Star Micronics NB24-10-15 User Manual

USER’S MANUAL

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Federal Communications Commission

Radio Fre 8 uency Interference

This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and if not installed and used
properly, that is, in strict accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, may cause in­terference to radio and television reception. It has been type tested and found to comply
with the limits for a Class B computing device in accordance with the specifications in
Subpart J of Part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection
against such interference in a residential installation. However, there is no guarantee
that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause
interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the
equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or
more of the following measures:

OReorient the receiving antenna
*Relocate the computer with respect to the receiver
*Move the computer away from the receiver
*Plug the computer into a different outlet so that computer and receiver are on dif-

ferent branch circuits.

If necessary,. the user should consult the dealer or an experienced radio/television techni­cian for additional suggestions. The user may find the following booklet, prepared by

the Federal Communications Commission helpful: “How to Identif
TV Interference Problems.” This booklet is available from the U.
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For compliance with Federal Noise Interference Standard, this equipment requires a
shielded cable.

This statement will be applied only for the printers marketed in U.S.A.

Radio interferences regarding this equipment has been eliminated according to Vfg
1046/1984 announced by the DBP.
DBP has been informed about the introduction of this special equipment and has been

conceded the right to examine the whole series.

It is uoon the resnonsibilitv of the user to assume that his own assembled svstem is in ac­cordance with the technical regulations under Vfg 1046/1984.
To observe FTZ-regulations it is necessary, to establish all connections to the printer
with shielded cable.
The equipment may only be opened by qualified service representatives.

This statement will be applied only for the printers marketed in West Germany.

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Trademark Acknowledgement

NB24-10, NB24-15: Star Micronics Co., Ltd.

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Eas Writer: Information Unlimited Software, Inc.
IBJ PC, IBM Graphics printer, IBM Proprinter: International Business

Machines Corp.

Lotus l-2-3: Lotus Development Corp.
LQ 1000: Seiko Epson Corp.
Microsoft BASIC: Microsoft Corporation
WordStar: MicroPro International Corporation

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“Copyright 19% Star Micronics Co., Ltd.

A Special Message

to the New Owner

Congratulations for choosing this printer, one of the finest
available at any price. Your new printer will reward you with
many years of high-quality document printing, and is backed by
Star Micronics’ more than 30 years in manufacturing precision
parts. You already know that it represents the state of the art in
tack-sharp dot matrix printing with its rugged 24-pin print head.

Its bidirectional, logic-seeking operation gives you Letter-Quali­ty hardcopy at 72 characters per second, and draft-quality print
at speeds of up to 216 characters per second.

Its many features include:

l High-resolution graphics
l Built-in expandable buffer
l An entire range of character sets for printing in thirteen

languages

l Choice of various typestyles
l Easy, front panel operation
l Automatic paper feed

And, best of all, your new printers is compatible with the most
popular personal computers and software packages - so no mat­ter how sophisticated your applications become, it will continue
to meet your needs.

These are just a few of the reasons you chose a product by
Star Micronics, one of the most respected names in dot matrix
printers. We want you to get the most from your printer with
the least effort on your part, so please take a few minutes to
read this easy-to-understand guide. You’ll find that it will help
you produce crisp, clean documents in the shortest time possi­ble.

You will also find that this printer is remarkably simple to set

up and operate, and that it’s virtually maintenance-free. Enjoy
your new Star Micronics printer!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Setting Up Your Printer

Locating the printer
Check the carton contents

Removing the printer cover
Removing the packing tube
Removing shipping screws
Fitting the platen knob
Installing the ribbon cartridge
Installing the mute cover
Installing the interface board
Installing the font cartridge

Getting to Know Your Printer

Controls and parts of the printer

Parts of the printer
Controls and indicators
Extra functions
Other controls

Selecting and loading paper

Loading single sheets

Loading sprocket-feed paper
Adjusting the print head
Testing the printer

Connecting the printer

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Chapter 3 Using the Printer with Commercial 25

Software

Using commercial software
Word processing with the printer
General concepts

The escape code
The master reset code
Using Letter Quality (LQ)
Getting the most from your print choices

Using the printer with EasyWriter II

Redefining pitch settings and print control
codes
A sample printout with EasyWriter II
Redefining your own print pitches
Redefining your own print control keys

Using the printer with WordStar

User-defind print commands

Using the printer with Lotus l-Z-3

Using the panel modes

Advanced panel functions

Setting print start position
Setting the top of form
Setting the left and right margins
Clearing the print buffer

