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Page 1: ...NX 1020 RAINBOW USERS MANUAL NOT INTENDED FOR SALE...

Page 2: ...ral Noise Interference Standard this equipment requires a shielded cable The above statement applies only to printers marketed in the V SA Statement of The Canadian Department of Communications Radio...

Page 3: ...trol panel operations There are a number of controls on the front panel which perform various functions related to paper handling print modes and font selection After getting set up read this chapter...

Page 4: ...te the capabilities of the printer Chapter 7 Troubleshooting and maintenance This section gives a checklist of points to check if your printer is not working in the expected way It also includes detai...

Page 5: ...beep tones provide immedi ate feedback when you press the buttons on the control panel The five buttons can operate in combinations to perform a surprising variety of functions including micro alignm...

Page 6: ...ar of the printer Loading the paper from the bottom of the printer Paper parking Paper unparking Loading Multi Part Forms Adjusting the Printing Gap Chapter 2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS Buttons and Indi...

Page 7: ...zontal Position Commands 62 Graphics Commands 67 Download Character Commands 70 Color Selection Commandes 74 Other Printer Control Commands 76 Chapter 5 DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS 81 Designing Your Own Draft...

Page 8: ...CHARACTER SETS Standard Character Set l Standard Character Set 2 International Character Sets IBM Character Set 2 Code page 437 U S A Code page 850 Multi lingual Code page 860 Portuguese Code page 861...

Page 9: ...from excessive humidity l Away from excessive dust l Supply it with clean electricity Do not connect it to the same circuit as a large noise producing appliance such as a refrigerator l Make sure the...

Page 10: ...e carton contents Now unpack the contents of the shipping carton and check each item in the box against Figure l 1to make sure that you have everything there should be six items If any of these items...

Page 11: ...s in Figure l 2 FIgwe 7 Z The printer s external parts Roller unit Release lever holds the paper against the platen releases the platen This lever must be back for single sheets and forward for fanfol...

Page 12: ...ite foam packing material which held your printer inside the carton Be sure to remove the knob from the packaging Mount the knob on the platen shaft which is on the right hand side of the printer Rota...

Page 13: ...on cartridge to tighten the ribbon if it is slack 2 Guide the ribbon between the print head and the silver print head shield making certain that the spindles on the cartridge holder fit into the socke...

Page 14: ...led the ribbon cartridge install the roller unit 5 Open the rear cover using the two grips on either side 6 Gripping the lock levers on both sides of the roller unit fit the mounting brackets onto the...

Page 15: ...ave the top cover closed during normal operation The cover keeps out dust and dirt and reduces the printer s operating sounds Open the cover only to change the ribbon or make an adjustment NOTE When y...

Page 16: ...connector is given in Chapter 8 should you need a cable for connecting to another computer If you need to connect to a serial port use the optional Serial Parallel con verter SPC 8K i Y Connector Inie...

Page 17: ...e the paper guide in position by inserting the tabs located on the bottom of the assembly into the slots on the rear cover of the printer Figure 1 9 Mounting the paper guide for single sheets 2 Adjust...

Page 18: ...int towards the back of the printer Gently push the paper down in the guides until you feel it stop 6 Now press the SETpE C button The paper will be fed into the printer and adjusted past the print he...

Page 19: ...es to match the size of paper you will be using Remember that printing will start some distance from the left hand edge of the carriage Place a single sheet between the guides placing the side on whic...

Page 20: ...an load the fanfold paper either from the rear or from the bottom of the printer If you are going to load the paper from the bottom refer to the next section 1 Place a stack of fanfold paper behind an...

Page 21: ...hown in Figure 1 12 Tractor cover mp lever Figure 1 72 Move the tractor units downwards for loading the paper from the rear 7 With the tractor covers open mount the paper by aligning holes with the pi...

Page 22: ...sing the switch located at the front of the printer The printer will beep indicating that the paper is not yet fully loaded The orange POWER indicator will also flash to confirm this 11 Now press the...

Page 23: ...wards as shown in Figure 1 15 Positioning lever Positioning lever Figure 7 75 Pull up the tractor unit for bottom feeding 4 Place a stack of fanfold paper below the printer 5 With the tractor covers o...

Page 24: ...e sheet The printer will park it for you if you follow the procedure below 1 To begin paper parking start with power ON fanfold paper loaded in printing position and the release lever forward 2 Press...

