Oki ML1190 User's Guide

ML1120

User’s Guide

45690701EE Rev1

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Document Information ___________________

Microline 1120 User’s Guide

P/N 45690701EE Rev1

September, 2013

Disclaimer_____________________________

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is complete, accurate, and up-to-date. The manufacturer assumes no responsibility for the results of errors beyond its control. The manufacturer also cannot guarantee that changes in software and equipment made by other manufacturers and referred to in this guide will not affect the applicability of the information in it. Mention of software products manufactured by other companies does not necessarily constitute endorsement by the manufacturer.

While all reasonable efforts have been made to make this document as accurate and helpful as possible, we make no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained herein.

The most up-to-date drivers and manuals are available from the web site: http://www.okiprintingsolutions.com

Trademark Information __________________

OKI and Microline are registered trademarks of Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.

Microsoft, MS-DOS and Windows are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Other product names and brand names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their proprietors.

ENERGY STAR __________________________

As an ENERGY STAR Partner, Oki Data has determined that this product meets the ENERGY STAR guidelines for energy efficiency.

Note: Not comply (when employing Network Interface Card).

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Contents

Parts of the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Bottom View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Print Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Change Print Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Entering the Menu Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Changing Menu Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Groups, Items, and Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Printer Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Symbol Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Rear Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Bottom Feed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Top Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Set-Up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Parallel I/F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Serial I/F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Loading Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Loading Single Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Loading Continuous Forms, Rear Feed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Loading Continuous Forms, Bottom Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Set Top of Form (TOF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Use the Printer Menu

Temporary TOF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Form Tear Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Turn On Forms Tear Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Move Continuous Forms Up for Tear Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Printhead Gap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Adjusting the Head Gap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Paper Jams, Individual Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Paper Jams, Continuous Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Part Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Ribbon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Print Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Printhead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Ribbon Life. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Emulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Interfaces (Standard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Receive Buffer Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Reliability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Print Media Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Printer Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Printer Weight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Environmental Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Electrical Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Accessing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Descriptions of Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Installing the Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

OKI DIPUS (Dot Impact Printer Utilities) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

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Parts of the Printer

Front View

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1. Sheet Guide

2. Paper Support

3. Paper Lever

4. Platen Knob (do not use)

5. Head Gap Lever

6. Printhead

7. Control Panel

8. On/Off Switch

9. Ribbon Cartridge

10. Cover, Top Assembly

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Back View

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1. Tra ctors

2. Power Cord Connector

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Bottom View

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1. Parallel Port

2. USB Port

3. RS-232C Serial Port

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Control Panel

Buttons

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Button Print mode Menu mode Other

SEL Toggles the printer on

and off line

LF/FF Advances the paper one

line. Held down, advances paper to the next top of form or ejects single sheet from the printer

LOAD/ EJECT

No paper loaded: loading paper

Single sheet loaded: ejects sheet.

Scrolls through the menu groups

When entering Menu mode, prints the first line. Scrolls through the menu items.

When entering Menu mode, prints the first line. Scrolls through the menu settings.

Held at power up, places printer in Menu mode

SEL + LF/FF selects font

SEL + LOAD/ EJECT selects pitch

Continuous forms loaded: parks paper.

TEAR Continuous forms

loaded: advances paper to tearoff position

LOAD/ EJECT

+ LF/FF

Reverse fine line feed for Top of Form setting (printer deselected)

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SEL + TEAR selects print speed.

Button Print mode Menu mode Other

LOAD/ EJECT

+SEL TEAR +

SEL TEAR +

LF/FF

Forward fine line feed for Top of Form setting (printer deselected)

Reverse fine line feed for Paper Tear setting

Forward fine line feed for Paper Tear setting

Lights

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Light Status, Function

SEL On = Printer is on line

Off = Printer is off line Flashing = Flashes with ALARM light to indicate a

fault has been detected Flashing = Indicates Print Supress status Flashing = Indicates Head Thermal Alarm status Flashing = Indicates Power Save mode (long-cycle

flashing)

ALARM On, SEL light off = paper out

Flashing = paper jam Flashing, SEL light flashing = auto diagnostics have

detected an error

STATUS lights

Indicate print mode selections. See “Print Modes” on page 10.

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Print Modes

Change Print Mode

You can change print modes directly from the front panel. Hold down the SEL button and press the button indicated below. The printer will cycle through the choices as indicated by the two STATUS lights. When you release the buttons the selection is set.

Nota During normal operation, the status lights show the font selection.

