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HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
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TABLEOFCONTENTS
Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER 1
Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
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SETTING UP THE PRINTER
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Semiautomatic loading
Manual loading
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Paper
TEST PRINTING
Short se/f test
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ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
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Chapter 2
CONTROL PANEL OPERATlONS
Power indicator
On Line switch
Paper feed switch
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POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
Short test pattern: On Line switch
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Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER
WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
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Other printer commands
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Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER
WITH DOS AND BASIC
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PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
Name of list device [PRN]:
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Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE
AND TROUBLESHOOTING
CLEANING THE PRINTER )/
REPLACING THE RIBBON
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TROUBLESHOOTING
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Appendix A
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
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Appendix B
PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
Select LQ characters
Select LQ type style
Select ornament character
Select italic characters
Select upright characters
Emphasized printing
. Cancel emphasized printing
Double-strike printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Stop underlining
Start overlining
Stop overlining
Superscript
Subscript
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Enable printing of a// character codes
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Select normal zero
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS Pica pitch
Elite pitch
High-speed elite pitch
High-density elite pitch
Semi-condensed pitch
Condensed printing
Cancel condensed printing
Expanded printing
Cancel expanded printing
Expanded printing for one line
Caucel one-line expanded printing
Select proportional spacing
Select fixed spacing
Select master print mode
Increase character spacing
Select double or quadruple size
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Print double-height characters
Select character width
Select character height, width, and line spacing
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Select character type and print pitch
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VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
Set line spacing to 7160 or 7172 inch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
Set base unit for line spacing
Set line spacing to n/780 or n/276 inch
Set line spacing to n/360 inch
Set line spacing to n/60 or n/72 inch
Define line spacing to n/72 inch
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Select reverse feed mode
Line feed
Perform one n/180-inch or n/276-inch line feed
Perform one nl7804nch reverse line feed
Feed paper n lines
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to R lines
Set page length to n inches
Set top margin
Set bottom margin
Cancel top and bottom margins
Form feed
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 left and right margins
Carriage return
Set automatic line feed i-
Cancel automatic line feed
Backspace
Left justify
Center text
Right justify
Full justify
Set horizontal tab stops
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
Reset a// tab stops
Horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab in inches
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
GRAPHICS COMMANDS Print 8-M sing/e-density graphics
Print b-bit double-density graphics
Print b-bit double-density, double-speed graphics
Print 8-bit quadruple-density graphics
Print 24bit hex-density graphics
Select graphics mode
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Convert graphics density
Define download characters 1
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Select ROM character set
OTHER PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Set MSB to 1
Set MSB to 0
Accept MSB as is
Cancel last line
Repeat data
Quiet print
Cancel quiet print
Immediate print
Set printer off-line
Set printer on-line
Stop printing
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
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CHARACTER GENERATOR
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COMMAND SUMMARY
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