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JULY 1998

PC124C
PC125C

Laser Card for HP 4000 Twinax Printers

Laser Card for HP 4000 Coax Printers

HOST

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Page 1: ...nical support 24 hours a day 7 days a week Call 724 746 5500 or fax 724 746 0746 Mailing address Black Box Corporation 1000 Park Drive Lawrence PA 15055 1018 Web site www blackbox com E mail info blac...

Page 2: ...operated in a commercial environment Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever meas...

Page 3: ...ricante 7 El aparato el ctrico debe ser montado a la pared o al techo s lo como sea recomendado por el fabricante 8 Servicio El usuario no debe intentar dar servicio al equipo el ctrico m s all a lo d...

Page 4: ...En caso de existir una antena externa deber ser localizada lejos de las lineas de energia 16 El cable de corriente deber ser desconectado del cuando el equipo no sea usado por un largo periodo de tiem...

Page 5: ...ics is a trademark of Centronics Computer Corporation HP LaserJet and Hewlett Packard are trademarks and registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems...

Page 6: ...21 4 1 Interface Self Test 21 4 2 Connecting to the Host 29 4 3 Front Panel Setup 29 4 4 Front Panel Menus 30 5 Configuration Twinax 32 5 1 Twinax Configuration 32 5 2 Twinax Host Download Commands 32...

Page 7: ...7 5 Printing Bar Codes 68 8 Troubleshooting Twinax 69 8 1 Buffer Print EBCDIC Hex 69 8 2 ASCII Hex Dump 70 8 3 Self Diagnostics 71 8 4 Problem Resolution Guide 72 9 Configuration Coax 78 9 1 Host Dow...

Page 8: ...1 6 Printing Bar Codes 114 12 Troubleshooting Coax 115 12 1 Buffer Print EBCDIC Hex 115 12 2 ASCII Hex Dump 116 12 3 Problem Resolution Guide 117 Appendix A Font FGID Reference 120 Appendix B Characte...

Page 9: ...3812 1 Printer Emulation PC125C IBM 3287 3262 3268 3812 1 4214 or 4224 all non IPDS Printer Emulations Number of Languages Supported PC124C 16 PC125C 17 Interface PC124C Twinax PC125C Coax Temperatur...

Page 10: ...sharing in the HP LaserJet printer is accomplished using the printer s additional option slots or integrated parallel or serial ports The HP printer will handle data from the parallel serial ports as...

Page 11: ...tructions begin on page 32 coax configuration instructions begin on page 78 of this manual Chapters 6 and 10 Operation provide a detailed overview of coax and twinax host printing emulations font chan...

Page 12: ...undings such as carpet floor mats dry air from winter heating etc can cause static buildup 2 If available wear a wrist strap or similar static discharge device during installation If not wearing a wri...

Page 13: ...when installing the Card After you have successfully completed a printer self test check your printer s User s Guide power OFF the printer remove all cables and then proceed with the following instal...

Page 14: ...Figure 3 1 Installing the Card Step 1 3 2 1 PRINT COAX SELF TEST 2 After the printer is ready press Menu until COAX CARD is displayed Figure 3 2 Coax Only Step 2 Menu Item Value Select Go Cancel Job A...

Page 15: ...3 Press Item Figure 3 3 Coax Only Step 3 4 Press Value Figure 3 4 Coax Only Step 4 Menu Item Value Select Go Cancel Job Attention Data Ready 98 PRINT SETUP 4 Coax Only Menu Item Value Select Go Cance...

Page 16: ...TERS 5 Press Select and then Go to print the interface self test Figure 3 5 Coax Only Step 5 6 To complete the coax setup proceed directly to Step 10 in Section 3 2 4 Menu Item Value Select Go Cancel...

Page 17: ...s ready press Menu until TWINAX CARD is displayed Figure 3 6 Twinax Only Step 2 3 Press Item Figure 3 7 Twinax Only Step 3 Menu Item Value Select Go Cancel Job Attention Data Ready 00 TX ADDRESS 3 Twi...

Page 18: ...address Figure 3 8 Twinax Only Step 4 5 Press Select and then Go to select the displayed twinax address Figure 3 9 Twinax Only Step 5 Menu Item Value Select Go Cancel Job Attention Data Ready READY 5...

