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TM Printer Driver

User's Manual

Rev. 1.60 August 31, 2000

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION

Summary of Contents for U295 - TM B/W Dot-matrix Printer

Page 1: ...TM Printer Driver User s Manual Rev 1 60 August 31 2000 SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION ...

Page 2: ...Processor 9 3 4 1 About print processor 9 3 4 2 Install print processor 9 3 4 3 Set up print processor 9 3 5 Installing the USB component 10 3 5 1 USB port driver installation 10 3 5 2 TM printer driver and USB port monitor installation 10 3 6 Printer Settings 10 4 Main Specifications 11 4 1 Printer Fonts 11 4 2 Bar Code Printing 18 4 3 Special Functions 19 4 4 Resolutions 23 4 5 Paper Sizes 24 4 ...

Page 3: ... WordPad 35 6 1 1 WordPad Environment 35 6 1 2 Printing Text 35 6 1 3 Opening the Cash Drawer 36 6 1 4 Print Bar code 36 6 1 5 Cutting the Paper 37 6 2 Controlling the Printer from Visual Basic Ver 4 0 38 6 2 1 Selecting the Printer Driver 38 6 2 2 Selecting the Paper Source 38 6 2 3 Printing Text 39 6 2 4 Opening the Cash Drawer 39 6 2 5 Cutting the Paper 40 6 2 6 Printing a Bar Code 40 6 2 7 Usi...

Page 4: ... Operation System The Epson TM printer drivers can run on any of the following operating systems Renew OS using the Euro support update file which is provided from Microsoft But Microsoft Windows98 Windows2000 doesn t have to renew an operating system using the update file Microsoft Windows95 Euro Update Patch w95euro exe Microsoft Windows98 Microsoft Windows NT4 0 Euro Update Patch nt4_euro exe S...

Page 5: ...M U210A Partial cut O O O TM U210AR Receipt EPSON TM U210AR No cut O O O EPSON TM U210AR Partial cut O O O TM U210B Receipt EPSON TM U210B No cut X O O EPSON TM U210B Partial cut X O O TM U210D Receipt EPSON TM U210D X O O TM U300A Receipt EPSON TM U300A No cut O O O EPSON TM U300A Partial cut O O O EPSON TM U300A Full cut O O O TM U300B Receipt EPSON TM U300B No cut O O O EPSON TM U300B Partial c...

Page 6: ...eceipt EPSON TM L60II Receipt O O O Label EPSON TM L60II Single O O O EPSON TM L60II Plural O O O TM L60 Receipt EPSON TM L60 Receipt X O O Label EPSON TM L60 Single X O O EPSON TM L60 Plural X O O TM U590 Slip EPSON TM U590 O O O TM U295 Slip EPSON TM U295 O O O DM D10x 20x EPSON DM D 10X 20X O O O Note The JP and US columns indicate whether the driver is available for Japanese and English operat...

Page 7: ...nters window M If you can not print correct using test page please make sure the setting of following points are as same as the setting of connected device Is the port you are connecting correct COM LPT Particularly in the case of a serial connection are the communications conditions set correctly 3 2 Installing on WindowsNT4 0 A When you execute the Tdr160e exe file the files are extracted follow...

Page 8: ...ect and install my Plug and Play printer box and then click Next F Select the port s that you want to use for the printer and then click on Next G Click the Have Disk button H Type in the pathname which is specified at A Default C Tmdrve WIN2000 Then click on OK I Select the printer driver you wish to install and then click on the Next button J Select whether or not to print a test page and then c...

Page 9: ...d 3 4 3 Set up print processor When you use DM D10x 20x driver in WindowsNT4 0 Windows2000 please set up the print processor as follows If you use it in Win95 98 you don t need to set up WindowsNT4 0 A Select a printer driver icon in the printer window and click a Properties Properties dialog is shown B Display a General tag sheet and click a Print Processor button Print Processor dialog is shown ...

Page 10: ... Choose the setup INF file ESCPOS INF which is in WIN98 folder Both TM printer driver and TMUSB port monitor can be installed at the same time But it is supporting only USB support model English edition support model TM U210A U675 T88II H5000II H6000 U590 J8000 Note When the old version of the TMUSB PortMonitor is already installed in Windows98 the new version of TMUSB PortMonitor cannot be normal...

