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THERMAL PRINTING SOLUTIONS
ASTRIUM PRINTER
USER MANUAL
Reference: 3108343 - Issue A
Page 1: ...AXIOHM 1 rue d Arcueil BP 820 92542 MONTROUGE CEDEX FRANCE Tel 33 1 58 07 17 17 Fax 33 1 58 07 17 18 THERMAL PRINTING SOLUTIONS ASTRIUM PRINTER USER MANUAL Reference 3108343 Issue A...
Page 2: ...ium Printer User Manual 1 142 Reference 3108343 Issue A E EV VO OL LU UT TI IO ON NS S Date Issue Modifications 02 2005 Z Creation 05 2005 A Addition of duty cycle and more information about power sup...
Page 3: ...simplified paper roll loading a very small footprint an incorporated cutter the possibility of dual color printing an interchangeable interface slot and a drawer kick out connector The printer can be...
Page 4: ...xternal power supply 19 3 6 Paper Specifications 20 3 7 Print specification 20 3 7 1 Printable area 21 3 7 2 Character specifications 22 3 7 3 Printing speed 22 3 7 4 Character sets 22 3 7 5 Printable...
Page 5: ...ms 60 5 5 2 Command conventions AXIOHM 61 6 COMMANDS FUNCTION 62 6 1 Reset Commands 62 INITIALIZE PRINTER 62 6 2 Paper Cut Commands 63 SELECT CUT MODE 63 SELECT CUT MODE AND CUT PAPER 63 6 3 Vertical...
Page 6: ...ECT GRAPHICS DATA ONLY TM T90 EMULATION 95 FUNCTION 48 96 FUNCTION 50 96 FUNCTION 51 96 FUNCTION 64 97 FUNCTION 65 98 FUNCTION 66 98 FUNCTION 67 99 FUNCTION 69 100 FUNCTION 112 100 PRINT DOWNLOADED BI...
Page 7: ...OR S TO STOP PRINTING 131 ENABLE DISABLE PANEL BUTTONS 131 START END MACRO DEFINITION 132 EXECUTE MACRO 132 7 CONTROL PANEL 133 7 1 Buttons 133 7 2 LEDS 133 8 OTHER INFORMATION 134 8 1 Printing and Pa...
Page 8: ...eter Internal 12 7 External 18 suggested mm Cutter Automatic partial cut manual with tear bar User Flash memory 384 KBytes Data reception buffer 4 Kbytes 45 bytes Interface according to version Mutual...
Page 9: ...Reference 3108343 Issue A 2 MECHANICAL FEATURES 2 1 General description ON OFF OPEN FEED ON ROLL ERR 2 2 Physical characteristics Width 140 mm Depth 217 mm Height 157 mm Weight 1 9 Kg Horizontal insta...
Page 10: ...d upward or vertically so the paper is expelled from the front EXTERNAL VIEW Horizontal Installation Vertical Installation Paper output slot Operating console Operating console Paper output slot INTER...
Page 11: ...d Position the printer vertically and then open and remove the rear connectors cover by releasing its snap hook using a screwdriver and lifting it off Plug the interface cables into the related connec...
Page 12: ...ables through the passage slots that were opened in the previous step F E E VIEW BEHIND THE CONNECTORS COVER Power supply jack Drawer interface Open connector s cover Mutually exclusive interface avai...
Page 13: ...ctive actions Button Functions and LED States BUTTON LED DESCRIPTION ON OFF Press once to power on the printer With the printer powered on press for more than 2 seconds to power it off OPEN Press to u...
Page 14: ...nplug the power cord of the external power supply unit from the electrical power outlet and bear in mind the information provided in the section of this manual entitled Safety Precautions and General...
Page 15: ...ace Board Pinouts 9 pin and 25 pin Serial Interfaces The table below gives the pinouts of the 9 pin and 25 pin serial interfaces 9 Pin Serial 25 Pin Serial 1 Not used 1 GND 2 RxD 2 TxD 3 TxD 3 RxD 4 D...
Page 16: ...Reset signal NOT INSTALLED OFF I F pin 6 used as DSR signal When the jumper is installed the printer is reset when the signal remains MARK for 1 ms or more 25 pin Serial INSTALLED ON I F pin 6 used as...
Page 17: ...to both slot pluggable interface boards available Unscrew the two screws A and extract the old board from its slot Insert the new board into the slot pushing it as far as it goes Ensure that it plugs...