Page 19: ...y press Menu until TWINAX CARD is displayed Figure 3 10 Twinax Only Step 6 7 Press Item Figure 3 11 Twinax Only Step 7 8 Press Value Menu Item Value Select Go Cancel Job Attention Data Ready 98 TEST M...

Page 20: ...p 9 3 2 4 COAX AND TWINAX 10 After the interface self test pages print review the configuration parameters and make changes as desired using the printer s operator panel or Host Download Commands Menu...

Page 21: ...HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS 11 Power OFF the printer and attach the host cable s to the twinax or coax adapter Power ON the printer and send a print job from the host to verify proper installatio...

Page 22: ...Card and tighten the thumb screws 5 Attach the twinax or coax adapter cable Do NOT attach the host cable s to the adapter yet 6 Re attach the power cord and other printer cables 4 1 Interface Self Te...

Page 23: ...s are shown on the following pages The numbers at the left margin correspond to the Host Download command numbers Refer to the Configuration chapter for more information on these options If the interf...

Page 24: ...tion 1 On 09 Paper Size 0 Host Selected 10 True LPI 0 Compress LPI 13 IBM Paper Drawer 1 1 PCL Tray Command 14 IBM Paper Drawer 2 4 PCL Tray Command 15 IBM Paper Drawer 3 5 PCL Tray Command 16 Overrid...

Page 25: ...24 LASER CARDS FOR HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS 04 User Defined Strings U0 U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 U6 U7 U8 U9 21 User Defined Fonts 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9...

Page 26: ...64 6D 75 9F 44 4D 55 34 dmu DMU4 5 A0 A1 B5 D6 65 6E 76 F5 45 4E 56 35 env ENV5 6 C6 8C C7 D7 66 6F 77 F4 46 4F 57 36 fow FOW6 7 86 8B 8F D8 67 70 78 AC 47 50 58 37 gpx1 4GPX7 8 87 8D 80 DE 68 71 79 A...

Page 27: ...ress 15 CR at MPP 1 0 Next Line 16 NL at MPP 1 0 Current Line 2 17 Valid FF Followed by Data 0 2nd PP 18 Valid FF at End of Buffer 1 Line 1 19 FF Valid Location 0 FF valid at 1st PP or MPP 1 20 Auto F...

Page 28: ...1 3287 emulation emulation SCS code 35 51 Host Port Timeout 8 Seconds 55 Custom User Strings U0 U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 57 Host Port Init String HP 61 Auto Print Orientation 0 Active 62 Primary Tray Orientati...

Page 29: ...9 5F 27 B2 20 B1 AB CA CB E8 AD _ y Y E 2B 3B 3E 3D F0 D3 F1 27 C6 C7 E7 ED F 7C 5E 3F 22 FE BA 20 5F EA EF E9 20 _ EBCDIC DSC LU3 DBC to ASCII Translate Table 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 A0 B0 0123...

Page 30: ...hange the various interface settings Alternately you can use host download commands a series of command strings that are embedded in the datastream sent from the IBM host to the interface The active i...

Page 31: ...f the configuration items refer to the corresponding Twinax or Coax Host Download Commands Use these numbers to find a more detailed explanation of the configuration options in Section 5 4 or 9 2 TWIN...

Page 32: ...PRT IMAGE 15 CR at MPP 1 16 NL at MPP 1 17 DATA AFTER FF 18 FF AT EOB 19 FF VALID 20 EOJ FUNCTION 25 FF USAGE 26 EMPTY FORMS Suppress 27 AFTER TIMEOUT 30 FRMT OVERRIDE 31 TEXT AT MPP 32 PAPER SIZE 34...

Page 33: ...IDs Host System Emulation Device ID System 34 3812 5224 2P 5225 2P 5219 3P System 36 3812 5219 System 38 3812 3812 1 AS 400 See note 2 below 1 Make sure the interface is properly connected to the twin...

Page 34: ...hen the printer is powered on they must be stored permanently by the download command Z99 The tables on the following pages provide a description of each command and how it is used Follow these steps...

