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GS ! 

Select character size 

General 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS $ 

Set absolute vertical print 
position 

PAGE Execute 

Ignored 

Yes 

GS * 

Define download bit image  NV & DL 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS ( A 

Execute test print 

General 

Execute  Yes 

Ignored 

GS ( E 

User setup commands 

Seldom 

Execute, 
Setting 

Start line  Disabled 

GS ( F 

Set adjustment values 

Seldom 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS ( M  Customize printer control 

values 

Seldom Setting 

Start 

line 

Value 

GS / 

Print download bit image 

NV & DL 

Execute  Empty 

Yes 

GS : 

Start/end macro definition  Seldom 

Execute, 
Setting 

Yes Yes 

GS B 

Set reverse video on/off 

General 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS C 0  Select counter print mode  Counter 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS C 1  Select count mode (A) 

Counter 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS C 2  Set counter 

Counter 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS C ; 

Select count mode (B) 

Counter 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS E 

Select head control method Seldom 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS H 

Select printing position of 
HRI characters 

Bar Code 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS I 

Transmit printer ID 

Status 

Execute  Yes 

Yes 

GS L 

Set left margin 

General 

Setting 

Start line  Value 

GS T 

Set print position to 
beginning of line 

General Execute 

Yes 

Ignored 

GS V 

Select cut mode and cut 
paper 

General Execute 

Start 

line 

Yes 

GS W 

Set printing area width 

General 

Setting 

Start line  Value 

GS \ 

Set relative vertical printing 
position 

PAGE Execute 

Ignored 

Yes 

GS ^ 

Execute macro 

Seldom 

Execute  Yes 

Yes 

GS a 

Enable/disable Auto Status 
Back (ASB) 

Status Execute, 

Setting 

Yes Yes 

GS b 

Turn smoothing mode 
on/off 

   

Setting 

Yes

 

Yes 

GS c 

Print counter 

Counter 

Execute  Yes 

Yes 

GS f 

Select font for HRI 
characters 

Bar Code 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS h 

Set bar code height 

Bar Code 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

GS k 

Print bar code 

Bar Code 

Execute  Empty 

Yes 

GS r 

Transmit status 

Status 

Execute  Yes 

Yes 

GS v 0 

Print raster bit image 

General 

Execute  Empty 

Disabled 

GS w 

Set bar code width 

Bar Code 

Setting 

Yes 

Yes 

Table 4 Control Codes and Control Sequences 

List of Control Codes and Control Sequece Locations

 

Control Codes

 

Control Sequences

 

Bar Code 

See 4.3.3   Bar Code Commands page 31  

Counter 

See 4.3.4   Counter Commands page 32  

General 

See 4.3.1   General Usage Print Commands page27  

NV & DL 

See 4.3.7 NV Memory and Down Load Bit Images 
Commands page 36  

Page 

See 4.3.6   Page Mode Commands page 34  

Seldom 

See 4.3.8   Seldom Used Commands page 38  

Status 

See 4.3.2   Status Commands page 31  

Summary of Contents for MTP-1500

Page 1: ...ser Manual TELPAR A Platinum Equity COMPANY 187 Crosby Road Dover New Hampshire 03820 Toll Free 800 872 4886 from the U S A and Canada only 603 750 7237 Fax 603 742 9938 Website www telpar com E mail...

Page 2: ...return the defective unit or subassembly transportation prepaid by Buyer to Telpar s factory After repair or replacement has been accomplished Telpar will return the unit or subassembly transportation...

Page 3: ...1 6 1 Voltage 24 VDC 10 13 1 6 2 No requirement for external 5 VDC power supply 13 1 6 3 3 Pin Hosiden Connector on Printer for Power Supply Connection 13 1 7 Telpar Roll Paper for MTP 1500 Series 14...

Page 4: ...Commands 36 4 3 8 Seldom Used Commands 38 4 4 Descriptions of Commands 41 4 4 1 Set Print Mode 41 4 4 2 Set Bit Image Mode 41 4 4 3 Set Raster Bit Image Mode 43 4 4 4 Status Commands 44 4 4 5 Enable...

