NOT INTENDED FOR SALE
The above statement applies only to printers marketed in the U.S.A
Federal Communications Commission
Radio Frequency Interference Statement
Trademark Acknowledgements
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Quad- sized
Chapter Chapter
TABLEOFCONTENTS
SETTING
UP THE PRINTER
Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING
Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Appendix D CHARACTER SETS
Appendix C DOWNLOAD CHARACTER
Draft character NLQ character
Standard character set IBM character set #2 IBM character set #l
SETTING UP THE PRllVTER
UNPACKING AND INSPECTION Check the carton contents
LOCATING THE PRINTER
FIgwe 1-l. Check to make knob, 4 Ribbon cartridge
SETTING UP Mount the platen knob
Remove the top cover
clear plastic top cover. Then disengage remove the cover completely
Replace the top cover
install the ribbon cartridge
lgure 1-5. Installing the ribbon cartridge
Connect the printer to the computer
Connect the printer’s power cord
LOADING SINGLE SHEETS
Mount the paper guide
Semiautomatic loading
I Figure l-7. Mounting the paper guide for single sheets
Manual loading
LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS
11. Close the sprocket covers Figure l-l
12. Raise one of the clamp levers to lock one sprocket unit in place
Paper parking
Paper unparking
TEST PRINTING
Short self test
Long se/f test
interface test
Figure I-13. Short test pattern
ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
DIP SWITCH SETTINGS
1 l-l
Orator Prints this way with switch l-3 OFF
l-3 ON
Switch l-8 Do you want an automatic line feed?
Denmark/Norway when switch 1-6 is OFF and switch 1-7 is ON
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CONTROL PANEL OPERATlONS
SWITCHES AND INDICATORS
Power indicator
On Line switch
Paper feed switch
This is proportional elite
This is condensedpica 17 characters per inch
Thisis condensedelite 20charactersper inch This is proportional pica
Figure 2-2. Print pitches selectable from the control panel
italic
This
Courier
This
ShorttestpatternOn Line switch
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
By holding this switch down during power-up, you can prevent software
Long test pattern Paper Feed switch
Stay in pane/ pitch Print Pitch switch
by any commands your software may issue
20 LPRINT CHR$I 30 NEXT 40 LPRINT 50 END
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
H37A,4
H3BE,4
3. Press the Paper Feed switch. The paper will be fed out backward
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
2. Press the Print Pitch switch and hold it down
Page feed Paper Feed and On Line switches
Left margin NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches
1. Press the On Line switch to set the minter off-line
2. Press the On Line switch again andhold it down
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
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Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE
Printer menu
Printer command options
Type styles
Page width
Initialization sequence
SETTING THE DIP SWITCHES
USING YOUR SOFTWARE
Page alignment
Other printer commands
Type style and pitch selection
can help you to use ESC4italicESCS print
PRINTERCOIYIMANDS
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Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
HARD-COPYING THE SCREEN MS-DOS AND PC-DOS
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
AEDLIN NLQELITE.DAT
ANLQPRINT README.DOC
1*-VxlVi!VA-VXVL\
ACOPY CON NLQPRINT.BAT COPY NLQELITE.DAT PRN PRINT %l
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH BASIC
1000 Set control codes
1490 LPRINT E$ACHR$I
1570 LPRINT C$Other features
RESTORE
1500 LPRINT E$ CHR$I
2060 FOR M-O TO 2070 READ MM 2080 LPRINT CHR$MM 2090 NEXT M
How the program works
LPRINr rn cHR$I
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CLEANING THE PRINTER
MAINTEIVANCE
AND TROU8LESHOOTING
Chapter
off 1. Turn power OFF and unplug the power cord
10. Fasten the print head down with the two screws
n If label paper becomes stuck
TROUBLESHOOTING
n If fanfold paper becomes stuck
n If printing is faint, incomplete, or unclear
n If you have problems with graphics
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 download characters
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n Printing Mechanism
TECHNICAL SPEClF/CAl/O/VS
H Switches and indicators
n Interface and Emulation
Dot Matrix Size
n Character Sets
n Type Styles and Pitches
4 Paper Specifications
n Dimensions and Weight
n EIectf ical Specifications
Requirements
n interface Signals
n Environmental
n Option
Name
Signal
18 + SVDC OUT 1External supply of + SVDC. 19-30 GND
Dh *ection
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PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
elite
Select
draft
characters
Select
Cancel emphasized printing
Emphasized printing
Courier
printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Double-strike
Start
Stop
Cancel superscript or subscript
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
overlining
Select IBM character set #2
Select IBM character set
Select IBM character set #7
Select international character set
Select slash zero
Enable printing of all character codes
Enable printing of a// character codes on next character
Select normal zero
Pica
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Cancel condensed printing
pitch
Expanded
Cancel expanded printing
Cancel one-line expanded printing
printing
fixed
Select master print mode
Select
spacing
Return
Select double or quadruple size
Print double-height characters
to normal
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
Set line spacing to n/216 inch
Set line spacing to 7172 inch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
Set line spacing to n/72 inch
Reverse line feed
Line
feed
Perform one n/2164nch line feed
Set page length to n inches
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to n lines
Set top margin
Enable paper-out detector
Cancel top and bottom margins
Disable paper-out detector
Form
Select vertical tab channel
Set vertical tab stops every II lines
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Vertical tab
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
left margin
Set fight margin
Carriage return
Cancel automatic line feed
Set left and right margins
Set automatic fine feed
Left
Right justify
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
justify
Relative horizontal tab
Reset all tab stops
Horizontal tab
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
Print sing/e-density &bit graphics
GRAPHICS COMMANDS
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
Print double-density &bit graphics
Convert graphics
Select graphics mode
Print quadruple-density b-bit graphics
density
Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Print O-pin graphics
Define draft download characters
Define NLQ download characters
Select download character set
Define download
characters
Select draft download character set
Select NLO download character set
MACRO INSTRUCTION COMMANDS
Select draft elite download character set
Select ROM character set
Set MSB to
Cancel last line
COMMANDS
Set MSB to
Set prinfer off-line
Cancel immediate print
hrmediate print
Set printer on-line
One-line unidirectional printing
Bidirectional printing
Unidirectional printing
Manual feed
Eject paper from ASF
Reset
Auto
Set print start position on ASF
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DO W/i/LOAD
CHARACTER GENERATOR
Appendix
Draft character
Page
NLQ character
lot data
A maximum of 78 near-letter-quality characters can be defined
T-M- Read da,..f,,r1 ,--,arac.er
initial
~~ma”ds
Ascender or desc,,nder?
over”
II GOTO
Page
OUT 6HHJBE.5 OUT 6H3BE.4 GOTO
Hexa
CHARACTER SETS
Sample
0.81----P---‘,-.P
STANDARD CHARACTER SET
Page
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lMll-lm-lL-I
Page
interface
IBM CHARACTER SET #l
systems
significant
In IBM mode, additional characters can be printed by special commands
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER SET
0 d 6 a
=F8 $ h
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T IE
INDEX
Page
El Vertical tabulation Zero slash or nomal
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
MULTI-FONT PRINTER
E L L L E
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
s-=-J
Function
1 Factorv
IBM mode
El L
Standard mode
PRINT PITCH SELECTION
IN NUMERIC
COMMAND
SUMMARY
ORDER
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