Page 18: ...se signal 4 24 V 5 Drawer kick out drive signal 6 Signal ground The driver for the drawers controls two solenoids and a drawer open closed sensor with the following characteristics Drawer drive signal...
Page 19: ...Printing module Cutter Main board Slot pluggable interface External power supply 3 5 1 Printing module The thermal printer module prints directly on thermal paper It is equipped with a single 72 mm op...
Page 20: ...ft hand side if it installed vertically The receipt can also be cut manually by the operator The cutter mechanism is equipped with a photosensor that detects the home position of the cutter blades whe...
Page 21: ...e Dual color printing can be obtained in two ways when using the dual color thermal paper Via Set up only 3 7 Print specification Printing method Direct thermal Printing resolution 203 x 203 dpi 8 dot...
Page 22: ...m Fonts Chars per line Dots per line Right margin B 0 5 mm Printable area A 0 5 mm Font A 11 2 42 546 7 7 68 3 Font B 9 1 56 560 6 70 0 80 BIM 512 10 64 0 Font A 11 2 32 416 4 52 0 Font B 9 1 42 420 3...
Page 23: ...e Font A W 1 692 mm H 3 384 mm Font B W 1 269 mm H 2 397 mm 3 7 3 Printing speed Monochrome alphanumeric printing 200 mm sec BIM up to 2 printing 70 mm sec BIM more than 2 printing 70 mm sec Note A sl...
Page 24: ...ee ESC t n Code Page 862 Israel via setup NATION CODEPAGES CP 862 or via software see ESC t n Code Page 863 Canadian French via setup NATION CODEPAGES CP 863 or via software see ESC t n Code Page 864...
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Page 42: ...0 0110 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 70 0111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 80 1000 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 1...
Page 43: ...1000 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP SP 90 1001 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 SP SP SP SP...
Page 44: ...43 142 Reference 3108343 Issue A 3 7 6 20 National variants Hexadecimal codes COUNTRY 23 24 40 5B 5C 5D 5E 60 7B 7C 7D 7E 0 U S A 1 France 2 Germany 3 U K 4 Denmark I 5 Sweden 6 Italy 7 Spain Pt 8 Ja...
Page 45: ...ed below 4 1 2 Printer Configuration Menu Proceed as follows to access the printer configuration menu ON OFF FEED 1 Printer powered off 2 Power on the machine by pressing and holding down the ON OFF b...
Page 46: ...to the online mode Procedure 2 With the printer powered off and unplugged from the electrical outlet plug the printer s power cord back into the electrical outlet while holding down the ON OFF button...
Page 47: ...ion 4 1 2 to access printer setup press the ON OFF button and then press the FEED button to confirm your choice and activate the procedure Procedure 2 With the printer powered off and unplugged from t...
Page 48: ...he control panel buttons have the following functions in the Setup mode ON OFF Prints the next parameter of the item selected or the next item of the menu FEED Confirms selection of the last item or p...
Page 49: ...grey boxes I O STOP P ARITY ONRX ERROR EXIT HAND SHAKE 1 ODD DTR PRINT NONE 2 EVEN XON XOFF IGNORE on off on off on off on off on off feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed D A T A BITS 7...
Page 50: ...CEIVE BUFFER SIZE NO YES on off feed feed feed feed feed 4096 BYTES 42 BYTES on off feed feed feed BUSY CONDITION OFFLINE BUFFULL OFFLINE on off feed feed feed PRINTER TM T88 III TM T90 DISPLA Y on of...
Page 51: ...ff on off feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed feed on off on off on off on off on off on off feed feed feed feed on off on off on off on off on off on off on off feed on o...
Page 52: ...PO W ERON TRANSMIT NONE ID on off feed feed on off on off on off on off OUT IN PRINT SA VE DEF AUL T REST ART SA VE EXIT La stampante esce dalla modalit setup ed pronta per la stampa LOAD DEF AUL T o...
Page 53: ...it is off line or when the receive buffer is full OFFLINE BUF FULL only when the receive buffer is full AUTO LF NO YES Auto line feed NO disable YES enable PW ON DEVICE ENABLED PRINTER DISPLAY PRINTER...
Page 54: ...C PRINTER OFF PRINTER ON PRINT OFF the printer remains powered off when the power cord is plugged PRINT ON the printer powers on when the power cord is plugged POWER ON TRANSMIT NONE ID Selecting the...
Page 55: ...f you press the FEED button you select the parameter USER NATION the machine prints the first value of the parameter NATION 437 b If you press the ON OFF button you do not select NATION the machine pr...
