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Summary of Contents for Rainbow NX-1000C

Page 1: ...USERS MANUAL...

Page 2: ...NOTICE THIS PRODUCT IS DESIGNED TO OPERATE AT 120V ANY OTHER VOLTAGE MAY CAUSE DAMAGE...

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Page 4: ...outlet so that it and the receiver are on different branch circuits If necessary the user should consult the dealer or an experienced redio television technician for additional suggestions The user m...

Page 5: ...hapter 2 explains the control panel After getting set up read this chapter and try out the procedures in it to find out how the printer works Chapter 3 is an introduction to BASIC programming for the...

Page 6: ...e ribbon cartridge can be replaced in seconds the print head in a few minutes Versatile paper handling Single sheets fanfold forms and multi copy forms up to triple ply are all accepted and you can us...

Page 7: ...R CHARACTERS SANSERIF CHARACTERS ORATOR WITH SMALL CAPITALS 6 OR with lower case characters 6 and ITAL IeS Tor a 11 s t Vl es PRINT PITCHES ARE PICA PITCH ELITE PITCH CONDENSED PICA PITCH CODJSID FJ I...

Page 8: ...Semiautomatic loading Manual loading Loading and parking fanfold forms 8 I Paper parking Paper unparking i Test printing 12 Short self test Long self test Interface test Adjusting the printing gap 13...

Page 9: ...e ribbon 49 I Replacing the print head 50 Troubleshooting 52 I Appendix A TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 55 Appendix B PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS 59 I Operating mode commands 59 Colour printing commands 60 I...

Page 10: ...ASCII character set International character sets INDEX REFERENCE CARD 86 88 91 Inside the cover lJ IJ...

Page 11: ...ce Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from heat producing appliances Use it only in temperatures where you are comfortable Avoid locations with dust grease or high humidity Supply it clean electr...

Page 12: ...laten knob 4 Ribbon cartridge 5 User s manual and 6 Interface cable Make an external inspection of the printer Note the locations of the following parts Bail lever 2 opens and closes the paper bail wh...

Page 13: ...gle sheets of paper controls various printer functions switches power on and off for connecting the computer to the printer Mount the platen knob The platen knob is packed into a recess of the white f...

Page 14: ...knob r r r r r r r r I Remove the top cover I Lift the front edge ofthe printer s clear plastic top cover Then disengage I the tabs at the back of the cover and remove the cover completely Figure 1 4...

Page 15: ...carriage Figure 1 5 Installing the ribbon cartridge Replace the top cover Hold the cover upright and engage the tabs at the back Then swing the front edge down until the cover is closed Leave the cove...

Page 16: ...power switch located at the left front is OFF Then plug the printer s power cord into an AC wall outlet Never plug or unplug the power cord while the printer is turned on LOADING SINGLE SHEETS This se...

Page 17: ...beep tone and the Power indicator on the control panel will flash These are the printer s paper out signals 2 Place a single sheet on the paper guide and insert it down into the entry slot You will f...

Page 18: ...Turn the platen knob clockwise until the front edge of the paper comes out from under the top cover 5 If the paper is not straight move the release lever to the up position straighten the paper by han...

Page 19: ...J J 1 Place a stack offanfold paper behind and at least one page length below the printer 2 Turn the printer s power OFF Figure 1 9 Opening the rear cover Figure 1 10 Opening the sprocket covers to e...

Page 20: ...nt edge of the paper over the paper detector lever and tuck it in under the platen Figure 1 11 Closing the sprocket covers 10 Fit the holes in the paper over the sprocket pins Check that the paper is...

Page 21: ...anfold paper loaded in printing position the release lever up and the bail lever back 2 Press the On Line switch on the control panel to set the printer off line On Line indicator off 3 Tear off the p...

Page 22: ...ne barber pole test pattern each line in a different color The lines are eight inches wide so the paper should be at least that wide 1 Check that paper is in position for printing 2 With power off pre...

Page 23: ...Power up both the printer and computer load paper then try running the following BASIC program 10 OPEN4 4 20 FOR 1 1 TO 10 30 PRINT II 4 THE INTERFACE WORKS 40 NEXT I 50 CLOSE4 60 END This program pr...

