Opening the front cover | Star Micronics LC-8021 manual

4Printer Setup

Opening the front cover

❏Pull on the left and right corners of the front cover to and swing it down until it is fully open.

Front cover

Removing the front cover

❏Once the front cover is fully open, carefully lift it straight up to remove it. To replace the front cover, lower the slots on the left and right of the cover onto the tabs provided on the printer case.

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Star Micronics LC-8021 manual Opening the front cover, Removing the front cover

Contents

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