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USER’S MANUAL

XB24-250

ZB15

80825140

DOT MATRIX PRINTERS

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Page 1: ...USER S MANUAL XB24 2502 ZB152 80825140 DOT MATRIX PRINTERS...

Page 2: ...ration Notice All rights reserved Reproduction of any part of this manual in any form whatsoever without STAR s express permission is strictly forbidden The contents of this manual are subject to chan...

Page 3: ...to use the printer s Electronic DIP Switch EDS Mode to set up the printer to match the needs of your system and software Chapter 4 How to set up for printing with MS DOS Chapter 5 Selecting the best...

Page 4: ...r 13 Unparking fanfold paper 13 Using the tear off function 13 Connecting to your computer 14 Chapter 2 Control Panel Operations 16 Switching between on line and off line 16 Selecting a font 17 Enteri...

Page 5: ...DOS 37 Setting up for printing with MS DOS 37 Chapter 5 Paper Handling 38 Selecting paper types 38 Adjusting for paper thickness 39 Automatic fanfold feeding 40 Manual sheet feeding 40 Clearing paper...

Page 6: ...Appendix D Character Sets 57 Appendix E Printer Control Codes 69 Appendix F Control Panel Operation Guide 79...

Page 7: ...nect to for power should be nearby and unobstructed Make sure that the printer is close enough to your computer for you to connect the two with your printer cable Allow six inches 15 centimeters of fr...

Page 8: ...nter up again and send it somewhere at a later date A serial to parallel interface converter SPC 8K a parallel interface unit IP 128XL a serial interface unit IS 8XL a pull tractor PT 15XM and an Auto...

Page 9: ...General guide 3 General guide The following illustrations show the major components of the your printer...

Page 10: ...e printer Make sure that the two metal pins on the platen shaft fit into the slots inside the knob s spindle Press the knob carefully but firmly into place as far as it will go Opening the front cover...

Page 11: ...body To replace the front cover reverse the two steps described above Installing the ribbon cartridge Make sure that the printer is unplugged from its power outlet Caution Never touch the print head...

Page 12: ...the side tabs snap securely into place Rotate the knob on the cartridge again to take up any slack Close the front cover of the printer Important Printing that is poor quality or too light is almost...

Page 13: ...u touch it Open the front cover of the printer Using your thumb and forefinger to squeeze the two tabs on the ribbon cartridge towards the center carefully remove the cartridge from the holder Use the...

Page 14: ...se voltage matches the power rating noted on the label affixed to the bottom of your printer Caution If the voltage marked on the bottom of your printer does not match the voltage from the outlet you...

Page 15: ...ition the stack of paper behind the printer Make sure printer power is turned off Set the release lever to the fanfold position Grasping the two back corners of the printer with the palms of your hand...

Page 16: ...ly halfway between the two tractors Open the covers of both tractors and insert the paper so the tractor pins fit Close the tractor covers At this point you can make final adjustments to the paper pos...

Page 17: ...de keeps the printed paper separate from the unprinted paper Turn on the printer The printer will beep a number of times if paper is not loaded properly Also the control panel s POWER indicator flashe...

Page 18: ...printing on fanfold paper take care not to print too close to the perforations that separate each sheet The following shows the recommended print area for fanfold paper and cut sheet paper Fanfold for...

Page 19: ...is not loaded Move the release lever to the cut sheet position Change the paper guide to its upright position You can now load cut sheet paper into the printer using the procedures under Manual sheet...

Page 20: ...cartridge IS 8XL or IP 128XL Important The following instructions apply to the Centronics parallel cable that is used with an IBM compatible personal computer Note that they do not apply to all types...

Page 21: ...ocket on the back of the printer and secure it in place with the clips Note Consult your dealer for details on how to set up your computer when using the optional SPC 8K serial to parallel interface c...

Page 22: ...tween being on line and off line When the printer is on line the ON LINE indicator is lit and the printer can receive data from the computer You should make sure that the printer is on line whenever y...

Page 23: ...ring the Font Lock Mode When the printer is in the Font Lock Mode the font settings you make on the control panel are used even if your software tries to override the font Use the following procedure...

Page 24: ...e when you turn it on Entering the Pitch Lock Mode When the printer is in the Pitch Lock Mode the pitch settings you make on the control panel are used even if your software tries to override the pitc...