Page 11: ...The character code of 128 bytes of 80H FFH varies in the difference in these printer fonts A xxx cpi font supports an ANSI character code And a xxx cpi Ext font supports IBM expansion character code And a xxx cpi Euro font supports an Euro symbol correspondence ANSI character code The TM J8000 printer is supporting 10cpi OCR font The character which can be printed by this printer font is only SP 0...

Page 12: ...6 7cpi RED Ext 9 18 NO OK 16cpi RED Euro 9 18 NO OK 13 3cpi RED Euro 9 18 NO OK 8cpi RED Euro 9 18 NO OK 6 7cpi RED Euro 9 18 NO OK Mintyo 8 9cpi RED 8 16 OK NO Mintyo 4 7cpi RED 8 16 OK NO Japanese and English drivers 16 7cpi 9 18 OK OK TM U950 12 5cpi 9 18 OK OK TM U590 8 3cpi 9 18 OK OK TM H5000II Slip 6 25cpi 9 18 OK OK 16 7cpi Ext 9 18 NO OK English drivers only 12 5cpi Ext 9 18 NO OK TM U925...

Page 13: ...000II Receipt 7 5cpi 9 5 19 OK OK 20cpi Ext 6 5 13 5 NO OK 15cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi Ext 6 5 13 5 NO OK 7 5cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 20cpi Euro 6 5 13 5 NO OK 15cpi Euro 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi Euro 6 5 13 5 NO OK 7 5cpi Euro 9 5 19 NO OK Mintyo7 5cpi 9 5 19 OK NO Mintyo3 8cpi 9 5 19 OK NO Japanese and English drivers 20cpi 7 14 5 OK OK TM J8000 16cpi 9 5 19 OK OK 10cpi 7 14 5 OK OK 8cpi 9 5 19 OK OK 10c...

Page 14: ...OK 7 5cpi 9 5 19 OK OK 20cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 15cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 7 5cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 20cpi Euro 9 5 19 NO OK 15cpi Euro 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi Euro 9 5 19 NO OK 7 5cpi Euro 9 5 19 NO OK English drivers only 20cpi 6 5 13 5 NO OK TM L60 15cpi 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi 6 5 13 5 NO OK 7 5cpi 9 5 19 NO OK 20cpi Ext 6 5 13 5 NO OK 15cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi Ext 6 5 13 5 NO OK 7 5cp...

Page 15: ...pi Euro 8 5 17 NO OK 8cpi Euro 8 5 17 NO OK 6 7cpi Euro 8 5 17 NO OK English drivers only 20cpi 6 5 13 5 NO OK TM H6000 Receipt 15cpi 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi 6 5 13 5 NO OK 7 5cpi 9 5 19 NO OK 20cpi Ext 6 5 13 5 NO OK 15cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK 10cpi Ext 6 5 13 5 NO OK 7 5cpi Ext 9 5 19 NO OK English drivers only 17 8cpi 8 16 NO OK TM U675 13 3cpi 8 16 NO OK TM H6000 Slip 8 9cpi 8 16 NO OK 6 7cpi 8 16 NO O...

Page 16: ... Mintyo DW 8 OK NO Mintyo DHDW 16 OK NO Japanese and English drivers DM D 1st Line 7 NO OK DM D10x 20x DM D 2nd Line 7 NO OK Note The JP and US columns above indicate whether the font is available on JP and US drivers respectively A OK means that the font is available an NO means that it is not available Although the TM L60II J8000 driver is provided in both JP and US types note that neither type ...

Page 17: ...ese printer model use CP1252 of MS Windows code page When using prnter font of these models take note to the following point TM Printer Driver for these models don t include xxxcpi Euro font You can print Euro symbol using xxxcpi or xxxcpi Ext fonts xxxcpi font doesn t include special function You must use control printer font when using supecial function DM D 1st Line font is used for displaying ...

