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Mini PLUS

Ultra-Small

Thermal Panel Printer

Mini PLUS

User Manual

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Page 1: ...Mini PLUS Ultra Small Thermal Panel Printer Mini PLUS User Manual www custom it ...

Page 2: ...ed Information regarding any errors found in it or suggestions on how it could be improved are appreciated Since products are subject to continuous check and improvement CUSTOM ENGINEERING SPAreserves the right to make changes in information contained in this manual without prior notification COD DOME MINIPLUS REV 1 10 Copyright 2004 CUSTOM ENGINEERING SPA Italy CUSTOM ENGINEERING SPA Str Berettin...

Page 3: ...Mini PLUS 2 1 3 PRINTER COMPONENTS A Front external view 1 Paper outfeed 2 Frontal Panel 3 Cover opening levers ...

Page 4: ...Mini PLUS 1 2 B Rear external view 1 Power supply connector 2 RS232 serial interface connector and other signals ...

Page 5: ...RATION 1 2 1 4 HEXADECIMAL DUMP 1 3 1 5 MAINTENANCE 1 3 1 5 1 Changing the paper roll 1 3 1 5 2 EASYLOCK fixing system 1 5 2 INTERFACES 2 1 RS232 SERIAL 2 1 3 PRINTER FUNCTIONS 3 1 PRINT DIRECTION 3 1 3 2 CONTROL CHARACTERS 3 1 4 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 4 1 TECHNICALSPECIFICATIONS 4 1 4 2 DIMENSIONS 4 3 5 CHARACTER SETS 5 1 CHARACTER SETS 5 1 APPENDIX A ACCESSORIES AND SPARE PARTS A 1ACCESSORIES ...

Page 6: ...Clean the printer with a damp cloth Do not use liquid or spray products Do not operate the printer near water Pay attention that the external frame the cover and the printer frame are made from polypropylene so it s better to keep away from ammonia methanol acetone washing up liquid benzol dishwasher liquid hydrocarbon dichloromethane perchloretylene ethylene trichlorethylene toluene Do not use th...

Page 7: ...strated below are present and that there are no signs of damage If there are contact Customer Service 1 Printer 2 Paper roll inside the printer 3 Manual or Instructions Sheet GENERALFEATURES Ultra small and ultra compact thermal panel printer with light weight 58mm paper width 30mm paper roll diameter with easy paper loading system Mini PLUS is provided with the innovative fixing system EASYLOCK t...

Page 8: ...agraph 2 1 When the FEED key is pressed the printer advances the paper During power up if the FEED key is held down the printer enters the SETUP routine The external STATUS led connect to serial connector see the paragraph 2 1 displays printer operating status and this check is performed on line Table 1 lists operating statuses and the LED signals connected to them Fig 2 Tab 1 s u t a t s D E L n ...

Page 9: ...INTRODUCTION Mini PLUS 4 Blank page ...

Page 10: ... the power supply The signals on the connector pins are as follows Model no type Header B4B PH SM3 TB JST Housing PHR 4 JST or equivalent o n n i P l a n g i S s e t o N 1 D N G 2 D N G 3 0 1 c d V 5 P V e g a t l o v d a e h 4 5 c d V 5 C V e g a t l o v y l p p u s c i g o l WARNING Respect the polarity of the power supply Fig 1 1 Tab 1 1 ...

Page 11: ...d in nonvolatile memory and are loaded automatically During power up if the FEED key 1 is held down the printer enters the autotest routine and prints out the setup report The printer will remain in standby in Hexadecimal dump mode see section 1 4 until another key is pressed or characters are received through the printer communication port When the FEED key 1 is pressed the printer enters paramet...

Page 12: ... as the corresponding ASCII code Shown below is an example of a Hexadecimal Dump 48 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 Hexadeci 6D 61 6C 20 64 75 6D 70 mal dump 20 66 75 6E 63 74 69 6F functio 6E 20 30 31 32 33 34 35 n 012345 36 37 38 39 61 62 63 64 6789abcd 65 66 67 68 69 6A 6B 6C efghijkl 6D 6E 6F 70 71 72 73 74 mnopqrst 75 76 77 78 79 7A uvwxyz 1 5 MAINTENANCE 1 5 1 Changing the paper roll To change the roll...

Page 13: ...LLATION AND USE Mini PLUS 4 1 2 Position the paper roll making sure it unrolls in the proper direction as shown in the figure 1 4 3 Tear off the paper as shown in fig 1 5 and re close the cover Fig 1 4 Fig 1 5 ...

Page 14: ...panel thickness and it is not necessary to use other fixing tools To fix the printer you can use only the 2 hooks already mounted on the printer stopping the printer in the more convenient position To remove the fixing hook referring picture 1 7 using a flat screwdriver lift the flap 1 and at the same time take away 2 the hook Fig 1 6 Fig 1 7 ...

Page 15: ...1 INSTALLATION AND USE Mini PLUS 6 1 Blank page ...