Page 24: ...board at the bottom of the printer These are the printer s DIP Dual In line Package switches The switches are numbered 1 to 10 from left to right Figure 1 15 DIP Switches l For all switches the ON pos...

Page 25: ...ic line feed If you leave this switch at the ON position the printer performs both a carriage return and line feed each time it receives a carriage return code If you move this switch to the OFF posit...

Page 26: ...ernational haracter set International character sets differ in their assignment of several character codes See the character tables in Appendix C With the DIP switches you can select one of eight char...

Page 27: ...t the top of form position Micro feeding Set the left and right margins SWITCHES AND INDICATORS The control panel has four switches marked On Line Paper Feed Print Pitch NLQ Type Style The On Line Pri...

Page 28: ...e if paper is present If paper is not present the printer powers up off line with the Power indicator flashing When you load paper the Power indicator stops flashing but the printer remains off line T...

Page 29: ...pitch the spacing between characters The indicators to the left light green to indicate the selected pitch The printer powers up in pica pitch To change to another pitch press the On Line switch to g...

Page 30: ...tors off Courier NLQ Courier italic NLQ Sanserif NLQ Sanserif italic NLQ Orator NLQ Orator italic NLQ Samples are shown in Figure 2 3 This is dra t quality This is near letter quality Courier This is...

Page 31: ...unctions all the control panel switches have special functions that operate if you hold them down while switching power on COURIER 0 INLQ oPICA 1PRINT PAPER O POWER TYPE PITCH FEED SANSERIF 0 STYLE o...

Page 32: ...tyle settings from software changes press both switches during power up There will be two acknowledging beeps Pressing these switches during power up does not prevent you from making any number of cha...

Page 33: ...40 4E 4F 58 59 5A 5B 5C 50 5E 5F 68 69 6A 6B 6C 60 6E 6F 78 79 7A 7B 7C 70 7E 7F 88 89 8A 8B 8C 80 8E 8F 98 99 9A 9B 9C 90 9E 9F A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF B8 B9 BA BB BC BO BE BF C8 C9 CA CB CC CO CE C...

Page 34: ...ch down press the On Line switch then release both switches The printer will smoothly eject the current page Top of form NLQ Type Style and On Line switches When you tum on printer power the top of fo...

Page 35: ...eft margin as follows 1 Press the On Line switch to set the printer off line 2 Press the NLQ Type Style switch and hold it down 3 Press the Print Pitch switch The print head will make a short excursio...

Page 36: ...r MEMO r p r r r r r I r l l L L L l l L 26 L...

Page 37: ...formatting Dot graphics Downloading characters Colour printing BASIC STATEMENTS The Commodore computer communicates with the printer by treating it as a file Before printing you must open the printer...

Page 38: ...the sign are ignored CLOSE ifn fn The same logical file number as in the OPEN statement The CLOSE statement terminates the connection between the logical file number and device number in the OPEN stat...

Page 39: ...k lines The following loop will do the trick 65 FOR 1 1 TO 10 PRINT 4 NEXT I Similar lines can be added to the other sample programs in this chapter if you wish LISTING A PROGRAM Normally when given t...

Page 40: ...ld now look like this F n lF OGRA 1 LIST I U G READY 10 OPEN4 4 20 PRINT 4 PRINT SAMPLE 30 PRINT 4 40 PF I NT 4 THE SQUAF E r OOT OF 1000 IS 50 PRINT 4 SQR 1000 60 PRINT 4 BYE 70 CLOSE4 80 END f EADY...

Page 41: ...r string variable named NI The non italic command is 27 53 The following program illustrates the basic technique 10 REM ITALIC AND NON ITALIC PRINTING 20 IT CHR 27 CHR 52 REM ITALIC 30 NI CHR 27 CHR 5...

Page 42: ...rating mode and character set you normally use with the printer s DIP switches as explained in Chapter 1 Within pro grams you can switch to other modes and character sets with the following commands T...

Page 43: ...DEFGHIJKLMNOP IRSTUVWXYZ ti I 1 h I _ II r _ X ASCII CHARACTER SET II 01234 56789 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP IRSTUVWXYZ A_ abcde fghijklmno pqrstuyw yz i f 7 U 0123456789 t IIBCDEFGHIJF LI INDPGRSTUVWXYZl abc d...

