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Radio Frequency Interference Statement
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Trademark Acknowledgements
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Quad- sized
TABLEOFCONTENTS
SETTING
Chapter Chapter
UP THE PRINTER
Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING
Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Appendix C DOWNLOAD CHARACTER
Draft character NLQ character
Appendix D CHARACTER SETS
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
install the ribbon cartridge
lgure 1-5. Installing the ribbon cartridge
Replace the top cover
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 condensedpica 17 characters per inch
Thisis condensedelite 20charactersper inch This is proportional pica
This is proportional elite
Figure 2-2. Print pitches selectable from the control panel
This
Courier
italic
This
ShorttestpatternOn Line switch
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
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
by any commands your software may issue
20 LPRINT CHR$I 30 NEXT 40 LPRINT 50 END
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
H37A,4
H3BE,4
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
2. Press the Print Pitch switch and hold it down
3. Press the Paper Feed switch. The paper will be fed out backward
Page feed Paper Feed and On Line switches
1. Press the On Line switch to set the minter off-line
2. Press the On Line switch again andhold it down
Left margin NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
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Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE
Printer menu
Printer command options
Type styles
Page width
SETTING THE DIP SWITCHES
USING YOUR SOFTWARE
Initialization sequence
Page alignment
Other printer commands
Type style and pitch selection
can help you to use ESC4italicESCS print
PRINTERCOIYIMANDS
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Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
HARD-COPYING THE SCREEN MS-DOS AND PC-DOS
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
AEDLIN NLQELITE.DAT
1*-VxlVi!VA-VXVL\
ACOPY CON NLQPRINT.BAT COPY NLQELITE.DAT PRN PRINT %l
ANLQPRINT README.DOC
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH BASIC
1000 Set control codes
1570 LPRINT C$Other features
RESTORE
1490 LPRINT E$ACHR$I
1500 LPRINT E$ CHR$I
2060 FOR M-O TO 2070 READ MM 2080 LPRINT CHR$MM 2090 NEXT M
How the program works
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MAINTEIVANCE
AND TROU8LESHOOTING
CLEANING THE PRINTER
Chapter
off 1. Turn power OFF and unplug the power cord
10. Fasten the print head down with the two screws
TROUBLESHOOTING
n If fanfold paper becomes stuck
n If label paper becomes stuck
n If printing is faint, incomplete, or unclear
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
n If you have problems with download characters
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TECHNICAL SPEClF/CAl/O/VS
H Switches and indicators
n Printing Mechanism
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
n interface Signals
n Environmental
Requirements
n Option
Signal
18 + SVDC OUT 1External supply of + SVDC. 19-30 GND
Name
Dh *ection
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PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
Select
draft
elite
characters
Cancel emphasized printing
Emphasized printing
Select
Courier
Cancel double-strike printing
Double-strike
printing
Start
Cancel superscript or subscript
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Stop
overlining
Select IBM character set
Select IBM character set #7
Select IBM character set #2
Select international character set
Enable printing of all character codes
Enable printing of a// character codes on next character
Select slash zero
Select normal zero
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Cancel condensed printing
Pica
pitch
Cancel expanded printing
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Expanded
printing
Select master print mode
Select
fixed
spacing
Select double or quadruple size
Print double-height characters
Return
to normal
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
Set line spacing to 7172 inch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
Set line spacing to n/216 inch
Set line spacing to n/72 inch
Line
feed
Reverse line feed
Perform one n/2164nch line feed
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to n lines
Set page length to n inches
Set top margin
Cancel top and bottom margins
Disable paper-out detector
Enable paper-out detector
Form
Set vertical tab stops every II lines
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
Vertical tab
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
left margin
Set fight margin
Cancel automatic line feed
Set left and right margins
Carriage return
Set automatic fine feed
Right justify
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
Left
justify
Reset all tab stops
Horizontal tab
Relative horizontal tab
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
GRAPHICS COMMANDS
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
Print sing/e-density &bit graphics
Print double-density &bit graphics
Select graphics mode
Print quadruple-density b-bit graphics
Convert graphics
density
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Print O-pin graphics
Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM
Define draft download characters
Define NLQ download characters
Define download
characters
Select download character set
Select draft download character set
MACRO INSTRUCTION COMMANDS
Select draft elite download character set
Select NLO download character set
Select ROM character set
Cancel last line
COMMANDS
Set MSB to
Set MSB to
Cancel immediate print
hrmediate print
Set prinfer off-line
Set printer on-line
Bidirectional printing
Unidirectional printing
One-line unidirectional printing
Manual feed
Reset
Auto
Eject paper from ASF
Set print start position on ASF
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CHARACTER GENERATOR
Appendix
DO W/i/LOAD
Draft character
Page
NLQ character
lot data
A maximum of 78 near-letter-quality characters can be defined
initial
~~ma”ds
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CHARACTER SETS
Sample
Hexa
0.81----P---‘,-.P
STANDARD CHARACTER SET
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IBM CHARACTER SET #l
systems
interface
significant
In IBM mode, additional characters can be printed by special commands
ADDITIONAL CHARACTER SET
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INDEX
Page
El Vertical tabulation Zero slash or nomal
MULTI-FONT PRINTER
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POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
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Function
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Standard mode
IBM mode
PRINT PITCH SELECTION
COMMAND
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