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RP-330 

 

Thermal Receipt printer 

Technical manual

 

 
 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Summary of Contents for RP-330

Page 1: ...RP 330 Thermal Receipt printer Technical manual...

Page 2: ...ed 1 11 Reliability 1 12 Environmental Conditions 2 Configuration 2 1 Interface 2 1 1 RS 232 serial interface 2 1 2 Specifications 2 1 3 Switching between on line and off line 2 1 4 Interface connecto...

Page 3: ...speed High speed mode 180dpi x 180dpi 37 8lines second maximum 1 6inch feed at 24V 20 Approximately 200mm sec maximum approximately 6 3inchs sec maximum NOTE Speeds are switched depending on the appl...

Page 4: ...203dpi dpi dots per 25 4mm 1 3 Printing direction Unidirectional With friction feed 4 Paper width 82 5mm 3 25 80mm 3 15 60mm 2 36 58mm 2 28 82 5mm 3 25 80mm 3 15 60mm 2 36 58mm 2 28 5 Maximum printabl...

Page 5: ...a command to stop printing upon detection of a paper near end 1 5 Paper Specification 1 Paper type Specified thermal paper 2 Form Paper roll 3 Paper width 82 5mm paper width model 82 0 5mm 3 23 0 02 8...

Page 6: ...al Manual 6 1 6 Printable Area EPSON Emulation 6 8mm 0 141mm 82 5mm 3 25 paper width model 82 0 5mm 3mm 512 dots 72 2mm dot 1 512 4 3mm 80 mm 3 15 paper width model 0 141mm 79 5 0 5mm 3mm 512 dots 72...

Page 7: ...ual 7 59 5 0 5mm 60mm 2 36 paper width model 0 141mm 3mm 2 4mm 384 dots 54 1mm dot 1 384 57 5 0 5mm 0 141mm 3mm 3 7mm 360 dots 58mm 2 28 paper width model 50 8mm dot 1 360 Figure 1 6 1 Printable Area...

Page 8: ...8mm 2 28 paper width model 0 125mm 2 65mm 420 dots 2 35mm 52 5mm dot 1 420 Figure 1 6 2 Printable Area for STAR Emulation for Default Setting STAR Emulation when the paper width is changed 82 0 5mm 82...

Page 9: ...for STAR Emulation When the Paper Width Is Changed NOTE The numeric values used here are center values to be used in designing The printable area may be out of alignment by 2 mm maximum to the left or...

Page 10: ...l the numeric values are typical Appro 12 6 Paper feed direction Appro 30 5 Figure 1 7 1 Printing and Cutting Positions NOTE Numeric values used here are center values to be used in designing The valu...

Page 11: ...3 Safety Standard UL 60950 1 2 North America EMI FCC Part 15 Class A Safety Standards UL60950 1 1 11 Reliability 1 MCBF 60 million lines based on an average printing rate of 12 5 with paper thickness...

Page 12: ...turned on including reset using the interface and when the printer is ready to receive data During the self test When the cover is open During paper feeding using the paper feed button When the printe...

Page 13: ...RXD TXD DTR DSR FG FG SG SG DETAILS Set the handshaking so that the transmit data can be received Transmit data to the printer after turning on the power and initializing the printer Figure 2 1 Serial...

Page 14: ...gnal Data received 2 9 DATA0 7 Input Data bit Transmitted 0 7 10 ACK Output Data receiving competed 11 BUSY Output Impossible to printer data receiving 12 PE Output Paper empty 13 SELECT Output Printe...

Page 15: ...0 Data Setup Time tSetup 750 STROBE Pulse Width tSTB 750 READY Cycle Idle Time tReady 0 BUSY Output Delay Time tBUSY 0 500 Data Processing Time tReply 0 ACKNLG Pulse Width tACK 500 10us BUSY Release T...

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Page 17: ...ut signal by using the DLE EOT GS a or GS r commands 1 Pin assignments Refer to Table 2 2 2 2 Connector model Printer side DAEEUN DEK 623PCB 6 B or Equivalent User side 6 position 6 contact RJ12teleph...