Page 18: ...ont Number of Encoded Characters Supported Characters Codabar 1 or more Numeric 0 to 9 Symbols Letters A to D Code39 1 or more Numeric 0 to 9 Symbols space Letters A to Z ITF 1 or more even number Numeric 0 to 9 JAN 13 EAN 13 Numeric 0 to 9 JAN 8 EAN 8 Numeric 0 to 9 UPC A 12 Numeric 0 to 9 UPC E 12 Numeric 0 to 9 Note The drivers can print HRI characters together with the bar code For information...

Page 19: ... pulse width 81H B Open Drawer 1 100ms drive pulse width 82H C Open Drawer 1 150ms drive pulse width 83H D Open Drawer 1 200ms drive pulse width 84H E Open Drawer 1 250ms drive pulse width 85H a Open Drawer 2 50ms drive pulse width 89H b Open Drawer 2 100ms drive pulse width 8AH c Open Drawer 2 150ms drive pulse width 8BH d Open Drawer 2 200ms drive pulse width 8CH e Open Drawer 2 200ms drive puls...

Page 20: ...V Bitmap image data 5 Printing double wide characters V NV Bitmap image data 1 Printing double high characters W NV Bitmap image data 2 Printing double high characters X NV Bitmap image data 3 Printing double high characters Y NV Bitmap image data 4 Printing double high characters Z NV Bitmap image data 5 Printing double high characters NV Bitmap image data 1 Printing double high double wide chara...

Page 21: ...N for 1st Line c Clear 2nd line CAN for 2nd Line d Screen is always blinking e Screen is blinking at 10x5msec intervals f Screen is blinking at 20x5msec intervals g Screen is blinking at 40x5msec intervals h Screen is blinking at 60x5msec intervals i Put out light with saving displayed contents j Set and display a counter time US T h m k Display a counter US U l Enable reversed character US r n m ...

Page 22: ...The OS System folder NT 2K The OS System32 Spool Prtprocs W32x86 folder 2 Description method 1 Write descriptions similar to normal INI file format Section Name Key_1 Data_1 Key_2 Data_2 Key_3 Data_3 2 Specify the printer name as the section name Eg TM U230 3 Specify each key in a hexadeciaml character code corresponding to ControlA font Eg When A is specified for ControlA font write the key as 41...

Page 23: ... U300A TM U300B TM U300C TM U300D TM U325 TM U375 80 72 160 72 160 144 TM H6000 Slip TM U675 TM U230 80 72 160 72 TM H6000 Endorse 127 72 TM U590 TM U950 TM U925 TM H5000II Slip 75 72 150 72 150 144 TM T285 TM L60II TM L60 90 60 180 60 90 180 180 180 TM T88II TM T88IIR TM H5000II Receipt TM H6000 Receipt 90 90 180 90 90 180 180 180 TM J8000 180 180 360 360 TM U295 80 60 160 60 NOTE Asterisks in th...

Page 24: ...0 5 in Receipt length 70 x 3276 mm User defined 70x152 4 to 70x3276 mm TM U200B TM U210A AR TM U210B D TM U300A B C D TM U325 TM U375 TM U230 A4 length 76 x 297 mm B5 length 76 x 257 mm 6 inch page 2 99 x 6 in Letter length 2 99 x 11 in Executive length 2 99 x 10 5 in Receipt length 76 x 3276 mm User defined 76x152 4 to 76x3276 mm TM J8000 A4 length 76 x 297 mm B5 length 76 x 257 mm 6 inch page 2 ...

Page 25: ...eceipt length 80 3276mm Receipt length 58 3276mm User defined 58 152 4 to 80 3276 mm TM U675 A4 length 82 5 297 mm B5 length 82 5 297 mm 6 in Page 3 24 6 in Executive length 3 24 10 5 in Letter length 3 24 11 in A4 length 76 297 mm B5 length 76 297 mm 6 in Page 2 99 6 in Executive length 2 99 10 5 in Letter length 2 99 11 in Receipt length 82 5 3276mm Receipt length 76 3276mm User defined 76 152 4...