Page 25: ...ve loaded it from the bottom of the printer Paper unparking When you want to resume using fanfold paper the procedure is as follows 1 Remove all single sheets from the printer 2 Mount the paper guide...

Page 26: ...er to Chapter 3 It is recommended to use forms jointed by dotted or pasting under the normal office condition Multi part forms should be pressure sensitive and should not be used in the friction feed...

Page 27: ...printer mechanism Pushing the adjustment lever backwards narrows the gap pulling it forwards widens the gap There are five positions and you can feel the lever clicking into each position The second p...

Page 28: ...er Total Recommended Lever position Single 52 82 83 90 0 07 0 10 2nd 0 11 0 12 3rd I I I 2 PlY 40 58 0 12 0 16 3rd 3 PlY 40 58 0 18 0 20 3rd 0 21 0 25 4th 0 24 0 26 4th 4 PlY 40 58 0 27 0 30 5th NOTE...

Page 29: ...ard and reverse l Park fanfold forms l Set the top of form position 9 Select the print pitch l Select a font l Print test patterns l Prevent software from changing the panel pitch and font selections...

Page 30: ...e panel operation s press the C ON LINE button again to go back on line l To pause during printing If you press the ON LINE button during printing the printer stops printing and goes off line allowing...

Page 31: ...loading if the paper has not loaded while in the off line state If the paper has been loaded this button results in different functions de pending on the position of the release lever If the release l...

Page 32: ...ctions cycle in the following order Font Indicator s Draft DRAFT Sanserif DRAFT COURIER Courier COURIER Orator script KXJR R SCRIPT High SpeedDraft HS DRAFT The Orator font is unique in two ways First...

Page 33: ...short self test mode The printer will print the version number of the printer s ROM followed by seven lines of the character set Each line will be offset by one character from the one before it The fi...

Page 34: ...tl A RRrl UEage Input Buffer owirli a4 R 3 rlx to LF Disabled Fnst lrd A 4 MC Setting Disabled rnaled t l _ s 1 m 1 Im t momlr Disabled F nIL I 4 s P per out Detevtor Enabled Dli 3t led H 3 TPsr oft...

Page 35: ...the control panel This prevents software interference You will hear an acknowledging beep as power comes on After the beep tone you can set the printer off line select a print pitch then return to on...

Page 36: ...ower ON A beep tone will be heard 2 Begin printing In place of the usual printout you will get a formatted dump showing exactly what data the printer receives Each line presents sixteen characters the...

Page 37: ...Hl H2 HZ S4 B5 Rb 87 Hi3 B9 HA HH PC HD SE SF co Cl c2 c1 c4 c5 Cb c7 C8 C9 CA CH CC CD CE CF DO Di D2 D9 D4 D5 D6 D7 DS D9 DA DB DC DD DE DF Ei El E2 E E4 E5 Eb E7 ES E9 EFI ER EC ED EE EF FO Fl F F3...

Page 38: ...PER FEED button and hold it down The printer will start performing successive line feeds 3 While holding the PAPER FEED button down press the ON LINE button then release both buttons at the same time...

Page 39: ...urn to a higher position on the same page NOTE With fanfold forms do not try to return to aprevious page The per foration may catch inside the printer and cause a jam 1 Press the ON LINE button to set...

Page 40: ...ff line Printing will now stop but there may be data remaining in the buffer 3 Press and hold the ON LINE button 4 While pressing the ON LINE button down press and hold the FONT button Continue holdin...

Page 41: ...lowing procedure 1 Press the ON LINE button to set the printer off line 2 Press the FONT button and hold it down 3 While holding the FONT button down press the PITCH button and hold them down until yo...

Page 42: ...MEMO...

Page 43: ...d ON LINE 1 buttons PAM In EDS mode the indicators and the buttons on the control panel are used as shown below in Figure 3 l Use the RVV1button to select the Bank Number One of the FONT indi cators w...

Page 44: ...racterTable Standardmode Graphics IBMmode Set 2 D 2 IBM Code page or D 3 InternationalCharacter Seebelow D 4 Set I Switch A l Do you want to use the printer in Standard mode or IBM mode Italics ISet l...

Page 45: ...et double line spacing when you expect single spacing or if lines overprint each other try changing the setting of this switch Switch A 4 Are you going to use the automatic sheet feeder ASF In order t...

