Manual Index Everest-D
Index Braille Printer Company
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Version 4.32
3.1.2
Document guides position.
On the lower edge of the front panel cover are two plastic document guides located. The right
position for these is to follow the side edges of the document when it leaves the printer, in order
to lift the paper to the correct position in the document stack.
Note!
If the document guides are to close to the centre or used together with a very hard type of
paper, it can cause paper jam.
3.1.3
Paper length setting.
When the Everest is powered on for the first time, the paper length is set for A4.
If a paper with a different length is used, Everest will give a faulty alarm PAPER JAM. To
change the default paper length value, simply press Form Feed. The printer will now feed a paper,
in order to measure it. The new length will now be stored until the next time the Form Feed key
is pressed. After paper lengt measuring by the FF command, the printer echo: "lines per page
:#".Index Everest accepts all paper lengths between 150-350mm (6-14 Inch).
3.1.4
Computer connection.
Connect Index Everest to the computer with the serial and centronics interface. When turning on
the Everest, both ports are ready to receive information. As soon as the printout has started,
Everest will close the non-active port.
The ports are designed to follow the international standards for printers as far as possible. When
using Everest together with a standard PC, you can use standard centronics and a serial cable.
3.1.5
Serial communication cable.
Everest is equipped with a 25 pin female (D-sub) on the serial interface and a standard
centronics connector for the centronics interface.
Pin configuration on serial interface:
1=GND, 2=TXD, 3=RXD, 4=RTS, 5=CTS, 6=DSR, 7=SG, 20=DTR.
Transmitting parameters (factory setting) are:
Baudrate=9600, Data bits=8, Parity=N, Stop bits=1, Handshake=DTR hardware handshake.
3.1.6
Transmission parameters.
The communication parameters on the serial-port and centronics port on your PC are normally
set with the following command in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
MODE COM1:9600,N,8,1,P
MODE LPT1:,,P
3.1.7
Serial cable configuration.
There is a standard cable between the Everest and the PC. On the Everest side a 25 pin male D-
sub and on the PC side a 25 or 9 pin female D-sub. Cable with the following wires.
Everest - 25p D-sub.
Everest - 9p D-sub.
1-1, 2-3, 3-2, 4-5, 5-4, 6-20, 20-6, 7-7.
2-2, 3-3, 4-9, 5-7, 6-6, 7-5, 20-4.
For other configuration descriptions, see chapter 11.