Chapter 4

Printing with BASIC

Some basics of BASIC

First steps
ASCII codes and the CHR$ function
Control codes
The escape codes
A note on command syntax

Selecting the right software mode

Some special kinds of text

Draft and Letter Quality characters
Italic printing
Characters in the Font Cartridge
Underlining and overlining
Superscripts and subscripts

Changing the print pitch

Expanded print
Condensed print

Proportional printing
Making words stand out
Mixing print modes

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Chapter 5

Formatting Text

Lines and line spacing

Starting a new line
Reverse line feeds
Changing the line spacing
Moving down the page without a carriage re­turn

Page control

Form feed
Reverse form feed
Setting the top of form

Changing the page length
Top and bottom margins
Setting left and right margins
Horizontal and vertical tabs

Horizontal tabs

One-time horizontal tabs

Vertical tabs

Vertical tab channels
Centering and aligning text

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Chapter 6

Special Features of the Printer 87

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Resetting the printer
Taking the printer off line
Printing the bottom of the sheet
Backspace, delete, and cancel text

Printing zeroes
Immediate-print
Adjusting the width of space between
characters
Printing at half-speed
Uni-directional printing
The seven bit dilemma
Block graphics characters and special sym­bols

International character sets
Printing characters in the control code area
Printing BIG characters
The optional sheet feeder
Reading a hex dump

Chapter 7

Download Characters and Dot

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Graphics

Dot matrix printing
Designing your own characters

Assigning a value of character space
Assigning a value to your character

Download character definition command
Printing download characters
The print mode and the download characters

Draft download characters

Letter quality download characters

Storing the download characters
User-designed Dot Graphics

Specifying the graphics data
Compatibility with existing software
Redefining alternate graphics codes

Chapter 8

Caring for Your Printer

Cleaning the printer
Replacing the ribbon
Replacing the print head

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Appendix A DIP Switch Settings

Switch functions

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D Function Codes

ASCII Code Conversion Chart

Character Code Table

Standard mode characters
IBM mode characters

Character set #l
Character set #2
All Character set

Commands to control print style

Font style controls
Font pitch controls
Special print modes

Controlling the vertical print position

Line feed and reverse line feed controls
Form feed and related commands

Top/bottom margins and vertical tabs
Controlling the horizontal print position
Download character commands
Dot graphics commands
Other commands

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Appendix E Command Summary in Numeric

Order

Standard mode
IBM-G mode
IBM-P mode

Appendix F Technical Specifications
Appendix G

The Parallel Interface

Functions of the connector signals

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Appendix H Serial Interfack Specifications

Configuring the serial interface
The serial protocols

Serial busy protocols
XON/XOFF protocol
ACK protocol

Index

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CHAPTER 1

SETTING UP YOUR

PRINTER

Subjects covered in Chapter 1 include-

. Choosing a suitable place for your printer

l Unpacking
l Setting up

LOCATING THE PRINTER

Give some thought to the best place to put the printer. Both
the printer and computer should be used in normal office sur­roundings. For best performance, we recommend:

l Use the printer on a flat surface.
l Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from heat-

producing appliances.

l Use it only in temperatures where you are comfortable.
l Avoid locations with dust, grease, or high humidity.
l Supply it “clean”

same circuit used by large, noise-producing appliances
(such as refrigerators).

l Make sure the line voltage is within 10% of the voltage

specified on the identification plate.

electricity. Don’t connect it to the

CHECK THE CARTON CONTENTS

Open the carton and check each item in the box against
Figure l-l to make sure that you have everything (there should
be six items).

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Figure l- 1. Check to make sure you have all six items: 1) Printer,

2) Mute cover, 3) Paper guide, 4) Ribbon cartridge, 5) Platen knob,
and 6) User’s manual.

You should also have a parallel interface board to connect
your computer to the printer. Also available are a parallel inter­face board with extra buffer memory and a serial interface
board, both optional. (More on interfaces later.)

W Removing the printer cover

The printer’s cover is important for two reasons - it keeps

dust and dirt away from the printer’s delicate mechanism, and it

absorbs nearly all of the printer’s operating sounds. Don’t take
off the cover unless you have to change the ribbon or make an
adjustment.

To remove the cover, lift up the back of the cover to

disengage the two or three tabs at the front, then lift it off the

rest of the way. To replace the cover, slide the tabs in at the
front and lower it into place. Figure l-2 shows the proper posi­tion and movement for both removing and replacing the cover.

Figure 1-2. Remove the printer cover by lifting carefully.