Page 46: ...n below Switch D l The action of this switch depends on the mode chosen with switch A 1 If you selected Standard mode do you want italic or graphic characters Move this switch OFF to print italics in...

Page 47: ...their assignment of 12 character codes in the Standard Italic character set See the character tables at the back of this manual With these switches you can select one of eight character sets as follo...

Page 48: ...RENT 0 2 The printer will feed the paper forwards and backwards during this operation allowing you to view the paper for optimum alignment 3 To adjust the printing use the stpf c and PAPER FEED button...

Page 49: ...mands Some commands are common to both the standard and IBM modes In the descriptions of the com mands all commands will be categorized by function The name of each command is followed by a table like...

Page 50: ...al cESC I 1 27 73 49 1B 49 31 IBM Esc I l 27 73 1 1B 49 01 Changes to draft quality characters with elite pitch 12 cpi Ignored if the FONT or PITCH button was pressed during power up Select NLQ charac...

Page 51: ...e ASCII 1 Decimal Hexadecimal Both 1 Y IF 7 0 1 40 40 70 41 41 48 1 28 28 46 29 29 30 Changes to the Courier NLQ font Ignored if the FoNt button was pressed during power up Select Sanserif characters...

Page 52: ...lic characters Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal IBM cEsc T VT 27 73 11 10 49 00 Causes subsequent characters to be printed in italics with NLQ characters Ignored if the FONt button was pressed during po...

Page 53: ...int use of double strike is recommended in NLQ mode and combined use of emphasized and double strike is recom mended in draft mode Double strike cannot be used with superscripts or subscripts Cancel d...

Page 54: ...Stop overlining 1 Mode 1 ASCII 1 Decimal 1 Hexadecimal 1 Esc 6 9 IBM 0 I27 95 48 1 10 5F 30 _ cESC CO 12795 0 1 10 5F 00 Stops overlining Superscript Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Both cESC S 0 27 83...

Page 55: ...0 Selects the standard character set This is the power up default in Standard mode if EDS switch D l is OFF Select IBM character set Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Both ESC t 1 27 116 49 10 74 31 ESC...

Page 56: ...I 64 Legal The first eight of these character sets from U S A to Spain I can be selected as power up defaults by EDS switches D 2 to D 4 Select IBM code page Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Both ESC T...

Page 57: ...de with no assigned character is received the printer prints a space Enable printing of all character codes on next character Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal IBM Esc c 27 94 10 5E This command operates...

Page 58: ...on was pressed during power up Elite pitch 1 Mode I std LEM ASCII I Decimal I Hexadecimal 1 ESC M 1 27 77 1 10 4D I ESC 2 1 27 68 1 10 3A I Changes from pica to elite pitch 12 cpi or from condensed pi...

Page 59: ...w cl 27 87 1 10 57 01 Causes subsequent characters to be expanded to double width Cancel expanded printing Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Both ESC w 0 27 87 48 10 57 30 ESC w 0 27 87 0 10 57 00 Stops...

Page 60: ...paced Ignored if the PITCFI button was pressed during power up Select fixed spacing IMode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std SC 0 27 112 48 10 m 30 ESC p CO 27 112 0 10 70 00 IBM ESC I O 27 80 0 10 50 00 C...

Page 61: ...P n 27 32 n 1B 20 n Increases the space between characters by n 240 inches where n is a number from 0 to 127 Used in microjustification Select double or quadruple size Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal S...

Page 62: ...condensed printing modes but these modes resume when the printer returns to normal height Print double height characters Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std ESC w 1 27 119 49 10 77 31 SC W cl 27 119 1...

Page 63: ...ngle Single height 18 Single Double height 32 Double Unchanged 33 Double Single height 34 Double Double height m Character width 1 Single width same as ESC W 0 2 Double width same as cESC w 1 Double h...

Page 64: ...he distance the paper advances or reverses in subsequent line feeds to n 216 inch where n is between 0 and 255 If n 0 in Standard mode the line feed distance is set to 0 but in IBM mode this command i...

Page 65: ...for the line spacing Reverse line feed Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std cESC LF 27 10 1B OA IBM ESC 1 27 93 1B 5D Prints the current line and feeds the paper in the reverse direction to the precedi...

Page 66: ...he paper n lines from the current line where n is between 0 and 127 Set top of page at current position Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal IBM ESC 4 27 52 1B 34 Sets the current position as the top of pag...