Page 5: ...adian French Character Set 60 5 3 7 PC865 Nordic Character Set 61 5 3 8 WPC 1252 Character Set 62 5 3 9 PC866 Cyrillic 2 Character Set 63 5 3 10 PC852 Latin 2 Character Set 64 5 3 11 PC858 Euro Charac...

Page 6: ...Transmitted 46 Figure 12 Serial I O Connector redo as DE9P 49 Figure 13 Parallel I O Connector Change dwg to CENT 51 Figure 14 Overview of Character Sets 55 Figure 15 PC437 U S A Standard Europe Char...

Page 7: ...Commands 34 Table 11 Page Mode Commands 36 Table 12 NV Memory Commands 37 Table 13 Seldom Used Commands 40 Table 14 Set Bit Image Mode 41 Table 15 Set Raster Bit Image Mode 43 Table 16 First Status B...

Page 8: ...Page 8 of 64 Table 27 International Character Set 68...

Page 9: ...only to page mode and some commands are ignored in page mode See Table xxx add bookmark to COMMAND LIST table Ladder bar codes can be printed only in page mode 1 1 2 Hex Dump Mode This function is som...

Page 10: ...r mm for the 82 5 mm paper width version 72 mm 576 dots per line 8 dots per mm for the 80 mm paper width version In page mode the length in the vertical direction is 83 mm 664 dots per line 8 dots per...

Page 11: ...al character set Control Boards have the following U S A France Germany England Denmark 2 choices Sweden Italy Spain 2 choices Japan Norway Latin America Korea Barcode embedded symbologies UPC A UPC E...

Page 12: ...ge Stand by 0 1 Amps Table 1 Current Requirements 1 6 2 No requirement for external 5 VDC power supply The 5 VDC for logic is supplied from the 24 VDC by a regulator internal to the printer 1 6 3 3 Pi...

Page 13: ...paper over spindle with paper fed under the bottom toward paper slot front of unit To load paper turn on the power and feed the straight edge of the paper into the paper guide AUTOLOAD will automatic...

Page 14: ...ition is ready to print The down position lifts the print head off of the platen roller for manually inserting paper or for clearing a paper jam The down head open position signals the microprocessor...

Page 15: ...ons All electrical mechanical portions of the printer are exercised and checked by this action except for the serial interface or parallel interface components Figure 7 MTP 1500 Self Test Printout 4 I...

Page 16: ...baud rate setting 8 7 ON ON 4800 bps 19200 Even odd parity selection 6 OFF Odd parity ODD Parity use selection 5 OFF No parity No Parity OFF DTR DSR control ON Xon Xoff control ON Even parity Serial...

Page 17: ...line feed enabled Parallel interface only 5 OFF Auto line feed disabled ON Receive error is ignored serial interface only 4 OFF Receive error prints serial interface only ON BUSY condition when buffe...

Page 18: ...at is not recoverable power should be turned off as soon as possible Blink Rate Error Description Recovery method Continuous Print head Temperature The temperature has exceeded 70 degrees C Automatic...

Page 19: ...ESC D Set horizontal tabs General Setting Yes Yes ESC E Turn emphasized on off General Setting Yes Yes ESC G Turn double strike on off General Setting Yes Yes ESC J Print and feed paper General Execu...

Page 20: ...sition to beginning of line General Execute Yes Ignored GS V Select cut mode and cut paper General Execute Start line Yes GS W Set printing area width General Setting Start line Value GS Set relative...

Page 21: ...Line feed LF 0A Print data and feed paper Default line spacing 3 75mm See ESC 2 and ESC 3 Form feed FF 0C See Top of Forms Commands See Page Mode Commands CR CR 0D If parallel interface is selected a...

Page 22: ...lt 30 See ESC 2 Printer reset ESC 1B 40 Resets the printer to the mode it was in when power was turned on Clears the data in the print buffer but does not the data in the receive buffer The DIP switch...