Page 25: ...re the printer is off line ON LINE indicator is not lit Press FORM FEED and the printer will automatically feed the paper to the top of the next page Parking fanfold paper Make sure the printer is off...

Page 26: ...that the printer is on line Press the FORM FEED button to perform the long tear off operation or press the LINE FEED button to perform the short tear off operation The long tear off operation causes t...

Page 27: ...t and pitch indicators on the control panel will light Press SET EJECT PARK to feed the paper to the starting position Feed the paper so the print head is located where you want the new auto load posi...

Page 28: ...M mode To clear saved control panel settings repeat the above procedure but keep FONT and PITCH depressed after the printer beeps twice Soon the printer will beep again three times to indicate that th...

Page 29: ...which indicates that the printer is reset Entering the Multi part Mode When the printer is in the Multi part Mode the print head prints with greater impact It should be noted however that printing in...

Page 30: ...ttings are ON when the printer is shipped from the factory About EDS Mode settings EDS Mode settings are grouped among six banks representing banks of switches that are identified by the letters A thr...

Page 31: ...ashes it indicates the current switch selected Changing a switch setting After selecting a bank and switch press the control panel s ON OFF button to turn the switch on and off The current setting of...

Page 32: ...Checking the settings of switches in a bank After selecting a bank press the control panel s STATUS button to view the status of each switch in that bank The control panel s font indicator is lit when...

Page 33: ...hich speeds up the printing Selecting download buffer OFF tells the printer to use available RAM to store character patterns Switch 4 Automatic Sheet Feeder Specifies whether the optional SF 15DM2 Aut...

Page 34: ...g the control panel buttons as described on page 13 The manual tear off function is always enabled Switch 3 Line Spacing Selects 1 6 inch ON or 1 8 inch OFF spacing between lines Switch 4 Auto LF with...

Page 35: ...t pitch setting you want to make Switch 6 Quiet When the Quiet Mode is enabled OFF the printer prints with less noise than normal printing Though the Quiet Mode prints more quietly it also takes consi...

Page 36: ...perforations If you leave this switch ON the carriage does not move when feeding paper Switch 6 Not used BANK E Switches 1 2 3 4 5 Code Page International Character Set If your EDS settings specify IB...

Page 37: ...3846 Turkish ON ON OFF OFF ON ON 3847 Brazil ABNT OFF ON OFF OFF ON ON 3848 Brazil ABICOMP ON OFF OFF OFF ON ON 852 Latin 2 OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON 1001 Arabic ON ON ON ON OFF ON 737 Greek OFF ON ON ON...

Page 38: ...FF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON 3860 Rajvitee KU ON ON ON ON ON OFF 3861 Microwiz KU OFF ON ON ON ON OFF 3863 STD 988 TIS ON OFF ON ON ON OFF 3864 Popular TIS OFF OFF ON ON ON OFF 3865 Newsic TIS ON ON OFF ON O...

Page 39: ...y Italy Austria Switzerland United States Spain Preferred by Microsoft 860 Portuguese Portugal 861 Icelandic Iceland 863 Canadian French Canada 865 Nordic Denmark Finland Norway Sweden Preferred by Mi...

Page 40: ...ia 3001 Estonian 1 Estonia 3002 Estonian 2 Estonia Most often used 3011 Latvian 1 Latvia 3012 Latvian 2 Latvia Government standard 3021 Bulgarian Bulgaria 3031 Hebrew Israel 3041 Maltese Malta 3850 St...

Page 41: ...aracter set International Character Set SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW5 SW6 U S A ON ON ON ON ON ON France OFF ON ON ON ON ON Germany ON OFF ON ON ON ON England OFF OFF ON ON ON ON Denmark 1 ON ON OFF ON ON ON Sw...

Page 42: ...font you want to use for LQ printing Note Bank C switches 1 and 2 need to be in the correct positions before the above setting will have any effect Switch 6 Not used Font SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW5 Roman ON...

Page 43: ...application lists more than one of these select the printer that is nearest to the top of this list You should also use the EDS mode or User Setup Utility to select Standard emulation page 27 If none...

Page 44: ...m Size B5 A4 Letter Legal B4 Landscape A3 Landscape Thickness 0 00276 to 0 00472 0 07 to 0 12mm 1 ply only Weight 14 to 24 lbs 52 to 90g m2 45 to 77 kg Cut Sheet Paper with Optional Automatic Sheet Fe...