Page 67: ...n lines where n is between 1 and 127 in Standard mode or between 1 and 255 in IBM mode The bottom margin is reset when you change the page length Cancel bottom margin Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Bo...

Page 68: ...27 57 1B 39 Causes the printer to stop printing before the end of the paper Overrides the setting of EDS switch B 2 Set vertical tab stops Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Both ESC B nl n2 CO 27 66 nl...

Page 69: ...s in this channel A channel is a set of vertical tab stops selected by the ES0 command See ES0 B for parameters nl n2 CO Select vertical tab channel Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std ESC r no 27 47 n...

Page 70: ...a Expanded elite Expanded condensed pica Expanded condensed elite OIn176 O n191 05 n 130 Olnl 152 05n5 38 05n145 OIn164 05n176 Set right margin Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std ES Q n 27 81 n 18 51...

Page 71: ...d IMode 1 ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal 1 pBM cESC 5 l 1 27 53 1 1B 35 01 Causes the printer to perform both a carriage return and line feed each time it receives a CR code This command takes priority ove...

Page 72: ...7 97 49 1B 61 31 ESC a cl 27 97 1 1B 61 01 Centers subsequent text between the left and right margins Right justify Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std ESC a 2 27 97 50 1B 61 32 ESC a c2 27 97 2 IB 61...

Page 73: ...b stops specify ES0 D co Set horizontal tab stops every n columns Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal std cESC e 0 n 27 101 48 n 1B 65 30 n ESC err CO n 27 101 0 n lB6500 n Cancels all current horizontal t...

Page 74: ...ft nl and n2 are obtained by subtracting the value from 65536 and dividing the result into high and low bytes Absolute horizontal tab in inches Mode 1 ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std 1 ESC 3 nl n2 27 36...

Page 75: ...2 x 256 Dots beyond the right margin are ignored At the end of bit image printing the printer returns automatically to character mode Print double density 8 bit graphics Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal...

Page 76: ...s in this mode See ESC K for information on nl n2 ml m2 n0 Graphics mode 0 Normal density 60 dots per inch 1 Double density 120 dots per inch 2 Double density double speed 120 dots per inch 3 Quadrupl...

Page 77: ...the top dot the least significant bit of ml is the second dot from the bottom the most significant bit of m2 is the bottom dot and the other bits of m2 are ignored Other byte pairs are similar The nu...

Page 78: ...voided if possible Each character is defined by an attribute byte m0 and 11data bytes ml m2 mll The most significant bit of the attribute byte is 1 if the character is an ascender positioned entirely...

Page 79: ...l a0 al a2 ml a0 al a2 ml m2 ml1 m2 ml1 m2 ml1 Defines one or more new draft characters and stores them in RAM for later use Draft mode must be selected before this command is executed nZ and n2 give...

Page 80: ...aracter set from ROM into RAM Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std cESC CO n o 2756 0 n 0 lB3A 00 n CXI Copies the selected character set with n as shown below to the corresponding download character RA...

Page 81: ...t draft quality and elite pitch 12 cpi Ignored if the FONt button was pressed during power up or if EDS switch A 2 is ON Select NLQ download character set Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal IBM ESC I 7 27...

Page 82: ...ects the printing color according to the value of II as shown below Ignored if the color ribbon is not installed n Color n Color 0 Black 4 Yellow 1 Magenta 5 Orange 2 cyan 6 Green 3 Violet Select blac...

Page 83: ...installed Sekt yellow Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Both 9 9 C 6 4 40 40 67 41 41 52 28 28 43 29 29 34 Changes the print color to Yellow Ignored if the color riblxm is not installed Select orange Mo...

Page 84: ...byte received to 0 Accept MSB as is Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std cESC P 27 35 1B 23 Cancels the preceding commands and accepts the most significant bit as it is sent to the printer Delete last...

Page 85: ...nting You can also cancel the quiet mode with the control panel button Set printer off line Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std Dc3 19 13 IBM ESC Q 3 27 81 3 1B 51 a3 Sets the printer off line The prin...

Page 86: ...27 85 1 1B 55 01 Causes subsequent printing to be done unidirectionally ensuring maximum vertical alignment precision One line unidirectional printing r Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal Std ESC I 27 60...

