Document Outline

• Table of contents
• Introduction
  • Printer features
  • Symbols used
• Printer at a glance
  • Printer in tractor 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
• The control panel
  • The LC display
  • Online mode
  • Offline mode
  • Setup mode
  • Messages in the LC display
  • Key functions when turning on the printer
• Changing the ribbon cassette
• Printer drivers
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 95/98/ME
  • Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/2003/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)
  • Loading optional firmware
    • Troubleshooting
• Paper handling
  • Changing the paper type
    • Changing the paper type in the setup menu
  • Selecting character density and font
  • Loading paper
    • Fanfold paper
    • Single sheets
  • Paper transport
  • Moving the paper to the tear position
  • Removing paper
• Settings
  • Setting the print head gap
  • Setting the tear position
  • Setting the first printing line (TOF)
• The Menu
  • Programming via the control panel
  • Enabling access to menu mode
  • Calling up the menu
  • Menu configurations
  • Menu handling
    • Save settings
    • Selecting the LC display language
    • Terminating Setup mode
  • Menu structure
  • Menu parameters
    • Printing out menu configurations (Print)
    • Loading menu configurations (Menu)
    • Reset to default values (Reset)
    • Quietmode (Quietm.)
    • Selecting font (Font)
    • Setting character density (CPI)
    • Setting line spacing (LPI)
    • Skiping perforation (Skip)
    • Selecting start signal for escape sequence (ESCChar)
    • Selecting emulation (Emulate)
    • Bidirectional printing (Bidir)
    • Settings for interfaces (I/O)
    • Serial interface (Serial)
      • Data transmission rate (Baud)
      • Data format (Format)
      • Further Settings (Special)
      • Error handling (ErrMode)
      • Block end character (Blockend)
      • Signal feedback (Remote)
      • Transparence (Handthr)
      • Protocol (Protocol)
      • Signal Processing (DTR)
    • Selecting interface (Interf.)
    • Interface buffer (Buffer)
    • Ethernet interface (ETH-EXT) option
    • Selecting character set (CG-Tab)
    • IBM character set (CharSet)
    • National character set (Country)
    • Slashed zero (Sl.Zero)
    • Automatic carriage return (Auto-CR)
    • Automatic line feed (Auto-LF)
    • Menu lock (MenLock)
    • Language (Language)
    • Paper parameters (Paper)
      • Form length (Forml)
      • First printing position (FormAdj)
      • Printhead gap manually (Head)
    • View and tear position (AutoTear)
    • Line length (Width)
    • Barcode (Barcode)
    • Normal characters and barcode (Barmode)
    • Form feed mode (FFmode)
    • Setting and activating options (PapOpt)
      • Activation of tractors (AutoTra)
      • Activation of automatic sheet feeder (AutoASF)
    • Setting the left margin (LeftMrg)
    • Setting the right margin (RightMrg)
    • Local copy (screen print) from a Coax or Coax/IPDS (FFaftLC)
    • Enable/Disable Paper Handling Features (Paphand)
  • Menu settings (example)
• Advanced menu
  • Test functions
    • Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII)
      • Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode
    • Interface test (Hex-Dump)
      • Printout in Hex-Dump
      • Terminating Hex-Dump
  • Advanced settings
    • Form length (Forml)
    • Automatic gap adjustment (AGA)
    • Paper handling (Paphand)
      • Increasing the printhead gap (Head up)
      • Paper width (Pagewid)
      • Left-hand area (Leftzon)
      • Right-hand area (Rightzo)
      • Physical left margin (Physlm)
    • Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid)
    • Line wrap (Wrap)
    • Beep at paper end (Sound)
    • Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single)
    • Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back)
    • Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm)
    • Power save mode (Sleepmod)
    • Serial number (SerialN)
    • Asset number (AssetN)
    • Graphic Print Speed (GrSpeed)
    • Improvement of graphic and barcode print quality (GrFreq)
    • Activate PJL language (Jobcntl)
    • Increased print speed for 17.1 and 20 cpi (HS-Draft)
• 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
• Character sets
  • MTPL standard character set
  • MTPL, international substitution characters
  • OCR-A character set
  • OCR-B character set
  • Available character sets and fonts
• Emulations
  • General
  • Escape sequences
  • What are escape sequences?
    • MTPL sequences
    • Control codes
    • The $$ procedure
      • Example:
  • How are escape sequences used?
    • MTPL
      • Example in BASIC
      • Example in Pascal
      • Printout
  • List of available control codes
    • PJL commands
  • Barcode
    • List of available barcodes
    • US Postnet barcode
    • Royal Mail Customer barcode
    • KIX barcode
    • USPS Intelligent Mail barcode
    • LC printing
    • List of additional control codes
• Interfaces
  • Parallel interface
    • Connector assignment
  • Serial interface V.24/RS232C
    • Connector assignment
    • Interface cable (serial interface)
      • Input signals
      • Output signals
    • Protocols
      • Memory mode XON/XOFF
      • Memory mode Robust XON/ XOFF
      • Extended menu functions with the ENQ/STX and ETX/ACK protocols selected
      • ENQ/STX protocol
      • ETX/ACK protocol
• Options and accessories
  • Options
    • Automatic cut sheet feeder, front (ASF-F)
    • Automatic cut sheet feeder, rear (ASF-R)
    • Tractor 2, front
    • Tractor 3, rear
    • Serial interface adapter
    • Optional paper support
    • Pocket Ethernet interface
    • Serial interface RS232/TTY
    • Others
  • Accessories
    • Ribbon cassettes
    • Programmer’s application manuals
• Index