Contents
LC24-30
COLOUR
USERS MANUAL
NOT INTENDED FOR SALE
VDE Statement
Bescheinigung des lmporteurs
Trademark acknowledgments
TrueType Macintosh Apple Computer Inc
Guide to this manual
Section
Table of contents
Table of contents
Chapter 2 - Unpacking and setting up
Chapter 3 - Using the printer
Chapter 4 - Printer reference
pitch
6 - Troubleshooting
Chapter 7 - Software commands
Chapter 5 - Options
Chapter
Glossary
Appendix
Index
Chapter
Features
Introduction
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
Interlace connector
The printer
The printer with the front cover removed
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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
setting up
Unpacking and
Choosing a place for the printer
Chapter
Unpacking the printer
Preparing the printer
Opening the front cover
Installing the ribbon cartridge
Tension knob
bon Print head shield Print head
Fitting the paper support
Connecting the printer to your computer
Printer
Secure the connector with the clips as shown
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Setting up the printer in Windows
Click on Set As Default Printer
Select LC24-30 Colour from the new list of printers
Setting up the printer in MS-DOS
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Loading paper
Using the printer
Chapter
Pick up your stack of paper
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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
Now place the paper in the paper tray
Push the paper tray cover closed
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Paper guides
Extensiontra Stack wire
Papa, delivery
Ready mode
Ready mode and Not-Ready mode
Not-ready mode
Using the control panel
The other six lights are always either on or off
In Windows
Printing out your documents
In MS-DOS
Star LC24-30 Colour Epson LO-860/l
Using different fonts
1234!567890 ABCDE
In Windows
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In MS-DOS
press the FONTkey
Similarly, if the top two lights are on, Sanserif is selected
Using other printer features
Dealing with printing problems
Chapter4 Printer reference
Introduction
Using the control panel
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
A3 - RAM usage
A4 - Color and zoom
A5 - Auto line feed
Bl - Graphics direction
B2 - Paper out
B3 - Ink ribbon type
B4 - Reserved
B5 - Time-out printing
C4 and C5 - Print pitch
Print pitch
Dl - Print quality
D2 - Character table
D3 to D 5 - IBM code page or international character set
Font
El to E3 - LQ font selection
E4 and E5 - Reserved
Selecting which emulation to use
Choosing which type of cable to use
Setting up the printer with a Windows computer
Connecting the printer to your computer
Setting up the printer with an MS-DOS computer
Setting up the printer with a Macintosh
Using fonts and varying the appearance of text
Introduction to fonts and typefaces
Bold Black
Weight
Pitch
Bitmap fonts
Scalable fonts
Installing True Type fonts
In Windows
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
In MS-DOS
Preventing software font selection
Using different types of paper
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Note Do not reverse feed label sheets
Fanfold forms
Single sheets
Portrait and landscape printing
Face-up and face-down printing
Manual by-pass
Useful printing features
Parking fanfold paper
Pausing printing
The tear-off function
Controlling the paper position
Paper feed
Form feed
Forward micro feed
Setting the auto load position
Reverse micro feed
Selecting Zoom mode print size
Selecting Quiet mode
Zoom
Zoom light
Saving current settings the Macro feature
Making adjustments to the printer
Setting the print gap
Weight
setting may drastically
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Paper
Adjusting vertical alignment
Each time you press either of these two keys, the printer
Short test
Testing the printer
Long 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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Options
Chapter
Installing the push tractor unit
Push tractor unit
As seen from behind the printer
Ridges
As seen from behind the printer As seen from behind the printer
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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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Parking paper
Unparking paper
Using the tear-off function
mode
Connecting the serial-to-parallel converter
Serial- to-parallel interface converter
COM2
Setting
the converter’s DIP switches
Switch 6 Switch 7 Switch 8 Baud rate DOS/Windows setting
Switch 3 1 Switch
Protocol
Setting up a serial connection
Printers
Connect
Printers window
MODE LPTl=COMn
On an MS-DOS computer
MODE COMnbaud,parity,data length, stopbits,p