Page 87: ...t page Ignored if EDS switch A 4 is ON ASF in active Setprint start position on ASF Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal cESC EM T n 27 25 84 n 1B 19 54 n Both T W W n 40 40 84 41 41 II 28 28 54 29 29 n Ski...

Page 88: ...MEMO...

Page 89: ...printing your own characters has two requirements first designing the shape of the character calculating the data necessary to make the shape and sending that data to the printer and secondly sending...

Page 90: ...r x 128 Left x 16 Last Figum 5 Z Use this grid or one similar to it to define your own draft characters Defining the attribute data Before you start the definition you will need to decide exactly wher...

Page 91: ...cal values of the columns of dots and enter them underneath the grid For example looking at Figure 5 3 we see that in theleft most column there are five dots and they are sitting in the 64 box 32 box...

Page 92: ...INT 1100 DATA 139 2 5 8 241 0 2110 DATA 0 241 8 5 2 0 1120 DATA 139 124 0 66 4 64 1130 DATA 36 16 2 16 12 0 1140 DATA 139 46 16 2 60 0 1150 DATA 48 0 48 0 48 0 1160 LPRINT CHR 27 D CHR ll CHR O 1170 L...

Page 93: ...8 STEP 2 1390 LPRINT SCALE 1400 NEXT I 1410 LPRINT I 1420 LPRINT CHR 9 1430 FOR I 2 TO 8 STEP 2 1440 LPRINT u I 1450 NEXT I 1460 LPRINT CHR 27 CHR O 1470 LPRINT CHR 27 S CHR O 1480 LPRINT CHR 9 MILLIO...

Page 94: ...ots in the horizontal direction Fundamentally the process to define and print downloaded NLQ character is the same as for draft characters except that you must assign the charac ter data according to...

Page 95: ...nation of dots in a vertical column and assign them a unique value If we plot our car shaped symbol for NLQ the grid data will look like Figure 5 5 The defining process isthe same as for draft charact...

Page 96: ...LPRINT CHR 27 h CHR l 1130 LPRINT u U S EXPORTS 1140 LPRINT CHR 27 h CHR O 1150 LPRINT CHR 27 CHR l 1160 LPRINT AUTOS CHR 9 1170 FOR I 4 TO 9 3 STEP 4 1180 LPRINT CHR 61 1190 NEXT I 1200 LPRINT 1210...

Page 97: ...0 6 0 1570 DATA 0 0 0 0 0 0 1580 DATA 1 248 0 6 0 0 8 124 0 1590 DATA 16 2 0 32 124 0 0 2 0 1600 DATA 32 124 0 0 0 0 63 248 0 1610 DATA 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 120 0 1620 DATA 16 0 0 8 120 0 4 0 0 1630 DATA 2...

Page 98: ...t 2nd Figure 5 6 Use this grid or one similar to it to define your own NLQ characters with the IBM mode To make the character data easier to calculate put the first pass dots with black circle on the...

Page 99: ...lar character set the remarks regarding the simultaneous use of regular and download characters in the draft character section apply equally to NLQ characters The following program demonstrates how to...

Page 100: ...LPRINT I 1420 NEXT I 1430 LPRINT CHR 27 I CHR 2 1440 LPRINT CHR 27 S CHR O i 1450 LPRINT CHR 9 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 1460 LPRINT CHR 27 T 1470 END 1500 DATA 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 2 1 8 1510 DATA 8 0 1 16 240 2...

Page 101: ...U r 3 EXPORTS AUT S CHEMI GUNS CALS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU t t 2 4 6 a I s L I xCl N 13 c I r r L L 6 Fi E 93...

Page 102: ...MEMO...

Page 103: ...er set up in standard mode then choose an Epson FX 850 or EX 800 Color as your printer to be selected If neither of these are mentioned choose one of the following in order of preference Star NX 1000...

Page 104: ...ion software seek expert advice Your software supplier will probably be your most qualified reference EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS Many word processors and other software lack commands for changing font...

Page 105: ...ched on l A line consisting of commands alone prints as a blank line l The software will not know that these are commands so you cannot trust your software to give you the correct line width The print...

Page 106: ...f list device CPRNI If your computer is connected to only one printer press RETURN to select the default choice PRN Printing will begin and the A prompt will reappear You can execute other commands or...

Page 107: ...te char acter code 1 which is a control code not the printable digit 1 You may want to place additional commands in this file such as left and right margins line spacing and bottom margin commands Or...

