USERS MANUAL
LC24-15
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Trademark Acknowlidgements
Self Declaration
Microsoft BASIC, MS-DOS Microsoft Corporation
LQ-1050, LQ-850, LQ-1000 Seiko Epson Corp
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
Chapter 8 - Specifications
Chapter 7 - Troubleshooting and maintenance
This section gives the specifications of your printer
Chapter 6 - MS-DOS and your printer
FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Chapter 1 SETTING
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 2 CONTROL
CONTROL COMMANDS
Chapter 3 DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
Chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE
Troubleshooting
INDEX
Chapter
SPECIFICATIONS
Chapter
Chapter
SETTING UP THE PRINTER
LOCATING THE PRINTER
Subjects covered in Chapter 1 include
UNPACKING AND INSPECTION
Check the carton contents
Parts name of the printer
Install the ribbon cartridge
SETTING UP
Mount the platen knob
Figure T-4. Removing the top cover
Figure 1-5. Installing the ribbon cartrldge
3. The ribbon should pass between the print head and the print head shield see Figure l-6
Install the optional IC card
Connection
Figure 1-9. Replacing the interface board
Automatic loading
LOADING SINGLE SHEETS
Figure 1-77. Loading a single sheet
Adjustable paper guides lever I
Manual loading
LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS
Loading the fanfold forms
Flgurs I-13. Thread the fanfold paper over the sprockets
Figure I-14. Mounting the paper guide for fanfold forms
Loading the paper with pull tractor unit
8. Mount the new top cover
Paper unparking
Paper parking
Figure 7-16. Adjusting for different thicknesses of paper
ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
chapter
BUTTONS AND INDICATORS
CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
ON LINE button
SET/EJECT PARK button
PAPER FEED button
PITCH button
Indicators
STYLE button
Font style
Stay in panel style
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
Stay in pAe1
Fbitch
Print area test mode
Long test mode
Stay in panel pitch
Stay in panel pitch and style
Stay in panel style
Hexadecimal dump
10 FOR I=0 TO 20 LPRINT CHR$I 30 NEXT 40 LPRINT 50 END
100 O=INP&H379 IF 0128 THEN 110 OUT &H378,1 OUT &H37A, 5 OUT &H37A,4
Coding for IBM-PC with monochrome display 20 GOSUB
120 RETURN Coding for IBM-PC with color adapter 20 GOSUB
100 O=INP&H3BD IF 0128 THEN 110 OUT &H3BC,I OUT &H3BE, 5 OUT &H3BE
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
Forward micro-feed
Top of form
Reverse micro-feed
Clearing the buffer
LOCATION OF THE DIP SWITCHES
D/P SWITCH SETTINGS
Chapter
FUNCTIONS OF THE DIP SWITCHES
Switch 1-4 Are you going to use the automatic sheet feeder ASF?
Switch l-3 Do you want a bottom margin?
If you selected IBM mode, do you want IBM character set #l or #2?
Switch 2-1 Does your software download new characters to the printer?
Switch 1-8 Do you want an automatic line feed?
Switches 2-2 to 2-4 Do you want an international character set?
Denmark/Norway when switch l-6 .is OFF and switch l-7 is ON
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MEMO
chapter
PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Select draft quality characters
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS
Select LQ characters
Select LQ font style
Select Optional characters
Select Courier characters
Select Prestige characters
Select Ora for characters
Select italic characters
Select Script characters
Select upright characters
Select ornament cha tatter
Cancel double-strike printing
Cancel emphasized printing
Emphasized printing
Double-s trike printing
Start 0 verlining
Stop underlining
Stop 0 verlining
Superscript
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Cancel superscript
Select standard character set
Select IBM character set
Select character set #2
Enable printing of all character codes
Select international character set
Denmark/Norway
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Enable printing of all character codes on next character
Select slash zero
Select normal zero
Elite pitch
was pressed during power-up
High-speed elite pitch
High-density elite pitch
Cancel expanded printing
Cancel condensed printing
Condensed printing
Expanded printing
Expanded printing for one line
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Select character width
Select proportional spacing
Select fixed spacing
Select master print mode
Increase character spacing
“p” ‘VI”
Select character size
Select double or quadruple size
Print double-height characters
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Return to normal height
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Select character type and print pitch
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Set line spacing to 7/60 or 7/72 inch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
Set line spacing to n/180 or n/216 inch
Set base unit for line spacing
Set line spacing to n/60 or nR2 inch
Define line spacing to n/72 inch
Select reverse feed mode
Sleet forward feed mode
Execute ES
Line feed
Perform one n/216-inch reverse line feed
Perform one n/180-inch or n/2164nch line feed
Feed paper n lines
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to n inches
Set page length to n lines
Set top margin
Set bottom margin
Disable paper-out detector
Cancel top and bottom margins
Enable paper-out detector
Form feed
Set vertical tab stops evetyn lines
Set vertical tab stops
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
Vertical tab
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
Set left margin
Set left and right margins
Set right margin
Carriage return
Set automatic
Cancel au toma tic line feed
line feed
Backspace
Full justify
Right justify
Set horizontal tab stops
Set horizontal tab stop everyn columns
Horizontal tab
Reset all tab stops
Relative horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab in inches
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
GRAPHICS COMMANDS
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
Print 8-bit normal-density graphics
Print 8-bit quadruple-density graphics
Print 8-bit double-density, double-speed graphics
Print 249bit hex-density graphics
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Select graphics mode
2A n0
Convert graphics
Se/ect graphics mode
density
Define download characters
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Select download character set
Copy character set from ROM into RAM card
Select ROM character set
Cancel last line
I OTHER PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Set MSB to
Accept MSB as is
Repeat data
Cancel quiet print
Quiet print
ImmefBa te print
Set printer off-line
Cancel immediate print
Set printer on-line
Stop printing
Bidirectional printing
Bell
Unidirectional prin thg
One-line unidirectional printhg
Auto feed
Reset printer
Eject paper from ASF
Set print start position on ASF
MEMO
DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS
Chapter
DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS
Assignjng the character data
program
Assigning a value of character space
mO+ml+m2
Symbol
RESTORE
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DIFFUSION RANGES OF CARS & TELEPHONES
MEMO
Chapter
INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE WITH YOUR PRINTER
MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER
EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS
P-Jt
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
l* *VxlV!*VA 2*c
AEDLIN LQELITE.DAT
PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC
LPRINT
LPRINT
LPRINT
LPRINT
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NEXT
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2370
RETURN
3250 DATA
31,240
DATA
3620
15,255,192
15,255,192
How the program works
Double-strike
Emphasized
Quad-sized
Double-height
Modifications for IBM mode
TROUBLESHOOTING
Chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE
Printing
Power supply
If the POWER indicator does not illuminate, check the following
If the print is faint, or uneven, check the following
If the printout is not what is expected
If dots are missing in the printing, check the following
Paper feeding
Is there too much paper in the paper feed hopper or stacker?
correct
REPLACING THE RIBBON
MAINTENANCE
REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD
Figure 74. Replacing the print head
REPLACING THE BATTERY IN THE RAM CARD
Chapter
SPEClFlCAllONS
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Chapter
CHARACTER SETS
STANDARD CHARACTER SET
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IBM CHARACTER SET #2
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IBM CHARACTER SET #I
Additional characters can be printed by special commands r-T77
IBM SPECIAL CHARACTER SE7
INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS
INDEX
Page
style
Troubleshooting
22,34,40
automatic
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COMMAND SUMMARY
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‘* co n 4%
MODE CONTROL CODEFUNCTION
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