Page 45: ...ess Paper comes in different weights normally expressed as gsm grams per square meter or lbs pounds Some form paper also has multiple pages that make them quite thick Use the following procedure to ch...

Page 46: ...the procedure under Parking fanfold paper on page 13 to park the fanfold paper and prepare for manual sheet feeding Set the release lever to the cut sheet position Stand up the paper guide page 8 Alig...

Page 47: ...want to move the paper to another position use the micro feed function described under Micro feed on page 19 Start the printing operation from your software application Clearing paper jams Use the fo...

Page 48: ...rtant Always make sure that printer power is turned off whenever installing or removing optional accessories Automatic Sheet Feeder SF 15DM2 The automatic sheet feeder automatically feeds cut sheet pa...

Page 49: ...comes with the pull tractor unit for further details on installation and operation Serial Interface Cartridge IS 8XL Installing the serial interface cartridge provides serial data communications capa...

Page 50: ...mputer Refer to the manual that comes with the buffered parallel interface cartridge for further details on installation and operation Serial to Parallel Converter SPC 8K Connecting the serial to para...

Page 51: ...peration Interface RS 232C level Synchronization Asynchronous Baud rate 150 300 600 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 BPS selectable Word length Start bit 1 Data bits 7 or 8 selectable Parity bit Odd even non...

Page 52: ...also may damage your printer and void your warranty Testing the printer There are two different tests you can use a self test and a hexadecimal dump Self test Make sure that paper is loaded in the pr...

Page 53: ...y data that is subsequently sent to it from your computer To exit the Hex Dump Mode first press ON LINE to set the printer off line and then turn the printer off Adjusting the dot alignment You may ne...

Page 54: ...he right The above step performs alignment for Normal density mode only You must make separate adjustments for the HS DRAFT CRT graphics mode I DRAFT Graphics DRAFT Graphics Speed Down Double density...

Page 55: ...The printer is not set up correctly for the thickness of paper you are using Set up the printer for the paper thickness you are using See Adjusting for paper thickness on page 39 The ribbon is worn ou...

Page 56: ...r prints past the edge of the paper Incorrect margin settings are selected by your application program Choose different margin settings from your application program The paper guide is not positioned...

Page 57: ...ose different settings in your application Static electricity caused by interference from nearby electrical devices or by low level humidity is affecting printer operation Make sure that the printer i...

Page 58: ...nversely check to make sure that one of the above lines is included in your AUTOEXEC BAT file The file must also contain information on parameter settings For details see the user s manual that comes...

Page 59: ...i directional bi directional logic seeking selectable LQ Uni directional bi directional logic seeking selectable Bit Image Uni directional bi directional logic seeking selectable Print Head Number of...

Page 60: ...6 to 0 00433 0 07 to 0 11 mm one ply 0 01378 0 35 mm maximum total thickness of multi ply paper non carbon Paper weight 14 to 22 lbs 52 to 82 g m2 45 to 70 kg one ply 11 to 14 lbs 40 to 52 g m2 34 to...

Page 61: ...23 9 608 mm Depth 15 8 400 mm Height 6 2 157 mm Weight 27 2 lbs 12 3 kg Power Supply 230V AC 14 13 50 60Hz Power Consumption 15W during standby 70W during ASCII draft printing Options PT 15XM Pull Tra...

Page 62: ...L GND Signal ground 17 CHASSIS Chassis ground isolated from signal ground 18 5V 5V DC output from printer 19 30 GND Twisted pair ground return 31 RESET Printer is reset when this signal goes low 32 ER...

Page 63: ...57 Appendix D Character Sets Standard Italic Character Set International Character Set The character codes shown in the table are hexadecimal...

Page 64: ...58 Character Sets IBM Character Set 2 Code Page 437 IBM PC Character Set 1 Other characters are the same as those for Character Set 2...

Page 65: ...using the ESC command Code Page 850 Multi lingual Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 860 Portuguese Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 8...

Page 66: ...same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 865 Nordic Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3840 IBM Russian Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code P...

Page 67: ...e for Code Page 437 Code Page 3841 Gost Russian Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3845 Hungarian Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 384...

Page 68: ...ose for Code Page 437 Code Page 3846 Turkish Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 852 Latin 2 Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3848 Braz...