Page 16: ...ries 6 pin no 53398 0690 Housing Molex 51021 series 6 pin no 51021 0600 Fig 2 1 o n n i P l a n g i S T U O N I n o i t p i r c s e D 1 R T D T U O y d a e R l a n i m r e T a t a D 2 X T T U O n o i s s i m s n a r t a t a D 3 X R N I n o i t p e c e r a t a D 4 D N G d n u o r g l a n g i S 5 D E E F N I l e v e l w o l t a e v i t c a l a n g i s D E E F 6 D E L T U O l e v e l h g i h t a e v ...

Page 17: ... 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The following scheme shown in figure 2 2 represent the connection cable configuration between Molex connector 51021 series 6 pin female and a 9 pin connector female This cable can be use as wiring between the printer board and a 9 pin connector male of a generic host Fig 2 2 ...

Page 18: ...eters that can have different values The command table lists all the commands for the management of the printer functions The commands can be transmitted to the printer at any moment but they will only be carried out when the characters previously transmitted have been printed or the commands previously transmitted have been carried out There are no commands with priority status all the commands a...

Page 19: ...C S E d d e d o m t n i r p n i d d e u l a v s e t i r W E 4 B 1 N C S E g n i t n i r p e d o m l a m r o n s t e S 1 5 B 1 Q C S E g n i n i l r e d n u s e l b a n E 2 5 B 1 R C S E g n i t n i r p e d o m e s r e v e r s t e S 7 5 B 1 W C S E i p d 0 0 2 f o e n i l c i h p a r g s t n i r P 1 6 B 1 a C S E d d s e c a p s t o d f o r e b m u n s t c e l e S 3 6 B 1 c C S E g n i t n i r p e ...

Page 20: ... of front keys Reference 00 01 03 04 Example 3 0 Name Expanded printing Format ASCII Hex 03 Decimal 3 Description The printer prints in expanded character mode Notes commands 00 09 do not cancel the print buffer the commands which modify the dimensions of the characters are only active at the beginning of the line Default Setting in the option register by means of the front keys Reference 00 01 02...

Page 21: ...ion Carries out the number of line feeds specified in n Notes The number must beASCII and between 0 and 9 when n 0 the command is ignored This command clears the line buffer Default Reference 0A Example To forward feed fast 5 lines at a time 35 0B or 5 and the command 0B D 0 Name Print the line buffer Format ASCII Hex 0D Decimal 13 Description This command prints the line buffer Notes If the line ...

Page 22: ... D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 where X is not used 0 is recommended R must be fixed at level 1 P1 P6 are the graphic dot data 1 prints 0 does not print The P6 bit of the string of dots transmitted is printed on the left and the others follow from left to right P5 P4 P3 P2 P1 as shown 1st byte Î Î Î Î Î 2nd byte Î Î Î Î Î 3rd byte Î Î Î Î Î P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1 P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1 P6 P5 P4 P3 P2 P1 Default Refer...

Page 23: ...s hardware reset After the command has been transmitted 1 5 seconds elapse before the printer is enabled Default Reference Example L n H n 1 4 B 1 Name Executes n dots line feed Format ASCII ESC A nH nL Hex 1B 41 nH nL Decimal 27 65 nH nL Description Executes n dots line feed where N 256 x nH nL Notes 1 mm 8 dot line The maximum paper line feed value is about 1 m Default Reference Example To forwa...

Page 24: ... double height printing transmit 30 32 1B 4D E 4 B 1 Name Set normal mode printing Format ASCII ESC N Hex 1B 4E Decimal 27 78 Description Select normal mode printing the receipt feeds out of the printer with the printing upside down running from right to left Notes Default Setting in option register by means of front keys Reference 1B 52 Example 1 5 B 1 Name Enable underlined printing Format ASCII...

Page 25: ... Example 1 6 B 1 d d Name Selects the number of dot spaces Format ASCII dd ESC a Hex dd 1B 61 Decimal dd 27 97 Description By using dd parameters it s possible to select the dot line number between one print line and another Notes dd are two ASCII characters selected between 0 1 9 A B F which identifies number from 0 to 127 in hexadecimal form and corresponds to the number of dot lines between one...

Page 26: ... t p i r c s e D 0 0 l a m r o N h t d i w e d o c r a B 0 1 e l b u o D 1 0 e l p i r T 1 1 d e s u t o N t i B n o i t c n u F n o i t p i r c s e D 6 d e s u t o N 7 d e s u t o N length Specify the characters number to print trough a byte in following are listed the maximum lenghts allowed Interleaved 2 5 12 characters Code 39 10 characters CodaBar 10 characters EAN8 7 characters EAN13 12 char...

Page 27: ...lumn per line printing mode Notes Default Reference 1B 49 1B 69 Example 9 6 B 1 Name Selects 40 columns Format ASCII ESC i Hex 1B 69 Decimal 27 105 Description On receiving this command the printer enters 40 column per line printing mode Notes Default Reference 1B 49 1B 68 Example D 6 B 1 Name Transmits the print mode in serial Format ASCII ESC m Hex 1B 6D Decimal 27 109 Description Transmits the ...