Page 35: ...rt Delimiter 01 Alternate CPT End Delimiter 02 Automatic Print Orientation 08 Character Set 17 Duplex Printing 33 Front Panel Override 16 Horizontal Margin 19 Host Language 05 Host Port Timeout 03 Hos...

Page 36: ...e Description New characters Alternate CPT start delimiter Two spaces Deletes alternate CPT start delimiter Example Z01 creates the alternate CPT start delimiter COMMAND 02 ALTERNATE CPT END DELIMITER...

Page 37: ...9 hex codes Assigns the hex command to a one digit delimiter 0 9 0 to 9 Deletes the specified user defined string from memory Example Z04 3 1B26643044 creates a user defined string for a PCL printer t...

Page 38: ...CRIPTION 0 COR but host override through Print Quality setting allowed 1 Portrait 2 Landscape 3 COR NOTE Refer to page 54 for a detailed description of print orientation COMMAND 08 AUTOMATIC PRINT ORI...

Page 39: ...NOTE If you are using one of the popular Electronic Forms packages from companies like XPoint Eclipse Formula One or others use the true LPI selection Use the last selection only if you want to run s...

Page 40: ...ND Matches the host s Paper Drawer 2 command with a physical paper source from the printer When the host sends a command to the printer to feed from paper drawer 2 the printer will feed from the paper...

Page 41: ...Yes override CPI commands Example Z16 1 enables the front panel to override all IBM format commands COMMAND 17 CHARACTER SET Selects which character set will be used when both are available for the d...

Page 42: ...S Assigns a font ID to a font The first number 0 9 is one of 10 available strings the second number 0 65535 is the host font number The characters shown in parentheses are sent to the printer when the...

Page 43: ...Paper sources available on the printer 01 Default Example Z30 08 assigns the optional third 250 sheet feeder Tray 4 to the host s paper drawer 4 command COMMAND 31 PAPER DRAWER 5 COMMAND Matches the h...

Page 44: ...n this case the document report has to be larger than 11 x 17 inches Example Z32 1 forces printing on large paper The interface will request the printer to load A3 size paper when the host requests A4...

Page 45: ...ting with the next buffer received translates all host data into ASCII from EBCDIC and then causes the ASCII data to print in hexadecimal form The ASCII hex dump is performed until the printer is powe...

Page 46: ...manent memory setup selections are the same after a Command Z99 0 or a Command Z98 2 is sent to the printer Example Z98 1 Prints out the active setup selections for review COMMAND 99 SAVE ALL CURRENT...

Page 47: ...46 LASER CARDS FOR HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS 3 Press Value twice to display 98 FACTORY DEF 4 Press Select and then Go to select and activate the setting...

Page 48: ...rinter receives PC LAN ASCII data and the host attachment is not active it honors the ASCII job At the completion of the ASCII job the printer has a timeout setting so it will wait and not accept data...

Page 49: ...pts and subscripts by recognizing the host commands for these features in the document A shadow print for bolding is performed automatically on fixed pitch fonts For proportionally spaced typographic...

Page 50: ...command changes the pitch the host may continue to format each line according to the original font ID pitch For Text Management 38 and other word processing programs you may not be able to specify mo...

Page 51: ...Tray Legal Install the legal size paper tray in the printer and the printer will start printing The System 38 only sends margins and other format specifications to a printer when they are different f...

Page 52: ...r file or Paper Drawer Office Vision 400 On the printer the actual paper sources are usually called trays The interfaces will map the host s drawer values 1 through 5 to actual paper trays on the atta...

Page 53: ...hange the tray mapping IBM Drawer Card s default PCL I O Command tray mapping Command 1 1 ESC 11H 13 2 4 ESC 14H 14 3 5 ESC 15H 15 4 1 ESC 11H 30 5 1 ESC 11H 31 NOTE Check your printer s user s guide...

Page 54: ...setting on printer interface As you read the following explanation refer to Figure 6 1 for an illustration of the print orientation logic 1 PAGE ROTATION Degrees of page rotation can be specified thro...

Page 55: ...sing document are specified directly through the document format menu The dimensions of a data processing report are calculated in the following manner Width Page Width in number of columns CPI Length...