Page 23: ...e See ESC and ESC Set relative print position ESC n m 1B 5C n m Set printing to current print position n m 256 Ignored if specified setting exceeds the printable area See Page mode Select justificatio...

Page 24: ...width or height Bits 0 1 and 2 set the character width multiplier Bits 4 5 and 6 set the character height multiplier A value of 0 Normal size Does not apply to HRI characters when printing bar codes S...

Page 25: ...ing data in the print buffer n 1 either 01 or 31hex sets the print position to the start of the print line after printing data in the print buffer Cut command GS V m 1D 56 m n If m 1 either 01hex or 3...

Page 26: ...Status Commands Transmit printer ID GS I n 1D 49 n See Section 4 4 4 Status Commands Enable disable Automatic Status Back ASB GS a n 1D 61 n See Section 4 4 4 Status Commands Table 8 Status Commands...

Page 27: ...ex or 31 hex align right with leading zero m 2 either 02 hex or 32 hex align left with trailing spaces If n 0 then m has no meaning Default is n m 0 Select count mode A GS C 1 n1 n2 m1 m2 n r 1D 43 32...

Page 28: ...is fixed s5 the counter value Count up mode is selected by s1 s2 and s3 and s4 are not 0 Count down mode is selected by s1 s2 and s3 and s4 are not 0 Counting stops when s1 s2 or s3 0 or s4 0 Print co...

Page 29: ...t to the default setting See ESC FF ESC L and ESC S CAN CAN 18 Cancel print data in page mode See ESC L and ESC W Print data in Page mode ESC FF 1B 0C Prints all buffered data in the printing area Pri...

Page 30: ...ng area width dy1 dy2 256 printing area height Defaults are x1 x2 y1 y2 0 dx1 128 for 82 5 mm printer or 64 for 80 mm printer dx2 2 dy1 152 for 82 5 mm printer or 226 for 80 mm printer dy2 2 Set relat...

Page 31: ...Commands Name Command ASCII Command n data byte hex Description Print NV image FS p n m 1C 70 n m Print the NV message n defined by FS q in the resolution specified by m m 0 either 00 hex or 30 hex 2...

Page 32: ...bit image GS x y data 1D 2A x y data x 1 to 255dec defines the horizontal size as x times 8 dots y 1 to 48dec defines the vertical size as y times 8 dots x times y cannot exceed 1536 The download bit...

Page 33: ...fies the last character to be downloaded x specifies the number of dots in the horizontal direction The value of x is 12dec for FontA or 09dec for FontB FontA or FontB are selected by ESC or ESC M A d...

Page 34: ...mes per day Function 4 causes the printer to transmit the settings of a memory switch m 04 hex p1 02 hex p2 00 hex The data byte value is from 1 hex through 08 hex to specify which memory switch is be...

Page 35: ...r loads the value from NV memory at initialization Frequent writes may damage the NV memory Maximum recommended usage is 10 times per day Start end macro definition GS 1D 3A Macro definition starts wh...

Page 36: ...is 1 the macro executes then after an interval of m 100 msec the Paper Out LED flashes and the printer waits for the Paper Feed button to be pressed as a signal to execute the next sequence until the...

Page 37: ...e Default 0hex 12 x 24 matrix 4 4 2 Set Bit Image Mode ESC m n1 n2 d1 dn 1B 2A m n1 n2 data Specifies and prints bit image graphics Set Bit Image Mode m Mode Vertical dot density Horizontal dot densit...

Page 38: ...o the point where the full width of the print head is used for printing the graphics image When 8 dot bit image is selected each byte of data represents 8 vertical dots to be printed The MSB is the to...

Page 39: ...raster bit images If the width of the printing area set by GS L and GS W is less than the minimum width the printing area is extended to the minimum width only on the line in question This minimum wi...

Page 40: ...49 n Transmit printer ID n 1 01 or 31 hex causes 24hex to be transmitted n 2 02 or 32 hex causes Type ID to be transmitted Bit 2 1 BM sensor is enabled Bit 1 1 Autocutter is installed Bit 0 1 two byte...

