NOT INTENDED FOR SALE
Trademark Acknowledgements
Federal Communications Commission
Radio Frequency Interference Statement
The above statement applies only to printers marketed in the U.S.A
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Quad- sized
UP THE PRINTER
TABLEOFCONTENTS
SETTING
Chapter Chapter
Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING
Standard character set IBM character set #2 IBM character set #l
Appendix C DOWNLOAD CHARACTER
Draft character NLQ character
Appendix D CHARACTER SETS
LOCATING THE PRINTER
SETTING UP THE PRllVTER
UNPACKING AND INSPECTION Check the carton contents
FIgwe 1-l. Check to make knob, 4 Ribbon cartridge
SETTING UP Mount the platen knob
clear plastic top cover. Then disengage remove the cover completely
Remove the top cover
Connect the printer to the computer
install the ribbon cartridge
lgure 1-5. Installing the ribbon cartridge
Replace the top cover
Mount the paper guide
Connect the printer’s power cord
LOADING SINGLE SHEETS
I Figure l-7. Mounting the paper guide for single sheets
Semiautomatic loading
Manual loading
LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS
12. Raise one of the clamp levers to lock one sprocket unit in place
11. Close the sprocket covers Figure l-l
Paper parking
Short self test
Paper unparking
TEST PRINTING
Figure I-13. Short test pattern
Long se/f test
interface test
DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
1 l-l
l-3 ON
Orator Prints this way with switch l-3 OFF
Denmark/Norway when switch 1-6 is OFF and switch 1-7 is ON
Switch l-8 Do you want an automatic line feed?
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SWITCHES AND INDICATORS
CONTROL PANEL OPERATlONS
Paper feed switch
Power indicator
On Line switch
Figure 2-2. Print pitches selectable from the control panel
This is condensedpica 17 characters per inch
Thisis condensedelite 20charactersper inch This is proportional pica
This is proportional elite
This
This
Courier
italic
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
ShorttestpatternOn Line switch
by any commands your software may issue
Long test pattern Paper Feed switch
Stay in pane/ pitch Print Pitch switch
By holding this switch down during power-up, you can prevent software
20 LPRINT CHR$I 30 NEXT 40 LPRINT 50 END
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SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
H37A,4
Page feed Paper Feed and On Line switches
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
2. Press the Print Pitch switch and hold it down
3. Press the Paper Feed switch. The paper will be fed out backward
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
1. Press the On Line switch to set the minter off-line
2. Press the On Line switch again andhold it down
Left margin NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches
Page
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Printer menu
Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE
Page width
Printer command options
Type styles
Page alignment
SETTING THE DIP SWITCHES
USING YOUR SOFTWARE
Initialization sequence
Type style and pitch selection
Other printer commands
PRINTERCOIYIMANDS
can help you to use ESC4italicESCS print
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HARD-COPYING THE SCREEN MS-DOS AND PC-DOS
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
AEDLIN NLQELITE.DAT
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH BASIC
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ACOPY CON NLQPRINT.BAT COPY NLQELITE.DAT PRN PRINT %l
ANLQPRINT README.DOC
1000 Set control codes
1500 LPRINT E$ CHR$I
1570 LPRINT C$Other features
RESTORE
1490 LPRINT E$ACHR$I
2060 FOR M-O TO 2070 READ MM 2080 LPRINT CHR$MM 2090 NEXT M
How the program works
LPRINr rn cHR$I
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Chapter
MAINTEIVANCE
AND TROU8LESHOOTING
CLEANING THE PRINTER
off 1. Turn power OFF and unplug the power cord
10. Fasten the print head down with the two screws
n If printing is faint, incomplete, or unclear
TROUBLESHOOTING
n If fanfold paper becomes stuck
n If label paper becomes stuck
n If you have problems with download characters
n If some printer commands afe ignored of executed incof- fectly
n If you have problems with horizontal tabulation
n If you have problems with graphics
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n Interface and Emulation
TECHNICAL SPEClF/CAl/O/VS
H Switches and indicators
n Printing Mechanism
n Type Styles and Pitches
Dot Matrix Size
n Character Sets
n EIectf ical Specifications
4 Paper Specifications
n Dimensions and Weight
n Option
n interface Signals
n Environmental
Requirements
Dh *ection
Signal
18 + SVDC OUT 1External supply of + SVDC. 19-30 GND
Name
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FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
characters
Select
draft
elite
Courier
Cancel emphasized printing
Emphasized printing
Select
Start
Cancel double-strike printing
Double-strike
printing
overlining
Cancel superscript or subscript
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Stop
Select international character set
Select IBM character set
Select IBM character set #7
Select IBM character set #2
Select normal zero
Enable printing of all character codes
Enable printing of a// character codes on next character
Select slash zero
pitch
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Cancel condensed printing
Pica
printing
Cancel expanded printing
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Expanded
spacing
Select master print mode
Select
fixed
to normal
Select double or quadruple size
Print double-height characters
Return
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Set line spacing to n/72 inch
Set line spacing to 7172 inch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
Set line spacing to n/216 inch
Perform one n/2164nch line feed
Line
feed
Reverse line feed
Set top margin
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to n lines
Set page length to n inches
Form
Cancel top and bottom margins
Disable paper-out detector
Enable paper-out detector
Vertical tab
Set vertical tab stops every II lines
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
Set fight margin
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
left margin
Set automatic fine feed
Cancel automatic line feed
Set left and right margins
Carriage return
justify
Right justify
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
Left
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
Reset all tab stops
Horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab
Print double-density &bit graphics
GRAPHICS COMMANDS
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
Print sing/e-density &bit graphics
density
Select graphics mode
Print quadruple-density b-bit graphics
Convert graphics
Define draft download characters
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Print O-pin graphics
Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM
Define NLQ download characters
Select draft download character set
Define download
characters
Select download character set
Select ROM character set
MACRO INSTRUCTION COMMANDS
Select draft elite download character set
Select NLO download character set
Set MSB to
Cancel last line
COMMANDS
Set MSB to
Set printer on-line
Cancel immediate print
hrmediate print
Set prinfer off-line
Manual feed
Bidirectional printing
Unidirectional printing
One-line unidirectional printing
Set print start position on ASF
Reset
Auto
Eject paper from ASF
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Draft character
CHARACTER GENERATOR
Appendix
DO W/i/LOAD
Page
lot data
NLQ character
A maximum of 78 near-letter-quality characters can be defined
Ascender or desc,,nder?
initial
~~ma”ds
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CHARACTER SETS
Sample
Hexa
STANDARD CHARACTER SET
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significant
IBM CHARACTER SET #l
systems
interface
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER SET
In IBM mode, additional characters can be printed by special commands
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INDEX
Page
El Vertical tabulation Zero slash or nomal
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
MULTI-FONT PRINTER
E L L L E
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
1 Factorv
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Function
PRINT PITCH SELECTION
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Standard mode
IBM mode
ORDER
COMMAND
SUMMARY
IN NUMERIC
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