Page 56: ...ulation With certain page rotation settings on the host the IBM 3812 1 printer allows the user to manipulate the final print orientation through the print quality setting Note though that this overrid...

Page 57: ...tation 3a What is the Print Quality Std or NLQ Draft Orientation set to Landscape Orientation set to Portrait Orientation set to COR Orientation set to COR host override allowed LANDSCAPE in requested...

Page 58: ...stem Page Rotation Setting Print Quality Setting AS 400 DEVD print file NLQ STD AS 400 AUTO OfficeVision 400 NLQ Test S 36 not specified Text Yes S 38 not specified NLQ STD Table 6 1 shows the print o...

Page 59: ...umns in landscape with reduced font COR Word processing Print Rotate Paper 1 documents of up to 8 5 x Automatic 14 in portrait 14 x 8 5 in landscape and anything larger in landscape with reduced font...

Page 60: ...be changed This should be done by an MIS staff member since a changed print file most likely affects many printers The page rotation setting can be changed temporarily by overriding the print file Th...

Page 61: ...f 55 A trial run with a blank sheet of paper helps in positioning the address There are three ways to select envelopes 1 Select Manual Feed in the word processing program s paper feed selections The p...

Page 62: ...t ID for the envelope such as 5 and press Enter to return to the Alternate Format screen 6 Select 4 Page Layout Paper Options Choose a first typing line of 1 then scroll down to the second screen of t...

Page 63: ...select duplex printing in the printer file The menu option is called Print on both sides and is found on the second to last menu screen Available selections are NO YES and TUMBLE 2 Select duplex print...

Page 64: ...enter commands into your document that allow you to control true LPI and response to host commands These commands shown in Table 6 2 are similar to font change commands The E command allows you to se...

Page 65: ...en printing with forms generating software the files are recognized by the host as text files and formatted with unwanted carriage returns and line feeds Placing the I at the end of a line and S at th...

Page 66: ...ter The interface recognizes these special sequences and passes the command through to the printer The steps below describe how to use Command Pass Thru 1 Find the command for the print feature in the...

Page 67: ...re you are using the correct format and EBCDIC hexadecimal characters Command Pass Thru may change the horizontal spacing Since word processing software sees printer commands as text lines with comand...

Page 68: ...Card supports a vast variety of fonts For a list of the supported fonts refer to Appendices A and D In addition the User Defined Fonts feature allows assignment of new or existing font IDs to differen...

Page 69: ...HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS 7 4 Color Printing For a complete description of Color support refer to Appendix C 7 5 Printing Bar Codes For a complete description of internally generated bar codes...

Page 70: ...r of the interface Description of the problem Results of diagnostic tests Type of host system or controller You may also need to print a hex dump or buffer print by enabling the Buffer Print option in...

Page 71: ...o select this setting The display will show 42 HEX DMP Y 5 Press Go to return the printer to operating mode 6 To end the EBCDIC hex dump power off the printer or repeat steps 1 through 5 changing the...

Page 72: ...er is again Ready As soon as the buffer print is selected hexadecimal printing begins there may be a delay while the printer finishes printing previously formatted data from the buffer 8 3 Self Diagno...

Page 73: ...tinuous diagnostics cycle until you turn OFF the printer 8 4 Problem Resolution Guide The following is a general guide to resolve common problems that may occur Please refer to this guide before conta...

Page 74: ...Make sure no other device on on and off another twinax device this cable has the same on this cable address Damaged or improper Check twinax cabling for host cables damage or improper connection Print...

Page 75: ...h is incorrect Form length incorrect in Change form length software Incorrect configuration at Make sure the host the host configuration matches the printer Printer won t change Incorrect typestyle Ma...

Page 76: ...the APO COR section on page X for additional information APO feature is OFF and Set the Laser Card orientation is set to COR COR host to landscape override allowed or portrait Printer does not print...

Page 77: ...rientation to COR orientation is set to portrait or landscape APO feature is ON and Turn APO off or increase page and orientation is set to size so it is larger than 81 2 x portrait or landscape 14 AP...

Page 78: ...display Cable to host is not Make sure all devices on the station setup screen disconnected twinax cable are powered off appears on the display then disconnect station the cable to the host DisplayWr...