Page 56: ...function that it represents There is no common method of controlling data The leading printer manufacturers have created their own control standards according to the printing technology applications...
Page 57: ...Enable Disable Automatic Status Back 109 1D 72 n Transmit status 108 1D 28 Customize NV memory area 93 1B 3D n Select peripheral device 123 1B 70 Generate pulse 123 1B 2A Select bit image mode 82 1B...
Page 58: ...al tab positions 69 1B 5C Set relative print position 70 1B 7B n Turns on off upside down printing mode 79 1B 63 33 n Enable disable paper end signal 124 1B 63 34 n Select paper sensor s to stop print...
Page 59: ...al tab positions O O O ESC E Turn emphasized mode on off O O O ESC G Turn double strike mode on off O O O ESC J Print and feed paper O O O O ESC L Select page mode O O Ignored ESC M Select character f...
Page 60: ...ironment Command classification Command Name Execut Setting Standard mode Page mode GS P function GS E Customize NV memory area O O O GS L GS 8 L Select graphics data O O O GS N Select character style...
Page 61: ...tly in the print buffer There is no print data including portions of data skipped due to HT The print position is not specified by the ESC or ESC command Printable area The maximum range within which...
Page 62: ...adecimal the Hexadecimal control code Decimal the Decimal control code Value or Values a description of the command operand values Range the upper and lower limits of the command operand Default the c...
Page 63: ...r ASCII ESC Hexadecimal 1B 40 Decimal 27 64 Description Clears the data in the print buffer and resets the printer mode to the mode that was in effect when the power was turned on The data in the rece...
Page 64: ...t available Feeds and cuts paper one point left uncut full cut 66 Feeds paper cutting position n x vertical motion unit and cuts the paper partially one point left uncut 1 and 2 This command is effect...
Page 65: ...sets the print position to the beginning of the line This command is enabled only in page mode See also ESC FF ESC L ESC S PRINT AND LINE FEED Synopsis Print and line feed ASCII LF Hexadecimal 0A Deci...
Page 66: ...the current line spacing The GS P command can change the horizontal and vertical motion unit However the value cannot be less than the minimum vertical movement amount and it must be in even units of...
Page 67: ...his command functions as follows depending on the starting position of the printable area 1 When the starting position is set to the upper left or lower right of the printable area using ESC T the ver...
Page 68: ...n This command is ignored unless the next horizontal tab position has been set If the next horizontal tab position exceeds the printing area the printer sets the printing position to Printing area wid...
Page 69: ...tical motion unit are specified by GS P The GS P command can change the horizontal and vertical motion unit However the value cannot be less than the minimum horizontal movement amount and it must be...
Page 70: ...inning of the line The character width includes the right side character spacing and double width characters are set with twice the width of normal characters This command cancels the previous horizon...
Page 71: ...eft nL nH 256 65536 N The print starting position moves from the current position to N horizontal or vertical motion unit The horizontal and vertical motion unit are specified by GS P The GS P command...
Page 72: ...ARGIN Synopsis Set left margin ASCII GS L nL nH Hexadecimal 1D 4C nL nH Decimal 29 76 nL nH Range of nL 0 255 Range of nH 0 255 Default nL 0 nH 0 Description Sets the left margin using nL and nH The l...
Page 73: ...Changing the horizontal and vertical motion units does not affect the current left margin The horizontal motion unit x is used for calculating the printing area width The calculated result is truncat...
Page 74: ...o approximately 25 4 x mm 1 x inches and approximately 25 4 y mm 1 y inches respectively When x and y are set to 0 the default setting of each value is used The horizontal direction is perpendicular t...
Page 75: ...command can change the horizontal and vertical motion unit However the value cannot be less than the minimum horizontal movement amount and it must be in even units of the minimum horizontal movement...
Page 76: ...ed The printer can underline all characters but can not underline the space set by HT or 90 clockwise rotated characters The thickness of the underline is that selected by ESC regardless of the charac...
Page 77: ...size does not affect the current underline thickness Underline mode can also be turned on or off by using ESC Note however that the last received command is effective See also ESC TURN WHITE BLACK RE...
Page 78: ...enabled This command and ESC turn on and off emphasized mode in the same way Be careful when this command is used with ESC Default n 0 See also ESC TURN DOUBLE STRIKE MODE ON OFF Synopsis Turn double...
Page 79: ...mode However the setting is always effective When underline mode is turned on the printer does not underline 90 clockwise rotated Double width and double height commands in 90 rotation mode enlarge c...
