Document Outline

• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • Printer features
  • Symbols used
  • About this manual
• Printer at a glance
  • Printer in fanfold paper mode
  • Printer in single-sheet mode
  • Paperway
• Installation
  • Unpacking the printer
  • Placing your printer
  • Checking the printer voltage
  • Connecting the printer
  • Switching on the printer
• Changing the ribbon cassette
• Printer drivers
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 95/98/ME
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/NT 4.0/XP
  • Other operating systems
  • Changing printer settings
    • Form settings (Windows 2000/NT 4.0/XP)
    • Graphic options
  • Loading optional firmware
    • Troubleshooting
• The control panel
  • The LC display
  • Online mode
  • Offline mode
  • Setup mode
  • Messages in the LC display
  • Key functions when turning on the printer
• Paper handling
  • Changing the paper path
    • Changing the paper type in the setup menu
  • Loading paper
    • Fanfold paper
    • Single sheets
  • Paper transport
  • Moving the paper to the tear position
  • Removing paper
• Settings
  • Setting the tear position
  • Setting the first printing line (TOF)
  • Setting the print head gap
  • Selecting character density and font temporarily
• The Menu
  • Programming via the control panel
  • Enabling access to menu mode
  • Calling up the menu
  • Menu configurations (Macros)
  • Menu handling
    • Save settings
    • Selecting the LC display language
    • Terminating Setup mode
  • Menu structure
  • Menu parameters
    • Printing out macro configurations (Print)
    • Loading menu configurations (Macro)
    • Reset to default values (Reset)
    • Quiet mode printing (Quiet)
    • Selecting font (Font)
    • Setting line spacing (LPI)
    • Selecting start signal for escape sequence (ESCChar)
    • Selecting Protocol (emulation)
    • Bidirectional printing (PrintDir)
    • Settings for interfaces (I/O)
    • Serial interface (Serial)
      • Data transmssion rate (Baud)
      • Data format (Format)
      • Buffer control (BuffCtrl)
      • Signal Processing (DTR)
    • Selecting interface (Interf.)
    • Interface buffer (Buffer)
    • Selecting interface timeout (Timeout)
    • Automatic carriage return (Auto-CR)
    • Automatic line feed  (Auto-LF)
    • Menu lock (MenLock)
    • Language (Language)
    • Paper parameters (Paper)
      • Form length (Formlen)
      • First printing position (FormAdj)
      • Print head gap manually (Head)
    • View and tear position (TearView)
    • Line length (Width)
    • Barcode (Barcode)
    • Normal characters and barcode (Barmode)
    • Form feed mode (FFmode)
    • Setting and activating options (PapOpt)
      • Activation of tractors (AutoTra)
    • Automatic gap adjustment (AGA)
    • Paper handling (Paphand)
      • Increasing the print head gap (Head up)
      • Paper width (Pagewid)
      • Left-hand area (Leftzon)
      • Right-hand area (Rightzo)
    • Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid)
    • Line wrap (Wrap)
    • Beep at paper end (Sound)
    • Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm)
    • Setting the page margins (Margin)
      • Setting the top margin (Topmrg)
      • Setting the bottom margin (Botmrg)
      • Setting the left margin (Leftmrg)
    • Setting the DEC Mode (DECMode)
      • Horizontal spacing of characters (CPI)
      • Character set (CharSet)
      • User preference character set (UserChr)
      • Printer ID (Prn.ID)
      • Deleting sequence or buffer (CAN Fkt.)
      • Disconnection on end of transmission (Discnct)
      • Initial Report (Report)
      • Automatic answerback (Answbck)
      • Answerback on ENQ (Answ_ENQ)
    • Setting the IBM mode (IBMMode)
      • Horizontal spacing of characters (CPI)
      • IBM character set (IBM-Cset)
      • Code page (CodPage)
      • IBM Double Height (DblHigh)
      • Horizontal pitch on Compress (IBMComp)
      • Slashed Zero (Sl.Zero)
    • Setting the EPSON Mode (EPSMode)
      • Horizontal spacing of characters (CPI)
      • EPSON character set (EPS-Cset)
      • Code Page (CodPage)
      • Slashed Zero (Sl.Zero)
  • Menu settings (example)
• Advanced menu
  • Test functions
    • Printer self-test (RollingASCII)
      • Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode
    • Interface test (H-Dump)
      • Printout in Hex-Dump
      • Terminating Hex-Dump
  • Advanced settings
    • Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single)
    • Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back)
    • Reduced power consumption (SleepMod)
• Troubleshooting
  • General print problems
    • The display remains dark
    • The display is lit, but the printer does not print
    • Problems with the paper feed
    • Paper jam (fanfold paper)
    • Paper jam (single sheets)
    • Paper does not move to tear off position
  • Problems with the print quality
    • Print is too pale
    • Smudged print
    • Prints undefined characters
    • The first line is not completely printed out at the top
    • Dots within characters are missing
  • Error messages via the display
  • Additional display messages
• Care and maintenance
  • Replacing the fuse
  • Cleaning the housing
  • Cleaning the interior
  • Cleaning the platen
  • Ribbon
  • Cleaning the upper friction
  • Carriage shafts
• Specifications
  • Printer specifications
  • Interface specifications
  • Paper specifications
• Available character sets and fonts
• Emulations
  • General
  • Escape sequences
  • What are escape sequences?
  • How are escape sequences used?
  • Barcode
    • List of available barcodes
• Interfaces
  • Parallel interface
    • Connector assignment
  • Serial interface V.24/ RS232C
    • Connector assignment
    • Interface cable (serial interface)
      • Input signals
      • Output signals
  • Interface-Adapter IF Adapter-Set RS232 (DB9M)/MMP
    • Protocols
      • Memory mode XON/XOFF
      • Memory mode Robust XON/ XOFF
    • Configuring the serial interface of the PC
      • DOS mode
      • Windows 95/98/ME
      • Windows 2000/NT 4.0/XP
  • Physical printer port in Ethernet with TCP/IP
    • Example of a printer connected to a computer in an Ethernet
    • Example of several devices in an Ethernet
• Options and accessories
  • Options
    • Tractor 2, front
    • Serial interface adapter
    • MMJ interface adapter
    • Others
    • Optional firmware
  • Accessories
    • Ribbon cassettes
    • Optional paper support
    • Programming manuals
• Index