Page 79: ...for the printer you can print a listing page by selecting 98 Print Setup in the Coax card s TEST MENU through the printer s front panel or by sending the Z98 1 command to the interface Host download c...

Page 80: ...5 CPI double spacing and 70 lines 9 1 Host Download Command Overview Table 9 1 lists the host download commands used to configure the interface to fit your application needs These commands can be sent...

Page 81: ...1 CPT Beginning Delimiter Characters 40 CPT Ending Delimiter Characters 39 CR at MPP 1 15 Custom User Strings 55 FF After Time Elapse 27 FF Valid Location 19 Form Feed After Local Screen Copy 13 Form...

Page 82: ...imum Print Position 06 NL at MPP 1 16 Override of Formating Commands 30 Overwrite DSC LU3 Translation Table 71 Overwrite EBCDIC SCS LUI Translation Table 70 Paper Path 11 Paper Size 32 Primary Paper T...

Page 83: ...and descriptions an asterisk identifies the factory default selection Commands take effect immediately unless noted otherwise Any errors cause the interface to ignore the command and continue printing...

Page 84: ...Example Z1 3 sets logical buffer size to 2560 characters COMMAND 2 LINES PER INCH Selects default LPI VALUE DESCRIPTION 3 3 LPI 4 4 LPI 6 6 LPI 8 8 LPI NOTES This default emulates the front panel sele...

Page 85: ...ingle Space 2 Double Space Example Z4 2 Sets the printer to double space default COMMAND 5 FORM LENGTH Selects default Form Length MPL Maximum Print Lines VALUE DESCRIPTION 000 No form length control...

Page 86: ...ues are 80 132 or 198 characters This default emulates the front panel selection on an HP printer MPP and the current position will not be changed by changes in CPI The infinite line length will place...

Page 87: ...German 04 Belgian 05 Brazilian 06 Canadian French 07 Danish Norwegian 08 Danish Norwegian alt 09 Finnish Swedish 10 Finnish Swedish alt 11 French 12 same as 11 French alt 13 Austrian German alt 14 Int...

Page 88: ...nterface The command value should match the language number used in IBM CU configuration sequence number 121 Example Z8 04 sets LU1 language to Belgian COMMAND 11 PAPER PATH Selects default paper path...

Page 89: ...o insert paper in the manual feed tray This command takes effect immediately if placed on the first position of the page line 1 position 1 otherwise it takes effect on the next page Example Z11 5 sele...

Page 90: ...een dump COMMAND 14 LU3 PRINT IMAGE Non SCS Mode Selects Null Line Suppression or True Screen Image in LU3 printing mode VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 Null line suppression in local copy and non SCS print 1 Nul...

Page 91: ...19 IBM 4214 OPT 15 1 Available only in LU3 non SCS operation Example Z15 1 prints first PP of current line as the next PP when a CR is received at MPP 1 COMMAND 16 NL at MPP 1 Sets the printer in acco...

Page 92: ...performs first PP of first line on next form as the next PP when a valid FF is not positioned at the end of an IBM print buffer COMMAND 18 VALID FF AT END OF PRINT BUFFER Sets the printer in accordanc...

Page 93: ...ance with the RPQ installed in the control unit VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 NL is automatically executed after the buffer is completed unless a FF NL or CR was last in the buffer 1 FF is automatically execute...

Page 94: ...in Command 5 COMMAND 26 SUPPRESS EMPTY FORMS Suppresses blank printout pages caused by form feed commands that occur at the top of a form VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 No do not suppress empty forms 1 Yes suppr...

Page 95: ...o the printer enabled NOTES When active this command overrides the interface s default selections for CPI LPI font orientation bin selection paper size COR and line compression A reset command is sent...

Page 96: ...er s front panel Example Z32 1 selects A4 paper COMMAND 34 INTERVENTION REQUIRED IR TIMEOUT Sets the time interval before an intervention required signal is sent to the host after a printer error occu...

Page 97: ...ed not sent to the printer Example Z36 2 No LPI CPI MPP or MPL commands are sent to the printer The document prints using the printer s defaults COMMAND 37 VERTICAL CHANNEL SELECT VCS Specifies vertic...