Page 26: ... 0 0 0 2 64 1 TM U210B U210D 27 0 5 5 6 4 0 0 0 2 64 1 TM U230 27 0 5 5 6 4 0 0 0 2 64 1 TM U325 30 3 5 5 6 4 0 0 0 2 64 1 TM U300A U300B U300C U300D 36 0 6 4 5 5 0 0 0 2 64 1 TM U375 33 0 8 1 3 8 0 0 0 2 64 1 TM J8000 76 9 5 3 5 5 0 0 0 2 65 2 TM T88 T88IIR 26 0 3 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 72 2 TM T285 44 0 4 0 3 8 0 0 0 0 72 2 TM H5000II H6000 29 0 3 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 72 2 TM U675 35 5 5 1 6 1 0 0 0 2 71 4 Note...

Page 27: ...t 5 1 2 x 8 1 2 in Personal Check 160 x 70 mm Business Check 210 x 90 mm User defined 70x201 9 to 296 9x215 9 mm Windows95 WINDOWS98 support Note The user defined values show the range over which sizes can be set The following table shows the recommended margins for each printer Refer to this table when setting margins from your printing applications Margins Print Area Printer Paper Left mm Right ...

Page 28: ...r Paper Left mm Right mm Top mm Bottom mm Width mm TM J8000 A4 0 0 0 1 9 0 17 0 201 8 A6 0 0 3 4 9 0 13 0 101 6 B5 0 0 3 3 9 0 14 0 178 7 Letter 10 6 3 5 9 0 18 0 201 8 Executive 0 0 3 4 9 0 14 0 193 45 Statement 0 0 3 4 9 0 17 5 136 3 Personal Check 0 0 3 4 9 0 16 0 156 6 Business Check 4 8 3 4 9 0 18 0 201 8 ...

Page 29: ...57 mm TM U675 A5 148 x 210 mm User defined 90x150 to 148x210 mm Windows95 WINDOWS98 support Note The user defined values show the range over which sizes can be set The following table shows the recommended margins for each printer Refer to this table when setting margins from your printing applications Margins Print Area Printer Paper Left mm Right mm Top mm Bottom mm Width mm TM U300C U300D A4 0 ...

Page 30: ...User defined 90x150 to 148x297 mm Windows95 WINDOWS98 support Note The user defined values show the range over which sizes can be set The following table shows the recommended margins for each printer Refer to this table when setting margins from your printing applications Margins Print Area Printer Paper Left mm Right mm Top mm Bottom mm Width mm TM H6000 A4 0 0 162 0 6 7 6 7 48 0 A5 0 0 100 0 6 ...

Page 31: ...ow the range over which sizes can be set The following table shows the recommended margins Refer to this table when setting margins from your printing applications Hard Top Margin mm Margins Print Area Printer Left mm Right mm Top mm Bottom mm Width mm TM L60II L60 1 5 4 1 4 0 0 0 3 0 51 9 Note The hard top margin refers to the margin placed between the top of the form for example from the paper c...

Page 32: ...pt Journal TM T285 Receipt Journal Receipt Journal TM J8000 Slip Slip BOF 4 7 Orientation You can select either portrait vertical or landscape horizontal orientation But note that printer fonts will not print if landscape orientation is selected portrait landscape 4 8 Print Quality Print Quality selection is available only with the TM J8000 and DM D10x 20x printer drivers Printer Print Quality TM ...

Page 33: ...e print in the USB port becomes possible The display form in this place is as follows TMUSBxxx Character xxx is the 3 digit identify which distinguishes a port is the character string is as follows with the condition Condition Character Connect Power User identify character Printer Condition Connected Power ON defined X User definition character Not defined ONLINE Printer Name OFFLINE Offline Stat...

Page 34: ...g TMUSBxxx and pushing OK button But in case of the following condition the port cannot be deleted When a printer is connected with the port When choosing at Print to the following port When choosing a system port 5 4 Port Setting When clicking a Port Setting button an error message There is nothing to configure for this port is displayed because there is no item to set with the USB port monitor ...

Page 35: ... by setting your default printer and the WordPad environment as follows Start up WordPad and enter appropriate settings for the follows Size Resolution Orientation Source Margins 6 1 2 Printing Text Use the following procedure to generate a printout from WordPad 1 Select the font you wish to use from the font list 2 Select the font size you wish use from the font size list 3 Type in some text into...

