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Summary of Contents for DPN-833 Series

Page 1: ...DD 1 3D 3 3D a MICRO PRINTER USER S MANUAL...

Page 2: ...The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice...

Page 3: ...WEM MICRO PRINTER USER S MANUAL May 1999...

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Page 5: ...must be met the following specifications 1 Use the shielded cable for the connection to the printer 2 Use the noise filter on the cable and the cable should be turned as shown in following Figure Noi...

Page 6: ...When the printer is in abnormal state due to some interference such as ESD Burst or RF in long time exceeding the period of the watch dog timer the printer will be restarted automatically as well as t...

Page 7: ...st 18 3 5 Printer Initialization 18 Chapter 4 Printing Commands 4 1 Summary 19 4 2 Paper Feeding Commands 20 4 3 Formatting Commands 21 4 4 Character Setting Commands 26 4 5 User Defined Characters Co...

Page 8: ...Warning The power supply of DPN 833 8233 8333 series printer is only DC 5V Never use AC mains Appendix E Serial Interface and Operation 49 Appendix F Option List 511 Appendix G Printer Outline 51...

Page 9: ...233 83 33 printers are coinpetent as the output listing Reginered d k of mht devices for many kinds of intelligent Instrument and microcomputer DPN 8333 series is designed especially for those applica...

Page 10: ...RS 232C compatible Rewaard U k k of IBM 2 Connector 25 pin D type male for Parallel 25 hole D type female for Serial Signal Level TTL for Parallel EIA for Serial DIP Switch for Serial Interface only i...

Page 11: ...0 4 0 4 240 400 Serial Parallel DPN 833 40 PAR DPN 8233 24 V 24 24 1 7x2 6 1 7 1 7 144 1000 Serial Parallel DPN 8233 24 PAR DPN 8233 42 V 24 42 1 1x26 1 0 1 0 2 2 700 Serial Parallel DPN 8233 42 PAR...

Page 12: ...3 8333 series printer is shown in Figure 2 1 Check the mode number on the label of the printer Read all instructions about this model in the manual PAPER OUT INTERFACL c CONNCCTOR SLOT SEI MIT ION DC...

Page 13: ...as been put inside the printer before packeng When the printing becomes faint after long use put in a new ribbon cassette The removable cover plate must be removed while inserting a new ribbon cassett...

Page 14: ...nger Then lift the left end The ribbon cassette will comeoffeasily Caution Neverliftleftendfirst This may damage ribbon and printer head Figure 2 4 Ribbon Cassete Unloading 3 Take a new ribbon Hold th...

Page 15: ...on the cassette cover Figure 2 6 Figure 2 6 Turn the gear as indicated by the arrow Secure the cassette on the printer head The procedure may be repeated several times until it is easyto push the lef...

Page 16: ...re 2 8 Place the Plate on the Guide Slot Push into place gently as in Figure 2 9 Figure 2 8 Part ofthe ribbon rides up over the printer head This may be caused by two reasons 1 The paper has been load...

Page 17: ...The removable Cover Plate must be taken off 2 Cut the paper roll as shown in Figure 2 10 Figure 2 10 Cut the paper roll The paper roll may be placed inside the printer case When The paper roll is pla...

Page 18: ...Figure 1 Wrong paper roll loading...

Page 19: ...power supply is specially made for this series and is recotntnended in Appendix F Insert the output plug of the power supply into the jack on the back of the printer When using other models of power...

Page 20: ...parallel interface The parallel interface is standard CENTRONICS compatible The description of signals are listed in Figure 3 2 Figure 3 2 The description of parallel interface Signals Pin No Signal...

Page 21: ...3 2 Serial Interface Connection The cable mentioned in Section 3 1 also can be used to link printer with computers or equipment with standard RS 232C interface The 25 hole connector an the back of th...

Page 22: ...selected as inFigure3 7 SwitchnearthewhitemarkisKl The setting is KI ON K2 OFF K3 OFF ex factory i e 9600 bps See Figure 3 6 ON Z Z Z Z 1 2 3 4 5 a 6 Figure 3 6 DIP switch ex factory setting Pln No Si...

Page 23: ...or eigut bits plus a Parity Check bit The Data bits and Parity Check can be set with K5 K6 switches as in Figure 3 9 These are set at 8 bits Non Parity ex factory K5 ON K6 ON Figure 3 9 Data bits and...

