LC-8521
 EC Council Directive 73/23/EEC and 93/68/EEC of 22 July
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About this manual
 Contents
 Using the Printer with MS-DOS
Using the EDS Mode
Using the Printer with Windows 3.1
Using the printer with Windows 95
 Optional Accessory
Appendix a Troubleshooting
Paper Handling
 Appendix F Glossary Appendix G Control Panel Operation Guide
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 Choosing a place for the printer
Printer Setup
 Unpacking the printer
Printer Setup
 General guide
General guide
 Removing the protective materials
 Installing the platen knob
Installing the platen knob
Opening the front cover
 Installing the ribbon cassette
 Removing the ribbon cassette
Removing the ribbon cassette
 Printer Setup
 Connecting to a power outlet and turning power on and off
Connecting to a power outlet and turning power on and off
 Loading fanfold paper
 Loading fanfold paper
 Pin tractor Sheet guide
 Loading fanfold paper
 Printing on fanfold paper
 Parking fanfold paper
Using the tear-off function
Parking fanfold paper
Unparking fanfold paper
 Connecting to your computer with a parallel cable
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 Connecting to your computer with a serial cable
 Connecting to your computer with a serial cable
 Switching between on-line and off-line
Control Panel Operations
Control Panel Operations
 Selecting a font
Entering the Font Lock Mode
Lit Indicator Font
Selecting a font
 Setting the character pitch
Entering the Pitch Lock Mode
Lit Indicators Meaning
 Micro feed
Line feed
Paper eject cut-sheet paper
Form feed fanfold paper
 Setting the top of form position
Selecting the Quiet Print Mode
Tear-off function fanfold paper
 Changing the auto load position
Changing the auto load position
 Clearing the printer’s buffer
Saving a macro
 Entering the Multi-part Mode
Initializing the printer
Initializing the printer
 Using the EDS Mode
Using the EDS Mode
About EDS Mode settings
Entering the EDS Mode
 Lit Indicator Selected Bank
Selecting a bank
Selecting a bank
 EDS Modes Settings
Selecting a switch
Changing a switch setting
Printing the current switch settings
 EDS-1 Settings
 Switch 4 Auto LF with CR
Switch 1 Graphics Direction
Switch 2 Auto Tear-off
Switch 3 Line Spacing
 Print Mode
Switches 1, 2 Print Mode
Switches 3, 4, 5 Print Pitch
Switch 6 Quiet
 Length
Switches 1, 2, 3, 4 Page Length
Switch 5 Eject direction for cut sheet
Switch 6 Skew sensor for cut sheet
 SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW5 SW6
Code
 IBM PC
Name Country Remarks
 Country Remarks
 Character Set
International
 Switch 1 Data Length
EDS-2 Settings
EDS-2 Settings
Switches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 LQ Font Selection
 Switch 5, 6 Not used
Switch 2 Parity Check
Switch 3 Parity
Switch 4 Protocol
 Baud Rate
Switch 1, 2, 3 Baud Rate
Switch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Paper Control
Switch Setting Meaning
 Using the Printer with Windows
Setting up for printing with Microsoft Windows
Using the Printer with Windows
 Setting up for printing with Microsoft Windows 3.1
 Getting ready to print
 Printing a document
Printing a document
 Installing TrueType fonts
 Selecting fonts in Windows applications
 Setting up the printer in Windows
 Have Disk button
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 Preparing to print
Preparing to print
 Using the printer with Windows
 Printing a document
 Installing TrueType fonts
 Installing TrueType fonts
 Using the Printer with MS-DOS
Setting up for printing with MS-DOS
Using the Printer with MS-DOS
 Fanfold Paper
Paper Handling
Selecting paper types
Cut-Sheet Paper
 Adjusting for paper thickness
Paper Handling
Envelope
 Automatic fanfold feeding
Paper Type
Thickness
 Manual sheet feeding
 Adjust the paper guide to the position you want
 Clearing paper jams
 Serial-to-Parallel Converter SPC-8K
Optional Accessory
 Connecting the Interface Converter
 Setting the converter’s DIP switches
Setting the converter’s DIP switches
Switc Function
 Protocol
Data Length Switch
DOS/Windows Setting
Parity
 Push Tractor Unit CT-15HA
Push Tractor Unit CT-15HA
 Removing the push tractor unit from the back of the printer
 Installing the push tractor unit
 Long test
Appendix a Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Short test
 Adjusting the dot alignment
Hexadecimal dump
Hexadecimal dump
 DOT Adjustment Setting
 Troubleshooting guide
Troubleshooting guide
Problem Possible Cause
 Interface cable is
 Printed on Return is enabled
 Printer case is hot Printer’s air vents are
 Left margin moves to Paper is not loaded
 Print head Dealer for repair
 To check the Driver Setup
Checking system software settings in Windows
Checking system software settings in Windows
To check the default printer selection
 Checking system software settings in MS-DOS
To check the application printer selection
To check the port
 Appendix B Specifications
Checking system software settings in MS-DOS
 Specifications
 Pin
Appendix C Interface Pin Outs
Parallel Interface
Serial Interface
 Appendix D Character Sets
Character Sets
Standard Italic Character Set International Character Set
 IBM Character Set #2 Code Page #437 IBM-PC Character Set #1
 Code Page #861 Icelandic
IBM Special Character Set
Code Page #860 Portuguese
Code Page #850 Multi-lingual
 Code Page #3840 IBM-Russian
Code Page #863 Canadian French
Code Page #866 Russian
Code Page #865 Nordic
 Code Page #3845 Hungarian
Code Page #3841 Gost-Russian
Code Page #3844
Code Page #3843 Polish
 Code Page #852 Latin-2
Code Page #3846 Turkish
Code 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 Greek
Code Page #2001 Lithuanian-KBL
Code Page #928 Greek
 Code Page #3011 Latvian1
Code Page #774 Lithuanian
Code Page #3002 Estonian2
Code Page #3001 Estonian1
 Code Page #3041 Maltese
Code Page #3012 Latvian2
Code Page #3031 Hebrew
Code Page #3021 Bulgarian
 Code Page #3863
Code Page #3850 Standard KU
Code Page #3861 Microwiz KU
Code Page #3860 Rajvitee KU
 Code Page #3865 Newsic TIS
Code Page #3864 Popular TIS
 Printer Control Codes
Font and Character Set Control Commands
Description Mode Ascii Code
Appendix E Printer Control Codes
 Top/Bottom Margin and Vertical Tab Commands
Print Pitch Control Commands
 Bit Image Graphic Commands
Special Print Mode Commands
 Line Spacing Commands
Form Feed and Related Commands
Download Character Commands
 Other Commands
Horizontal Print Position Control Commands
 NEC Commands
 Appendix F Glossary
 Appendix G Control Panel Operation Guide
 Maltese 93, 94
 MS-DOS
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