appropriate CD for your printer type when downloading software.

IMPORTANT When downloading emulation and operating system software to the printer, all other optional font files, customer-supplied logos, setup files, and TIFF files will be erased. You will then need to reload those files. Before starting a download procedure, be sure that you have all the necessary files on hand.

•Serial or Parallel Port: If you are going to load memory through the serial or parallel port of the printer, see “Downloading Software Through the Serial or Parallel Port” on page 11. The load commands are different, depending on the printer port you use. These differences are explained in the note following step 22., page 13.

•NIC: If the printer has the NIC installed, see “Downloading Software Through the Network Interface Card (NIC)” on page 14.

•Font Files: If you need to load optional font files, see “Downloading Optional Font Files to Flash Memory” on page 16.

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