Page 98: ...exadecimal value of the second character NOTES If an ending delimiter is not selected with this command the delimited selected with Command 40 will be used as a default The default delimiter will no l...

Page 99: ...character followed by two zeros e g Z40 2500 selects as the delimiter A hex code that starts with 00 is invalid Example Z40 253F Specifies the characters as the beginning delimiter characters the ASC...

Page 100: ...uses the ASCII data to print in hexadecimal form The ASCII hex dump is performed until the printer is powered off VALUE DESCRIPTION 0 No action taken 1 Start ASCII Hex Dump Example Z43 1 starts ASCII...

Page 101: ...TES The alternate PC LAN host is responsible for sending any needed format commands required by the printer prior to sending printable data If your printer supports Intelligent Emulation Switching IES...

Page 102: ...he memory of the interface and is sent to initialize the printer for host printing after shared port printing has occurred The interface also restores the host page format parameters after sending thi...

Page 103: ...cause the width is greater than the length 1 APO is NOT ACTIVE Print orientation is controlled the orientation selections specified in Commands 62 63 and 64 NOTE APO active is the recommended selectio...

Page 104: ...ND 63 ALTERNATE PAPER TRAY ORIENTATION This command functions identically to Command 62 except it controls the orientation for printing that specifies the alternate tray for the paper source Even if t...

Page 105: ...n COMMAND 65 CHARACTER SET SELECTION Enables the user to select the ASCII character set that is used in the conversion from EBCDIC SCS LU1 or DSC LU3 to ASCII VALUE DESCRIPTION 1 Roman 8 character set...

Page 106: ...Z99 0 prints a 40 ASCII hex a symbol when the interface receives an EBCDIC 7B a symbol The command is followed by a command Z99 0 which stores the active setup selections in permanent memory COMMAND 7...

Page 107: ...Z98 1 prints out the active setup selections for review COMMAND 99 STORE CONFIGURATION IN PERMANENT MEMORY Send this command after all desired host download configuration commands have been sent to t...

Page 108: ...er receives PC LAN ASCII data and the host attachment is not active it honors the ASCII job At the completion of the ASCII job the printer has a timeout setting so it will wait and not accept data fro...

Page 109: ...ndscape orientation The font ID number must select a font available in the printer or in the installed cartridge If the proper cartridge is not installed or the font does not exist on the cartridge th...

Page 110: ...he DSC DSE data streams for orientation and format selection is not recommended 10 5 Automatic Print Orientation APO When Automatic Print Orientation APO is activated command 61 value 0 or through the...

Page 111: ...he paper source selections to control the orientation in the active font If the report is less than 8 1 2 x 11 the interface goes on to block 3 3 At block 3 the interface checks the length and width I...

Page 112: ...4 size paper Table 10 1 Print Position and Page Length PMPP at PMPL at Paper 10 12 15 17 1 6 8 True True Size CPI CPI CPI CPI LPI LPI 6 LPI 8 LPI Letter Portrait 80 96 120 136 66 88 63 84 Landscape 10...

Page 113: ...printer The steps below describe how to use Command Pass Thru 1 Find the command for the print feature in the printer s user s guide 2 Convert the printer command to hexadecimal 3 Place the beginning...

Page 114: ...tring can be a font ID a form feed or another printer command that is frequently used See Command 55 in Section 9 2 After the custom user string is defined the string is activated by placing the delim...

Page 115: ...figurable option to emulate the IBM 3287 or to pass the data without translation Refer to command 45 SCS TRN translate on in Section 9 2 for information 11 4 Other Printer Commands Commands can also b...

Page 116: ...on of the problem Type of host system or controller You may also need to print a hex dump or buffer print by enabling the Buffer Print option in the front panel setup options This causes all printing...

Page 117: ...rating mode 6 To end the EBCDIC hex dump power off the printer or repeat steps 1 through 5 changing the display from 42 HEX DMP Y to 42 HEX DMP N 12 2 ASCII Hex Dump The interface can be set up to pri...

Page 118: ...fter the selection is made active and the printer is again Ready As soon as the buffer print is selected hexadecimal printing begins there may be a delay while the printer finishes printing previously...