Page 24: ...with switches Kl K3 2 Select Data bits and Parity with switches K5 K7 3 Select Handshaking with switch K4 4 When only 32 bytes free space is left in the printer buffer signal DCD line 8 and CTS line 5...

Page 25: ...ple 2 With Power On and printer Off Line press and holdLFand thenpress SEL Release both buttonstogether The printer will enter Self Test mode There are also two ways to exit the Self Test mode 1 The p...

Page 26: ...Then prints the messaltes about interface type and printer head mode After Self fest the printer enters On Line m ode lt can then Receive data from the host computer 3 5 Printer Initialization Initial...

Page 27: ...ntrol codes are not standardized Every printer manufacturer has his own code system Control codes for the DPN 833 8233 8333 series were designed with reference to the popular pnnter Hence they are com...

Page 28: ...n 0 for ESC K Bit Image printing mode and n 3 for text printing mode Example The BASIC program for this command is shown below 10 FOR I 1 TO 11 STEP 2 20 LPRINT CHR 27 1 CHR I ESC 1 set line spacing T...

Page 29: ...ing between the last line of a page and the first line of the next page 2 1 30 LPRINT LINE SPACING CHR l0 4 3 Formatting Commands print string and Line Feed 40 NEXT I ESC C Set page length in lines A...

Page 30: ...l tabs Format ASCII ESC B n n2 n3 NUL Decimal 27 66 n nz n3 0 Hexadecimal I B 42 n n n3 00 Explanation The tab position are entered as n n 2 and so on These n n2 are within the page length set by ESC...

Page 31: ...imal OB Explanation Feed paper to next vertical tab set by ESC B command Note Ifno vertical tab setting or ifcurrent position equals or exceeds the last vertical tab command VT feeds paper one line sa...

Page 32: ...anced to the next horizontal tab set by ESC D command Ifno Horizontal Tab setting or ifthe current print position equals or exceeds the last Horizontal Tab HT command does not execute Decimal 27 68 2...

Page 33: ...51 n NULACK 0 6 00 06 f SOH ACK 102 1 6 66 01 06 Set right margin Explanation The value n should be within the line width ofthe printer See Section 1 3 Default value n 0 No right margin The command s...

Page 34: ...anation The value n should be within the line width ofthe printer See Section 1 3 Default value n 0 This means no left ESC U Enlarge width Format ASCII ESC U n margin Decimal 27 85 n The command sets...

Page 35: ...times SOH n 1 see ESC W in this section i e Set height and width to normal size before enlarging height ESC V DFHC P t N Cm F i a 20 LPRINT CHR 27 V CHRS I ESC V command Note ESC U will not function u...

Page 36: ...tring 40 NEXT I Printout 28 ESC Turn underline on off DPN 0F t a DPN Format ASCII ESC n Decimal 27 45 n Hexadecimal 1B 2D n Explanation Underlining is tumed on if n 1 and tumed off if n 0 All characte...

Page 37: ...There are two fonts available in the DPN 833 8233 8333 BASIC program printer Font 1 is selected at power on or an ESC ei command 10 LPRINT DPN 20 LPRINT CHRS 27 CHRS 1 ESC 7 Select Font 2 turn an over...

Page 38: ...l 20 Hexadecimal 14 Explanation 30 Double width printing is cancelled if it has been set using SO This command does not cancel enlarge width printing selected using ESC U or ESC W ESC i Tum reverse pr...

Page 39: ...m is the code of this user defined character and rangen from 32 to 255 The values n t n2 nd are codes for structure defined characters Character size is 6 x 8 dot matrix The relation of the structure...

Page 40: ...state the Font characters Format ASCII ESC Decimal 27 58 Hexadecimal 1B 3A Explanation This command reinstates the original characters in the font replaced by user defined characters using ESC command...

Page 41: ...idth of such graphics is W dots and the height is L dots Each column has 8 dots and can be represented by a byte 8 bits The MSB ofthe byte corresponds to the uppermost dot ofthe column 1 black 0 while...

Page 42: ...rster 16 bv_ tes of data heb nnnnnN nnnnnn nnn nnnnn nnnn nn nnnnnnnnn nnn o n nn onL n n n nnn nnnunOO n n nnnnnnnn nnnnZE 90 NENT I LPRINT enter CR 100 NE T J LPRINT LPRINT 110 NEXT E END 120 DATA H...