Page 44: ...0 30 FOR 1 1 TO 7 READ X A A CHR X NEXT I 40 OPEN4 4 50 PRINT ft 4 WAVELENGTH 5890 A SODIUM 60 CLOSE4 END WAVELENGTH 5890A SODIUM TYPE STYLE AND PITCH Although you can select the type style and print...

Page 45: ...80 OPEN4 4 7 REM BUSINESS CHARACTER SET 290 PRINTi4 E CHR 93 CHR 48 REM CMDORE 300 PRINTi4 E CHR 120 CHR 49 REM NLQ 310 INPUT WHAT SHALL I PRINT L 320 FOR P l TO 4 FOR T l TO 4 FOR S l TO 2 330 PRINTi...

Page 46: ...special effects in com bination This master print mode command can also select the print pitch The command coding is 27 33 n where n is a number from oto 255 The value of n comes from the following ta...

Page 47: ...KE EXPANDED EMPHABXZED DOUBLE BTRX Here is the same printout at near letter quality Note that in NLQ mode double strike is preferable to emphasized for bold print SPECIAL EFFECTS EMPHASIZED PRINTING D...

Page 48: ...ode Reverse printing is hard on the print head and should not be continued for more than five consecutive lines DEMONSTRATION ilJ_ 1 l t UNDERLINED SUPERSCRXPT AND SUBSCRXPT PRINTING PAGE FORMATTING P...

Page 49: ...t between the margins the centering command is 27 97 1 or 27 97 49 The demonstration program given next sets the left margin in column 15 and the right margin in column 65 and centers a title between...

Page 50: ...4 E CHR 97 CHR 1 REM CENTER 330 PRINT fi 4 PAGE FORMATTING DEMONSTRATION 340 PRINT fi 4 CHR 10 LINE SPACING IS LS 350 PRINT fi 4 216THS OF AN INCH 360 PRINT 4 E CHR 97 CHR 0 REM L JUSTIFY 370 FOR N 5...

Page 51: ...t with a bar chart In the Commodore mode the command sequence 8 26 n 255 15 prints a horizontal bar n dots long where n can be from 1to 255 Ifn 0 the bar is 256 dots long Here is a simple barchart pro...

Page 52: ...nt a large contoured capital S The design of the S is first sketched on graph paper marked with a heavy horizontal line every eight rows Each eight row strip will be printed by one pass of the print h...

Page 53: ...TA 7 3 3 15 15 15 270 DATA O O 60 255 255 255 255 255 280 DATA 143 15 7 7 7 7 3 3 290 DATA 3 131 193 241 240 240 300 DATA O 31 31 3 129 128 192 192 310 DATA 192 192 192 224 224 224 224 240 320 DATA 25...

Page 54: ...presenting a car Note that there are no horizontally adjacent dots The print head is travels too fast to print adjacent dots in the horizontal direction ml m2 mJ m4 m5 m6 m7 m8 m9 mJO ml I 128 64 32 1...

Page 55: ...4 64 36 16 DATA 2 16 12 0 Near letter quality characters can also be downloaded NLQ characters are printed in two passes of the print head the paper scrolling half a dot up between the two passes The...

Page 56: ...R 49 130 PRINT 4 CHR 27 CHR 58 135 PRINT 4 CHR O CHR O CHR O 140 PRINT 4 CHR 27 CHR 38 CHR 0 150 PRINT 4 CHR 33 CHR 33 160 FOR 1 1 TO 47 170 READ X PRINT 4 CHR X 180 NEXT I 190 PRINT 4 CHR 27 CHR 37 C...

Page 57: ...ommand that prints a rectangle 8 dots high and 14 dots wide two such rectangles stacked ver tically make a square The program also includes character size line spacing and margin commands 100 REM COLO...

Page 58: ...O S S 390 PRINT 4 C CHR C X SQ 400 NEXT X 410 PRINT 4 420 FOR X O TO S S 430 PRINT 4 C CHR C X SR 440 NEXT X 450 PRINT 4 460 NEXT Y 470 PRINT 4 E CHR 64 CLOSE4 END The result is shown in black and whi...