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Button combination

SEL + LF/FF Font

SEL + LOAD/EJECT Character pitch

SEL + TEAR Print Speed

Printing style

Near Letter Quality On Utility On High Speed Draft Flashing Super Speed Draft Flashing

10 CPI On 12 CPI On 15 CPI Flashing 17 CPI Flashing 20 CPI On On Proportional Flashing Flashing

Normal On High Speed On Quiet On On

STATUS Light combination

Left Right

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Menus

The printer has an internal menu containing a number of default parameters which can be set to enable your printer to match the parameters required by your computer.

Entering the Menu Mode

To enter the Menu Mode, press SEL while turning on the printer.

Changing Menu Settings

1. Press SEL while turning on the printer.

2. Change settings:

a. Press SEL to select the relevant group that needs to be changed

(the group is the left-hand column on the Menu printout).

b. Press LF/FF to select the relevant item within the selected group

(the Item is the center column on the Menu printout).

c. Press LOAD/EJECT to cycle through the settings available for the

item you want to change (the settings are the right-hand column on the Menu printout).

d. To continue making changes:

• press SEL for the next group

• press LF/FF for the next item.

3. Repeat the previous step until you are finished changing settings.

4. Hold down TEAR, then LOAD/EJECT, then LF/FF together to save the

changes you have made and exit the Menu Mode.

Important

Exiting the Menu Mode by turning off the printer will cancel any changes you have made.

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Groups, Items, and Settings

Each Group includes multiple Items, each of which has selectable Settings.

Group Item 1 Setting 1

… Setting X

…Setting 1

… Setting X

Item X Setting 1

… Setting X

List of Menu Groups

• Printer Control: see page 12

• Font: see page 13

• Symbol Sets: see page 14

• Rear Feed: see page 15

• Bottom Feed: see page 17

• Top Feed: see page 18

• Set-Up: see page 20

• Parallel I/F: see page 22

• Serial I/F: see page 23

Printer Control

Nota The default setting is in bold blue italic type.

Item Settings

Emulation Mode IBM

Epson

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Font

Nota The default setting is in bold blue italic type.

Item Settings

Print Mode

DRAFT Mode

Pitch

Proportional Spacing

Style

Size

Utility

NLQ Courier NLQ Gothic DRAFT

HSD

SSD

10 CPI

12 CPI 15 CPI

17.1 CPI 20 CPI

Yes

Normal

Italics

Single

Double *

* Selects double width and double height characters.

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Symbol Sets

Nota The default setting is in bold blue italic type.

Item Settings

Character Set

Language Set

Zero Character Slashed

Standard

Line Graphics (ML emulation only) Block Graphics (ML emulation only)

Set I (Epson/IBM emulation only)

Set II (Epson/IBM emulation only)

American

French German British Danish 1 Swedish Italian Spanish I Japanese Norwegian Danish II Spanish II Latin American French Canadian Dutch Publisher

Unslashed

(ML emulation only)

Code Page

USA

Canada French Multilingual Portugal Norway Multilingual 858 ISO 8859-15 BRASCII Abicomp

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Rear Feed

Nota The default setting is in bold blue italic type.

Item Settings

Line Spacing

Form Tear-off

Skip Over Perf.

Page Length

6 LPI

8 LPI

Manual

0.5 sec

1.0 sec

2.0 sec Note: The Form Tear Off feature allows you to advance

25.4 mm (1”)

279.4 mm (11")

296.3 mm (11 2/3")

304.8 mm (12")

355.6 mm (14")

431.8 mm (17")

76.2 mm (3")

82.6 mm (3.25")

84.7 mm (10/3”)

88.9 mm (3.5")

93.1 mm (11/3”)

101.6 mm (4”) 127 mm (5”)

139.7 mm (5.5")

152.4 mm (6")

177.8 mm (7")

203.2 mm (8")

215.9 mm (8.5")

continuous forms to the stacker for tear off.

When Form Tear-off is activated (on), the paper will advance to the tear bar position AFTER the printer has been idle for the selected interval (0.5, 1, or 2 seconds).

When more data is received and processed by the printer, the paper automatically returns to the original printing position.

Cut position adjust - 20 ~ - 1

+ 1 ~ +20

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Item Settings

TOF adjust (continuous)

Continuous paper top of form

- 20 ~ - 1

+ 1 ~ +20

2.12 mm (1/12”)

4.23 mm (2/12”)

6.35 mm (3/12”)

8.47 mm (4/12”)

10.58 mm (5/12”)

12.70 mm (6/12”)

14.82 mm (7/12”)

16.93 mm (8/12”)

19.05 mm (9/12”)

21.17 mm (10/12”)

23.28 mm (11/12”)

25.40 mm (12/12”)

27.52 mm (13/12”) User Top of Form

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