Page 18: ...al level connector pin 3 L 0 to 0 8V H 3 to 5V Figure 3 3 Drawer Circuitry NOTE 1 Use a shielded cable for the drawer connector cable 2 Two driver transistors cannot be energized simultaneously 3 The...

Page 19: ...ESC G Select double strike mode 25 ESC J Print end feed paper using minimum units 26 ESC L Select page mode 27 ESC M Select character font 28 ESC R Select international character set 29 ESC S Select...

Page 20: ...in page mode 57 GS Execute macro Not avalible 58 GS a Enable disable Automatic Status Back ASB 59 GS b Turn smooting mode on off Not avalible 60 GS f Select font for HRI characters 61 GS h Set bar co...

Page 21: ...by B is binary Print Commands The WTP series supports the following commands for printing characters and advancing paper HT Name Horizontal tab Format ASCII HT Hex 09 Decimal 9 Description Moves the...

Page 22: ...hen automatic line feed is disabled this command is ignored Details Sets the print starting position to the beginning of the line The automatic line feed is ignored Reference LF FF Name Print and retu...

Page 23: ...2 Transmit off line status n 3 Transmit error status n 4 Transmit paper roll sensor status Details The printer transmits the current status Each status is represented by one byte data The printer tra...

Page 24: ...2 Off 00 0 Cover is closed On 04 4 Cover is open 3 Off 00 0 Paper is not being fed by using the FEED button On 08 8 Paper is being fed by the FEED button 4 On 10 16 Not used Fixed to On 5 Off 00 0 No...

Page 25: ...ests as follows n Request 1 Recover from an error and restart printing from the line where the error occurred 2 Recover from an error aft clearing the receive and print buffers Details When the printe...

Page 26: ...g it This command is executed even when the printer is off line the receive buffer is full or there is an error status If print data includes the same character strings as this command the printer per...

Page 27: ...does not affect the current right side spacing The GS P command can change the horizontal and vertical motion unit However the value cannot be less than the minimum horizontal movement amount and it m...

Page 28: ...width modes are selected quadruple size characters are printed The printer can underline all characters but can not underline the space set by HT or 90 clockwise rotated characters The thickness of th...

Page 29: ...e the horizontal motion unit is used In page mode the horizontal or vertical motion unit differs depending on the starting position of the printable area as follows 1 When the starting position is set...

Page 30: ...multiple characters for consecutive character codes If only one character is desired use c1 c2 d is the dot data for the characters The dot pattern is in the horizontal direction from the left side A...

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Page 33: ...nH x 256 If the bit image data input exceeds the number of dots to be printed on a line the excess data is ignored d indicates the bit image data Set a corresponding bit of 1 to print a dot or to 0 t...

Page 34: ...nverted characters When underline mode id turned off by setting the value of n to 0 or 48 the following data is not underlined and the underline thickness set before the mode is turned off does not ch...

Page 35: ...ction as follows depending on the starting position of the printable area When the starting position is set to the upper left or lower right to the printable area using ESC T the vertical motion unit...

Page 36: ...d This command deletes the pattern defined for the specified code in the font selected by ESC If a user defined character has not been defined for the specified character code the printer ignores this...

Page 37: ...twice the width of normal characters This command cancels the previous horizontal tab settings When setting n 8 the print position is moved to column 9 by sending HT Up to 32 tab positions k 32 can b...

Page 38: ...mmand and ESC Turn on and off emphasized mode in the same way Be careful when this command is used with ESC Default n 0 Reference ESC ESC G n Name Turn on off double strike mode Format ASCII ESC G n H...

Page 39: ...orizontal motion unit However the value cannot be less than the minimum vertical movement and it must be in even units of the minimum vertical movement amount In standard mode the printer uses the ver...

Page 40: ...lues can be set independently in standard mode and page mode to those for page mode Set right side character spacing ESC SP FS S Select default line spacing ESC 2 ESC3 Only valve settings is possible...

Page 41: ...the character fonts However the setting of the last received command is effective Reference ESC ESC R n Name Select an international character set Format ASCII ESC R n Hex 1B 52 n Decimal 27 82 n Ran...

