NOT INTENDED FOR SALE
LC24-15
USERS MANUAL
MULTI-FONT
LQ-1050, LQ-850, LQ-1000 Seiko Epson Corp
Self Declaration
Trademark Acknowlidgements
Microsoft BASIC, MS-DOS Microsoft Corporation
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
Chapter 6 - MS-DOS and your printer
Chapter 7 - Troubleshooting and maintenance
Chapter 8 - Specifications
This section gives the specifications of your printer
FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Chapter 2 CONTROL
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 SETTING
Troubleshooting
Chapter 3 DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
CONTROL COMMANDS
Chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE
Chapter
Chapter
INDEX
SPECIFICATIONS
Subjects covered in Chapter 1 include
SETTING UP THE PRINTER
Chapter
LOCATING THE PRINTER
UNPACKING AND INSPECTION
Check the carton contents
Parts name of the printer
Mount the platen knob
SETTING UP
Install the ribbon cartridge
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
CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
BUTTONS AND INDICATORS
chapter
ON LINE button
PITCH button
PAPER FEED button
SET/EJECT PARK button
Font style
STYLE button
Indicators
Fbitch
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
Stay in panel style
Stay in pAe1
Stay in panel pitch
Long test mode
Print area test mode
Hexadecimal dump
Stay in panel style
Stay in panel pitch and style
10 FOR I=0 TO 20 LPRINT CHR$I 30 NEXT 40 LPRINT 50 END
100 O=INP&H3BD IF 0128 THEN 110 OUT &H3BC,I OUT &H3BE, 5 OUT &H3BE
Coding for IBM-PC with monochrome display 20 GOSUB
100 O=INP&H379 IF 0128 THEN 110 OUT &H378,1 OUT &H37A, 5 OUT &H37A,4
120 RETURN Coding for IBM-PC with color adapter 20 GOSUB
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
Reverse micro-feed
Top of form
Forward micro-feed
Clearing the buffer
Chapter
D/P SWITCH SETTINGS
LOCATION OF THE DIP SWITCHES
FUNCTIONS OF THE DIP SWITCHES
If you selected IBM mode, do you want IBM character set #l or #2?
Switch l-3 Do you want a bottom margin?
Switch 1-4 Are you going to use the automatic sheet feeder ASF?
Denmark/Norway when switch l-6 .is OFF and switch l-7 is ON
Switch 1-8 Do you want an automatic line feed?
Switch 2-1 Does your software download new characters to the printer?
Switches 2-2 to 2-4 Do you want an international character set?
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MEMO
chapter
PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Select LQ font style
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS
Select draft quality characters
Select LQ characters
Select Ora for characters
Select Courier characters
Select Optional characters
Select Prestige characters
Select ornament cha tatter
Select Script characters
Select italic characters
Select upright characters
Double-s trike printing
Cancel emphasized printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Emphasized printing
Superscript
Stop underlining
Start 0 verlining
Stop 0 verlining
Select IBM character set
Cancel superscript
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Select standard character set
Denmark/Norway
Enable printing of all character codes
Select character set #2
Select international character set
Select normal zero
Enable printing of all character codes on next character
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Select slash zero
High-density elite pitch
was pressed during power-up
Elite pitch
High-speed elite pitch
Expanded printing
Cancel condensed printing
Cancel expanded printing
Condensed printing
Select proportional spacing
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Expanded printing for one line
Select character width
“p” ‘VI”
Select master print mode
Select fixed spacing
Increase character spacing
Print double-height characters
Select double or quadruple size
Select character size
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Return to normal height
27 73 n
Select character type and print pitch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
Set line spacing to 7/60 or 7/72 inch
Define line spacing to n/72 inch
Set base unit for line spacing
Set line spacing to n/180 or n/216 inch
Set line spacing to n/60 or nR2 inch
Line feed
Sleet forward feed mode
Select reverse feed mode
Execute ES
Set top of page at current position
Perform one n/180-inch or n/2164nch line feed
Perform one n/216-inch reverse line feed
Feed paper n lines
Set bottom margin
Set page length to n lines
Set page length to n inches
Set top margin
Form feed
Cancel top and bottom margins
Disable paper-out detector
Enable paper-out detector
Select vertical tab channel
Set vertical tab stops
Set vertical tab stops evetyn lines
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Set left margin
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
Vertical tab
Carriage return
Set right margin
Set left and right margins
Backspace
Cancel au toma tic line feed
Set automatic
line feed
Set horizontal tab stop everyn columns
Right justify
Full justify
Set horizontal tab stops
Relative horizontal tab in inches
Reset all tab stops
Horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab
Print 8-bit normal-density graphics
GRAPHICS COMMANDS
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
Print 249bit hex-density graphics
Print 8-bit double-density, double-speed graphics
Print 8-bit quadruple-density graphics
2A n0
Select graphics mode
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density
Se/ect graphics mode
Convert graphics
Define download characters
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Select ROM character set
Copy character set from ROM into RAM card
Select download character set
Accept MSB as is
I OTHER PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Cancel last line
Set MSB to
ImmefBa te print
Cancel quiet print
Repeat data
Quiet print
Stop printing
Cancel immediate print
Set printer off-line
Set printer on-line
One-line unidirectional printhg
Bell
Bidirectional printing
Unidirectional prin thg
Set print start position on ASF
Reset printer
Auto feed
Eject paper from ASF
MEMO
DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS
Chapter
DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS
Assignjng the character data
mO+ml+m2
Assigning a value of character space
program
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RESTORE
Symbol
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DIFFUSION RANGES OF CARS & TELEPHONES
MEMO
MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER
INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE WITH YOUR PRINTER
Chapter
EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS
P-Jt
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
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PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC
LPRINT
LPRINT
LPRINT
LPRINT
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RETURN
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3250 DATA
31,240
15,255,192
3620
DATA
15,255,192
How the program works
Double-height
Emphasized
Double-strike
Quad-sized
Modifications for IBM mode
TROUBLESHOOTING
Chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE
If the POWER indicator does not illuminate, check the following
Power supply
Printing
If dots are missing in the printing, check the following
If the printout is not what is expected
If the print is faint, or uneven, 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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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
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Troubleshooting
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COMMAND SUMMARY
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