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RP-U420
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I. BASIC SPECIFICATIONS .................................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Printing Specifications ................................................................................................................... 1
1.2 Character Specifications ............................................................................................................... 1
1.3 Roll Paper Supply Unit .................................................................................................................. 1
1.4 Takeup Device .............................................................................................................................. 2
1.5 Paper and Paper Feed Specifications........................................................................................... 2
1.5.1 Paper feed ............................................................................................................................ 2
1.5.2 Paper specifications.............................................................................................................. 2
1.6 Paper cutter................................................................................................................................... 2
1.7 Stamp ............................................................................................................................................ 3
1.8 Buzzer ........................................................................................................................................... 3
1.9 Ribbon Cassette............................................................................................................................ 4
1.10 Printing area ................................................................................................................................ 4
1.11 Receive Buffer............................................................................................................................. 7
1.12 Electrical Specifications............................................................................................................... 7
1.13 Applicable Standards .................................................................................................................. 7
1.14 Reliability ..................................................................................................................................... 7
1.15 Environmental Specifications ...................................................................................................... 7
2. CONFIGURATION............................................................................................................................... 9
2.1 Interface Specifications ................................................................................................................. 9
2.1.1 RS-232 Serial Interface......................................................................................................... 9
2.1.2 IEEE 1284 Bidirectional Parallel Interface (Parallel Interface Specifications)..................... 13
2.2 Connectors .................................................................................................................................. 19
2.2.1 Interface connectors ........................................................................................................... 19
2.2.2 Power supply connector...................................................................................................... 19
2.2.3 Drawer kick-out connector (modular connector)................................................................. 20
3. FUNCTIONS ...................................................................................................................................... 22
3.1 Commands.................................................................................................................................. 22
3.2 Character Code Tables ............................................................................................................... 24
3.2.1 Page 0 (PC437: U.S.A. Standard Europe) (International character set: U.S.A.) ................ 24
3.2.2 Page 1 (Katakana) .............................................................................................................. 25
3.2.3 Page 2 (PC850: Multilingual) .............................................................................................. 26
3.2.4 Page 3 (PC860: Portuguese).............................................................................................. 27
3.2.5 Page 4 (PC863: Canadian-French) .................................................................................... 28
3.2.6 Page 5 (PC865: Nordic)...................................................................................................... 29
3.2.7 Page 16 (WPC1252)........................................................................................................... 30
3.2.8 Page 17 (PC866: Cyrillic #2)............................................................................................... 31
3.2.9 Page 18 (PC852: Latin 2) ................................................................................................... 32
3.2.10 Page 19 (PC858: Euro)..................................................................................................... 33
3.2.11 Page 254 (PC857: Latin 5) ............................................................................................... 34
3.2.12 Page 255 (Space Page).................................................................................................... 35
3.3 Switches and Buttons.................................................................................................................. 36
3.3.1 Power switch ....................................................................................................................... 36
3.3.2 Paper feed buttons.............................................................................................................. 36
3.3.3 Stamp button....................................................................................................................... 36
3.3.4 DIP switches ....................................................................................................................... 36
3.4 Panel LED Indicators................................................................................................................... 38
3.4.1 Panel LED indicators .......................................................................................................... 38
3.5 Error Processing.......................................................................................................................... 39
3.5.1 Error types........................................................................................................................... 39
3.5.2 Operation when an error is detected ................................................................................ 40
3.6 Self-test ....................................................................................................................................... 41
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