Page 42: ...ndependently in standard mode and page mode to those for standard mode Set right side character spacing ESC SP FS S Select default line spacing ESC 2 ESC 3 The following commands are enabled only to s...

Page 43: ...d does not affect printing in standard mode This command sets the position where data is buffered within the printing area set by ESC W Parameters for horizontal or vertical motion units x or y differ...

Page 44: ...clockwise rotation mode 1 49 Turns on 90 clockwise rotation mode Details When underline mode is turned on the printer does not underline 90 clockwise rotated characters Double width and double height...

Page 45: ...er stops command processing and processes the following data as normal data This command sets the position where data is buffered to the position specified by ESC T within the printing area If horizon...

Page 46: ...left the negative direction use the complement of 65536 When pitch n is specified to the left nL nH x 256 65536 n The print starting position moves from the current position to n x horizontal or vert...

Page 47: ...ing 2 50 Right justification Details The command is enabled only when processed at the beginning of the line in standard mode If this command is input in page mode the printer performs only internal f...

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Page 49: ...ensor disabled On 08 8 Paper roll end sensor enabled 4 7 Undefined Details It is possible to select multiple sensors to output signals Then if any of the sensors detects a paper end the paper end sign...

Page 50: ...d is detected by the paper roll sensor the printer goes off line after printing stops When either bit 0 or 1 is on the printer selects the paper roll near end sensor for the paper sensor to stop print...

Page 51: ...mm 40 If the paper feed amount n x line spacing of more than 1016 mm 40 is specified the printer feeds the paper only 1016 mm 40 Reference ESC 2 ESC 3 ESC p m t1 t2 Name Generate pulse Format ASCII ES...

Page 52: ...cter code table n Page 0 PC437 U S A Standard Europe 1 Katakana 2 PC850 Multilingual 3 PC860 Portuguese 4 PC863 Canadian French 5 PC865 Nordic 17 PC866 Cyrillic 2 255 Space page Default n 0 Reference...

Page 53: ...f When the LSB of n is 1 upside down printing mode is turned on Details Only the lowest bit of n is valid This command is enabled only when processed at the beginning of a line in standard mode When t...

Page 54: ...n defined In standard mode this command is effective only when there is no data in the print buffer In page mode the command is not effective This command is not affected by print modes emphasized dou...

Page 55: ...yL 255 0 yL 1 when 1 yL yH 256 288 0 d 255 k xL xH 256 yL yH 256 8 Total defined data area 2M bits 256K bytes Description Define the NV bit image specified by n Details n specifies the number of the...

Page 56: ...e NV bit image that haven t been defined are disabled undefined but any NV bit images before that are enabled The d indicates the definition data In data d a 1 bit specifies a dot to be printed and a...

Page 57: ...rmed by the FS q command Notes Frequent write command execution may cause damage the NV memory Therefore it is recommended to write the NV memory 10 times or less a day The printer performs a hardware...

Page 58: ...0 80 6 05 5 6 60 96 7 06 6 7 70 112 8 07 7 8 Details This command is effective for all characters except for HRI characters If n is outside of the defined range this command is ignored In standard mod...

Page 59: ...rtical direction When the starting position is set to the upper right or lower left this command sets the absolute position in the horizontal direction The horizontal and vertical motion units are spe...

Page 60: ...l 29 47 m Range 0 m 3 48 m 51 Description Prints a downloaded bit image using the mode specified by m m selects a mode from the table below m Mode Vertical Dot Density Horizontal Dot Density 0 48 Norm...

Page 61: ...Macro definition ends when this command is received during macro definition When GS is received during macro definition the printer ends macro definition and clears the definition Macro is not defined...

Page 62: ...ck reverse mode is selected Default n 0 GS H n Name Select printing position of HRI characters Format ASCII GS H n Hex 1D 48 n Decimal 29 72 n Range 0 n 3 48 n 51 Description Selects the printing posi...

Page 63: ...pectively When x and u are set to 0 the default setting of each value is used x 180 y 360 Details The horizontal direction is perpendicular to the paper feed direction and the vertical direction is th...