Page 108: ...ommands A COPY NLQELITE DAT PRN A PRINT README DOC For greater convenience you can make abatch file that will set up the printer and print any specified file with a single command To create such a bat...

Page 109: ...T C Print pitches are 1200 LPRINT H P Pica pitch 10 CPI 1210 LPRINT H E M Elite pitch 12 CPI 1220 LPRINT H P 1230 LPRINT CHRS 15 Select condensed pitch 1240 LPRINT Condensed pica pitch 17 CPI 1250 LPR...

Page 110: ...l character 1710 GOSUB 2130 1720 LPRINT C E l Select NLQ download character 1730 FOR I 1 TO 5 1740 LPRINT CHR 60 Print download character 1750 NEXT I 1760 LPRINT E O Select normal character 1770 LPRIN...

Page 111: ...15 15 0 0 2390 DATA 0 0 6 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 2400 DATA 6 0 0 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 2410 DATA 7 7 0 0 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 2420 DATA 7 7 0 0 0 2430 ROW 2 2440 DATA 0 0 60 255 255 255 255 255 143 15 7 7 2450 DATA...

Page 112: ...command to micro adjust the space between characters lines 1420 and 1470 Next the program returns to normal spacing and gives a demonstration of the printer s word processing abilities italic printing...

Page 113: ...roportional spacing Expanded I Courier characters ScJl4lpk c ka GzckeJLa Elite pitch 12 CPI Condensed elite pitch 20CPI Double height Double sized Quad sized Various line and character spacings Other...

Page 114: ...106 MEMO...

Page 115: ...or damage to the printer When carrying out any repairs or maintenance always follow the instructions carefully TROUBLESHOOTING Your printer is a reliable piece of precision machinery which should not...

Page 116: ...r beeping inter mittently Is the paper caught up inter nally Is the ribbon caught up around the print head Is the software you are using properly installed for your printer Can the printer perform sel...

Page 117: ...rly Are characters other than those expected being printed Possible remedy Check the software installation andre install the soft ware if necessary Check the software installation and insert the com m...

Page 118: ...Try using thinner paper If fanfold continuous paper is not being fed correctly using the tractor feed check the following Check Is the paper release lever pushed to the k position Is the paper guide...

Page 119: ...properly seated on the printer Stop printing remove the jammed sheet you may have to remove the ASF for this and continue lf the left and right guides are too close together the paper will not feed s...

Page 120: ...printed all on one line or with extra blank lines check the following Check Is the text all on the same line Is text being printed with extra blank lines Possible remedy Carriage returns are not being...

Page 121: ...bend or damage any cable connections or electronic components REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD This is not ajob which you will need to do very often The print head has been designed to last for about 100 mill...

Page 122: ...Plug the cable into the connector of the new print head 8 Place the new print head on its support seating it on the two pins 9 Fasten the print head down with the two screws 10 Remount the color ribbo...

Page 123: ...acters Line spacing l 6 l 8 n 72 n 216 inches Characters ASCII 96 International 16 sets IBM special 111 IBM block graphic 50 IBM code page 6 sets Download 255 USA France Germany England Denmark I Swed...

Page 124: ...nt dots in the mode marked with an asterisk I Paper feed Friction and push pull tractor Paper feed speed 2 9 inches second max Paper width cut sheet 4 11 7 Fanfold continuous 4 10 Copies Original 3 co...

Page 125: ...acters draft pica Dimensions 440 w x 334 d x 1350 mm 17 3 w x 13 1 d x 5 3 h in Weight 6 3kg 13 91b _ Power supply 120VAC 220VAC 240VAC 50 60Hz varies according to the country of pur chase Options Aut...

Page 126: ...1 Name 1 Function I 17 CHASSIS 18 5v Chassis ground isolated from signal ground 5V DC output from printer 19 30 1 GND 31 1 RESET Twisted pair ground return 1 When this input signal is low printer is...

Page 127: ...ries at the top and left edges of the table For example the character A is in column 4 and row 1 so its hexadecimal character code is 41 This is equivalent 4 x 16 1 65 to decimal 65 the number in the...

Page 128: ...STANDARD CHARACTER SET I I...

Page 129: ...8 9 A B C D E o NW 0 P j z iii I1M 176 1192 j iii Im EEL I 7 G W W j iii ITi j iii l iii 1199 1215 i7 lrl m 8 8s MN 8 H X h X 1136 ITii j iii ITiY j 5 I i l iii 121...

