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Rev4.6E 

KIOSK PRINTER

SK1-21A

Technical Guide

SK1-31A

Summary of Contents for SK1-21A

Page 1: ...SK1 21A 31A Rev4 6E KIOSK PRINTER SK1 21A Technical Guide SK1 31A...

Page 2: ...oducts Operate this printer only in the manners as described in the Technical guide Otherwise accidents or problems could possibly occur Data are basically temporary they cannot be stored or saved eit...

Page 3: ...d using the printer at the following location It may cause failure Locations with much dust particles water or oil Locations with slanted surfaces or strong vibration Locations with direct sunlight ne...

Page 4: ...nor spill coffee water or any other liquid Do not use the printer in a places where it will be exposed to excess moisture or water spray It may result in electric shock short circuit and failure Do n...

Page 5: ...ool and dark place When pasting printed pages use water bnased glue starch glue synthetic glue etc The surface of thermal paper has been specially treated with a chemical agent to produce coloring by...

Page 6: ...ce 2 3 Inside Structures 2 4 Setting Paper Roll 2 5 Paper near end sensor 2 6 Changing 1 inch core adapter 2 7 Adjust the paper position 2 8 Clear paper jams 3 General specifications 3 1 Specification...

Page 7: ...ty 4 7 LED display 4 8 Memory 5 Bezel Module 5 1 Operating Mode 6 Presenter 6 1 Specifications 6 2 Operating Mode 6 3 Stock space and Exit space 7 Interfaces 7 1 USB 7 2 Serial 7 3 Power supply 8 Labe...

Page 8: ...size 58 60 80 83mm Autoloading function Selectable for Partial cut or Full cut Versatile operating environment Available for Windows driver Utility Driver and Linux driver Available for Remote Status...

Page 9: ...Barcode Q Installed Without Q Not available Paper Core Diameter L 25 4mm Without M L 12mm Paper Width 1 58 0mm 2 60 0mm 3 83 0mm Without 1 2 3 80 0mm Sensor 1 Black mark Right 2 Black mark Left 3 Gap...

Page 10: ...Not available Paper Core Diameter L 25 4mm Without M L 12mm Paper Width Without 58 0mm 1 60 0mm Sensor Without Reflection Sensor Right 1 Reflection Sensor Left 2 Gap Sensor Reflection Sensor Right 3...

Page 11: ...Core Internal dia 12 External dia 18mm Thermal paper side External Internal paper end No adhesion No fold External paper front Cut straight and put a seal End mark A red stripe on one side of the pape...

Page 12: ...X dump Gap sensor adjustment screw Adjust the sensitivity of label gap Near end sensor Detect paper near end Power supply connector for DC power supply Serial connector for Serial USB connector for US...

Page 13: ...aper end sensor Detect paper empty If the sensor detects paper empty the printer stops printing Platen roller Feed the thermal paper on friction with the print head Auto cutter Cut the thermal paper S...

Page 14: ...g the paper to holder Use head open lever Press the head open lever to lift the head unit as shown in below Set the paper pulling out the paper end straightforward and close the head unit 2 Auto loadi...

Page 15: ...arrow by using a fine tipped tool like tweezers Unit mm Position Detectable paper diameter 1 21 0 2mm 2 24 5 2mm 3 35 0 2mm Do not mount the printer on vibrating or slanted surfaces The external diam...

Page 16: ...he direction of an arrow below 2 7 Adjust the paper position 1 How to change the position of Holder arm Three types of roll paper 120mm 102mm 83mm in diameter is available by setting positoin of holde...

Page 17: ...power 2 Press the head open lever to lift up the print head 3 Remove the jammed paper 4 Close the print head and turn ON the power Turn the printer power OFF Don t put fingers into paper exit Press t...

Page 18: ...font 16 dots 16 16 dots W H 27 28 36 40 lines Font Dots Lines Jfonrt 24 dots 24 24dots W H 18 18 24 26 lines Paper Sensors Near end Sensor Paper empty Sensor OPTION BM Black mark Sensor Gap Senssor Ne...

Page 19: ...30 to 70 Humidity 10 RH to 90 RH No condensation Weight 630g Without paper roll 525g Without paper roll 83mm 127 129 2 73 6mm W D H 104 129 2 73 6mm W D H 102mm 127 137 3 79 5mm W D H 104 137 3 79 5m...

Page 20: ...r end strip appears replace the paper roll 2 Head open sensor The head open sensor detects whether the print head is open or closed Once the sensor detects the head open signal the printer stops print...

Page 21: ...d cutter position Print head and cutter position The numeric values in the figure are nominal center values Leave enough margin for the cutting position to account for paper flex or variability The po...

Page 22: ...te1 Black mark sensor and gap sensor are embedded in the factory as options Note2 Choose the position of Black mark sensor either L or R Note3 Black mark on reverse of thermal paper is sensed Paper fe...

Page 23: ...2mm Note1 Black mark sensor and gap sensor are embedded in the factory as options Note2 Black mark on reverse of thermal paper is sensored Paper feed Paper edge Thermal dot line Reflection sensor Left...

Page 24: ...systems while printing it will temporarily stop printing and feeding paper After the printer receives new data and resumes printing the paper feeding of 1 to 3 lines may become irregular especially if...

Page 25: ...SK1 21A 31A 3 7 Dimensions External dimensions Unit mm SK1 31 with paper 102mm...

Page 26: ...SK1 21A 31A SK1 31 with paper 83mm 120mm...

Page 27: ...SK1 21A 31A SK1 21 with paper 102mm...

