Star Micronics LC-8021 instruction

USER’S MANUAL

LC-8021

DOT MATRIX PRINTER

PBA10HK 80825130

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Star Micronics LC-8021 manual

Contents

LC-8021 Trademark acknowledgments Chapter About this manual Contents Using the Printer with MS-DOS Using the EDS ModeOptional Accessories Appendix a TroubleshootingPage Choosing a place for the printer Printer Setup Unpacking the printer General guide Removing the front cover Opening the front cover Removing the protective materials Installing the ribbon cartridge Page Removing the ribbon cartridge Connecting to a power outlet and turning power on and off Connecting to a power outlet and turning power on and off Loading paper Connecting to your computer Connecting to your computer To connect with a parallel cable To connect with a serial cable Printer Setup Control Panel Operations Switching between on-line and off-line Line feed Selecting a fontForm feed Paper eject Changing the auto load position Clearing the printer’s buffer Entering the Multi-part ModeInitializing the printer About EDS Mode settings Using the EDS ModeEntering the EDS Mode Selecting a bank Using the EDS Mode Changing a switch setting Selecting a switchPrinting the current switch settings Exiting the EDS Mode Switch 1 Emulation EDS-1 SettingsSwitch 2 Not used Switch 3 Character Table Switch 4 RAM Usage Switch 1 Graphics Direction Switch 6 Multi-Part ModeSwitch 2 Not used Switch 3 Line Spacing Switch 4 Auto LF with CR Switches 3, 4, 5 Print Pitch Switches 1, 2 Print Mode Switch 5 Cut-sheet eject direction Switches 1, 2, 3, 4 Page LengthSwitch 6 Skew sensor for cut-sheet paper Bank E Name Country Remarks Russia Preferred by Microsoft International Bank F Switches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 LQ Font Selection Switch 1 Data Length EDS-2 SettingsSwitch 2 Parity Check Switch 3 Parity Switches 5, 6 Not used Switch 4 ProtocolSwitch 1, 2, 3 Baud Rate Switches 4, 5, 6 Not used Switch 3 Head gap sensing for on each line Switches 1, 2 Top and bottom marginsSwitch 4 Control code FF Switches 5, 6 Waiting period for paper loading Setting up for printing with MS-DOS Using the Printer with MS-DOS Selecting paper types Paper HandlingCut-Sheet Paper Passbook Feeding a passbook into the printer Feeding cut-sheet paper into the printer Print area Serial Interface Unit IS-NP192 Optional Accessories Serial-to-Parallel Interface Converter SPC-8K Short test Appendix a TroubleshootingLong test Hexadecimal dump Adjusting the dot alignment Adjusting the dot alignment Problem Possible Cause Troubleshooting guide Troubleshooting guide Forms are smudged Ribbon is jammed Make sure that the ribbon Right during printing Character set is selected Mode LPT1=COM1 or Mode LPT1=COM2 Checking system software settings in MS-DOS Printing Speed Pitch Draft cps/dpi Appendix B Speciﬁcations Emulation Parallel Interface Appendix C Interface Pin OutsSerial Interface Standard Italic Character Set International Character Set Appendix D Character Sets Character Sets Code Page #860 Portuguese IBM Special Character SetCode Page #850 Multi-lingual Code Page #861 Icelandic Code Page #866 Russian Code Page #863 Canadian FrenchCode Page #865 Nordic Code Page #3840 IBM-Russian Code Page #3844 Code Page #3841 Gost-RussianCode Page #3843 Polish Code Page #3845 Hungarian Code Page #3848 Brazil-ABICOMP Code Page #3846 TurkishCode Page #3847 Brazil-ABNT Code Page #852 Latin-2 Code Page #851 Greek Code Page #1001 Arabic Code Page #737 Greek Code Page #2001 Lithuanian-KBL Code Page #869 GreekCode Page #928 Greek Code Page #772 Lithuanian Code Page #3002 Estonian2 Code Page #774 LithuanianCode Page #3001 Estonian1 Code Page #3011 Latvian1 Code Page #3031 Hebrew Code Page #3012 Latvian2Code Page #3021 Bulgarian Code Page #3041 Maltese Code Page #3861 Microwiz KU Code Page #3850 Standard KUCode Page #3860 Rajvitee KU Code Page #3863 Code Page #3865 Newsic TIS Code Page #3864 Popular TIS Appendix E Printer Control Codes Standard Mode Printer Control Codes Select 1/8″ line spacing Denmark OCR-B Set left margin IBM Mode Select print pitch and download Set base unit of line spacing Appendix F Glossary Multi Eject On Line Part Appendix G Control Panel Operation Guide AUTOEXEC.BAT 47 MS-DOS Page