Page 119: ...h Page width is too wide Select a narrower page Extra blank sheets are Form length not correct Make sure your document ejected between sheets in software maximum length doesn t exceed of printout leng...

Page 120: ...loaded to the font ID Font SIMM damaged or If possible try a known good not seated into the printer SIMM to determine if SIMM is properly faulty Make sure the SIMM is loaded properly Printer does not...

Page 121: ...Operation Typeface Symbol Orient Pitch Point Typestyle No Line Printer R 8 850 P L 13 33 8 5 204 Line Printer R 8 850 P L 15 8 5 223 Line Printer R 8 850 P L 17 1 8 5 254 Line Printer R 8 850 P L 19 8...

Page 122: ...30 4657 CG Times Bold R 8 850 P L Prop 6 4665 Italic R 8 850 P L Prop 8 4666 R 8 850 P L Prop 10 4667 R 8 850 P L Prop 12 4668 R 8 850 P L Prop 14 4669 R 8 850 P L Prop 18 4671 R 8 850 P L Prop 24 46...

Page 123: ...10 4867 R 8 850 P L Prop 12 4868 R 8 850 P L Prop 14 4869 R 8 850 P L Prop 18 4871 R 8 850 P L Prop 24 4876 R 8 850 P L Prop 30 4877 Univers Bold R 8 850 P L Prop 6 4905 R 8 850 P L Prop 8 4906 R 8 8...

Page 124: ...4977 ITC Zapf 10L P L Prop 6 4985 Dingbats 10L P L Prop 8 4986 10L P L Prop 10 4987 R 8 850 P L Prop 12 4988 R 8 850 P L Prop 14 4989 R 8 850 P L Prop 18 4991 R 8 850 P L Prop 24 4994 R 8 850 P L Pro...

Page 125: ...Letter Gothic Italic ASCII P L 12 12 68 Times Roman ASCII P Prop 8 163 Times Roman ASCII P Prop 10 164 Times Roman Bold ASCII P Prop 10 165 Times Roman Italic ASCII P Prop 10 166 Times Roman ASCII P P...

Page 126: ...Bold DskTop P Prop 12 4708 CG Times Italic DskTop P Prop 12 4816 CG Times DskTop P Prop 14 4689 CG Times Bold DskTop P Prop 14 4709 CG Times Italic DskTop P Prop 14 4817 CG Times Bold DskTop P Prop 18...

Page 127: ...L 12 10 112 Prestige Elite Legal P L 15 7 219 Prestige Elite Legal P L 12 10 97 Prestige Elite Bold Legal P L 12 10 98 Prestige Elite Italic Legal P L 12 10 99 Letter Gothic R 8 850 P L 27 3 6 290 Let...

Page 128: ...inDrw P L 10 14 31 PC Line Bold PCLin P L 10 14 32 Optional Fonts as originally found in Forms Etc Cartridge Univers R 8 850 P L Prop 6 33101 Univers R 8 850 P L Prop 8 33102 Univers Bold R 8 850 P L...

Page 129: ...Prestige Elite Italic R 8 P 12 10 112 CG Times R 8 P Prop 8 157 CG Times R 8 P Prop 10 158 CG Times Bold R 8 P Prop 10 159 CG Times Italic R 8 P Prop 10 155 Optional Fonts as originally found in Glob...

Page 130: ...HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS Typeface Symbol Orient Pitch Point Typestyle No Signet Roundhand ASCII P Prop 18 5960 Signet Roundhand ASCII P Prop 14 5970 ITC Dingbats ITC P Prop 36 5980 ITC Dingbat...

Page 131: ...cter sets An EBCDIC to ASCII translation table is printed at the bottom of the interface self test The tables on the following pages illustrate how EBCDIC characters from the twinax host are converted...

Page 132: ...112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161...

Page 133: ...57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117...

Page 134: ...C09 Dark Blue C01 Blue C10 Orange C02 Red C11 Purple C03 Magenta C12 Dark Green C04 Green C13 Dark Turquoise C05 Turquoise Cyan C14 Mustard C06 Yellow C15 Grey C07 White C16 Brown C08 Black For exampl...