Page 28: ...SK1 21A 31A SK1 31 with paper 83mm 120mm...

Page 29: ...and barcodes at self test printing Printing method Turn ON the power switch while pressing the FEED switch When the LED lights up and the printer starts printing release the FEED button After complet...

Page 30: ...re is a function setting mode to switch register functions in the memory manually Functions are called up by the SELECT and FEED buttons and the printer prints registered functions 1 About memory swit...

Page 31: ...SELECT REELER OFF PRESENTER MODE CLAMP RETRACT Act For Driver INVALID INTERFACE SETTING BAUD RATE 115200bps BIT LENGTH 8Bit PARITY Non BUSY CONTROL RTS CTS CTS AVAILABLE INVALID MEMORY SWITCH 0x00 0x2...

Page 32: ...oes to standby mode ENTER SETTING ENTER COMMON SETTING ENTER INTERFACE SETTING Change the setting of INTERFACE BAUD RATE BIT LENGTH MODE END Finish NO NO Change the setting of COMMON FEED Function set...

Page 33: ...ting data are not stored When bezel is used this mode is selected SELECT SENSOR Reflection Reflection Transmission Select the mark sensor for label printing Reflection Detected by Black mark sensor Tr...

Page 34: ...0 SELECT REELER OFF OFF ON Select reeler mode function added after V1 51 PRESENTER MODE CLAMP RETRACT CLAMP RETRACT CLAMP EJECT CLAMP ONLY CONTINUOUS Backward collecting operation Forward collecting o...

Page 35: ...e printer waits for printing data by ONLINE Initialization Initialize printer memories The printer goes OFFLINE during initialization and status LED blinks After completing initialization the printer...

Page 36: ...he power supply voltage and if the problem is not cleared please contact a local dealer 4 LED status LED status Turn ON red and green for 0 1sec Turn OFF for 0 1sec No error signal is detected Status...

Page 37: ...e external characters download characters and bit images Users are able to manipulate the area freely Calculate the available memory size due to the limited amount of memory available If there is no a...

Page 38: ...ut Bezel Mode A Once setting this mode the printer prints the data on paper continuously ESC v and GS a commands is allowed to detect the information of existing passing paper in the bezel through equ...

Page 39: ...ength Maximum 240mm sec for Paper issuing speed Equip reflection type photo sensor to detect paper Maximum100um 85g m2 for loading paper thickness 6 2 Operating Mode 1 Clamp Retraction Mode Eject Mode...

Page 40: ...Waiting for removing paper After cutting issuing is stopped until paper is removed Status of paper can be read by a status command 6 3 Stock space and Exit space 1 Allow stock space for paper roll in...

Page 41: ...nect disconnect of USB 2 D I O USB data 3 D I O USB data 4 N C 5 GND GND 2 Electronic characteristic Parameter Signal Conditions Min Max Unit Power supply voltage VBUS 4 40 5 25 V Input level Differen...

Page 42: ...nnect 3 RxD Input Serial data input 4 RTS Output Request to send 5 TxD Output Serial data output 6 CTS Input Clear to send 7 DSR DTR loop connect 8 N C 9 GND 10 N C DTR is used to control data transmi...

Page 43: ...ignal is used to control data transmission to the host system Xoff signal is sent to host system if the receiving buffer is filled out curtain level The host side should stop sending data if Xoff sign...

Page 44: ...2 5DS or equivalent Pin Signal Direction Function 1 2 DC Power supply 3 4 DC Power supply Depending on printing data large peak current runs in the power cable Consider the voltage drop caused by cabl...

Page 45: ...e listed in Command Reference 16 Label 2 Label mode There are intermittent label mode and continuous label mode installed in the printer 1 Intermittent label mode Feed each label to the position of th...

Page 46: ...ed and the page might be skipped or the right length not detected It causes the failure of sensing Prohibit pre printing in the area designated for black marks There is a feed tolerance 2 between calc...

Page 47: ...dth 54 0 5mm 56 0 5mm 76 0 5mm Length 25 to 350mm Label gap 3 to 6mm 0 to 6mm Rolling up direction Label surface is outside of a roll Black mark size Width 12mm or more Length 4 to 6mm Density of blac...

Page 48: ...sensor and initial printing position varies about 2mm from calculated position Take into account the tolerance of paper feed about 2 when a label is designed Print area 3 2 Right margin 3 2 Left margi...

Page 49: ...ler 3 Sensor and peripherals Clean the stain dust and paper powder on the paper empty sensor and paper cover sensor Prior to maintenance work be sure to turn OFF the printer Avoid cleaning the print h...

Page 50: ...or maintenance and service please contact your Sanei local distributors or the following address Sanei Electric Inc Overseas sales division 2 61 1 Ikebukuro Toshima Ku Tokyo 171 0014 Japan TEL 81 3 39...

Page 51: ...mmand Command Standard mode Page mode ESC 2 Set the initial linefeed value ESC 3 Set the linefeed value ESC SP Set the right margin GS L Set the left margin Setting only GS W Set the printing area wid...

Page 52: ...aper sensor to output PE signal ESC c 5 Specify or cancel panel switch ESC c 6 Enable Disable paper loading ESC i Full cut ESC m Partial cut GS V Paper cut 9 Response Command Installed in Serial inter...

Page 53: ...ead a software memory switch GS G Specify the stored buffering mode cancel DC2 K Set the memory switch 13 Barcode Command Command Standard mode Page mode GS H Set the HRI character printing GS h Set t...

Page 54: ...SK1 21A 31A 10 2 Data code table PC437...

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