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Model 125X MiniPrinter Series User’s Manual

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Ribbon life

Paper

Print Head Life

5°C - 40°C, 41°F - 104°F

1,500,000 lines mean character before failure.

Black - 200,000 characters
Purple - 250,000 characters

Large roll - 12,500 lines
Small roll - 3,000 lines 

Operating Temp.

Summary of Contents for 125X

Page 1: ...User s Manual Model 125X MiniPrinter Series...

Page 2: ...9 2006 125X_U indd PN 7424 15020i e2 Printed in USA CAUTION Risk of electrical shock Do not remove cover No user serviceable parts inside Refer servicing to quali ed service personnel Weigh Tronix res...

Page 3: ...11 Changing the Printer Ribbon 12 Inserting a Ribbon with Paper in the Printer 13 Printer Test and Setup 14 Printer Test 14 Accessing the Setup Menu 14 CONFIGURE 15 CUSTOM 18 SET CLOCK 20 RESET SEQ 22...

Page 4: ...ction for 7 data bits Bit mapped graphics 10 bits per character Busy signal Clear to Send CTS XON XOFF 36 pin Centronics connector 1 5K standard 8K optional Approximately 9 500 byte capacity with opti...

Page 5: ...User s Manual 5 Ribbon life Paper Print Head Life 5 C 40 C 41 F 104 F 1 500 000 lines mean character before failure Black 200 000 characters Purple 250 000 characters Large roll 12 500 lines Small ro...

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Page 7: ...unication Please follow the precautions listed below when set ting up your printer They are designed to help you keep your printer working at its best Plug your power supply into an appropriate ground...

Page 8: ...stops 6 While holding the paper in place press the rocker switch to the Paper Feed position The printer will activate and a rubber roller will pull the paper into the printer compartment Hold the swit...

Page 9: ...n place 12 Put the paper spindle into the paper roll as shown below and place the roll with the spindle onto the snaps near the back of the printer Turn the paper roll to take up any slack in the pape...

Page 10: ...roll away from the printer hous ing and cut the paper feeding to the printer with scissors Try to make the cut as square as pos sible to help the next time you reload the paper 3 Pull the remaining pa...

Page 11: ...nter stores characters for printing until one of two things happens 1 The line buffer is lled 2 It receives a line feed hexadecimal 0A or a car riage return hexadecimal 0D code When 1 or 2 occurs the...

Page 12: ...itch for several sec onds Below are the steps for replacing the ribbon 1 Turn the printer of ine 2 Four small grooves are embossed on each side of the printer cover Push down on one or both of these a...

Page 13: ...clockwise to stretch the ribbon 7 Replace the cover 8 Replace the paper You may insert the ribbon cartridge if there is already paper in the printer Hold the cartridge as shown above and slide it ove...

Page 14: ...ch as you plug the unit in The printer will print out a list of the con guration as it currently exists then do a continuous print test To stop the print test press either side of the rocker switch Be...

Page 15: ...ing list printed If you keep pressing NEXT left side the list repeats itself As you can see from the above printout the setup menu contains the following items CONFIGURE menu CUSTOM menu SET CLOCK men...

Page 16: ...lt settings shown below Choose OK to do this or NEXT to go to the next parameter The following is printed Baud rate is the next parameter you can set in the CONFIGURE menu The complete list of paramet...

Page 17: ...e following settings BUSY LINE BUSY BUFFER XON XOFF LINE XON XOFF BUFFER NONE COLUMNS is the next parameter Select the number of characters per line columns for this parameter The choices you have are...

Page 18: ...r will print Ready to show the printer is out of the con guration menu and the setup menu and is ready to print The next setup menu item after CONFIGURE is CUSTOM With the printer in the setup menu an...

Page 19: ...nt after CR carriage return NO do not autoprint after CR Autoprint of the time and date will not occur unless three seconds has elapsed since the printer has stopped printing AUTO SEQUENCE NUMBER is t...

Page 20: ...Extended Character Set ability PRINT READY is next Choices YES Prints Ready upon power up NO Disables printing Ready WARNING If you choose NO then you will need to hold the left side of the rocker swi...

Page 21: ...ears over the 2nd position Press NEXT left side to increment this number if needed and OK if it is right Continue this sequence of ac cepting or changing the year month day and DOW Day Of Week When yo...

Page 22: ...enu item lets you reset the sequence number This number is the number of print transactions since the last reset With the printer in the setup menu and with RESET SEQ as the last item printed if you p...

Page 23: ...From printer Printer data output line data 3 RD Received data To printer Printer data input line 7 SG Signal Signal ground 11 CTS Clear to send From printer Signal equivalent to BUSY indicating that p...

Page 24: ...data 6 Data Bit 5 To printer High level indicates 1 and 7 Data Bit 6 low level 0 8 Data Bit 7 9 Data Bit 8 10 Acknowledge From printer Indicates character input completion at low level 11 BUSY From p...

Page 25: ...lent to 57 30360 AMP or plug equivalent to 552274 1 AMP cover equivalent to 552073 1 AMP 2 Cable Use a cable less than 10 feet long A shielded cable using twisted pair conductions is desir able 3 Conn...

Page 26: ...Model 125X MiniPrinter Series User s Manual 26 Data TTL low level Logical 1 Busy TTL low level Model 1252 Serial TTL Version Pin No Type 1 BUSY 2 GROUND 3 RCV DATA 4 XMT DATA 5 NOT USED...

Page 27: ...hield 23 RD Received data From printer Printer data return line 25 RD Received data To printer Printer data input line Optional 1 Connectors On the printer 25 hole receptacle equivalent to DB 25S On t...

Page 28: ...ter Series User s Manual 28 Pin No Signal DTE Direction Description 2 TXD From printer Printer data output line 6 TXD 3 RXD To printer Printer data input line 8 RXD The rest are not used Model 1254 RS...

Page 29: ...cimal NUL 00 0 SOH 01 1 Reserved STX 02 2 Reserved ETX 03 3 EOT 04 4 ENQ 05 5 Reserved ACK 06 6 BEL 07 7 Back Space BS 08 8 HT 09 9 Line Feed LF 0A 10 VT 0B 11 FF 0C 12 Carriage Return CR 0D 13 Double...

Page 30: ...code can be sent at any time on a line it need not be the rst code received by the printer after a carriage return You cannot mix normal and double height characters on the same line Once you select...

Page 31: ...e number to 00000 A standard character line is made up of ten dot lines Eight of these dot lines are used for the printable character and two are used for space between lines When using character grap...

Page 32: ...28 3 Now design your character in dot form see the example below 4 Add together all the numbers from the column on the left counting only where you have placed a dot in a row In our example the rst co...

Page 33: ...tion until the printer is switched off or until you write over the data by de ning a different character To print your newly designed character simply send CHR 126 which corresponds to hexidecimal val...

Page 34: ...de 30 32 columns Control code 31 40 columns You can send the control code at any point on a line before the buffer becomes lled You cannot change column widths on the same line The Model 125X printer...

Page 35: ...ontact our Customer Service Department for further assistance Phone 800 982 6622 707 527 5555 Fax 800 847 6743 707 579 0180 Command Print formatted data ESC 0 HH MM 24 hour format ESC 1 HH MM_ M 12 ho...

Page 36: ...sh 2 0 Zero without slash Pound 1 U S pound symbol 2 British pound sterling sym bol Underscore 1 _ Underscore 2 Left arrow Busy Invert 1 Non inverted busy CTS 2 Inverted busy Online Of ine 1 switch fu...

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