Page 43: ...e Retum lets printer print one dot line As all horizontal lines are printed out with respective nk values m curves will appear in the printout Example To print out graph lines ofthe five equations Y 1...

Page 44: ...rmat ASCII ESC Decimal 27 64 Hexadecimal IB 40 Explanation Reset printer to clear print buffer restore default values select Font 1 de select user defined characters 4 8 Data Control Commands CR Carri...

Page 45: ...ine NUL Null Format ASCII CAN Decimal 24 Format ASCII NUL Hexadecimal 18 Decimal 0 Hexadecimal 00 Explanation This commandcancelsalltextintheprintbufferpreceding Explanation this code back to the prev...

Page 46: ...list program in Hexadecimal Dump print mode all data sent from the host computer will be printed out in hexadecimal Example W henthe following 4 data are sent from the host computer after the command...

Page 47: ...T ESC W CHR 2 60 LPRINT ESC CI1R 1 70 LPRINT QUOTATION ESC CHR 0 80 LPRINT ESC W CIIR 1 90 1 PRINT 100 LPRINT PRODUCT UNIT PRICE 110 LPRINT CODE USD 120 READ D LPRINT D 130 FOR J 1 TO 3 140 READ D LPR...

Page 48: ...RINT 1 D 130 FOR J 1 TO 3 140 READ D PRINT 1 TAB D 150 NEXT J PRINT 1 CHRS 13 160 GOSUB 240 170 FOR I 1 TO 7 180 READ D PRINT 1 D 190 FOR J 1 TO 3 200 READ D PRINT 1 TAB D 210 NEXT J PRINT I CHR 13 22...

Page 49: ...The other parameters are same as the example above BASIC program for testing XON XOFF function 10 Test XON XOFF program 15 OPEN COM I 9600 N 8 l CSO DSO CDO AS 1 20 WIDTH COMI 255 30 ON COM 1 GOSUB 1...

Page 50: ...er head 6 Fluff and dust from paper are harmfitl to printer head Check and clear the head when replacing paper roll 7 When replacing ribbon do not press the cassette too heavily Otherwise the plastic...

Page 51: ...arameters of the serial port of DPN 833 8233 8333 V 24 Three switches of the DIP switch are used to set the Baud Rate One sets Handshaking DIP SWITCH EPS in 150 The remaining two switches set 8 bits o...

Page 52: ...is used to select Font 1 Character code table 1 and ESC 7 to select Font 2 Character code table 2 Font 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ABC D E F 2 i 3 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 _ 4 A A 9 C 0 E F 6 H 1 J K L M N 0 5...

Page 53: ...tnt5fhnas x ii i1 2t9 S i G l E h 1 3 7 1 L V 0 7 4 2 9 6 i 7 f x x b a 3 F A E Y 3 7 t I rn11 4W 11b113lr1A6 15 YC ITi nv P W rpei PQ 9 anrZt1Fa5 c x A 1 X H u 8 c J a f l a c rL J 1xx 1 1i rLJ1 i D...

Page 54: ...l SO command 30 24 18 CAN Delete line 37 27 34 1 B 22 ESC n Hexadecimal Dump print 27 37 1B25 ESC m n NUL Replace with user defined characters 32 27 38 1B 26 ESC m n nb Define user defined character 3...

Page 55: ...n n2 data Bit Image printing 33 27 78 1B 4E ESC N n Set bottom margin 21 27 79 1B 4F ESC 0 Cancel bottom margin 22 2781 1B51 ESCQn Set right margin 25 27 85 1B 55 ESC U n Erdarge in width 26 27 86 1B...

Page 56: ...ively Each I eI 5 DATA4 IN 8 DATAS IN i HIGH IeoN when date logcel 1 end LOW when logicel o DATA6 IN 8 DATA IN 8 DATA8 IN 1 0 A K O U Acknnwledge pose LOW indcete the date h been r eived ond thel dw p...

Page 57: ...receives data from host computer 3 RxD Printer Printer trasmits data when uses the handshaking of X ON X OFF 5 CTS Printer Signal sets MARK state to indicate the printer is BUSY and can not accept dat...

Page 58: ...o standard 25 pin D type connectors a male and a female on two ends of this cable and with 25 wire connection 3 Ribbon cassettle EPSON ERC 22 or ERC 09 ERC 22 only for DPN 8233 and DPN 8333 4 Paper Ro...

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