Page 80: ...of n is 1 upside down printing mode is turned on Only the lowest bit of n is valid This command is enabled only when processed at the beginning of a line in standard mode When this command is input in...
Page 81: ...2 2 3 30 48 4 03 3 4 40 64 5 04 4 5 50 80 6 05 5 6 60 96 7 06 6 7 70 112 8 07 7 8 This command is all characters effective except for HRI characters If n is outside of the defined range this command i...
Page 82: ...when the two color paper is selected Description Prints characters in the color specified by m m Color 49 Color 1 50 Color 2 Color 1 means black high level of energy in the specified two color thermal...
Page 83: ...ut exceeds the number of dots to be printed on a line the excess data is ignored The number of dots handled depends on the value of the line length parameter which can be 560 or 576 d indicates the bi...
Page 84: ...Astrium Printer User Manual 83 142 Reference 3108343 Issue A When 8 dot bit image is selected When 24 dot bit image is selected...
Page 85: ...ue of m selects the mode as follows TM T88 III emulation m Mode Vertical Dot Density Horizontal Dot Density 0 48 Normal 8 dots mm 8 dots mm 1 49 Double width 8 dots mm 4 dots mm 2 50 Double height 4 d...
Page 86: ...lect an international character set ASCII ESC R n Hexadecimal 1B 52 n Decimal 27 82 n Range of n 0 10 Default n 0 n Country 0 USA 1 France 2 Germany 3 UK 4 Denmark I 5 Sweden 6 Italy 7 Spain 8 Japan 9...
Page 87: ...Europe 1 Ignored 2 CP 850 Multilingual 3 CP 860 Portuguese 4 CP 863 Canadian French 5 CP 865 Nordic 16 WPC1252 Latin I 17 CP 866 Cyrillic 2 18 CP 852 Latin2 19 CP 858 Multilingual Euro 20 Ignored 21...
Page 88: ...37 n Range of n 0 255 Description Selects or cancels the user defined character set When the LSB of n is 0 the user defined character set is canceled When the LSB of n is 1 the user defined character...
Page 89: ...ive character codes If only one character is desired use c1 c2 d is the dot data for the characters The dot pattern is in the horizontal direction from the left side Any remaining dots on the right si...
Page 90: ...Astrium Printer User Manual 89 142 Reference 3108343 Issue A Example When font A 12 x24 is selected d1 FF H d4 FF H d7 C0 H d2 FF H d5 FF H d8 60 H d3 FE H d6 FE H d9 06 H...
Page 91: ...Astrium Printer User Manual 90 142 Reference 3108343 Issue A When font B 9 17 is selected d1 00 H d4 1F H d7 7F H d2 00 H d5 83 H d8 E3 H d3 00 H d6 00 H d9 80 H...
Page 92: ...ser defined character has not been defined for the specified character code the printer ignores this command See also ESC ESC SELECT CHARACTER FONT Synopsis Select character font ASCII ESC M n Hexadec...
Page 93: ...vertical direction it is y 8 If x y is out of the specified range this command is disabled The d indicates bit image data Data d specifies a bit printed to 1 and not printed to 0 The downloaded bit i...
Page 94: ...though the printer does not enter the user setting mode Notes Frequent write commands by this command may damage the NV memory Therefore it is recommended to write to NV memory no more than 10 times...
Page 95: ...ytes Separator 1FH 31 1 byte fixed to 1FH Customized value 30H 39H 48 57 1 5 bytes Terminator 00H 0 1 byte fixed to NUL The customized value number is as follows Transmitted data a 1st byte 2nd byte 3...
Page 96: ...raphics data in the print buffer 3 51 GS L pL pH m fn Function 51 Transmits the remaining capacity of the NV graphics memory 64 GS L pL pH m fn d1 d2 Function 64 Transmits the defined NV graphics key...
Page 97: ...he total capacity of the NV user memory is selectable as any one of 0 64K 128K 192K 256K 320K 384K bytes with GS E The default value is 384 KB FUNCTION 50 Synopsis Select graphics data only Tm T90 emu...
Page 98: ...key code list When the key code is present Hexadecimal Decimal Number of Data Header 37H 55 1 byte Flag 72H 114 1 byte Status 40H or 41H 64 or 65 1 byte Data 30H 39H 48 57 2 80 byte NUL 00H 0 1 byte...