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n Removing the packing tube

The printer is shipped with a protective spiral tube to keep

the print head from being damaged during shipping. This tube

Carriage

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Figure 1-3.

Remove the protective tube from the carriage rail.

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must be removed before use. First, take off the printer cover.
The protective tube is split along its bottom side to allow easy
removal. Grasp one end of the spiral tube and firmly pull it up­ward and away from the carriage rail.

n Removing shipping screws (15-inch type only)

There are two shipping screws inside the 15-inch type printer,
used to hold the internal chassis securely to the lower case dur­ing shipping. To get at these, remove the printer cover from the

printer. Then remove the red screws with a Phillips screwdriver

as shown in Figure 1-4.

You’ll be smart to save these screws, along with the rest of
the packing material and the shipping carton, in case you ever
have to ship the printer. Tape the screws somewhere on the car­ton or packing.

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foam packing material which held your printer inside the pack­ing box. Be careful to remove the knob before disposing of the
packing pieces.

n Installing the ribbon cartridge

This printer uses a neat, easy-to-change ribbon cartridge with

automatic threading. To fit or change the ribbon cartridge:

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Figure l-5.

snap into place.

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Press the cartridge into place until the holding springs

1. Turn off the power and remove the printer cover.

2. Slide the print head gently to the center of the printer.
Warning: The print head gets hot during operation, so

let it cool off before you touch it.

3. Set the release lever to either single sheet (P) or

sprocket-feed paper (li).

4. With the ribbon facing away from you, use the guide
holders as a fulcrum, and lightly press the cartridge
down until the two holder springs snap shut to hold the

cartridge firmly in place. See Figure l-5.

5. Check that the cartridge fits so that the drive pins

engage the cartridge teeth, by turning the ribbon ad­vance knob. Advance the ribbon to take up any slack.

6. Gently slide the print head carriage manually all the way

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to your right or left until the ribbon automatically slips
down into its proper place between the print head and
the silver ribbon guide.

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To thread the ribbon, slide the print head carriage
manually to the right OP left, and the ribbon will slip down by itself into
its proper position.

7. Replace the printer cover. (A switch on the printer
prevents the printer from operating when the cover is

off .)

n Installing the mute cover

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Figure 1-7. Install the mute cover by holding vertically, then lay

down on the printer cover.

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The mute cover reduces the printer’s operating sounds.

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Note the position of the guide pins on the mute cover as
shown in Figure l-7. Holding the mute cover at each end, insert
the guide pins into the cutout hooks on the printer cover. Hold
the mute cover down onto the printer.

To remove it, reverse the procedure.

n Installing the interface board

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Figure 1-8.

, Interface

Slide the I/F board into the slot.

A parallel interface board comes standard with your printer.
In addition, there are two optional interface (I/F) boards: a serial
interface board that lets you connect to a serial (RS-232C) com­puter port; and the other board contains extra buffer memory
for parallel output. All three boards are installed the same way.

To install or change an I/F board, turn off the power and turn
the printer around. Notice the snap-on cover at the left end.
Take it off by sliding it upwards.

Fit the I/F board into the side slots and slide it all the way
down (don’t force it). Make sure that the board connector is
seated snugly in its socket. Put the cover back on and connect

the cable from your computer - you’re ready to go.

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n Installing the font cartridge

This printer is mounted the Prestige characters as standard.
You can add one or two different character styles by installing

the optional font cartridges to the printer.

To install or change a font cartridge, start by turing off the

power switch.

Fit the font cartridge into the slot and slide it all the way.

Ggure 1-9. Slide the font cartridge into front slot while the power

CHAPTER 2

GETTING TO KNOW

YOUR PRINTER

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Subjects covered in Chapter 2 include-

. Parts of the printer - what they’re for and how

to use them

l Paper selection and loading
l Adjustment
l Testing printer operation

CONTROLS AND PARTS OF THE PRINTER

n Parts of the printer

PRINTER COVER - This protects the ribbon and the print
head from dust and dirt, and cuts down the sound of the printer.
MUTE COVER - This further reduces the sound of the
printer.
PAPER GUIDE - This flat plastic molding guide has two
functions, depending on what kind of paper you are using. If you

are using single sheets, the guide is propped up on top of the
printer, and serves as a guide. If you are using sprocket-feed
paper, the guide is reversed and laid flat on top of the printer,
and serves as a paper separator.
POWER CORD - This cord connects the printer to its power
source, usually a wall outlet. It’s located at the left rear of the
printer.
PRINT HEAD - This is the device that does the actual print­ing. Like the strike lever in a typewriter, tiny pins in the print
head hit the paper through a ribbon.
TRACTOR FEED UNIT - The drive gear and sprockets of

the tractor feed unit move sprocket-feed paper through the

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Mute cover

Printer cover

Control panel

Interface cover

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Font cartridge slot

Front and rear views.of the printer.

