USERS MANUAL
DOT MATRIX PRINTER
NX-2415 MULTI-FONT
MULTI-FONT
NX-2415II
USERS MANUAL
Statementof The CanadianDepartmentof Communications
FederalCommunicationsCommission RadioFrequencyInterferenceStatement
RadioInterferenceRegulations
Trademark Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 - Setting Up the Printer
HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
Chapter 3 - Paper Installation and Use
Chapter 5 - Default Settings - EDS mode
Chapter 7 - Optional Accessories
Chapter 6 - Troubleshooting
Chapter 8 - Printer Control Commands
Chapter 9 - Download Characters
Chapter 2 SETTING UP THE PRINTER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 3 PAPER INSTALLATION AND USE
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 6 TROUBLESHOOTING
Chapter 5 DEFAULT SETTINGS - EDS MODE
Chapter 7 OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
Chapter 8 PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Chapter 9 DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS
COMMAND SUMMARY
Chapter 10 MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINrl’ER
Chapter 11 REFERENCE
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INTRODUCTION
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Interface connector
PRINTER COMPONENTS
Front cover
Rear cover
Description
Component
FeatureFunction
SUMMARY OF PRINTER FEATURES
Function
Feature
FONT STYLE EXAMPLE
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Double-height
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SETTING UP THE PRINTER
PRtNTER PLACEMENT
UNPACKING AND INSPECTION
Installing the platen knob
SETTING UP
Installing the ribbon cartridge
5. Take up the slack in the ribbon again by turning the tension knob
6. Hold the front cover upright and engage the tabs at the back. Then swing the front edge down until the cover is closed
Connecting the interface cable
Installing the paper guide
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Configuring your software for the printer
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SELECTION OF PAPER
PAPER INSTALLATION AND USE
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Single sheets
ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP
3 or
LOADING SINGLE SHEETS
1. Raise the paper guide vertically on the rear cover
Now you are ready to start printing
LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS
Loading the paper
Figure 3-8. Mount the fanfold paper over the tractor units
Tractor cober
CIamp lever
Paper parking
Paper unparking
CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS
BUITON AND INDICATOR FUNCTIONS
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ON LINE
SET/EJECT
PAPER FEED
FONT
PITCH
Form feed
SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS
Forward micro-feed
Top of form
Reverse micro-feed
Changing the auto loading position
Clearing the buffer/All reset
Save Macro Definition
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POWER-UP FUNCTIONS
Short test mode
Long test mode
Pitch lock mode
Print area test mode
Font lock mode
Font and Pitch lock mode
Dot adjustment mode
Hexadecimal dump
Meaning
CONDITIONS INDICATED BY BEEP TONES
Beep tone
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DEFAULT SETTINGS-EDS MODE
HOW TO SET THE EDS MODE
FUNCTIONS OF THE EDS SETTINGS
Switch A-3 RAM usage
Switches A-1 Emulation
Switches C-1 to C-3 Page Length
Switch B-2 Paper-out
Switch B~5 CR Centering
Switch D-1 Print Mode
Switches C-4 and C-5 Print Pitch
Switches E-1 to E-3 LQ Font Selection
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TROUBLESHOOTING
IProbable Cause
Problem with the application program
Probable Cause The tractor positions are in- correctly adjusted
Adjust the tractor positions. See “Loading fanfold forms” in Chapter
Platen knob was manually turned while the POWER in- dicator was on
Wrong default setting with
Some wires are missing from
Check the current EDS setting. Modify the
EDS switches
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MAINTENANCE
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OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES
AUTOMATIC SHEET FEEDER SF-15DJ
Setting up
7. Install tie printer cover provided with the Automatic Sheet Feeder
Now you can use the ASF by installing the paper stack into the hopper
Figure 7-8. Fan the paper before inserting it into the ASF
Loading paper
8. Push the paper loading lever toward the rear of the printer
cover
PULL TRACTOR UNIT PT-15XJ
Setting
Loading paper
Figure 7-14. Adjust the sprocket guides
Clamp lever
Figure 7-13. Inseri the paper from the entry slot for cut-sheet forms
Now close the tractor covers, again maKlngsure tnat me paper noles are
SERIAL INTERFACE CARTRIDGE
DIP switch functions on the Serial cartridge
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PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS
Select print quality
FONT CONTROL COMMANDS
Select LQfont
Select print quality
