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Removing the protective materials 5

Removing the protective materials

❏Packing material in the printer protects its components during shipping. Before using the printer for the first time, be sure to remove the packing material, which is located inside the front cover as shown in the illustration.

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Star Micronics LC-8021 manual Removing the protective materials

Contents

LC-8021 Trademark acknowledgments Chapter About this manual Contents Appendix a Troubleshooting Using the EDS ModeUsing the Printer with MS-DOS Optional AccessoriesPage 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 Paper eject Selecting a fontLine feed Form feed Changing the auto load position Initializing the printer Entering the Multi-part ModeClearing the printer’s buffer Entering the EDS Mode Using the EDS ModeAbout EDS Mode settings Selecting a bank Using the EDS Mode Exiting the EDS Mode Selecting a switchChanging a switch setting Printing the current switch settings Switch 4 RAM Usage EDS-1 SettingsSwitch 1 Emulation Switch 2 Not used Switch 3 Character Table Switch 4 Auto LF with CR Switch 6 Multi-Part ModeSwitch 1 Graphics Direction Switch 2 Not used Switch 3 Line Spacing Switches 3, 4, 5 Print Pitch Switches 1, 2 Print Mode Switch 6 Skew sensor for cut-sheet paper Switches 1, 2, 3, 4 Page LengthSwitch 5 Cut-sheet eject direction Bank E Name Country Remarks Russia Preferred by Microsoft International Bank F Switches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 LQ Font Selection Switch 3 Parity EDS-2 SettingsSwitch 1 Data Length Switch 2 Parity Check Switches 4, 5, 6 Not used Switch 4 ProtocolSwitches 5, 6 Not used Switch 1, 2, 3 Baud Rate Switches 5, 6 Waiting period for paper loading Switches 1, 2 Top and bottom marginsSwitch 3 Head gap sensing for on each line Switch 4 Control code FF Setting up for printing with MS-DOS Using the Printer with MS-DOS Passbook Paper HandlingSelecting paper types Cut-Sheet Paper 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 Long test Appendix a TroubleshootingShort 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 Serial Interface Appendix C Interface Pin OutsParallel Interface Standard Italic Character Set International Character Set Appendix D Character Sets Character Sets Code Page #861 Icelandic IBM Special Character SetCode Page #860 Portuguese Code Page #850 Multi-lingual Code Page #3840 IBM-Russian Code Page #863 Canadian FrenchCode Page #866 Russian Code Page #865 Nordic Code Page #3845 Hungarian Code Page #3841 Gost-RussianCode Page #3844 Code Page #3843 Polish Code Page #852 Latin-2 Code Page #3846 TurkishCode Page #3848 Brazil-ABICOMP Code Page #3847 Brazil-ABNT Code Page #851 Greek Code Page #1001 Arabic Code Page #737 Greek Code Page #772 Lithuanian Code Page #869 GreekCode Page #2001 Lithuanian-KBL Code Page #928 Greek Code Page #3011 Latvian1 Code Page #774 LithuanianCode Page #3002 Estonian2 Code Page #3001 Estonian1 Code Page #3041 Maltese Code Page #3012 Latvian2Code Page #3031 Hebrew Code Page #3021 Bulgarian Code Page #3863 Code Page #3850 Standard KUCode Page #3861 Microwiz KU Code Page #3860 Rajvitee KU 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