Page 59: ...liquid into the interior of the printer Use a soft brush to remove paper dust and lint from the interior A small vacuum cleaner can also make this task easier but be very careful not to bend or injure...

Page 60: ...e same way Caution When replacing the print head be careful not to touch the brass gear on the carriage Warning The print head becomes hot during operation If you have been using the printer wait awhi...

Page 61: ...same way as the old securing it under the tabs on the print head carriage Figure 4 2 Replacing the print head 10 Plug the cable into the connector inserting it as far as it will go 11 Fasten the prin...

Page 62: ...a qualified serviceman remove any label paper that adheres inside the printer Do not attempt to remove it yourself Avoid using label paper with any exposed adhesive areas If printing is faint incompl...

Page 63: ...so be changed by the 27 93 48 and 27 93 49 commands A few commands are mutually exclusive For example you cannot get emphasized condensed printing If you have problems with horizontal tabulation Don t...

Page 64: ...MEMO 54 r r r r r r r r r r L l t l l l l L...

Page 65: ...mpact dot matrix 120 characters per second draft pica 30 characters per second NLQ pica Draft bi directional logic seeking NLQ and graphics unidirectional logic seeking 9 Pins Life 200 million dots Bl...

Page 66: ...dpi Double density 8 x 960 dots at 120 dpi Double density 8 x 960 dots at 120 dpi High speed 8 x 1920 dots at 240 dpi Quadruple den sity Upper case letters digits punctuation and symbols graphic char...

Page 67: ...a 80 characters Elite 96 characters Condensed pica 137 characters Condensed elite 160 characters 140 to 216 mm 5 5 to 8 5 inches wide 0 07 to 0 10 mm thick 102 to 254 mm 4 to 10 inches wide 0 07 to 0...

Page 68: ...feeder option Panel mode Micro feed Hexadecimal dump Interface Signals Pin No Signal Direction Function Name 1 SRQ OUT Not used 2 GND Signal ground 3 ATN IN Serial Attention In High Data transfer mod...

Page 69: ...ore and ASCII modes but a few commands operate in only one mode This is indicated by a note Commodore mode only or ASCII mode only A few commands have two equivalent forms When an alternate coding is...

Page 70: ...ect NLO characters 27 120 49 I Ii Changes from draft quality to near letter quality The initial NLQ type style is Courier unless a different style has been selected by a preceding II command Ignored i...

Page 71: ...printing and causes subsequent characters to be printed upright Ignored ifthe NLQ Type Style switch was pressed during power up I Emphasized printing 27 69 I Causes subsequent draft characters to be e...

Page 72: ...rse printing Start underlining 27 45 49 Causes subsequent characters to be underlined The space character is also underlined but spaces skipped by horizontal tabulation are not un derlined Stop underl...

Page 73: ...lected by specifying 0 as a secondary address in an OPEN statement in a BASIC program Select international character set 27 82 n Selects an international character set according to the value of n n Ch...

Page 74: ...0 cpi Ignored ifthe Print Pitch switch was pressed during power up II I Cancel condensed printing 18 ASCII mode only I In ASCII mode changes from condensed pica to normal pica or from condensed elite...

Page 75: ...fixed character spacing Ignored if the Print Pitch switch was pressed during power up I Select master print mode 27 33 n I Selects a combined print mode according to the value of n The value of n is...

Page 76: ...27 119 49 Prints subsequent characters at double height without moving the base line and without changing the line spacing Temporarily cancels super subscript and condensed printing modes I Return to...

Page 77: ...and 255 I Set line spacing to n 72 inch 27 65 n I Sets the distance the paper advances or reverses in subsequent line feeds to nl72 inch where n is between 1 and 255 I Line feed 10 I Prints the curren...

Page 78: ...gin 27 78 n Sets the bottom margin to n lines where n is between 0 and 255 The power up default is 0 giving no bottom margin The bottom margin is reset when you change the page length I Set six line b...

Page 79: ...margin Performs a line feed if no vertical tabs are set as at power up Feeds to the top of the next page if vertical tabs are set but the current line is at or below the last vertical tab stop HORIZO...

Page 80: ...so be set from the control panel Carriage return r1 13 Prints the current line and returns the next print position to the left I i margin If DIP switch 1 is ON also performs a line feed I Backspace 8...

