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<Contents> 
1. Precautions for Use.............................................................................................. 
2. Unpacking............................................................................................................. 
 2.1 Unpacking......................................................................................................... 
  2.2 Names of Each Part.......................................................................................... 
3. How to Operate..................................................................................................... 
 3.1 Preparation....................................................................................................... 
  3.2 Paper Setting.................................................................................................... 
  3.3 Test Printing..................................................................................................... 
  3.4 DIP Switch Setting........................................................................................... 
 3.5 Cable Connection............................................................................................. 
4. How to Treat This Product.................................................................................. 
  4.1 Paper Empty Detection.................................................................................... 
  4.2 Paper End Signal.............................................................................................. 
  4.3 COP Signal………………………………………………………………………….. 
 4.4 Error Signal.......................................................................................................10 
5. Specifications......................................................................................................... 
  5.1 General Specifications....................................................................................... 
  5.2 Interface Specifications..................................................................................... 

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Precautions for Use…………………………………………………………………….. 

6. Control Codes......................................................................................................... 
  6.1 List of Control Codes.......................................................................................... 
  6.2 Function of Each Control Code.......................................................................... 
7. Trouble Shooting of the Printer............................................................................. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Summary of Contents for APM-N90

Page 1: ...Users Manual for Panel Mount Type Printer December 5 2001 Rev C JAPAN SUBCONTRACT INC APM N90...

Page 2: ...e Connection 4 How to Treat This Product 4 1 Paper Empty Detection 4 2 Paper End Signal 4 3 COP Signal 4 4 Error Signal 10 5 Specifications 5 1 General Specifications 5 2 Interface Specifications Prec...

Page 3: ...rial Notice Do not use 12 17 21 25pin 25pin is connected to Vcc 5V Cautions on Installation Please install this equipment in the places as follows Stable place Places capable to keep temperature range...

Page 4: ...Don t wet inside of the printer by water Power Supply Don t use any other power supply or cables than the recommended ones By using junction connector putting in out becomes easy for power supply Ple...

Page 5: ...here are found all of the following things in the package APM N90 Printer 1 unit Thermal Paper 1 roll Users Manual 1 this manual Power Supply Connector Housing 1 pc Contact 2 pcs APM N90 Printer Therm...

Page 6: ...see Error Signals Connectors for Parallel Serial Input Output Pins to input the data from outside Power Supply Connector Loaded Connector ELR 02V JST Suitable Housing ELP 02V JST Suitable Contact LLF...

Page 7: ...rinter paper setting is very easy Please set as follows open the cover taking care about the paper cutter Pull out the paper some cm from the paper cutter Put the pulled out paper on the paper cutter...

Page 8: ...6 3 3 Test Printing Pushing paper feed switch turn On the power supply Prints test printing as follows Print Example...

Page 9: ...e printer operates with the specified contents 1 Table 3 1 Functions and Setting Contents of DIP Switches No Functions ON Side OFF Side 1 Kanji Code Shift JIS Shift JIS 2 3 Baud Rate Selection See Tab...

Page 10: ...uto setting ON ON Sending the following command baud rate would be automatically recognized 24H x 12 24H x 1 Table 3 3 Print Density Print Density SW4 SW5 Standard OFF OFF Thick 130 ON OFF Thicker 223...

Page 11: ...nection print test printing If you print data is sent from the host device to print correctly connection is completed If it doesn t print See 7 Trouble Shooting of the printer 2 Connection of Power Su...

Page 12: ...ecognizing this signal When you finish setting paper paper end signal will stop output 4 3 COP Signals When the cover is opened power supply error lamp blinks Then by COP signal active L and control c...

Page 13: ...transmission see the control code GS a n 2 Feed operation is possible during error signal output 3 At the same time that error signal ERR is output error lamp blinks 4 Removing the label paper error...

Page 14: ...Types JAN 8 13 EAN CODE39 NW 7 CODE128 ITF Input Buffer 15K bytes Applicable Paper Thickness 60 100 m Printing Width 48mm Maximum Print Speed 30mm s 1 Total Number of Dots 384 dots mm Dot Density 8 d...

Page 15: ...13 3 Power Supply Specifications Full black printing Power Supply 5 0 5 25V 4 0A or more Print ratio 25 or less power Supply 5 0 5 25V 2 0A or more...

