Table of Contents | Star Micronics lC-10 manual

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER

Locating the printer

Unpacking and inspection

Check the carton contents

Setting up

Mount the platen knob

Remove the top cover

Install the ribbon cartridge

Replace the top cover

Connect the printer to the computer

Connect the printer’s power cord

Loading single sheets

Mount the paper guide

Semiautomatic loading

Manual loading

Loading and parking fanfold forms

Paper parking

Paper unparking

Test printing

Short self test

Long selft test

Interface test

Adjusting the printing gap

DIP switch settings

Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS

Switches and indicators

Power indicator

On Line switch

Paper Feed switch

Print Pitch switch

NLQ Type Style switch

Power-up functions

Short test pattern

Long test pattern

Stay in panel pitch

Stay in panel style

Hexadecimal dump

Switch combination functions

Paper parking

Page feed

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Star Micronics lC-10 user manual Table of Contents

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LC-IO Helpful How to Identify and Resolve Radio-TV Interference HOW to USE this Manual Features of the Printer Table of Contents Commercial Software Download Character Generator Setting UP the Printer Page Mount the platen knob Remove the top cower Hstall the ribbon cartridge Loading Single Sheets Loading Manual loading Loading and Parking Fanfold Forms Lever Paper parking Short self Test Paper unparking Interface test Long se/f test Adjusting the Printing GAP Figure l-15. DIP switches Switch 1-3 When Page Memo Chapter On Line switch Power indicator Paper Feed switch NLQ Type Style switch This is near-letter-quality Courier Long test pattern Paper Feed switch Short test pattern On Line switch Lprint CHR$I Next Switch combination functions of control panel Switch Combination FunctionsPage Page Page Memo Installing Your Software Using the Printer with Commercial Software Printer command options Using Your Software Setting the DIP SwitchesInitialization sequence Alignment Type style and pitch selection Embedding printer commands Printer Commands Page HARD-COPYING the Screen MS-DOS and PC-DOS Using the Printer with DOS and Basic Print README. DOC Programming the Printer with DOS Commands Edlin Nlqelite . DAT Programming the Printer with Basic Acopy NLQELITE.DAT PRN Print README. DOC For Lprint the Spacing has Changed Restore How the program works $=CHR$lB Pica pitch Page Replacing the Ribbon Cleaning the Printer Replacing the Print Head Replacing the print head If fanfold paper becomes stuck If the printer doesn’t printIf label paper becomes stuck If printing is faint, incomplete, or unclear If you have problems with download characters If you have problems with horizontal tabulationIf you have problems with graphics Memo Nterface and Emulation Switches IndicatorsPrinting Mechanism Character Sets Co/our PrintingDot Matrix Size Type Styles and Pitches Paper SpecificationsDimensions Weight Lnterface Signals Electrical SpecificationsRequirements OptionPage Memo Select draft quality characters Font Control Commands Select Draft Elite Characters Select Orator characters with small capitals Select Sanserii CharactersSelect Orator characters with lower case Select italic characters Double-strike Printing Printing Stop Cancel superscript or subscriptStart Stop Overlining Character SET Commands Colour Printing Commands Select IBM character set #7 Enable printing of a// character codesSelect IBM character set #2 Select international character set Pica Pitch Character Size and Pitch Commands Cancel expanded printing Cancel one-line expanded printing Select double or quadruple size Increase Character SpacingPrint Double-height Characters Return to normal height Size Select Character Set line spacing to 7172 inch Set line spacing to II8 inchSet line spacing to 716 inch Set line spacing to n/216 inch Line feed Execute ESC Set top of page at current position Feed PaperSet page length to n lines Set page length to n inches Margin Cancel top and bottom margins Tab stops SetSet vertical tab stops every n lines Select vertical tab channel Set Left margin Horizontal Position Commands Set left and right margins Cancel automatic line feedCarriage return Set automatic line feed Right Center text Relative horizontal tab Horizontai TabAbsolute horizontal tab in inches Absolute horizontal tab in columns Graphics Commands Print g-pin graphics Convert Graphics Density Define draft download characters Copy Standard characters From ROM into RAM M3... m46 Define NLQ download characters Select draft download character set Select Download Character setSelect draft elite download character set Select NLQ download character set Other Printer Control Commands Macro Instruction CommandsDefine Macro Instruction Execute macro instruction Cancel immediate print Cancel last lineDelete Last character Sent Immediate prinl Bell Set printer on-lineBidirectional printing Unidirectional printing Feed Reset printerAuto feed ASF Draft character Appendixc Download ChF 12831 NLQ characterPage For I-33 to ~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If S then END Locate 11.1 Print Print Character SET? For BS=BO+CHR$PCC,Y Next Y Character Sets Standardcharacterset C7 w I112128144160176 IBM Character SET #2 101 Hexa Cledma IBM Character SET #l Additional Character SET CHR$ International Character Sets Index 106 Tabulation, 51, 75, 76 LC-10 POWER-UP Functions DIP Switches 12345678901234567 Command Summary in Numeric Order STI ‘cu L L L E L