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Platen knob

printer.

PLATEN - This is the rubber cylinder that carries paper to

the print head.
INTERFACE COVER - On the back of the printer, this

cover conceals and protects the interface board. The cover is
cut away to expose the external connector to which you attach

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your computer cable.

SLOTS FOR FONT CARTRIDGES - These are the two

openings at the bottom right of the front of the printer. Insert­ing an optional font cartridge pushes the small door up out of
the way and exposes a connector which accepts the cartridge.

n Controls and indicators

Now let’s go over the controls and indicators of the printer,
starting with the control panel on the right. There are twelve in­dicators and seven keys on the control panel.

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Figure 2-2.

The control panel.

POWER INDICATOR - Glows green when the power is on.
PAPER EMPTY INDICATOR - Glows red when the

printer runs out of paper and when certain printer malfunctions
occur.
FORM LENGTH SWITCH - Tells the printer how long the
pages are.
TYPE STYLE INDICATORS - Glows green to indicate the
character set in use as shown below (set by the Type Style key

or the DIP switch).

Indicator to glow

Type Style
None Roman Internal Characters
Italic Italic Internal Characters
Fl Roman Font 1 Characters
Fl and Italic Italic Font 1 Characters
F2 Roman Font 2 Characters (15” type only)
F2 and Italic

Italic Font 2 Characters

(15” type only)

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TYPE STYLE KEY - Changes the type style among four or
six styles when the On Line indicator is off.
QUALITY INDICATORS - Either DRAFT or LETTER
glows green to indicate the character quality (set by the Quality

key).

QUALITY KEY - Changes the print quality every time it is
pressed when the On Line indicator is off.
PITCH INDICATORS - Shows the character pitch current­ly set as shown below.

Indicator to glow Print Pitch
Pica

Elite
Cond
Pica and Cond
Elite and Cond
Prop and Pica

Pica pitch (10 CPI)
Elite pitch (12 CPI)
Semi-condensed pitch (15 CPI)
Pica condensed pitch (17 CPI)
Elite condensed pitch (20 CPI)

Pica proportional pitch
Prop and Elite Elite proportional pitch
Prop and Cond

Semi-condensed proportional pitch

(with control code only)

Prop, Pica and Pica condensed proportional pitch
Cond

(with control code only)

Prop, Elite and Elite condensed proportional pitch
Cond

(with control code only)

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PRINT PITCH KEY - Selects one of the seven available
character pitches when the On Line indicator is off as shown

above.

TOP OF FORM KEY - Ejects the current sheet, feeds a new
sheet, and moves the print head to the left margin when the On
Line indicator is off.
PAPER FEED KEY - Advances the paper one line at a time
when the On Line indicator is off. If you hold the key down, you
get consecutive line feeds..
ON LINE KEY and INDICATOR - Glows green when the
printer is ready to receive data from your computer (on line).
When the printer is off line, it sends a signal to the computer in­dicating that it cannot accept data. Pressing the On Line key
switches the printer between on line and off line.

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w Extra functions

There are twelve more functions that are not directly
specified on the control panel. You can access six of them by
pressing one particular key when you turn on the power; six
others are activated by pressing two control keys at once.

Type Style

Panel mode

Figure 2-3.

*+: Hold down
*: Press

Hex dump Self-test 1

Print Pitch
Panel mode

Quality Panel mode

Extra functions while turning on the printer.

Self-test 2

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Clear the buffer

Left margin set

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Figure 2-4. You can set many functions by the combinations of theA

Right margin set

control panel keys while in the Off Line mode.

For details, please refer to the end of next chapter.

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n Other controls

There are other controls, not connected to the control panel.

Some of the more important ones are:

POWER SWITCH - The switch that turns the printer on
and off is at the back, on the left side.
PLATEN KNOB - This knob is at the middle of the right
side and lets you turn the platen by hand, like a typewriter.
Caution: Turn the platen knob only with the Power switch off.
Turning the knob with the power on could damage the drive
gears.
RELEASE LEVER - The release lever is on top of the
printer, near the left rear corner. It controls how strongly the
paper is held against the platen. The release lever has four posi­tions: the top setting is used for inserting paper, the next is for
single sheets, the third is for sprocket-feed paper, and the bot­tom one is used when adjusting the paper.
PAPER BAIL - The bail is the movable bar that holds the
paper against the platen. Its position depends on the setting of
the release lever.
DIP SWITCHES - There are one set of ten switches and one

set of eight switches that are used in interfacing the printer to
your particular computer. There are also switches to set print
pitch, line spacing, and perforation skipping. See Appendix A
for a complete list and explanation.