Page 99: ...ION 65 Synopsis Select graphics data only Tm T90 emulation ASCII GS L pL pH m fn d1 d2 fn 65 Hexadecimal 1D 28 4C pL pH m fn d1 d2 d3 Decimal 29 40 76 pL pH m fn d1 d2 d3 Range pL pH x 256 5 pL 5 pH 0...
Page 100: ...K 192K 256K 320K 384K bytes with GS E The default value is 384 KB Description Defines the raster graphics data in the NV graphics area b specifies the number of the color of the defined data xL xH spe...
Page 101: ...c xL xH yL yH d1 dk Range GS L parameter 11 pL pH 256 65535 0 pL 255 0 pH 255 GS 8 L parameter 11 p1 p2 256 p3 65536 p4 16777216 4294967295 0 p1 255 0 p2 255 0 p3 255 0 p4 255 Common parameter for GS...
Page 102: ...wnloaded bit image using the mode specified by m This command is ignored if a downloaded bit image has not been defined In standard mode this command is effective only when there is no data in the pri...
Page 103: ...or 90 rotated characters etc except upside down printing mode If the printing area width set by GS L and GS W for the NV bit image is less than one vertical line the following processing is performed...
Page 104: ...ing the execution of this command NV bit image means a bit image that is defined in a non volatile memory by FS q and printed by FS p In standard mode this command is effective only when processed at...
Page 105: ...t is not erased by performing ESC reset and power off This command performs only definition of a NV bit image and does not perform printing Printing of the NV bit image is performed by the FS p comman...
Page 106: ...efinition the printer ends macro definition and begins performing this command After the test print is finished the printer resets itself automatically Therefore the already defined data before this c...
Page 107: ...on TM T88 III Specification TM T90 1 49 Printer model ID TM T88II series ID HEX 20 TM T90 series ID HEX 2EH 2 50 Type ID See table below 3 51 ROM version ID Depends on ROM version 65 Firmware version...
Page 108: ...00 0 Interface condition selection by setup 1 On 02 2 Interface condition selection not used Off 00 0 Handshaking hardware DTR DSR 2 On 04 4 Handshaking software XON XOFF Off 00 0 Serial Data bits 8 3...
Page 109: ...68 the following contents are transmitted Header Hexadecimal 5FH Decimal 95 1 byte Data Printer information NUL Hexadecimal 00H Decimal 0 1 byte 1 Executes READY to BUSY If it is already BUSY the prin...
Page 110: ...ick out connector pin 3 is HIGH 1 3 Undefined 4 Off 00 0 Not used Fixed to Off 5 6 Undefined 7 Off 00 0 Not used Fixed to Off See also DLE EOT GS a Transmission status identification ENABLE DISABLE AU...
Page 111: ...nsecutive except for the XOFF code Since this command is executed after the data is processed in the receive buffer there may be a time lag between data reception and status transmission When the prin...
Page 112: ...ike it is possible to recover by correcting the cause of the error and executing DLE ENQ n 1 n 2 If an error due to a circuit failure e g wire break occurs it is impossible to recover Bit 6 When print...
Page 113: ...o Off 5 Off 00 0 6 Off 00 0 Reserved 7 Off 00 0 Not used Fixed to Off The notes indicated below apply only to the TM T90 emulation Notes When the memory switch Msw 8 7 is On the printer transmits the...
Page 114: ...is executed even when the printer is offline the receive buffer is full or there is an error status with a serial interface model With a parallel interface model this command cannot be executed when t...
Page 115: ...due to paper condition 6 Off On 00 40 0 64 No error condition Error occurs 7 Off 00 0 Not used Fixed to Off Bit 5 Becomes on when the paper end sensor detects paper end and printing stops n 3 Transmi...
Page 116: ...out connector pin 2 1 Drawer kick out connector pin 5 When the printer is in an error status when this command is processed this command is ignored When the pulse is output to the connector pin specif...
Page 117: ...model With a parallel interface model this command cannot be executed when the printer is busy DLE ENQ 2 enables the printer to recover from an error after clearing the data in the receive buffer and...
Page 118: ...the bar code 2 50 Below the bar code 3 51 Both above and below the bar code Default n 0 Description Selects the printing position of HRI characters when printing a bar code HRI indicates Human Readab...
Page 119: ...0 127 73 CODE 128 n 2 255 D 0 127 1 This command ends with a NUL code When the bar code system used is UPC A or UPC E the printer prints the bar code data after receiving 12 bytes bar code data and p...
Page 120: ...ng and processes the following data as normal data In this case the data buffer position does not change If bar code width exceeds the printing area the printer does not print the bar code but moves t...
