Star Micronics SJ-48

ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP

Thedistance betweenthe printhead and thepapercanbe adjustedto accommodate different

paperthicknesses. The adjustment dial is located behind the interface connector at the left

sideof the printer.

There arethree positions, and you can feel the dial clicking into each position. The center

positionis for high density graphicsprinting on normal paper. Turning the adjustment dial

clockwiseis forthe normal paper,and the counterclockwiseis forthickpaperor envelopes.

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Contents

Main 0Copyright 1991Star Micronics Co., Ltd. HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL Page Page Page FEATURES OF THE PRINTER Ink jet printing system Auto-capping system Easy maintenance Z-way power supply Page Page Page REQUIREMENTS Location of the printer Requirements of the power supply Requirements of the Ink Cartridge STP UNPACKINGAND INSPECTION SEITING UP Connecting the power supply \ Install the Ink Cartridge Page Connecting the interface cable w / vR Page , I SELECTION OF PAPER 5 4mm(4in I Page LOADING PAPER Loading the paper from the front slot Page Loading the paper from the flat feed slot REMOVING PAPERJAMS BUTTONS AND INDICATORS $m-llmlll ill: ~~ ONLINE button LINE FEED button FWD ADJ button REVADJ button PITCH button SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS Flat feed Form feed Top of form Head cleaning Clearing the buffer/All reset POWER-UP FUNCTIONS tttt+ Charge the optional battery pack Short test mode Long test mode Hexadecimal dump 1 Pitch lock mode Chapter5 DS S LOCATION OF THE DIP SWITCHES FUNCTIONS OF THE DIP SWITCHES Page Page Chapter P $;: FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Select Economy mode Select High Quality mode Select print quality o Select Tms Romn font Page Cancel double-strike printing Start underlining Stop underlining Start overlining Stop overlining I<ESC> ( - <3> I27 40 45 3 IIB 28 2D 03 o Select ornament character o Superscript Page Page Select international character set Select IBM code page Enable printing of all character codes Page CHARACTER SIZE AND PITCH COMMANDS Pica pitch Select pica characters with Economy mode I Select pica characters with High Quality mode I Select elite characters with High Quality mode Semi-condensed pitch Condensed printing Select condensed characters with Economy mode Select condensed characters with High Quality mode Page Select character width o Select proportional spacing Select proportional characters with High Quality mode 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 IIIIHexadecimal 1 Select character height, width, and line spacing Page Set line spacing to n/180 inch or n/216 inch Set line spacing to n/60 inch or n/72 inch Execute <ESC> A Line feed Perform one n/180-inch or n/216-inch line feed Feed paper nlines Set top of page at current position Set bottom margin Cancel bottom margin Form feed Set vertical tab stops every nlines Set vertical tab stops in channel ...<o>. Select vertical tab channel Verticaltab HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin IStd. ]<ESC> l nI27 108 n IIB 6C nI Set right margin Set left and right margjns Carriage return Page Set horizontal tab stops Set horizontal tab stop every nco/umns Reset all tab stops Horizontal tab Relative horizontal tab Relative horizontal tab in inches Absolute horizontal tab in inches Absolute horizontal tab in columns GRAPHICS COMMANDS Print normal-density 8-bit graphics I I ml, m2, ... are the dot data, each al-byte value from Oto 255 representing 48 Print double-density 8-bit graphics Print quadruple-density 8-bit graphics Print hex-density 24-bit graphics I I Print hex-density 48-bit graphics Select graphics mode nO Select graphics mode (60 mO (60 Convert graphics density DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Define 24-dot download characters ml Define 48-dot download characters Select download character set Shift download character area Select ROM character set Page Page Manual feed Auto feed Eject paper from ASF Set print start position on ASF Reset printer Chapter 7 D C DEFINING YOUR OWN 24-DOT CHARACTERS Gii F7-1. tgsdy2c Assigning the character data Assigning avalue of character space Sample program Page Page DEFINING YOUR OWN 48-DOT CHARACTERS Chapter7 DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS 73 DIFFUS /ON RANGES OF CARS &TELEPHONES INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE WITH YOUR PRINTER EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS inter PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS Page PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC Chapter8 MS-DOS ANDYOURPRINTER 79 Page Chapter8 MS-DOSANDYOUR PRINTER 81 Page Chapter8 MS-DOS ANDYOURPRINTER 83 Page How the program works Double-height, Doueize Quads ized. JiuJ!l!m Page Power supply If the Page Paper feeding Page MAINTENANCE Chapter 10i~ SPECIFICATIONS Page Page PINOUT OF INTERFACE CONNECTOR CHARACTER SETS r r L Standard character set #2 o o a 8 a -hiid International character sets Page Page Page Page Page Page Code Page #865 (Nordic) OciCP# o k _ x __ I Character set #1 Ocic dc c e swa7ioc fwms1<c sm o IBM special character set EE- !-1-Mi2 Page El I hi- El m m CS StandardMode <so> Page Page IBMMode <so> I Page Page ConsumerRespon