Page 41: ...The first byte sent due to ASB status printer information Status byte sent when DLE EOT 01hex is received Bit 7 Not used always OFF Not used always OFF Bit 6 1 PAPER FEED button Not used Bit 5 1 Plat...

Page 42: ...always OFF Bit 6 Not used Bits 6 5 both 1 paper out Bit 5 Not used Bits 6 5 both 1 paper out Bit 4 Not used always OFF Not used always ON Bit 3 Not used Bits 3 2 both 1 Paper low Bit 2 Not used Bits 3...

Page 43: ...cts the first code set to use Code setcharacters are specified by sending a two character sequence the first character is 7B hex and the second is a printable ASCII character CodeA A CodeB B CodeC C a...

Page 44: ...tops command processing and the following data is treated as normal data The data buffer position does not change 3 If the bar code width exceeds the printing area the bar code is not printed but the...

Page 45: ...may not support one or both of these protocols If memory switch 1 position 3 is set to OFF and DTR handshaking is enabled then the DTR line goes to the BUSY state whenever the printer is OFF LINE see...

Page 46: ...iety of application such as POS terminals ticket machines coupon machines label printers medical instruments and so on High speed printing It can print at 150 mm s 1200 dot line s max Low power consum...

Page 47: ...r motor DC 24V 5 1 A typical while feeding paper Power Supply For cutter DC 24V 5 0 9 A max 0 11A typical Mechanism 15 million lines except print head cutter Print head 100 million pulses Wear resista...

Page 48: ...7 Figure 17 PC850 Multilingual Character Set 58 Figure 18 PC860 Portuguese Character Set 59 Figure 19 PC863 Canadian French Character Set 60 Figure 20 PC865 Nordic Character Set 61 Figure 21 WPC 1252...

Page 49: ...Page 49 of 64 5 3 2 PC437 U S A Standard Europe Character Set Figure 15 PC437 U S A Standard Europe Character Set...

Page 50: ...Page 50 of 64 5 3 3 Katakana Character Set Figure 16 Katakana Character Set 80 FF hex...

Page 51: ...Page 51 of 64 5 3 4 PC850 Multilingual Character Set Figure 17 PC850 Multilingual Character Set...

Page 52: ...Page 52 of 64 5 3 5 PC860 Portuguese Character Set Figure 18 PC860 Portuguese Character Set...

Page 53: ...Page 53 of 64 5 3 6 PC863 Canadian French Character Set Figure 19 PC863 Canadian French Character Set...

Page 54: ...Page 54 of 64 5 3 7 PC865 Nordic Character Set Figure 20 PC865 Nordic Character Set...

Page 55: ...Page 55 of 64 5 3 8 WPC 1252 Character Set Figure 21 WPC 1252 Character Set...

Page 56: ...Page 56 of 64 5 3 9 PC866 Cyrillic 2 Character Set Figure 22 PC866 Cyrillic 2 Character Set...

Page 57: ...Page 57 of 64 5 3 10 PC852 Latin 2 Character Set Figure 23 PC852 Latin 2 Character Set...

Page 58: ...Page 58 of 64 5 3 11 PC858 Euro Character Set Figure 24 PC858 Euro Character Set...

Page 59: ...Page 59 of 64 5 3 12 Space Page Character Set Figure 25 Space Page Character Set Table 26 Default Character Set...

Page 60: ...Page 60 of 64 5 3 13 Overseas Character Set Table 27 Overseas Character Set...

Page 61: ...Page 61 of 64 5 3 14 International Character Set Table 28 International Character Set...

Page 62: ...Page 62 of 64 5 4 Dimensional Drawings of MTP 1530 80 mm Version 5 4 1 Dimensional Drawing of MTP 1530 80 mm Version...

Page 63: ...Page 63 of 64 5 4 2 Dimensional Drawings of MTP 1532 82 5 mm Version...

Page 64: ...ANY 603 750 7237 Fax 603 742 9938 Website www telpar com E mail info telpar com Part No 090103 0010 Rev B 05 03 1 ESC POS is a registered trademark of SEIKO EPSON Corp 2 Microsoft and Windows are regi...

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