Control Panel Operations | Star Micronics NX-2415 specification

Chapter 2

CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS

The control panel buttons can be pressed singly to perform the operations indicated by their names. Other functions can be obtained by holding these buttons down when you turn the printer’s power on. Still further functions can be executed by pressing the control panel buttons in combination.

This chapter explains all the button and indicator functions.

•Pause printing

•Feed paper (fast and slow, forward and reverse)

. Park fanfold forms

•Set the top-of-form position

•Select the print pitch

•Select a font style

•Print test patterns

. Prevent software from changing the panel pitch and font selections

•Print a hexadecimal dump

•Clear the printer’s buffer

BUTTONS AND INDICATORS

The printer is equipped with five buttons on the control panel: from right to

leftthey are,( ON LINE XPAPER FEEDS and( sE~!~cT )(largerbuttons), and (PITCH) and (STYLE)(smaller buttons).

The following is a brief guide to the buttons and indicators on the control panel.

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Star Micronics NX-2415 user manual Control Panel Operations

Contents

Not Intended for Sale Business Machines Corp HOW to USE this Manual Page Features of the Printer Table of Contents DIP Switch Settings Specifications Locating the Printer Chapter Check the carton contents Printer’s external parts Parts name of the printer Mount the platen knob Install the ribbon cartridgePage Page Ins tall the optional IC card Connection Figure I-9.Replacing the interface board Automatic loading Loading Single Sheets Adjustable paper guide Manual loading Loading and Parking Fanfold Forms Loading the fanfold forms Figure l-73. Thread the fanfold paper over the sprockets Figure l-74.Mounting the paper guide for fanfold forms Loading the paper with pull tractor unitPage Paper unparking Paper parking Adjusting the Printing GAP Control Panel Operations On Line button Paper Feed button SET/EJECT Park buttonPitch button Italic Style button POWER-UP Functions Short test mode Long test mode Print area test modeStay in panel pitch Stay in panel style Stay in panel pitch and styleHexadecimal dump Lprint CHR$I Next Return Form feed Switch Combination Functions Top of form Forward micro-feedReverse micro-feed Clearing the buffer Chapter Location of the DIP Switches Auto CR Functions of the DIP SwitchesPage Page Page Memo Printer Control Commands Select LQ font style Font Control CommandsSelect draft quality characters Select LQ characters Se/ect Orator characters Select Courier charactersSelect Optional characters Select Prestige characters Select ornament chatacter Select Script charactersSelect italic characters Select upright characters Start underlining Cancel emphasized printingCancel double-strike printing Double-strike printing Subscript Stop underliningStop 0 verlining Superscript Select character set #I Cancel superscriptSelect standard character set Select IBM character set Enable printing of all character codes Select character set #2Select international Character set Pica pitch Enable printing of all character codes on next characterSelect slash zero Select normal zero Seim-condensed pitch Elite pitchHigh-speed elite pitch High-density elite pitch Expanded printing Cancel condensed printingCancel expanded printing Condensed printing Select proportional spacing Cancel one-line expanded printingExpanded printing for one line Select character width Select master print mode Select fixed spacingIncrease character spacing Select double or quadruple size Select character sizePrint double-height characters Select character height, width, and line spacing Return to normal height Select character type and print pitch Set line spacing to n/360 inch Vertical Position CommandsSet line spacing to l/6 inch Set line spacing to 760 or 7l72 inch Define line spacing to n/72 inch Set base unit for line spacingSet line spacing to n/180 or n/216 inch Set line spacing to n/60 or n/72 inch Line feed Execute ES Mode AsciiSIect forward feed mode Select reverse feed mode Set top of page at current position Perform one n/l 80-inch or n/216-inchline feedPerform one n/216=inch reverse line feed Feed paper n lines Set bottom margin Set page length to n linesSet page length to n inches Set top margin Return to top of current Cancel top and bottom marginsDisable paper-out detector Enable paper-out detector Select vertical tab channel Set vertical tab stopsSet vertical tab stops every n lines Set vertical tab stops in channel Set left margin Vertical tab Set right margin Set left and right marginsCarriage return Left justify Cancel automatic line feedSet automatic Line feed Backspace Set horizontal tab stop everyn columns Right justifyFull justify Set horizontal tab stops Relative horizontal tab in inches Reset all tab stopsHorizontal tab Relative horizontal Tab Absolute horizontal tab in inches Absolute horizontal tab in columnsPrint g-bit double-density graphics Print g-bit double-density, double-speed graphics Print g-bit quadruple-density graphicsPrint 24-bit hex-density graphics Select graphics mode Convert graphics density MO+mI+m2 Define download characters Copy character set from ROM into RAM card Select download character setSelect ROM character set Delete last character sent Cancel last lineSet MSB to Accept MSB as is Lmmedia te print Cancel quiet printRepeat data Quiet print Stop printing Cancel immediate printSet printer off-line Set printer on-line One-line unidirectional prin thg BellBidirectional printing Unidirectional printing Set print start position on ASF Reset printerAuto feed Eject paper from ASF Memo Download Characters Ascii Code Left space Character width Right space Sample program Assigning a value of character space Lprint Cars & Telephones Memo Chapter Installing Application Software with Your Printer CPI Embedding Printer Commands COW Aprint README.DOC Programming the Printer with DOS Commands ESC Acopy LQELITE.DAT PRN Aprint README.DOC Programming With Basic Width Gosub 2620 Data 3620 How the program works Quad-size d Lprint CHR$2SECHR$O Modifications for IBM mode Troubleshooting Maintenance Power supply If the print is faint, or uneven, check the following Paper feeding Is there too much paper in the paper feed hopper or stacker? 102 Replacing the Ribbon Maintenance Replacing the Print Head 105 Replacing the Battery in the RAM Card Specifications Cut sheet Fanfold continuous Font card RAM card 109 Strobe Character Sets Standard Character SET 113 IBM Character SET #2 115 IBM Character SET #I IBM Special CH Aracter SET IATINABEPlCA #$aiRi International Character Sets Index Lol Page Command Summary 123 IBM ESC a 125