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GTP-290      1 Station Thermal Line Printer

 

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5. CONTROL PANEL 

5-1. Basic Operation 

(1)

 Feed 

  Line feed

 

button

 

When this push-button switch is pressed once briefly (for 

0.5 seconds or less), the paper is fed forward by one line. 

When it is held down continuously, the paper is fed 

forward continuously until the switch is released. 

(2)

 Repeat 

 Repeat button 

When on page mode or line mode situation, there maybe 
paper jam or paper exhaust situation , please press 
repeat button, then printer will repeat the last event which 
was not complete. 

(3) 

Power

 lamp (green LED) 

Lights indicate power well. 

(4) 

Paper 

  lamp (Yellow LED) 

 

Lamp indicator will remain lighting when paper near end 

or paper end.   

 

Lamp indicator will keep sparkling when printer process self testing or 

hexadecimal dump test. 

The flash timing chart shows as below: 

Printer status 

Blinking Pattern 

Self Testing   

ON

OFF

500 ms

 

Paper end 

ON

OFF

 

Table 5-1. PAPER Lamp Display 

(5)

 Error 

  lamp (red LED) 

When printer cover is not properly closed or paper jam happen on 
cutter part or paper is not put properly, the error indicator lamp (red 
LED) will light. 

Summary of Contents for GTP-290

Page 1: ...1 Station Thermal Line Receipt Printer MODEL GTP 290 VERSION 1 00...

Page 2: ...CATIONS 12 6 1 CHANGING THE INTERFACE CARD 12 6 2 SERIAL INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS 13 6 3 PARALLEL INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS 14 7 DRAWER KICK CONNECTOR 15 7 1 SPECIFICATIONS 15 7 2 CONNECTOR S PIN CONNE...

Page 3: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 2 9 12 WINDOWS CODE PAGE 37 10 EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS 38...

Page 4: ...4 Command protocol is compatible with ESC POS 5 2 drawer kick out 6 The resident data buffer has storage capacity of about 128K bytes enable data to be received even while printing 7 Support download...

Page 5: ...ric 5 Line pitch 1 6 inch 4 23mm 6 Detector Paper end Paper near end cover 7 Paper Single ply thermal paper roll Paper roll 79 5 0 5 W x 83 max mm 8 Head MCBF 100KM 9 Cutter MCBF 500 Thousand times 10...

Page 6: ...l Line Printer 5 3 EXTERNAL APPEARANCE AND PART DESCRIPTIONS 1 Printer cover 2 Cover open lever 3 Cutter cover 4 Power switch 5 Control panel 6 DIP switch cover 7 Interface connector 8 Power connector...

Page 7: ...n on the power 4 Connector Specifications shows as below 4 2 How to Connect Cash Drawer 1 Ensure that the power switch is OFF 2 Plug the cash drawer connector into the Drawer kick out connector at the...

Page 8: ...insert the paper roll as picture bellows shown Put the paper roll into paper trough and pull out the leading edge of the paper as picture above shown 3 Pull out the leading edge of paper close the pri...

Page 9: ...press repeat button then printer will repeat the last event which was not complete 3 Power lamp green LED Lights indicate power well 4 Paper lamp Yellow LED Lamp indicator will remain lighting when p...

Page 10: ...e holding the LF button depressed the buzzer gives one short beep Self testing will be performed according to the VER NO printer settings and characters etc Ref sheet1 When the LF button is held again...

Page 11: ...depressed the buzzer gives one short beep Each of the signals sent from the computer to the printer will be printed out in hexadecimal code This function allows you to check if a control code that sen...

Page 12: ...as below 1 Baud rate SW1 7 SW1 8 Baud rate OFF OFF 9600 bps ON OFF 19200 bps OFF ON 38400 bps ON ON 115200 bps 2 Select handshaking busy condition SW2 1 Handshaking busy condition OFF Off line and rec...

Page 13: ...other interface cards which is replaceable for more convenient adjustment according to requirement 6 1 Changing the interface card Turn off the printer and all components connected to it remove the 2...

Page 14: ...ifications Conform to RS 232C Synchronizing system Asynchronous system Handshaking DTR DSR control Baud rates 9600 19200 38400 115200 Refer chapter 5 3 Data length Fixed 8 bit length Parity None 6 2 2...

Page 15: ...ace specifications 6 3 1 Specifications Conform to Centronics Data transmission format 8 bit parallel Synchronizing system According to the strobe pulses Handshaking According to the BUSY signal Signa...

