Document Outline

• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • Printer features
    • Interfaces
    • Emulations
  • Symbols used
  • About this manual
• Printer at a glance
  • View from the front
  • View with cover opened
  • View from the rear
• Installation
  • Unpacking the printer
  • Placing your printer
  • Checking the printer voltage
  • Connecting the printer
  • Switching on the printer
• Printer drivers and firmware
  • Printer drivers
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 95/98/ME
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/2003/XP
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 7
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows Vista
    • Other operating systems
    • Changing printer settings
    • Form settings (Windows 2000/2003/XP/ Vista/Windows 7/2008)
  • Loading firmware
    • Interface
      • Serial interface
      • Parallel interface
      • USB interface (Windows2000/ XP)
    • Downloading firmware to the printer
• Control panel
  • Display, indicators and keys
  • Status indicators
    • Status indicator variations
      • Ready indicator (STOP LED)
      • Paper indicator (PAPER LED)
      • USER1 and USER2 indicators
  • Key functions during operation
    • STOP/EJECT key
    • USER1 and USER2 key
  • Key functions when powering on
    • STOP/EJECT key
    • USER2 key
    • USER1 key
  • Key functions in menu mode
    • USER1 key
    • USER2 key
    • STOP/EJECT key
• Print media
  • Inserting a document
  • Inserting a passbook
  • Removing media
• Changing the ribbon cassette
  • Removing the ribbon cassette
  • Inserting the ribbon cassette
• Replacing the print head
  • Removing the print head
  • Inserting new print head
• Menu
  • Programming using the control panel
  • Calling up the menu
  • Menu configurations (USER1/USER2)
  • Menu handling
    • Key functions
      • USER1 key
      • USER2 key
      • STOP/EJECT key
    • Setting parameters (principle)
    • Terminating menu mode
    • Selecting the LC display language
  • Printing out the status page
    • Power on + USER2 key
    • Print out status page in menu mode
    • Status page (example)
  • Menu parameters
  • Test function
    • Hex Dump
      • Activating Hex Dump
      • Exiting the test mode
      • Test printout Hex Dump (Example)
• Troubleshooting
  • General print problems
    • The display remains dark
    • The display is lit, but the printer does not print
    • Problems with paper feed
  • Problems with the print quality
    • Print is faulty
    • Print is too pale
    • Smudged print
    • Dots within characters are missing
    • Prints undefined characters
  • Error messages and warnings
    • Unrecoverable errors
    • Recoverable errors
      • Print Head Hot Error
      • Ribbon Cassette Error
      • Paper Length Error
      • Framing Error (Serial I/F)
      • Parity Error (Serial I/F)
      • Overrun Error (Serial I/F)
      • Cover Open Error
      • Cover Open Error
    • Warnings
      • Data in Buffer
      • Remove Paper
  • Clearing paper jams
• Care and maintenance
  • Cleaning the housing
  • Cleaning the interior
  • Cleaning the MSR-H magnetic stripe
  • Transport of the printer
    • Preparations for transport
    • Shipping the printer
• Specifications
  • Printer specifications
  • Paper specifications
  • Interface specifications
• Character sets
  • OCR-A character set
  • Epson character sets
    • Italic
    • Graphic1
    • Graphic2
  • IBM code pages
    • Code page 437
    • Code page 850
    • Code page 860
    • Code page 863
    • Code page 865
    • Code page 851
    • Code page 852
    • Code page 853
    • Code page 855
    • Code page 857
    • Code page 866
    • Code page 869
    • Code page USSR Gost
    • Code page 864
    • Code page 437G
    • Code page 920 (equivalent to ISO 8859-9)
    • Code page 858
    • Code page 923 (equivalent to ISO 8859-15)
  • ISO code pages
    • ISO 8859-2
    • ISO 8859-5
    • ISO 8859-7
    • ISO 8859-8
  • Available code pages and fonts
• Emulations
  • Escape sequences
    • What are escape sequences?
    • Control codes
    • How are escape sequences used?
  • List of available control codes
    • PR2 mode
    • PR50 mode
    • PR2845 mode
    • IBM mode
    • Epson mode
• Interfaces
  • Interface settings for User 1 and USER2
  • Parallel interface
    • Connector assignment
      • Nibble Mode
      • ECP mode
  • Serial interface RS232C
    • Connector assignment
    • Serial attachment characteristics
      • Data rates
      • Supported protocols
      • Data Transfer
      • Parity
      • Handshake
      • Ready/Busy (Hardware Handshake)
      • XON/XOFF (Software Handshake)
    • Configuring the serial interface of the PC
      • DOS mode/Command line
      • Windows 95/98
      • Windows 2000/XP
  • USB interface
• Consumables and accessories
  • Consumables
  • Accessories