Page 16: ...and Shake STB BUSY ACK Hand Shake Timing Unit sec Input Output Signal Level Standard Value Item Symbol MIN TYP MAX Unit Input Low Level Voltage VIL 0 0 8 V Input High Level Voltage VIH 2 0 Vcc V Outpu...

Page 17: ...on data 1 Low on data 0 10 ACK Output Data read in finish 11 BUSY Output Data read in impossible 12 PE Output Paper end High 1 13 Vout Output 5V power supply output 14 RST Input Initialization 15 COP...

Page 18: ...n and if it is in Space status it is recognized as Start bit to start serial input If it gets Stop bit Mark status it starts receiving the next data When it receives 1 line of data it starts printing...

Page 19: ...gnal Direction Function 1 FGD Frame Ground 2 TXD Output Status transmission 1 3 RXD Input Data input 4 6 NC Not used 7 SGD Signal ground 8 NC Not used 9 RST Input Initialization 10 COP Output Cover op...

Page 20: ...the cables such as connector cable to power supply and connector cable to the host device as short as possible and connect smoothly Avoid short circuit between pins of connectors Turn OFF power suppl...

Page 21: ...label AXD114 We do not recommend the double copy paper There are other kinds of paper capable to be used Please ask Japan Subcontract Please read HTPN Series Thermal Printer Mechanism Technical Guide...

Page 22: ...rned character 25 Form Setting ESC c NUL n1 n2 Set the length of the page 25 SO Set double width with automatic reset 26 DC4 Cancel double width with automatic reset 26 SI Set double height with autom...

Page 23: ...dot 35 DC3 L n1 n2 n3 n4 Set ruler line by line 36 DC3 F n1 n2 Set ruler line with repeating pattern 36 DC3 Turn ruler line ON 36 DC3 Turn ruler line OFF 36 DC3 P Print one dot line after printing 36...

Page 24: ...set 45 CAN Cancel 45 DEL Delete one character 45 AX S Set re print position 45 DC2 T Test printing 46 ESC P n Valid judgement of feed SW 46 Supplementary Functions AX V Print status indication 46 DC2...

Page 25: ...ine spacing Any LF code received immediately after CR will be ignored LF Line feed HEX 0A DEC 10 Provides the same function as CR But LF code immediately after CR will be ignored ESC J n Print and fee...

Page 26: ...etting ESC 0 Set 4 dot line spacing HEX 1B 30 DEC 27 48 Set line spacing to 4 dot line ESC 1 Set 8 dot line spacing HEX 1B 31 DEC 27 49 Sets line spacing to 8 dot line ESC 2 Set 16 dot line spacing HE...

Page 27: ...om that line But if it s set in a line it s effective from the next line This command doesn t operate for bit image and ruler line FS J Set 90deg Turned Kanji characters HEX 1C 4A DEC 27 74 Turns char...

Page 28: ...double width mode set by SO It s not effective to any other modes than double width mode The default value is this mode SI Set double height with automatic reset HEX 0F DEC 15 Sets double height chara...

Page 29: ...et cancel double width HEX 1B 57 n DEC 27 87 n Sets or cancels double width characters n 0 Cancel default value n 1 Set After setting of the double width characters mode the following characters will...

Page 30: ...or cancel default value N 0 Cancel default value N 1 7 Set underline to n dot It s possible to repeat setting underline in one line But regarding thickness of underline the last specified dot is effec...

Page 31: ...n Outputs the international characters 8 countries Select the characters of character codes 23 7E HEX by setting n See The table below about n value of each country n 8 Japan default value It s possi...

Page 32: ...d reset ESC n Select downloaded characters HEX 1B 25 n DEC 27 37 n Selects downloaded characters n 0 Cancel default value n 1 Set ESC K FS Set Kanji mode HEX 1C 26 or 1B 4B DEC 28 38 or 27 75 Sets Kan...

Page 33: ...ne Even if you set size change during 1 line printing it is not effective until printing of that line finishes It becomes effective from the next line This control code is effective only in Kanji font...

Page 34: ...is set and 16 16 dots when 16 dot Kanji font is set Input the font data following the figure below Horizontal 8 dots 1 byte 24 24 dots 16 16 dots MSB LSB Bit 7 0 7 0 7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 67 68 69 70 71 72...

Page 35: ...ine to the right end of the lowest order dot line Data will be printed so that the most significant bit MSB appears on the left margin ESC v n1 n2 DATA Set LSB bit image HEX 1B 76 n1 n2 image data DEC...

