Star Micronics NX-1020 Paper parking

Figuro I-16. Mount the fanfold paper from the bottom of the printer.

7. Now close the tractor covers, again making sure that the paper holes are

aligned with the pins on the tractor units. If they are not aligned pIoperly,

you will have problems with paper feeding, possibly resulting in tearing

and jamming of the paper.

8. Remount the roller unit and replace the rear cover and the top cover.

Paper parking

After loading fanfold paper from the rear of the printer, you do not have to

unload it when you want to print on a single sheet. The printer will “park”

it for you if you follow the procedure below.

1. To begin paper parking, start with power ON, fanfold paper loaded in

printing position, and the release lever forward.

2. Press the ( ON LINE Ibutton on the control panel to set the printer off-

line. ON LINE indicator will turn off.

3. Tear off the printed form at the last perforation, leaving not more than

about half a page showing above the top cover. If necessary, press the

(PAPER FEED) button to feed paper forward until a perforation is located

just above the top cover, and tear there.

4. Press the ( sEsdscT 1 button on the control panel.

The printer will automatically feed the fanfold form backward until the

paper is completely free of the platen.

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Contents

Main 0 Copyright 1990 Star Micronics Co., Ltd. HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL Page FEATURES OF THE PRINTER Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS Page Chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE 107 Chapter 8 SPECIFICATIONS Chapter 9 CHARACTER SETS INDEX COMMAND SUMMARY 136 Chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER LOCATING THE PRINTER Page Identifying printer parts SETTING UP Mounting the platen knob Piaten Install the ribbon cartridge and the roller unit Page Page Page Connecting the printer to your computer \ -i \ % \Y LOADING SINGLE SHEETS Automatic loading Page Manual loading I / Loading the paper from the rear of the printer Page Page Loading the paper from the bottom of the printer Paper parking Paper unparking LOADING MULTI-PART FORMS ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP Page Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS BUTTONS AND INDICATORS ON LINE button PAPER FEED button SET/EJECT/PARK button PITCH button FONT button POWER-UP FUNCTIONS Short test mode Long test mode ON * * * x * * * Ir I: 1: * t * * I 1: Igun, Print area test mode Stay in Panel Pitch Stay in Panel Font Stay in Panel Pitch and Font Hexadecimal dump Page SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS Form feed Top of form Forward micro-feed Reverse micro-feed Changing the auto loading value Clearing the buffer/All reset Selecting the print color Store Macro Definition Page Chapter 3 DEFAULT SETTINGS HOW TO SET THE EDS MODE FUNCTIONS OF THE EDS SETTINGS I Page Page Page BIDIRECTIONAL TEST/ADJUSTMENT MODE Chapter 4 PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select draft quality characters Select draft elite characters Select NLQ characters Select NLQ font Select Courier characters Select Sanserif characters Select Script characters Select Orator characters Select italic characters Select NLQ italic characters Select upright characters Emphasized printing Cancel emphasized printing Double-s trike printing Cancel double-strike printing Start underlining Stop underlining Start 0 verlining Stop overlining Superscript Subscript Page Select international character set Select IBM code page Enable printing of a// character codes Enable printing of all character codes on next character Select slash zero Select normal zero Page Cancel condensed printing Expanded printing Cancel expanded printing Expanded printing for one line Cancel one-line expanded printing Select proportional spacing Select fixed spacing Select master print mode increase character spacing Select double or quadruple size Select character size Print double-height characters Return to normal height Select character height, width, and line spacing VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS Set line spacing to I/8 inch Set line spacing to 7/72 inch Set line spacing to I/6 inch Set line spacing to n/216 inch Set line spacing to nD2 inch Execute <ES& A Line feed Reverse line feed Perform one n/216-inch line feed Perform one n/216=inch reverse line feed Feed paper n lines Set top of page at current position Set page length to n lines Set page length to n inches Set bottom margin Cancel bottom margin Form feed Return to top of current page Disable paper-out detector Enable paper-out detector Set vertical tab stops Set vertical tab stops every n lines Set vertical tab stops in channel Select vertical tab channel Vertical tab HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin Set right margin Set leff and right margins Carriage return Set automatic line feed Cancel automatic line feed Backspace Left justify Center text Right justify Full justify Set horizontal tab stops Set horizontal tab stops every n columns Reset all tab stops Horizontal tab Relative horizontal tab Absolute horizontal tab in inches - Absolute horizontal tab in columns Print normal-density 8-bit graphics Print double-density 8-bit graphics Print double-density, double-speed 8-bit graphics Print quadruple-density 8-bit graphics Select graphics mode Convert graphics density Print O-pin graphics DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Define draft download characters Define NLQ download characters Define draft download characters Define NLQ download characters Copy character set from ROM into RAM .- Select download character set Shift download character area Select draft download character set Select draft elite download character set Select NLQ download character set Select NLQ italic download character set Select ROM character set COLOR SELECTION COMMANDS select print color Select black Select magenta Select cyan Select violet Sekt yellow Select orange Select green Page Quiet print Cancel quiet print Set printer off-line Set printer on-line Bell Bidirectional printing Unidirectional printing One-line unidirectional printing Manual feed Auto feed Eject paper from ASF Set print start position on ASF Reset printer Page chapter 5 DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS DESIGNING YOUR OWN DRAFT CHARACTERS Defining the attribute data Assigning the character data Sample program Page DEFINING YOUR OWN NLQ CHARACTERS Assigning the character data with the Standard mode Page Page U.S. EXPORTS Assigning the character data with the IBM mode Page Page Page Page chapter 6 MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE WITH YOUR PRINTER EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS PRINTER COMMANDS PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS A>PRINT README.DOC Name of list device A>PRINT/T A>COPY README.DOC PRN A>TYPE README.DOC >PRN ASEDLIN NLQELITE.DAT New file "1. 1: *'-V[Xl"V[!'VA 2:*-c - *E Page PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC Page Page How the program works Expanded I Double-height, Double-sized, Quad-sized. Page chapter 7 TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE TROUBLESHOOTING - Power supply If the POWER indicator does not illuminate, check the following: Printing If your printer does not print, or suddenly stops printing, check the follow- ing: Is the ON LINE indicator illu- If the print is faint, or uneven, check the following: If dots are missing in the printing, check the following: If the printout is not what is expected: -. Paper feeding I -- If the ASF is not operating or is not feeding paper correctly, check the following: w Page MAINTENANCE REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD Page chapter 8 SPECIFICATIONS NLQ Page Page I chapter 9 r CHARACTER SETS L Page Page Page INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS d - h - , Page 0 c 128 1 ii 129 2 Code Page #850 (Mu/i-lingual) I-! I ! lAl%-k--JY-hI I ! Code Page #860 (Pomguese) %!I 1 Other charcters are identical to Code Pane #437. Page Page Page Page Page lA/DEX CKI IBI IGI IHI m CEI ccl (VJ El IQI COMMAND SUMMARY Standard Mode The following commands take effect with the Standard mode. Page :: :; IBM Mode The following commands take effect with the IBM mode. 139 select green