Page 121: ...top of the bar code data is not the code set selection character the printer stops command processing and processes the following data as normal data If combination of and the following character doe...
Page 122: ...ode set C 2 digit numeral characters using one character 100 numerals from 00 to 99 The following special characters are also available in CODE128 SHIFT characters In code set A the character just aft...
Page 123: ...lti level Bar Code Thin element width mm Thick element width mm 2 0 250 0 250 0 625 3 0 375 0 375 1 000 4 0 5 0 5 1 25 5 0 625 0 625 1 625 6 0 75 0 75 2 000 See also GS k SELECT FONT FOR HUMAN READABL...
Page 124: ...ble signal Parameter n 1 selects tone 1 Parameter n 2 selects tone 2 SELECT PERIPHERAL DEVICE Synopsis Select peripheral device ASCII ESC n Hexadecimal 1B 3D n Decimal 27 61 Range 1 n 3 Description Se...
Page 125: ...nsor enabled 1 Off 00 0 Paper roll near end sensor disabled On 02 2 Paper roll near end sensor enabled 2 Off 00 0 Paper roll end sensor disabled On 04 4 Paper roll end sensor enabled 3 Off 00 0 Paper...
Page 126: ...s command sets the position where data is buffered to the position specified by ESC T within the printing area defined by ESC W This command switches the settings for the following commands in which t...
Page 127: ...llowing commands in which the values can be set independently in standard mode and page mode to those for standard mode 1 Set right side character spacing ESC SP FS S 2 Select default line spacing ESC...
Page 128: ...position is the upper left or lower right of the printing area data is buffered in the direction perpendicular to the paper feed direction Commands using horizontal motion units ESC SP ESC ESC Command...
Page 129: ...omatically set to vertical printable area vertical starting position The horizontal and vertical motion unit are specified by GS P Changing the horizontal or vertical motion unit does not affect the c...
Page 130: ...irection 2 When the starting position is set to the upper right or lower left this command sets the absolute position in the horizontal direction The horizontal and vertical motion unit are specified...
Page 131: ...unit are specified by GS P The GS P command can change the horizontal and vertical motion unit However the value can not be less than the minimum horizontal movement amount and it must be in even uni...
Page 132: ...r is selected for printing When a paper end is detected by the paper roll sensor the printer goes offline after printing stops When either bit 0 or 1 is on the printer selects the paper roll near end...
Page 133: ...finition exceeds 2048 bytes excess data is not stored See also GS EXECUTE MACRO r specifies the number of times to execute the macro t specifies the waiting time for executing the macro m specifies ma...
Page 134: ...ress while powering on the printer to activate the Self test The buttons on the control panel also have other functions Refer to the chapter entitled Printer Setup 7 2 LEDS There are three LEDs on the...
Page 135: ...n in Table A 1 Table A 1 Paper Feeding Amount Required Paper Feeding Amount dots Font A 27 number of times enlarged in vertical Normal Characters Font B 20 number of times enlarged in vertical Font A...
Page 136: ...not open the printer cover during a print job or when the incorporated cutter is cutting the receipt paper Do not attempt to repair the printer except for following the troubleshooting procedures cont...
Page 137: ...nsor depends upon the diameter of the core of the paper roll used When moving the adjustment lever forward the near paper end condition is signaled when more paper is present while moving the lever ba...
Page 138: ...ng the printer cover Open the printer cover and remove the wrinkled paper then load paper roll again Open the printer cover and then remove and reload the paper roll The yellow out almost out of paper...
Page 139: ...id touching the print head and cutter blades Load the paper roll Cleaning the printer case Clean the printer s external case using a soft cloth Do not use solvents or hydrocarbon based products Cleani...
Page 140: ...SB however process the consecutive three byte code except for XOFF as ASB data after confirming the first byte of the ASB Otherwise the status transmitted by using the GS r and the status of the secon...
Page 141: ...de as you face the printer is taken as the origin x0 y0 of the printable area The printable rectangular area is defined by the length dx dots extending from and including the origin x0 y0 in the x dir...
Page 142: ...itch are required for feeding Use the following commands ESC W xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH ESC T n ESC 3 54 Set line spacing to be added LF GS 1 ESC 2 Reset the line spacing to 4 23 mm 1 6 Note Vertic...
Page 143: ...Astrium Printer User Manual 142 142 Reference 3108343 Issue A Figure 2 Print Data Developing Position Figure 3 Downloaded Bit Image Developing Position...