Page 36: ...te 239th byte 240th byte Example When the data of 1st byte is FCH dot pattern will be printed as follows FCH This is the case of MSB Bit Image In LSB Bit Image it will be printed contrast to MSB as fo...

Page 37: ...ant bit MSB appears on the left margin DC3 v DATA Write ruler line LSB image HEX 13 76 image data DEC 19 118 image data Writes the image data into the selected ruler line buffer Same as the bit image...

Page 38: ...the data of 2 bytes set by n1 n2 n1 is 8 dots on the left side and n2 is 8 dots on the right side n1 and n2 0 FF HEX The most significant bit MSB of n1 will be printed from the left margin DC3 Turn ru...

Page 39: ...Continuous ruler line control code input HEX 13 28 DEC 19 40 Commands the ruler line command DC3 command continuously until is Received Example The following commands can be shortened as the below Sel...

Page 40: ...on is going on 1st Byte Bit Status 0 System Error Timer observation error 1 Control Power Supply Error 2 Not Specified 3 Head Short 4 Head Open 5 Thermistor Disconnection 6 Head High Temperature 7 Hea...

Page 41: ...2 JAN13 EAN 3 JAN8 EAN 4 CODE39 5 Not used 6 NW 7 7 Not used Set the bar code data on D For CODE39 and NW 7 set the bar code data added with the start bit and the stop bit Maximum number of printable...

Page 42: ...r twice If and one character don t adopt to any character it would be deal with the space code 20h If some character that couldn t use with the selected code set had received it would be deal with the...

Page 43: ...osition for HRI characters HEX 1D 48 n DEC 29 72 n Selects printing and position of HRI characters on bar codes printing 0 n 3DEC default value n 2 N Printing Position 0 Not print 1 Over bar code 2 Un...

Page 44: ...the width of JAN module HEX 1D 6A n DEC 29 106 n Set the width of JAN module with 3 steps N 1 0 5times N W 0 0625 0 125 N 2 1timesN W 0 125 0 25 N 3 1 5timesN W 0 187 0 5 Default value is n 2 1 times...

Page 45: ...rint while control the motor N 2 Low speed printing Control the current consumption Default value is n 0 and when it is n 4 it would be the high speed printing High speed printing With the P220AG norm...

Page 46: ...s copy paper As the thermal copy paper is composed of two layers of thermal paper So the print control method is also different from the one of usual thermal paper Cautions for Use It is required to t...

Page 47: ...means exclusive OR and prints the overwritten part white ESC Reset HEX 1B 40 DEC 27 64 Resets the interface Returns to the first state as if it is newly turned ON CAN Cancel HEX 18 DEC 24 Deletes the...

Page 48: ...re Print will not be executed DC2 T Test printing HEX 12 54 DEC 18 84 Setting this command it starts test printing This command works as same as when pressing the feed button with power ON ESC P n Val...

Page 49: ...Buffer Capac Serial 9600 bps 8 bits none 1bits Prints 16K bytes Int char Rom set Paper selec Print control Cut Paper Japan No Set Normal High Speed No set VersionNo year month day Interface formula S...

Page 50: ...er setting command Default value is 0H 0 line when the power is on Set the length of the label only for label DC2 L n1 n2 Set the length of label HEX 12 4C n1 n2 DEC 18 76 n1 n2 Define the line number...

Page 51: ...t value it would be paper error If it is set as no paper error is won t be error If it is set as no mark the paper would be feed only the default value HTPN can t use backward feeding DIP SW Set 1 Kan...

Page 52: ...FF ON 223 ON ON 70 6 Set HEX damp OFF normal printing ON HEX damp printing 7 OFF normal type ON customize only for SS T 8 Set check mode check mode for shipping inspection OFF normal printing ON test...

Page 53: ...or B u f f e r C a p a c k B y t e s Input Buffer 16K bytes P r i n t d e n s i t y T h i n P r i n t d e n s i t y N o r m a l P r i n t d e n s i t y T h i c k P r i n t d e n s i t y T h i c k e r...

Page 54: ...c o n t r o l H i g h S p e e d P r i n t c o n t r o l M i d S p e e d P r i n t c o n t r o l L o w S p e e d P r i n t c o n t r o l E q u a e n e r Printing Control High speed Mid speed Low speed...

Page 55: ...ower supply turned ON Turn ON the power supply Is the paper fit to the standard Use the paper fit to the standard Is the cover closed correctly Push the cover to close it tightly It doesn t print or i...

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