Page 64: ...n x vertical motion unit and cuts the paper partially one point center uncut Details for and This command is effective only processed at the beginning of a line Note for Only the partial cut is avail...

Page 65: ...h left margin is used The horizontal and vertical motion units are specified by GS P Changing the horizontal and vertical motion units does not affect the current left margin The horizontal motion uni...

Page 66: ...de 1 dot NV bit image FS p Double width mode or Quadruple mode 2 dots Normal mode or Double height mode 1 dot Raster bit image GS v 0 Double width mode or Quadruple mode 2 dots Normal mode or Double h...

Page 67: ...r 255 0 t 255 m 0 1 Description Executes a macro r specifies the number of times to execute the macro t specifies the waiting time for executing the macro m specifies macro executing mode When the LSB...

Page 68: ...abled as a default the printer transmits the status when the printer data reception and transmission is possible at the first time from when the printer is turned on The following four status bytes ar...

Page 69: ...error due to a circuit failure e g wire break occurs it is impossible to recover Bit 6 When printing is stopped due to high print head temperature until the print head temperature drops sufficiently o...

Page 70: ...ts the font from the following table n Font 0 48 Font A 12 x 24 1 49 Font B 9 x 24 Details HRI means Human Readable Interpretation HRI characters are printed of the position specified by GS H Default...

Page 71: ...r 48 d 57 71 CODABAR 1 n 255 48 d 57 65 d 68 36 43 45 46 47 58 72 CODE93 1 n 255 0 d 127 73 CODE128 2 n 255 0 d 127 Details for This command ends with a NUL code When the bar code system used is UPC A...

Page 72: ...bar code If d is out of the specified rang the printer stops command processing and processes the following data as normal data In this case the data butter position does not change If bar code width...

Page 73: ...123 67 FNC1 1 7B 31 123 49 FNC2 2 7B 32 123 50 FNC3 3 7B 33 123 51 FNC4 4 7B 34 123 52 7B 7B 123 123 Example Example data for printing No 123456 In this example the printer first prints No using CODE...

Page 74: ...n XON XOFF control is selected the printer transmits only 1 byte without confirming the condition of the DSR signal This command is executed when the data in the receive buffer is developed Therefore...

Page 75: ...256 x yL yH x 256 k 0 Description Selects Raster bit image mode The value of m selects the mode as follows m Mode Vertical Dot Density Horizontal Dot Density 0 48 Normal 180 dpi 180 dpi 1 49 Double w...

Page 76: ...ESC a Select justification setting is also effective on raster bit image When this command is received during macro definition the printer ends macro definition and begins performing this command The...

Page 77: ...n Hex 1D 28 6B 03 00 31 43 n Decimal 29 40 107 3 0 49 67 n Range pL pH 256 3 pL 3 pH 0 cn 49 fn 67 Description Sets the size of the module for QR Code to n dots GS k pL pH cn fn n Name Select the QR C...

Page 78: ...symbol data in the symbol storage area Format ASCII GS k pL pH cn fn m Hex 1D 28 6B 03 00 31 51 m Decimal 29 40 107 3 0 49 81 m Range pL pH 256 3 pL 3 pH 0 cn 49 fn 81 m 48 Description Encodes and pri...

Page 79: ...sing GS k pL pH cn fn n fn 67 Name Sets the module width of one PDF417 symbol to n dots Format ASCII GS k pL pH cn fn n Hex 1D 28 6B 03 00 30 43 n Decimal 29 40 107 3 0 48 67 n Range pL pH 256 3 pL 3...

Page 80: ...7 symbol storage area Format ASCII GS k pL pH cn fn m d1 dk Hex 1D 28 6B pL 00 30 50 m d1 dk Decimal 29 40 107 pL 0 48 80 m d1 dk Range 4 pL pH 256 65535 0 pL 255 0 pH 255 cn 48 fn 80 m 48 0 d 255 k p...

Page 81: ...1B 69 Decimal 27 105 Description When this command is received paper is cut only when the auto cutter is loaded ESC m Name Execute paper partial cut Format ASCII ESC m Hex 1B 6D Decimal 27 109 Descrip...

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