Page 135: ...thic 410 Letter Gothic Bold 420 Letter Gothic Italic 430 Courier 460 Courier Bold 470 Courier Italic 480 Courier Bold Italic 490 Symbol 3400 Wingdings 3500 Dingbats 3600 CG Omega 4919 CG Omega Bold 49...

Page 136: ...d 33355 Antique Olive Italic 33463 Univers Medium Condensed 33591 Univers Bold Condensed 33601 Univers Medium Cond Italic 33719 Univers Bold Cond Italic 33729 Univers Medium 34103 Univers Bold 34123 U...

Page 137: ...gnored but they must be present anyway B Identifies the string as a bar code command string B must be placed at the beginning and at the end of the string type Specifies the bar code type according to...

Page 138: ...with the number of bar code characters NOTE The table gives rounded values only Example Using Code 3 of 9 you want to bar code the word PRINTERS Assume the interface also generates a check digit and t...

Page 139: ...19 0 21 0 24 0 26 UPC A 1 6 2 2 2 8 3 4 4 4 6 5 2 5 8 6 4 0 06 0 08 0 11 0 13 0 16 0 18 0 20 0 23 0 25 Width parameters are ignored when printing POSTNET bar codes since POSTNET uses one standard wid...

Page 140: ...matically add start stop characters 1 Automatically add start stop characters NOTE If value 0 is selected you must manually enter start stop characters asterisks together with the data Failure to add...

Page 141: ...invalid value 3 to be printed 0 0 code128 This helps quickly identify where the mistake occurred 3 Spaces in the bar code command string are invalid and will lead to the same result as mentioned in S...

Page 142: ...where the bar code print ends Overview and Examples The following examples give an overview of the supported bar code types Note that the maximum number of data characters does not include start stop...

Page 143: ...characters 10 Valid numeric characters 0 9 Valid alphanumeric characters N A Valid other characters N A Example B5 5 1 1 1 0 0123456789 B EAN 8 Required number of data characters 7 Valid numeric chara...

Page 144: ...racters 0 9 Valid alphanumeric characters N A Valid other characters N A Example B7 3 1 1 1 0 012345678912 B Interleaved 2 of 5 Maximum number of data characters 30 Valid numeric characters 0 9 Valid...

Page 145: ...r code follow these two steps 1 Define which code set you want to use For example type A to represent code A type B to represent Code B and type C to represent code C 2 If you are using code set B ent...

Page 146: ...The following data string is a fairly complex way of bar coding 10PrintBoxes10 B2 A1716 6PrintBoxes 510 B A selects code set A 17 selects the number 1 from code set A 16 selects the number 0 from code...

Page 147: ...de B Code C 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 0 0 16 17 1 1 17 18 2 2 18 19 3 3 19 20 4 4 20 21 5 5 21 22 6 6 22 23 7 7 23 24 8 8 24 25 9 9 25 26 26 27 27 28 28 29 29 30 30 31 31 32 32 33 A A 33...

Page 148: ...M 45 46 N N 46 47 O O 47 48 P P 48 49 Q Q 49 50 R R 50 51 S S 51 52 T T 52 53 U U 53 54 V V 54 55 W W 55 56 X X 56 57 Y Y 57 58 Z Z 58 59 59 60 60 61 61 62 62 63 _ _ 63 64 NUL 64 65 SOH a 65 66 STX b...

Page 149: ...n 78 79 S o 79 80 DLE p 80 81 DC1 q 81 82 DC2 r 82 83 DC3 s 83 84 DC4 t 84 85 NAK u 85 86 SYN v 86 87 ETB w 87 88 CAN x 88 89 EM y 89 90 SUB z 90 91 ESC 91 92 FS 92 93 GS 93 0 RS 94 1 US DEL 95 2 FNC...

Page 150: ...69 C Code 128 144 Code 3 of 9 141 Code Page 850 130 Color commands 133 Color printing 10 133 Command Pass Thru 65 66 Command strings 29 67 Computer Output Reduction COR 48 D Device IDs 32 Diagnostic...

Page 151: ...I IBM host 29 32 51 Interface self test 22 Interface settings 29 Interleaved 2 of 5 143 L LCD display 9 P Page Rotation 53 Page rotation settings 59 PCI based EIO slot 9 Printer auto sharing 9 Printer...

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