Unpacking the printer | Star Micronics LC-8021 specs

2Printer Setup

Unpacking the printer

Check to make sure that the carton contains each of the items shown in the following illustration.

Ribbon cartridge

Printer

Power code

User's manual

If anything is missing, contact the store where you bought the printer and ask them to supply the missing part. Note that it is a good idea to keep the original box and all the packing materials just in case you need to pack the printer up again and send it somewhere at a later date.

Important!

There are several versions of this printer designed for different voltages. It is not possible to change the voltage of a printer. If the voltage shown on the label on the bottom of your printer does not match the voltage for your area, contact your dealer immediately.

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Star Micronics LC-8021 manual Unpacking the printer

Contents

LC-8021 Trademark acknowledgments About this manual Chapter Contents Using the EDS Mode Using the Printer with MS-DOSOptional Accessories 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 Selecting a font Line feedForm feed Paper eject 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 Using the EDS Mode Selecting a bank Selecting a switch Changing a switch settingPrinting the current switch settings Exiting the EDS Mode EDS-1 Settings Switch 1 EmulationSwitch 2 Not used Switch 3 Character Table Switch 4 RAM Usage Switch 6 Multi-Part Mode Switch 1 Graphics DirectionSwitch 2 Not used Switch 3 Line Spacing Switch 4 Auto LF with CR Switches 1, 2 Print Mode Switches 3, 4, 5 Print Pitch 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 Switches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 LQ Font Selection Bank F EDS-2 Settings Switch 1 Data LengthSwitch 2 Parity Check Switch 3 Parity Switch 4 Protocol Switches 5, 6 Not usedSwitch 1, 2, 3 Baud Rate Switches 4, 5, 6 Not used Switches 1, 2 Top and bottom margins Switch 3 Head gap sensing for on each lineSwitch 4 Control code FF Switches 5, 6 Waiting period for paper loading Using the Printer with MS-DOS Setting up for printing with MS-DOS Paper Handling Selecting paper typesCut-Sheet Paper 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 Long test Appendix a TroubleshootingShort 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 Serial Interface Appendix C Interface Pin OutsParallel Interface Appendix D Character Sets Standard Italic Character Set International Character Set Character Sets IBM Special Character Set Code Page #860 PortugueseCode Page #850 Multi-lingual Code Page #861 Icelandic Code Page #863 Canadian French Code Page #866 RussianCode Page #865 Nordic Code Page #3840 IBM-Russian Code Page #3841 Gost-Russian Code Page #3844Code Page #3843 Polish Code Page #3845 Hungarian Code Page #3846 Turkish Code Page #3848 Brazil-ABICOMPCode Page #3847 Brazil-ABNT Code Page #852 Latin-2 Code Page #1001 Arabic Code Page #737 Greek Code Page #851 Greek Code Page #869 Greek Code Page #2001 Lithuanian-KBLCode Page #928 Greek Code Page #772 Lithuanian Code Page #774 Lithuanian Code Page #3002 Estonian2Code Page #3001 Estonian1 Code Page #3011 Latvian1 Code Page #3012 Latvian2 Code Page #3031 HebrewCode Page #3021 Bulgarian Code Page #3041 Maltese Code Page #3850 Standard KU Code Page #3861 Microwiz KUCode Page #3860 Rajvitee 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