Page 36: ...se the following procedure to print a bar code 1 Select the control font from the font list 2 Set the font size to 10 3 Type an r into the WordPad text input area 4 Hit the Enter key 5 Select JAN13 EAN from the font list 6 Set the font size to 42 7 Enter the code you wish to generate 8 Open the File menu and click on Print Clicking on Print causes the printer to print the bar code corresponding to...

Page 37: ...list 2 Set the font size as desired 3 Type in the text you wish to print 4 Hit the Enter key 5 Select the control font from the font list 6 Set the font size to 10 7 Type in an F 8 Open the File menu and click on Print When you click on Print the printer prints the text you entered at Step 3 and then executes a full cut If you wish to execute a partial cut instead enter a P rather than an F at Ste...

Page 38: ...cting the Paper Source Use the following code to set or change the paper source when printing out text Set the specified printer driver as the default printer For Each prnPrinter In Printers If prnPrinter DeviceName EPSON TM 300A No cut Then Set Printer prnPrinter Exit For End If Next Selecting the paper source Printer FontSize 10 Set up the control font Printer FontName control Printer Print 3 En...

Page 39: ... 10 Printer FontName Times New Roman Printer Print Printer FontName Str Printer FontSize Print in printer font Printer FontSize 10 Printer FontName 20 cpi Printer Print Printer FontName Str Printer FontSize Printer EndDoc Printer FontSize 10 Set up the control font Printer FontName control Printer Print A Use special function character to open the cash drawer A Open drawer 1 at 50 ms B Open drawer...

Page 40: ...code type p No HRI characters q Include HRI characters above bar code using font A r Include HRI characters below bar code using font A s Include HRI characters above bar code using font B t Include HRI characters below bar code using font B Print the bar code Printer FontSize 42 Set the bar code font size Printer FontName ITF Select the bar code printer font Printer Print 123456 Print the bar cod...

Page 41: ...CINFO As Long Public Declare Function StartPagePrinter Lib winspool drv _ ByVal hPrinter As Long As Long Public Declare Function WritePrinter Lib winspool drv ByVal hPrinter As Long _ pBuf As Any ByVal cdBuf As Long pcWritten As Long As Long Source Code Dim lhPrinter As Long Dim lReturn As Long Dim lpcWritten As Long Dim lDoc As Long Dim sWrittenData As String Dim MyDocInfo As DOCINFO lReturn Open...

Page 42: ...le shows how to print out bitmap data Read bitmap file from frmBmp form Match H and V size to bitmap file frmBMP Height 0 frmBMP picBmp Picture LoadPicture SAMPLE BMP frmBMP picBmp Top 0 frmBMP picBmp Left 0 frmBMP Height frmBMP Height frmBMP picBmp Height frmBMP Width frmBMP picBmp Width Print the frmBMP form frmBMP PrintForm ...

Page 43: ...ect between PC and DM D customer display DM D101 DM D105 DM D205 The available cables diagram Printer side User side D sub25 Connector Pin Number Signal name Signal name D sub25 Connector Pin Number 8 NC DCD 1 3 RxD RxD 2 2 TxD TxD 3 20 DTR DTR 4 7 SG SG 5 6 DSR DSR 6 4 RTS RTS 7 5 CTS CTS 8 22 NC RI 9 Furthermore though the cables on the market have the one that is listed in the following wiring ...

Page 44: ...ft margin to its lowest possible value 11 Sometimes the barcode may not be able to print continuously in Windows NT4 0 and Windows2000 You sould specify HRI characters each time this problem occurs 12 When changing the paper source with a paper source selection character special function character you must place the character at the beginning of the line 13 When printing by the serial connection t...

Page 45: ...ich is shorted between TxD RxD and DTR DSR and RTS CTS 22 If you connect TM U300A B C D and TM U200B and TM U210A AR B D and TM U295 and TM L60 and TM L60II with Customer Display please use DM D10X 20X driver and display such as a space on Customer Display and then print using each driver of TM printer 23 Custmer display isn t supported in USB connection 24 For printer TM J8000 using font 10cpi OC...

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