Page 130: ...STANDARD CHARACTER SET 2 Other characters are identical to standard character set l...

Page 131: ...lEBA DENMARK2 lzlE0A IRISH X C I LEGAL s la ii L L T A 8 L 96 d h d 6 c ii The command for selecting the international character sets is cESC R n Where n means character code n i e CHR n in BASIC The...

Page 132: ...IBM CHARACTER SET 2 Code Page 437 U S A 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 124...

Page 133: ...1 8 1 9 1 A 1 B 1 C D E F 0 c 128 1 ii 129 2 2 6 134 3 a 131 4 ii 132 5 h b m 113311491165 4 fiii t 1197 6 Q a I 134l iii fiz 1 1182fiii 7 5 h 0 n lt I135 I151 I167 I183 I199 I 11401 115bl 125...

Page 134: ...u i lingual Other charcters are identical to Code Parre 437 8 9 A B C D E F m L B 6 I fa lEoI 1761 I 113bl I1521 1lbsl 11841 12001 I I1371 I1531 lAl k JY hI I 11381 I1541 I1701 1 I140 I156 I172 m b hi...

Page 135: ...riq 1212 I I 133 I 149 1165 I 181 I 197 I213 b I Tic 6 A CJ _a 134 fiiii iii II I rr p 1182 iii 1214 230 1246 I I1381 1154 11701 h36l 12021 12181 12341 B ti C n 6 1 c 139 155 I 140 156 0 I 141 I157 11...

Page 136: ...Code Page 861 Icelandic Other charcters are identical to Code Page 437 I I1281 I I441 I 16ol I1761 1192 12081 1224 I2401...

Page 137: ...Code Page 863 Canadian French Other charcters are identical to Code Page 437 c T L 140 1 MS D tJ 141 157 A B c D E F a P 224 1240 129...

Page 138: ...Code Page 865 Nordic Other charcters are identical to Code Page 437 8 9 A B C D E F I d L lL a f...

Page 139: ...acters are identical to character set 2 The duplication of control codes enables systems with a 7 bit interface to obtain control functions when the most significant bit is set to 1 by the cESC 5 comm...

Page 140: ...IBM SPECIAL CHARACTER SET Additional characters can be printed by special commands 132...

Page 141: ...ng 53 Cleaning 113 Code page 39 48 Color printing 32 Color selection commands 74 75 Column width 96 115 Condensed pitch 23 50 Connector 3 8 Control panel 21 Courier font 24 43 IDI Delete 76 Descender...

Page 142: ...ght 62 63 Master print mode 52 Micro feed 31 Microjustification 53 Most significant bit 76 Multi part 18 37 NI Near letter quality 24 40 42 7 1 72 86 CEI Off line 22 77 On Line button 22 Orator font 4...

Page 143: ...artridge 4 116 Right margin 62 63 Roller unit 3 7 ROM character set 74 El Sanserif font 24 43 Script font 24 43 Self tests 25 26 Set Eject Park button 23 Setting up 4 Single sheets automatic loading 9...

Page 144: ...ion on ASF Increase character spacing EsQ I n Esc W Select master print mode AC t MSB as is disc s nl n2 Abzute horizontal tab in inches Esc W o Select ROM character set EsD W l Select download charac...

Page 145: ...Emphasized printing Cancel anfhasized printing i Double strtke printing 45 Cancel double strike printing Perform one n 216 inch line feed z Print normal density g bit graphics Print double density g...

Page 146: ...mal height Print double height characters Return to normal height Print double height characters Select draft quality characters Select NLQ chanmers Select draft quality characters select NLQ characte...

Page 147: ...Set top of page at current position Cancel automatic line feed FsQ 5 l Set automatic line feed Es3 6 Select character set 2 Esc T Select character set 1 ESC 8 Disable paper out detector Esc 9 SC I Ena...

Page 148: ...ttom margin Cancel bottom margin Select fixed spicing Select pmpomatal spacing Set printer off line Reset all tab stops Superscript Subscript su rscript su script r Cancel superscrip or subscript Bidi...

Page 149: ...FUNCTION Select Sanserif characters Select Script characters Select Orator characters Select draft quality chatacten Eject ps r from ASF Select cr aractcr size Set print start position on ASF PAGE 43...

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