Page 69: ...63 Code Page 1001 Arabic Code Page 737 Greek Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 851 Greek Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437...

Page 70: ...those for Code Page 437 Code Page 869 Greek Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 772 Lithuanian Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 2001 L...

Page 71: ...e for Code Page 437 Code Page 774 Lithuanian Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3011 Latvian1 Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3002 Es...

Page 72: ...me as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3012 Latvian2 Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3041 Maltese Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page...

Page 73: ...for Code Page 437 Code Page 3850 Standard KU Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3863 STD988 TIS Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3861...

Page 74: ...68 Code Page 3865 Newsic TIS Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437 Code Page 3864 Popular TIS Other characters are the same as those for Code Page 437...

Page 75: ...inting 1 line SI Select condensed printing DC1 Select printer DC2 Cancel condensed printing DC3 Deselect printer DC4 Cancel double width printing 1 line CAN Cancel line ESC LF Reverse feed by current...

Page 76: ...d1 d2 00 d1 ESC t d1 d2 00 01 03 07 19 08 09 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F 20 21 22 18 Assign character table Italic 437 USA 850 Multi lingual 860 Portuguese 861 Icelandic 863 Canadian French 865 Nordic 866 Russi...

Page 77: ...et n 60 line spacing ESC B d1 dk 00 Set vertical tab ESC C n Set page length in lines ESC C 0 n Set page length in inches ESC D n1 nk 00 Set horizontal tab ESC E Select bold font ESC F Cancel bold fon...

Page 78: ...ca 13 Korea 14 Irish 64 Legal ESC S n n 00 01 Select superscript subscript printing Superscript Subscript ESC T Cancel superscript subscript printing ESC U n n 00 01 Turn unidirectional mode on off Un...

Page 79: ...Arabic 737 Greek 737 851 Greek 851 869 Greek 869 928 Greek 928 2001 Lithuanian KBL 772 Lithuanian 772 774 Lithuanian 774 3001 Estonian 1 3002 Estonian 2 3011 Latvian 1 3012 Latvian 2 3021 Bulgarian 30...

Page 80: ...g on off Turns on double width Turns off double width ESC x n n 00 01 Select LQ or Draft Draft LQ ESC Z n n 00 01 Select HS Draft or Draft Draft HS Draft FS 3 n Set line spacing to n 360 FS Initialise...

Page 81: ...Checking system software settings in MS DOS 75 FS Print a character from all character chart DEL Delete last character in buffer Standard Mode ASCII Code Function...

Page 82: ...Select 7 72 line spacing ESC 2 Execute ESC A definition ESC 3 n Select n 216 or n 180 line spacing ESC 4 Set top of form to the current position ESC 5 n n 00 01 Turn automatic line feed on off Automat...

Page 83: ...om margin ESC O Cancel bottom margin ESC P n n 00 01 Turn proportional mode on off Cancel proportional printing Select proportional printing ESC Q n Deselect printer ESC R Set all tabs to power on def...

Page 84: ...737 851 Greek 851 869 Greek 869 928 Greek 928 2001 Lithuanian KBL 772 Lithuanian 772 774 Lithuanian 774 3001 Estonian 1 3002 Estonian 2 3011 Latvian 1 3012 Latvian 2 3021 Bulgarian 3031 Hebrew 3041 Ma...

Page 85: ...Clear All Reset OFF LINE Exit Print Switch Status Bank POWER ON Exit Next Right Left EDS MODE DOT ADJUSTMENT MODE Self Test Self Test Multi part Mode Font Lock ON LINE Hex Dump Mode Pitch Lock Dot Ad...

Page 86: ...nian 772 64 Lithuanian 774 65 Lithuanian KBL 64 Maltese 66 Nordic 60 Russian 60 selecting 30 Turkish 62 connecting to a power outlet 8 to your computer 14 control panel printer 16 control panel settin...

Page 87: ...ce 56 parallel interface 56 international character set selecting 30 L line feed 19 line spacing setting 28 LQ font selecting 36 M macro saving 22 manual sheet feeding 40 micro feed 19 MS DOS setting...

Page 88: ...vement 51 no printing 49 power supply 49 printing past paper edge 50 pull tractor unit 43 Q Quiet Print Mode 20 selecting 29 R ribbon cartridge installing 5 removing 7 taking up slack in 5 S Self test...

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