Page 81: ...7 16 nl n2 I Sets the next print position to nl x 256 n2 60 inches from the left edge on the current line Ignored if this position is to the left of the current position The maximum position is 8 inch...

Page 82: ...izontal direction See the single density 8 bit graphics command for other information Select graphics mode 27 42 nO nl n2 ml m2 Selects one of four graphics modes depending on the value of nO and prin...

Page 83: ...ode only Alternate coding 9 ml m2 14 Commodore mode only Prints bit image graphics at 120 dots per inch horizontally See the preceding command for other information Print reverse single density 7 bit...

Page 84: ...width attributes are used only in proportional spacing Each data byte indicates eight vertical dots with the MSB being the top dot and the LSB the bottom dot These correspond to pins 1 to 8 or 2 to 9...

Page 85: ...ounds a brief beep tone from the printer s beeper Manual feed 27 25 0 Alternate coding 40 40 48 41 41 Selects manual sheet feeding even when the optional automatic sheet feeder is mounted Ignored if D...

Page 86: ...inter 27 64 Reinitializes the printer Clears the one line print buffer and returns settings to their power up values Does not clear the input buffer or change ASF selections made by the preceding comm...

Page 87: ...hexadecimal code can be found by reading the entries 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 equiva...

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Page 98: ...U Denmark 1 II IE 0 A France a 0 S Sweden 1 II II A 0 A Italy II 0 e Spain R i R l Denmark 2 II JE 0 A Sweden 2 II II A 0 A Commodore standard business character set Country 35 36 64 1 92 93 123 124...

Page 99: ...taly 0 e Spain Ii i tit L Denmark 2 JE 0 A Sweden 2 11 E A 0 A Commodore DIN business character set Country 35 36 64 91 92 93 123 219 Commodore A U S A J Germany A 0 U a Denmark 1 ce 9 1 A JE France a...

Page 100: ...u a 0 e i Spain R i l f Denmark 2 J 1 0 A U e ae 9 1 A ti Sweden 2 n J 1 0 A U e ae 9 1 ti See page 16 for the DIP switch settings The command for selecting the international character sets is 27 82 n...

Page 101: ...acter size and pitch 34 38 60 62 font control 34 38 60 62 graphics 41 44 72 73 horizontal position 69 71 macro instruction 75 vertical position 67 69 Commodore character sets 16 31 33 56 78 85 Commodo...

Page 102: ...1 Page length 15 16 38 39 68 Panel pitch 22 Panel style 22 Paper Feed switch 19 21 Paper feed 7 12 55 Paper guide 6 7 11 Paper specifications 57 Paper out detector 15 52 Parking 11 12 24 Pause 18 Pica...

Page 103: ...atterns 12 3 21 Top cover 3 4 5 Top margin 39 68 Top of page form 24 39 68 Tractor feed 8 12 55 Troubleshooting 52 53 Type style 20 34 35 56 57 60 ill Underlining 36 38 62 65 71 Unidirectional printin...

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Page 105: ...k Avenue New York NY 10166 Attn Product Manager European Market STAR MICRONICS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH WesterbachstraBe 59 P O Box 940330 0 6000 Frankfurt Main 90 F R of Germany Attn Product Manager U K Mark...

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Page 107: ...______ Date of Purchase ________ Model _________________ Serial No ___ _____________ 1 Is this your first printer 0 Yes 0 No If no What was your first printer _____________ 2 With what brand of comput...

Page 108: ...below The foregoing is STAR MICRONICS INC sole responsibility under this warranty and any liability for incidental or consequential damages is expressly disclaimed Repair parts and replacement produc...

Page 109: ...modore ON ON ON France ON ON OFF U S A OFF ON ON Sweden I OFF ON OFF Germany ON OFF ON Italy ON OFF OFF Denmark I OFF OFF ON Spain OFF OFF OFF England if DIP switch 5 is OFF The printer s power should...

Page 110: ...racters from ROM into RAM Reset printer Set line spacing to n 72 inch Set vertical tab stops Set page length to 11 inches Set page length to n lines Set horizontal tab stops ASCII mode only 27 69 Emph...

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