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Star Micronics lC-10 Short test pattern: On Line switch , Long test pattern: Paper Feed switch , Stay in pane/ pitch: Print Pitch switch , Stay in pane/ Sty/e: NLQ Type Style switch , Hexadecima/ dump: Paper Feed and Print Pitch switches

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Short test pattern: On Line switch

If held down during power-up, this switch prints a short test pattern

(shown in Chapter 1).

Long test pattern: Paper Feed switch

If held down during power-up, this switch prints a long test pattern.

The test cycles endlessly. To stop the test you must switch power off.

Stay in pane/ pitch: Print Pitch switch

By holding this switch down during power-up, you can prevent software

interference with the print pitch selected from the control panel. You will

hear an acknowledging beep as power comes on. After the beep tone, you

can set the printer off-line, select a print pitch, then return to on-line and

start printing. The pitch you selected will not be reset or otherwise changed

by any commands your software may issue.

Stay in pane/ Sty/e: NLQ Type Style switch

If held down during power-up, this switch prevents software interference

with the type style selected from the control panel. There will be an ac-

knowledging beep, after which you can set the printer off-line, select a type

style, then return to the on-line state and start printing. The selected type

style will not be changed by any commands sent by software.

If you want to protect both the Print Pitch and NLQ Type Style settings

from software changes, press both switches during power-up. There will

be two acknowledging beeps.

Pressing these switches during power-up does not prevent you from

making any number of changes later from the control panel.

Hexadecima/ dump: Paper Feed and Print Pitch switches

This feature is useful for programmers who are debugging printing

programs and want to see the actual codes the printer is receiving. (Some

computers change the codes the programmer intended.)

1. Holding both the Paper Feed and Print Pitch switches down, turn power

ON. A beep tone will be heard.

2. Start printing. In place of the usual printout you will get a formatted

dump showing exactly what data the printer receives. Each line presents

sixteen characters, their hexadecimal codes to the left and printable

characters printed on the right.

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Contents

Main @Copyright 1987 Star Micronics Co., Ltd. HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL Page TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER 1 Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS 19 Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC 37 Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING A7 Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 53 - Appendix B PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS 59 I SETTING UP THE PRINTER LOCATING THE PRINTER UNPACKING AND INSPECTION Check the carton contents Page SETTING UP Mount the platen knob Page hstall the ribbon cartridge Replace the top cover Connect the printer to the computer Page Semiautomatic loading Manual loading LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS Page Paper parking Paper unparking TEST PRINTING Short self test Long se/f test interface test ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP DIP SWITCH SETTINGS Page Orator Prints this way with switch t-3 OFF. Page Page Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERAT/O/VS SWITCHES AND INDICATORS Power indicator On Line switch This Page This is near-letter-quality Courier. Short test pattern: On Line switch Long test pattern: Paper Feed switch Stay in pane/ pitch: Print Pitch switch Stay in pane/ Sty/e: NLQ Type Style switch Hexadecima/ dump: Paper Feed and Print Pitch switches 10 FOR I-O *TO 255 20 LPRINT CHR$(I); 30 NEXT I 40 LPRINT 50 END Figure 2-5. Sample hexadecimal dump Figure 2-6. Sample hexadecimal dump with IBM-PC 2.5 ! Paper Page feed: Paper Feed and On Line switches Forward micro-feed: On Line and Paper Feed switches Reverse micro-fee& On Line and Print Pitch switches Left margin: NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches Right margin: NLQ Type Style and Paper Feed switches Clearing the buffer: Print Pitch, On Line and Paper Feed switches Page Page Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE Printer menu Printer command options Type styles Page width Page Embedding printer commands PRINTER COMMANDS Page Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC Name Page Page Page Page Page How the program works Page Page Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROU5LESHOOTlNG CLEANING THE PRINTER REPLACING THE RIBBON REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD Page TROUBLESHOOTING H If the printer doesnt print: screen: rectly: Page TECHNICAL SPEClHCA T/Oh/S H Printing Mechanism H Switches and indicators Page Page - n Electrical Specifications n Environmental Requirements n Option n lnterface Signals k Page Page PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters _- Select draft elite characters Select NLQ characters Select NLQ type sty/e Select Courier characters I Select Sanserii characters Select Orator characters with small capitals Select Orator characters with lower case Select italic characters Emphasized printing Cancel emphasized printing Double-strike printing Cancel double-strike printing Start underlining Stop underlining Start 0 werlining Stop overlining Superscript Subscript COLOUR PRINTING COMMANDS Select printing colour CHARACTER SET COMMANDS Select standard character set Select IBM character set Select IBM character set #7 Select IBM character set #2 Select international character set Enable printing of a// character codes Enable printing of all character codes on next character Select slash zero Select norma/ zero CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS Pica pitch Elite pitch Condensed printing Cancel condensed printing Expanded printing Cancel expanded printing Expanded printing for one line Cancel one-line expanded printing Select proportional spacing Select fixed spacing Select master print mode increase character spacing Select double or quadruple size Print double-height characters Return to normal height Select character size I I 70 n Select character height, width, and line spacing m Page Execute < ESC > A Line feed Reverse line feed Perform one n/276-inch line feed Perform one n/276-inch reverse line feed Feed paper n lines Set top of page at current position Set page length to n lines Set page length to n inches Set top margin Set bottom margin Cancel top and bottom margins Form feed Return to top of current page Disable paper-out detector Set vertical tab stops Set vertical tab stops every n lines 75 Set vertical tab stops in channel Select vertical tab channel HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin Set right margin -. Set left and right margins Carriage return Set automatic line feed Cancel automatic line feed Backspace Center text Right justify Set horizontal tab stops Set horizontal tab stop every n columns Reset a// tab stops Horizontai tab Relative horizontal tab Absolute horizontal tab in inches Absolute horizontal tab in columns GRAPHICS COMMANDS Print sing/e-density 8-bit graphics Print double-density 8-M graphics Print double-density, double-speed 8-M graphics Print quadruple-density 8-M graphics Select graphics mode Convert graphics density Print g-pin graphics DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM Define draft download characters Define NLQ download characters Define download characters t Select download character set Select draft download character set Select draft elite download character set Select NLQ download character set Select ROM character set .- Define macro instruction 85 Execute macro instruction OTHER PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS Set MSB to 7 Set MSB to 0 Delete last character sent Cancel last line immediate prinl Cancel immediate print Set printer off-line Set printer on-line Bell Bidirectional printing Unidirectional printing One-line unidirectional printing Manual feed Auto feed Eject paper from ASF Set print start position on ASF Reset printer Appendix CHARACTER GENERATOR Draft character Page NLQ character Page Page I----- Modify & plot character ----------------------------~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 94 Page Page CHARACTER SETS -?-- n 1 STANDARDCHARACTERSET I x 1 1143 1 1159 1 1175 1 1191 1 1207 ( 1223 1 1239 1 1255 1 Page Page IBM CHARACTER SET #l Page INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS INDEX m /o/ Iu LC-10 COLOUR PRINTER REFERENCE CARD POWER-UP FUNCTIONS SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS Page PRINT PITCH SELECTION 12345678901234567 < ESC > ~'9 123456789012345678!Xl 1234567890 CHR$( 18) 123456789012 < ESC > M" 12345678901234567 COMMAND SUMMARY IN NUMERIC ORDER - Page u L Y I cu- Q c e