Page 16: ...ing the ESC u command 2 Electrical Characteristics 1 Drive voltage DC 24V 2 Drive current 0 8A at maximum Should be within 510 ms L 0 to 0 5V 3 Switch signal Signal level H 3 to 5V 7 2 Connector s Pin...

Page 17: ...0C Name Print and return to standard mode in page mode Command CR Code Hex 0D Name Print and carriage return Command CAN Code Hex 18 Name Cancel print data on page mode Command DLE EOT n Code Hex 10...

Page 18: ...s Command ESC nL nH Code Hex 1B 24 nL nH Name Set absolute print position Command ESC n Code Hex 1B 25 n Name Select cancel user defined character set Command ESC y c1 c2 x1 d1 d y x1 xk d1 d y xk Cod...

Page 19: ...e Hex 1B 3D n Name Set peripheral device Command ESC n Code Hex 1B 3F n Name Cancel user defined characters Command ESC Code Hex 1B 40 Name Initialize printer Command ESC D n1 nk NUL Code Hex 1B 44 n1...

Page 20: ...ont Command ESC R n Code Hex 1B 52 n Name Select an international character set Command ESC V n Code Hex 1B 56 n Name Turn 90 clockwise rotation mode on off Command ESC W xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH C...

Page 21: ...Code Hex 1B 63 35 n Name Enable disable panel buttons Command ESC d n Code Hex 1B 64 n Name Print and feed n lines Command ESC p m t1 t2 Code Hex 1B 70 m t1 t2 Name Generate pulse Command ESC t n Code...

Page 22: ...yL yH d1 dk n Code Hex 1C 71 n xL xH yL yH d1 dk1 xL xH yL yH d1 dk n Name Define NV bit image Command GS n Code Hex 1D 21 n Name Select character size Command GS nL nH Code Hex 1D 24 nL nH Name Set a...

Page 23: ...x 1D 48 n Name Select printing position for HRI characters Command GS I n Code Hex 1D 49 n Name Transmit printer ID Command GS L nL nH Code Hex 1D 4C nL nH Name Set left margin Command GS P x y Code H...

Page 24: ...n Name Enable disable automatic status back ASB Command GS b n Code Hex 1D 62 n Name Turns smoothing mode on off Command GS f n Code Hex 1D 66 n Name Select font for Human Readable Interpretation HRI...

Page 25: ...1C 21 n Name Set print mode s for Kanji characters Command FS Code Hex 1C 26 Name Select Kanji character mode Command FS n Code Hex 1C 2D n Name Turn underline mode on off for Kanji characters Comman...

Page 26: ...ation Thermal Line Printer 25 Command FS S n1 n2 Code Hex 1C 53 n1 n2 Name Set left and right side Kanji character spacing Command FS W n Code Hex 1C 57 n Name Turn quadruple size mode on off for Kanj...

Page 27: ...TABLES 9 1 International Character sets ASCII Hexadecimal notation Country 23 24 40 5B 5C 5D 5E 60 7B 7C 7D 7E 0 USA 1 France 2 Germany 3 U K 4 Denmark I 5 Sweden 6 Italy 7 Spain I Pt 8 Japan 9 Norwa...

Page 28: ...e 00H to 7FH 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 0 NUL DLE SP 0 P p 1 XON 1 A Q a q 2 2 B R b r 3 XOF 3 C S c s 4 EOT DC4 4 D T d t 5 ENQ 5 E U e u 6 6 F V f v 7 7 G W g w 8 CAN 8 H X h x 9 HT 9 I Y i y A LF J Z...

Page 29: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 28 9 3 Code Page PC437 USA European Standard 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E Pt F SP...

Page 30: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 29 9 4 Code Page Katakana Japanese 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F SP...

Page 31: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 30 9 5 Code Page PC850 Multilingual 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 a 7 o 8 9 A B C D E F SP...

Page 32: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 31 9 6 Code Page PC860 Portuguese 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 a 7 o 8 9 A B C D E Pt F SP...

Page 33: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 32 9 7 Code Page PC863 Canadian French 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F SP...

Page 34: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 33 9 8 Code Page PC865 Nordic 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 a 7 o 8 9 A B C D i E Pt F SP...

Page 35: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 34 9 9 Code Page PC852 Eastern Europe 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 d 5 L 6 7 8 9 A B C t D E F SP...

Page 36: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 35 9 10 Code Page PC866 Russian 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 E 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C Na D E F SP...

Page 37: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 36 9 11 Code Page PC857 Turkish 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 o 1 a 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D i E F SP...

Page 38: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 37 9 12 Windows Code Page 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F...

Page 39: ...GTP 290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 38 10 EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS...

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