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HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 5DEFAULT SETTINGS-EDS MODE
Chapter 6TROUBLESHOOTING Chapter 7OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
Chapter 8PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Chapter 9DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS
Chapter 10 MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER
Chapter 11 REFERENCE
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chapter 1INTRODUCTION
PRINTER COMPONENTS
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SUMMARY OF PRINTER FEATURES
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PRINTER PLACEMENT
UNPACKINGAND INSPECTION
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Removing the front cover
Installing the ribbon cartridge
Installing the front cover
Installing the paper guide
Installing the mute cover
Connecting the interface cable
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Configuring your software for the printer
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PAPER INSTALLATION AND USE
SELECTION OF PAPER
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ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
LOADING FANFOLD FORMS
Loading the paper
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Paper parking
Paper unparking
Tear off function
LOADING SINGLE SHEETS
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CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
BUTTON AND INDICATOR FUNCTION
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Short test mode
Long test mode
Print area test mode
Pitch lock mode
Font lock mode
Font and Pitch lock mode
Dot adjustment mode
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Forward micro-feed
Reverse micro-feed
Changing the auto loading position
Clearing the buffer/All reset
Save Macro Definition
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CONDITIONS INDICATED BY MESSAGES AND TONES
Summary of display messages
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Summary of beep tones
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DEFAULT SETTINGS-EDS MODE
HOW TO SET THE EDS MODE
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chapter 6TROUBLESHOOTING
TROUBLESHOOTING
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MAINTENANCE
chapter 7OPTIONALACCESSORIES
AUTOMATIC SHEET FEEDER (SF-1ODS)
Setting up
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Loading paper
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PULL TRACTOR UNIT (PT-IOZS)
Setting up
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Loading paper
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FONT CARTRIDGES AND RAM CARTRIDGES
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INTERFACE CONVERTER (SPC-8K)
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PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS
Selectprint quality
Select LQfont
Select italic characters
Select upright characters
Emphasized printing
Cancel emphasized printing
Double-strike printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Underlining
Overlining
Select score
Select ornament character
Superscript
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CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Select standard character set
Select IBM character set
Select character set #l
Select character set #2
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Select international character set
Select IBM codepage
Enableprinting of all character codes
Enable printing of all character codes on next character
Select slash zero
Select normal zero
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH
Pica pitch
COMMANDS
Elitepitch
Semi-condensed pitch
Cancel condensed printing
Proportional spacing
Selectfont and pitch
Expanded printing
Expanded printing for one line
Cancel one-line expandedprinting
Select character width
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
Set line spacing to 1/8 inch
Set line spacing to 7/60 or 7/72 inch
Set line spacing to 1/6 inch
Set line spacing to n1360inch
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Set base unitfor line spacing
Setline spacing to nl180 inch, n1216inch, or n1360inch
Set line spacing to n160inch or n172inch
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Linefeed
Reverse linefeed
Selectforward feed mode
Select reversefeed mode
Perform one n/180-inch, n/216-inch, or n/360-inch linefeed
Perform one nl180-inch reverse linefeed
Feedpaper nlines
Set top ofpage at current position
Setpage length to nlines
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Cancel bottom margin
Formfeed
Return to top of current page
Disable paper-out detector
Enable paper-out detector
Set vertical tab stops
Set vertical tab stops every nlines
Set verticaltab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
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HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
Set left margin
Set right margin
Set left and right margins
Carriage return
Set automatic linefeed
Cancel automatic linefeed
Backspace
Leftjust$y
Center text
Rightjustify
Fulljustify
Set horizontal tab stops
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Reset all 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 normal-density 8-bit graphics
Print double-density 8-bit graphics
Print double-density, double-speed 8-bit graphics
Print quadruple-density 8-bit graphics
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Print hex-density 24-bit graphics
Select graphics mode
Select graphics mode
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Convert graphics density
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Define download characters
Copy character setfrom ROM into RAM
Select download character set
Shift download character area
SelectROM character set
OTHER PRINTER COMMANDS
Set h4SBto 1
Set MSB to O
Accept MSB as is
Delete last character sent
Setprinter off-line
Setprinter on-line
Stopprinting
Bell
Bi-directional printing
Uni-directionalprinting
One-line uni-directionalprinting
Manualfeed
Autofeed
Ejectpaper from ASF
Setprint start position on ASF
Resetprinter
Set initial conditions
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DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS
DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS WITH STANDARD MODE
Assigning the character data
Assigning avalue of character space
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DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS WITH IBM MODE
Assigning the download character set
Assigning the character dot pattern
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MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
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SPECIFICATIONS
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International character sets
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