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Federal Communications Commission
The above statement applies only to printers marketed in the U.S.A
Trademark Acknowledgements
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
FEATURES OF THE PRINTER
Quad- sized
SETTING
TABLEOFCONTENTS
Chapter Chapter
UP THE PRINTER
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
Chapter 5 MAINTENANCE AND TROUBLESHOOTING
Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Draft character NLQ character
Appendix C DOWNLOAD 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
clear plastic top cover. Then disengage remove the cover completely
Remove the top cover
lgure 1-5. Installing the ribbon cartridge
install 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
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
Paper unparking
TEST PRINTING
Short self test
Long se/f test
interface test
Figure I-13. Short test pattern
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
Power indicator
On Line switch
Paper feed switch
Thisis condensedelite 20charactersper inch This is proportional pica
This is condensedpica 17 characters per inch
This is proportional elite
Figure 2-2. Print pitches selectable from the control panel
Courier
This
italic
This
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
ShorttestpatternOn Line switch
Stay in pane/ pitch Print Pitch switch
Long test pattern Paper Feed switch
By holding this switch down during power-up, you can prevent software
by any commands your software may issue
20 LPRINT CHR$I 30 NEXT 40 LPRINT 50 END
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
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H3BE,4
2. Press the Print Pitch switch and hold it down
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
3. Press the Paper Feed switch. The paper will be fed out backward
Page feed Paper Feed and On Line switches
2. Press the On Line switch again andhold it down
1. Press the On Line switch to set the minter off-line
Left margin NLQ Type Style and Print Pitch switches
1. Press the On Line switch to set the printer off-line
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Chapter 3 USING THE PRINTER WITH COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
INSTALLING YOUR SOFTWARE
Printer menu
Printer command options
Type styles
Page width
USING YOUR SOFTWARE
SETTING THE DIP SWITCHES
Initialization sequence
Page alignment
Type style and pitch selection
Other printer commands
PRINTERCOIYIMANDS
can help you to use ESC4italicESCS print
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HARD-COPYING THE SCREEN MS-DOS AND PC-DOS
Chapter 4 USING THE PRINTER WITH DOS AND BASIC
PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
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PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH BASIC
1000 Set control codes
RESTORE
1570 LPRINT C$Other features
1490 LPRINT E$ACHR$I
1500 LPRINT E$ CHR$I
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How the program works
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AND TROU8LESHOOTING
MAINTEIVANCE
CLEANING THE PRINTER
Chapter
off 1. Turn power OFF and unplug the power cord
10. Fasten the print head down with the two screws
n If fanfold paper becomes stuck
TROUBLESHOOTING
n If label paper becomes stuck
n If printing is faint, incomplete, or unclear
n If you have problems with horizontal tabulation
n If some printer commands afe ignored of executed incof- fectly
n If you have problems with graphics
n If you have problems with download characters
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H Switches and indicators
TECHNICAL SPEClF/CAl/O/VS
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 Environmental
n interface Signals
Requirements
n Option
18 + SVDC OUT 1External supply of + SVDC. 19-30 GND
Signal
Name
Dh *ection
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FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters
PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
draft
Select
elite
characters
Emphasized printing
Cancel emphasized printing
Select
Courier
Double-strike
Cancel double-strike printing
printing
Start
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Cancel superscript or subscript
Stop
overlining
Select IBM character set #7
Select IBM character set
Select IBM character set #2
Select international character set
Enable printing of a// character codes on next character
Enable printing of all character codes
Select slash zero
Select normal zero
Cancel condensed printing
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Pica
pitch
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Cancel expanded printing
Expanded
printing
Select
Select master print mode
fixed
spacing
Print double-height characters
Select double or quadruple size
Return
to normal
VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Set line spacing to l/8 inch
Set line spacing to l/6 inch
Set line spacing to 7172 inch
Set line spacing to n/216 inch
Set line spacing to n/72 inch
feed
Line
Reverse line feed
Perform one n/2164nch line feed
Set page length to n lines
Set top of page at current position
Set page length to n inches
Set top margin
Disable paper-out detector
Cancel top and bottom margins
Enable paper-out detector
Form
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Set vertical tab stops every II lines
Select vertical tab channel
Vertical tab
HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS
left margin
Set fight margin
Set left and right margins
Cancel automatic line feed
Carriage return
Set automatic fine feed
Set horizontal tab stop every n columns
Right justify
Left
justify
Horizontal tab
Reset all tab stops
Relative horizontal tab
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
Absolute horizontal tab in columns
GRAPHICS COMMANDS
Print sing/e-density &bit graphics
Print double-density &bit graphics
Print quadruple-density b-bit graphics
Select graphics mode
Convert graphics
density
Print O-pin graphics
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS
Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM
Define draft download characters
Define NLQ download characters
characters
Define download
Select download character set
Select draft download character set
Select draft elite download character set
MACRO INSTRUCTION COMMANDS
Select NLO download character set
Select ROM character set
COMMANDS
Cancel last line
Set MSB to
Set MSB to
hrmediate print
Cancel immediate print
Set prinfer off-line
Set printer on-line
Unidirectional printing
Bidirectional printing
One-line unidirectional printing
Manual feed
Auto
Reset
Eject paper from ASF
Set print start position on ASF
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Appendix
CHARACTER GENERATOR
DO W/i/LOAD
Draft character
Page
lot data
NLQ character
A maximum of 78 near-letter-quality characters can be defined
~~ma”ds
initial
T-M- Read da,..f,,r1 ,--,arac.er
Ascender or desc,,nder?
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Sample
CHARACTER SETS
Hexa
0.81----P---‘,-.P
STANDARD CHARACTER SET
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systems
IBM CHARACTER SET #l
interface
significant
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
E L L L E
MULTI-FONT PRINTER
POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
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Function
1 Factorv
Standard mode
El L
IBM mode
PRINT PITCH SELECTION
SUMMARY
COMMAND
IN NUMERIC
ORDER
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