Select italic characters
Cancel emphasized printing
Select upright characters
Emphasized printing
Double-strike printing
Cancel double-strike printing
Underlining
Overlinittg
Superscript
Select score
Select ornament character
Subscript
Cancel superscript or subscript
Select character table
CHARACTER SET COMMANDS
Select character set #l
Select character set #2
27 82 n
Select international character set
Select IBM code page
Enable printing of all character codes on next character
Enable printing of all character codes
Pica pitch
CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS
Elite pitch
Semi-condensed pitch
Select font and pitch
Cancel condensed printing
Proportional spacing
Select print mode
Expanded printing
Cancel one-line expanded printing
Expanded printing for one line
Select character width
Increase character spacing
Select master print mode
Print double-height characters
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‘“W”
Return to normal height
Select character height, width, and line spacing
Set line spacing to 1/8 inch
VERTICALCOMMANDS
Set line spacing to 1/6 inch
Set line spacing to n1360inch
Set line spacing to n160inch or n172inch
Set line spacing
Execute dlSC “A”
27 65 n
Select reverse feed mode
Select forwardfeed mode
Line feed
Reverse line feed
Set page length to n lines
Perform one n/180-inch reverse line feed
Set page length to n inches
Set top of page at current position
Set bottom margin
Cancel bottom margin
Form feed
Set vertical tab stops
Vertical tab
Set vertical tab stops in channel
Select vertical tab channel
Set right margin
HORIZONTAL POSITION
Set left margin
Set left and right margins
Cancel automatic line feed
Carriage return
Set automatic line feed
Horizontal tab
Reset all tab stops
Set horizontal tab stops
Relative horizontal tab in inches
Relative horizontal tab
Absolute horizontal tab in inches
ESC “d” nl
Print normal-density 8-bit graphics
GRAPHICS
Print double-density 8-bit graphics
Print double-density, double-speed 8-bit graphics
Both
Print quadruple-density 8-bit graphics
Print hex-density 24-bit graphics
Select graphics mode
Select graphics mode
nl, n2, ml, m2
HO Graphicsmode
ASCII
Convert graphics density
Decimal
ESC “?” n
Define download characters
DOWNLOAD CHARACTER
ASCII
Decimal
Define download characters
Select ROM character set
Copy character set from ROM into RAM
Select download character set
Cancel last line
OTHER PRINTER COMMANDS
Set MSB to
Set MSB to O
Set printer on-line
Set printer off-line
Stop printing
Bell
One-line uni-directional printing
Uni-directional printing
AIIanualfeed
Auto feed
Set print start position on Automatic Sheet Feeder
Reset printer
Set initial conditions
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DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS WITH STANDARD MODE
Assigning the character data
Assigning a value of character space
Sample program
DIFFUSIONO
012345678
+-+-+ -+-+-+ -+-+-+-+-+- +-+-+ -+-+-+
PERSONS
Assigning the download character set
DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS WITH IBM MODE
“l” in the column for the compression mask bit. If it is not
Assigning the character dot pattern
Assigning the Index Table data
The third byte
’’’’@
Sample program
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PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS
Elite pitch
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PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC
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RESTORE
RESTORE
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Define
3330
3910
DATA
4490
O, 31,248
0, 31,240
How the program works
SPECIFICATIONS
Standard
Weight
Push tractor feed from the rear of the printer
Option
Fanfold continuous
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PINOUT OF INTERFACE CONNECTOR
Parallel interface
I N/C
Serial Interface
8-10
CHARACTER SETS
Standard character set #2
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Country 35 36 64 90 91 91 93 94 96
International character sets
Code Page #437 U.S.A
IBM character set #2
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U4 132 a
Code Page #850 Multi-1ingual
a 3 r171-i
Code Page +?860Portuguese
Code Page #861 Icelandic
Other characters are identical to Code Page #437
Code Page #863 Canadian French
Code Page #865 Nordic
Character set #1
k--l-old
6 %.id
H-id-+4
IBM special character set
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INDEX
Absolute horizontal tab, 89 Adjustment lever, 3 mode, 43,65
A s c e p A8 m B
c Bp d i f m c C c C c C C C C
s F c s c m F
E p E
G c G d G G p
c I c I c
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V p c V V V
d c c SI S c S S S
T f T TI
Standard Mode
Sethorizontaltab stops
lines
nextcharacter
Deletelastcharactersent
FunctionP
IBM Mode
S IBMcodepage Setbase unitf l s
Uni-directionalprinting Expandedprinting
Selectcharacterh
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