COLOUR
LC24-30
USERS MANUAL
NOT INTENDED FOR SALE
Bescheinigung des lmporteurs
VDE Statement
Trademark acknowledgments
TrueType Macintosh Apple Computer Inc
Section
Guide to this manual
Table of contents
Table of contents
Chapter 2 - Unpacking and setting up
Chapter 3 - Using the printer
pitch
Chapter 4 - Printer reference
Chapter 7 - Software commands
6 - Troubleshooting
Chapter 5 - Options
Chapter
Index
Appendix
Glossary
Introduction
Features
Chapter
Automatic
In addition to these features, the printer can print on a variety of different sizes and types of paper single sheets also called cut sheets, fanfold paper continuous computer paper with holes in the edges, and multi-part forms allowing you to print several copies at once. Sin- gle sheets can be up to 11” wide, and fanfold paper can be up to 10” wide however, the maximum length of a printed line is limited to 8”. To use fanfold paper you need to install the push tractor unit, which.is available as an option
The printer
Interlace connector
The printer with the front cover removed
Page
Parts
The platen guides the paper through the printer and provides -a solid surface against which the print head can make an impression on the paper
Unpacking and
setting up
Choosing a place for the printer
Chapter
Unpacking the printer
Opening the front cover
Preparing the printer
Tension knob
Installing the ribbon cartridge
bon Print head shield Print head
Fitting the paper support
Printer
Connecting the printer to your computer
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Secure the connector with the clips as shown
Setting up the printer in Windows
Select LC24-30 Colour from the new list of printers
Click on Set As Default Printer
Setting up the printer in MS-DOS
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Chapter
Using the printer
Loading paper
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Pick up your stack of paper
Cut sheet paper can sometimes stick together, caus- ing problems when the paper is drawn through the printer. To prevent this, flick through the stack of paper with your thumb. This helps ensure that each sheet of paper is loose within the stack and will be fed through the printer separately
Push the paper tray cover closed
Now place the paper in the paper tray
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Paper guides
Papa, delivery
Extensiontra Stack wire
Not-ready mode
Ready mode and Not-Ready mode
Ready mode
Using the control panel
The other six lights are always either on or off
In MS-DOS
Printing out your documents
In Windows
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Using different fonts
In Windows
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press the FONTkey
In MS-DOS
Similarly, if the top two lights are on, Sanserif is selected
Dealing with printing problems
Using other printer features
Introduction
Chapter4 Printer reference
Control panel
Using the control panel
Sanserif is the selected font
the lights are off if these features are not in effect. These features are explained later on in this chapter
Making Electronic DIP Switch settings
Use the READYkey to change the setting
The full list of Electronic DIP switch settings is as fol- lows
The LC24-30 Colour can “emulate” either an Epson LQ- 860 or an IBM Proprinter X24E. To “emulate” means to “perform in the same way as”. The two printers offer dif- ferent sets of printable characters. Unless you are using an MS-DOS system and specifically need the IBM char- acter sets, you will probably use the printer in Epson mode. The character sets used by both the Epson and IBM emulations are listed in the Appendix starting on page
A4 - Color and zoom
A3 - RAM usage
A5 - Auto line feed
Bl - Graphics direction
B3 - Ink ribbon type
B2 - Paper out
B4 - Reserved
B5 - Time-out printing
Print pitch
C4 and C5 - Print pitch
Dl - Print quality
D2 - Character table
D3 to D 5 - IBM code page or international character set
E4 and E5 - Reserved
El to E3 - LQ font selection
Font
Selecting which emulation to use
Connecting the printer to your computer
Setting up the printer with a Windows computer
Choosing which type of cable to use
Setting up the printer with an MS-DOS computer
Setting up the printer with a Macintosh
Introduction to fonts and typefaces
Using fonts and varying the appearance of text
Weight
Bold Black
Pitch
Bitmap fonts
In Windows
Installing True Type fonts
Scalable fonts
In MS-DOS
If you are running applications software under Windows, you will select fonts from within your applica- tion refer to your application’s manual for details
Preventing software font selection
Using different types of paper
Note Do not reverse feed label sheets
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Fanfold forms
Single sheets
Face-up and face-down printing
Portrait and landscape printing
Manual by-pass
Useful printing features
The tear-off function
Pausing printing
Parking fanfold paper
Paper feed
Controlling the paper position
Form feed
Forward micro feed
Reverse micro feed
Setting the auto load position
Selecting Quiet mode
Selecting Zoom mode print size
Zoom
Zoom light
Saving current settings the Macro feature
Setting the print gap
Making adjustments to the printer
setting may drastically
Weight
Page
Paper
Adjusting vertical alignment
Each time you press either of these two keys, the printer
Long test
Testing the printer
Short test
Printing out a hexadecimal dump
When the printer stops printing, put the printer in not-ready mode. The printer now prints the final line of the hexadecimal dump
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Chapter
Options
Push tractor unit
Installing the push tractor unit
Ridges
As seen from behind the printer
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As seen from behind the printer As seen from behind the printer
Close the front cover
Loading fanfold paper
Lock the tractors in position by pushing the levers back down again
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Printing on fanfold paper
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Unparking paper
Parking paper
mode
Using the tear-off function
Serial- to-parallel interface converter
Connecting the serial-to-parallel converter
COM2
the converter’s DIP switches
Setting
Protocol
Switch 3 1 Switch
Switch 6 Switch 7 Switch 8 Baud rate DOS/Windows setting
Printers
Setting up a serial connection
Connect
Printers window
MODE COMnbaud,parity,data length, stopbits,p
On an MS-DOS computer
MODE LPTl=COMn
