Star Micronics LC-IOII

ignal I DiWtiOO

Pin No. Sl

Name

18 + 5VDC

1’ 9-30 IGND --p- External supply of + SVDC.

Twisted pair return signal ground level.

31 RESET IN Low input resets the printer to its power-up

condition.

32 ERROR OUT Goes Low to signal that the printer cannot

print due to an error condition.

33 EXT GND External ground.

34, 35 N/C Unused.

36 SELEC

Function

> INjIN 1 Always High.

Contents

Main NOTICE 0 Copyright 1989 Star Micronics Co., Ltd. Page Page Page TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER 1 Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS 19 Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE 31 Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC 37 Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING 47 Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 53 Appendix B PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS 59 Page SETTING UP THE PRINTER Check the carton contents Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Paper parking Short self test Long self test lnterface test Page Page Orator Prints this way with switch l-3 OFF. Page Page C hapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATlONS Page This NW Type Style switch This is near-letter-quality Courier. 22 This is Courier italic. THIS IS ORATOR ITALIC WITH SMALL CAPITALS. This is Orator with lower case. This is Orator ita7ic with 7ower case. POWER-UP FUNCTIONS Short test pattern: On Line switch Long test pattern: Paper Feed switch Stay in panel pitch: Print Pitch switch Stay in pane/ style: NLQ Type Style switch Hexadecimal dump: Paper Feed and Print Pitch switches Page SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS Paper parking: Print Pitch and Paper Feed switches Page feed: Paper Feed and On Line switches forward micro-feed: On Line and Paper Feed switches Reverse micro-feed: On Line and Print Pitch switches Left margin: NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches Right margin: NLQ Type Style and Paper Feed switches Clearing the buffer: Print Pitch, On Line and Paper Feed switches Page Page Chapter 3 USING THE PRlNTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE Printer menu Printer command options Type styles Page width lnitializafion sequence SETTING THE DIP SWITCHES USING YOUR SOFTWARE Page alignment Type style and pitch selection Other printer commands - <ESC>WlPRINTER COMMANDS<ESC>WO can help you to use <ESC>4italic<ESC>5 print. PRINTER COIXMANDS - Page Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC HARD-COPYING THE SCREEN (MS-DOS AND PC-DOS) A>GRAPHICS A>DIR A>PRINT README.DOC Name of list device [PRNI: A>PRINT/T A>COPY README.DOC PRN AXYPE README.DOC > PRN 38 A>EDLIN NLQELITE. DAT New file Page Page Page Page How the program works Page Page Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTlNG off.- - Page H If the printer doesnt print: w If you cant print to the end of the page: screen: rectly: Page TECHNICAL SPECIFlCATIOlVS a Printing Mechanism w Switches and Indicators W Dot Matrix Size w Character Sets W Paper Specifications w interface Signals b I s n I I4 Page Page PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters ~1 Select draft elite characters Select NLQ characters 60 Select NLG type sty/e Select Sanserif characters Select Courier characters Select italic characters Select upright characters Emphasized printing Cancel emphasized printing Double-strike printing Cancel double-strike printing .- Start overlining Start underlining Stop underlining CHARACTER SET COMMANDS Select standard character set Select IBM character set Select IBM character set #7 Select IBM character set #2 Select international character set Enable printing of a// character codes Enable printing of a// character codes on next character Select slash zero Select normal zero CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS Pica pitch Elite pitch Condensed printing Cancel condensed printing - Expanded Cancel expanded printing Expanded printing for one fine Cancel one-line expanded printing Select proportional spacing Select fixed spacing Select master print mode Increase character spacing Select double or quadruple size Print double-height characters Return to normal height Select character height, width, and line spacing VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS Set line spacing to 118 inch Set line spacing to 7172 inch Set line spacing to l/6 inch Set line spacing to n/216 inch Set line spacing to n/72 inch Execute < ESC> A Line feed Reverse line feed Perform one n/216-inch line feed Perform one nl2164nch reverse line feed feed paper n fines Set top of page at current position Set page length to n lines Set page length to n inches Set top margin Set bottom margin Cancel top and bottom margins Return to top of current page Disable paper-out detector Enable paper-out detector Set vertical tab stops Set vertical tab stops every n lines Set vertical tab stops in channel Select vertical tab channel Vertical tab HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin Set right margin Set Carriage Set automatic line feed Cancel automatic line feed Backspace Left justify Center text Right justify Set horizontal tab stops Set horizontal tab stop every n columns Reset a// tab stops Horizontal tab Relative horizontal tab Absolute horizontal tab in inches Absolute horizontal tab in columns GRAPHICS COMMANDS Print sing/e-density 8-bit graphics Print double-density I-bit graphics Print double-density, double-speed 8-M graphics Print quadruple-density 8-M graphics Select graphics mode Convert graphics density Print g-pin graphics - DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM Define draft download characters Define NLQ download characters Define download characters Select download character set Select draft download character set Page Page lmmedia te print Cancel immediate print Set printer off-line Set printer on-line Bell Bidirectional printing Unidirectional printing One-line unidirectional printing Manual feed Auto feed Eject paper from ASF Set print start position on ASF Reset printer Page Appendix CHARACTER GENERATOR I I I I I II I I I I Page Page Page Page Page Page Page CHARACTER SETS r It- Page a Page Page Page Page \ 1 - E--l+ INDEX IAl IB/ jD/ m - Is/ .- MULTI-FONT LC-IOII REFERENCE CARD POWER-UP FUNCTIONS SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS Page PRINT PITCH SELECTION + 12345678901234567 COMMAND SUMMARY IN NUMERIC ORDER rktk - - - - - - - -