Page 28: ...76 Decimal 27 118 Description When this command is received transmit the current status of the paper sensor Notes This command is executed immediately even when the data buffer is full Busy The status to be transmitted is shown in the table below t i B n O f f O x e H l a m i c e D n o i t c n u F 0 1 f f O 0 0 0 t n e s e r p r e p a P n O 03 3 g n i k r o w t o n r o s n e s r e p a P 3 2 f f O ...

Page 29: ...position into a graphic line based on the current value of n that indicate the byte number of shift from left margin Notes Settings outside the specified printable area are ignored Default Reference Example n 9 4 D 1 Name Transmit printer ID Format ASCII GS I n Hex 1D 49 n Decimal 29 73 n Range 1 n 3 49 n 51 Description Transmits the printer ID specified by n follows n e t n a p m a t s D I a c i ...

Page 30: ...7 n d1 dn Range 1 n 48 0 d1 dn 255 Description Print n byte of a 200 dpi graphic line where n specifies the number of byte to print d1 dn specify the bytes to print Notes If the bit image data input exceeds the number of dots to be printed on a line the excess data are processed as printable characters d indicates the bit image data Set a corresponding bit to 1 to print a dot or to 0 to not print ...

Page 31: ...3 PRINTER FUNCTIONS Mini PLUS 3 14 Blank page ...

Page 32: ...i t n i r P d e n i l r e d n u e s r e v e r d l o b 2 o t 1 m o r f h t d i W t h g i e H s t n o f r e t c a r a h C l a n o i t a n r e t n I N O S P E d r a d n a t S I I C S A s e c a f r e t n i e l b a l i a v A l a n o i t p o L T T 2 3 2 S R l a i r e S e t a r d u a B s p b 0 0 4 8 3 a 0 0 6 a D r e f f u b e v i e c e R s e t y b 8 2 1 y r o m e m h s a l F s e t y b K 2 3 y r o m e m ...

Page 33: ... 2 4 n o i t a l u m E M O T S U C s n m u l o c f o r e b m u N 4 2 0 4 x i r t a m r e t c a r a h C 4 2 x 6 1 4 2 x 8 d e e p S g n i t n i r P c e s s e n i L 3 1 c e s s r a h C 7 0 3 2 1 5 s r e t c a r a h C l a m r o N 3 x 2 3 x 1 ...

Page 34: ...4 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Mini PLUS 3 4 1 5 46 15 84 87 2 52 64 46 15 6 55 59 max panel thickness Panel cut out 4 2 DIMENSIONS In the following figure shows the dimensions of the printer Fig 4 1 ...

Page 35: ...4 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Mini PLUS 4 4 Blank page ...

Page 36: ...5 CHARACTER SETS Mini PLUS 1 5 5 1 CHARACTER SETS The printer has 2 fonts each width 224 characters font 1 and font 2 Shown below in figure 5 1 is an example of font1 Fig 5 1 FONT 1 ...

Page 37: ...TH PC COVER 2 UNIT mm 79 0 1 0 16 4 18 0 16 4 38 5 55 0 65 0 50 8 1 0 25 4 28 0 1 0 3 0 25 4 11 0 14 5 40 5 11 0 13 0 2 M3 V V PE N L 93 0 4 M3 BOTTOM Fig A 1 A 1 ACCESSORIES A 1 1 Power supply The figure below illustrates the power supply provided by Custom to be used for printer operation ...

Page 38: ... e p s t u p n I e g a t l o v t u p n I V 5 8 C A V 4 6 2 V 0 2 1 C D V 5 7 3 t n e r r u C t u p n i C A V 0 0 1 t a x a m A 8 0 y c n e u q e r f t u p n I z H 7 4 z H 3 6 s n o i t i d n o c l a t n e m n o r i v n E e r u t a r e p m e t g n i t a r e p O C 5 2 C 0 7 y t i d i m u H 0 2 5 8 y t i d i m u h e r u t a r e p m e t e g a r o t S C 5 2 C 5 7 0 1 n o i t a s n e d n o c o w 5 9 5 0...

Page 39: ...ter kit see picture A 2 S U L P K S C P s e l b a c t i K r e t r a t S The kit includes see picture A 2 power supply cable 1 data cable for serial interface 2 To the cable connections see picture A 3 link the power supply cable 1 to the power supply 1 connector of the printer link the data serial interface cable 2 to the interface connector 2 of the printer Fig A 2 Fig A 3 ...

Page 40: ...APPENDIX A ACCESSORIES AND SPARE PARTS Mini PLUS 4 A Tab A 3 0 3 X 7 5 T C R 0 3 m a i d m m 7 5 l l o r r e p a p l a m r e h T A 2 SPARE PARTS ...

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