SELECTING AND LOADING PAPER

Your printer handles two basic types of paper - single sheets
(stationery, envelopes, multipart business forms, etc.) and con­tinuous paper (fan-fold perforated paper).

The release lever controls the pressure of the paper against

the platen. It has four settings:

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J - The top setting is used when you want to load paper in

the printer.
E - The second setting is for normal single sheets.
fi - The third is for sprocket-feed paper.
4 - The bottom one is used when you want to release the

paper completely to adjust it.

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The paper bail holds the paper against the platen according to
the setting of the release lever. The bail is opened when the
release lever is in the top position, closed when the lever is in
the second or third positions, and opened by the printer when
the lever is in the bottom position.

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Figure 2-5.

Use friction feed for single sheets and tractor feed for

Release lever

continuous paper.
n Loading single sheets

Instead of feeding the paper in manually by turning the platen

knob, you can use the release lever for automatic feeding (the
printer must be turned on). Single sheets from 5.5 to 8.5 inches
wide (6 to 14.5 inches for the 15-inch type) can be used and the
paper guide must be fitted:

1. Flip the clamp levers backward and move the sprockets
and sheet guides on the tractor feed unit all the way to

the ends.

2. With the ribs of the paper guide toward you and the
sliding adjuster at the bottom left, insert the guide into

the slot at the back of the printer cover.

3. Insert the guide stand in the notches provided for it and

prop up the paper guide.

4. Position the adjuster at the triangle marked on the guide

for standard margins, or set it according to your own re­quirements.

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Raise the paper guide for loading single sheets.

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Figure 2-7.

Prop up the paper guide by inserting the guide stand in

the notches provided for it.

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5. Set the release lever for single sheets - the second posi-
tion from the top.

6. Align a sheet of paper on the guide along the adjuster.

7. Turn on the power switch. (The Paper Empty indicator
will glow because there is no paper.)

8. Now set the release lever to the auto-feed setting - the

top position. The printer will advance the paper
automatically.

9. When the paper stops, set the release lever for single
sheets again.

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the release lever.

To align paper that is not in straight-

. Set the release lever to the adjustment setting.

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l Straighten the paper and adjust it for the margins you

want.

l Move the release lever back to its original setting.

Remember, you can also use the optional automatic sheet

feeder for single sheets.

n Loading sprocket-feed paper

This is standard computer paper, with the holes along the
sides and perforations between the sheets, It is also called
sprocket, punched, fan-fold, or just plain “computer paper”. It

can be as narrow as 4 inches, and up to 10 inches wide (4 inches
to 15.5 inches on 15-inch type).

1. Turn on the printer and set the release lever for
sprocket-feed paper.

2. If the paper guide is installed, remove it, and put it aside
for a moment.

3. Place a stack of fan-fold paper behind the printer.

4. Open the sprocket covers, on the right and left sprocket
units, as shown in Figure 2-9.

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Figure 2-9. Open the sprocket covers to expose the sprocket teeth.

5. Flip the clamp levers backward. This allows the two
sprocket units to move freely right and left so you can
align them with the holes in the paper.

6. Feed the end of the paper into the slot next to the platen

cover plate.

7. Fit the holes in the paper over the sprocket pins so the

paper is even, and clamp the sprocket units in place.

8. Check that the paper is still positioned correctly, and
close the sprocket covers (Figure 2-10).

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tioned correctly.

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Figure 2-11. Ready to load the sprocket-feed paper. Note the

reversed position of the paper guide.

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9. Set the release lever to the auto-feed setting. The printer
will advance the paper automatically.

10. When the paper stops, set the release lever for sprocket­feed paper again.

11. Install the paper guide on the printer. See Figures 2-10
and 2-11 for details. When used with sprocket-feed
paper, the guide is turned around and laid flat (Figure 2-

10) or raise (Figure 2-11) on top of the printer as a paper
separator. Make sure that the tabs on the guide fit into
their receivers.

ADJUSTING THE PRINT HEAD

The distance between the print head and the platen must be
adjusted to accommodate papers of different thicknesses. To
make this adjustment, move the adjustment lever, which is
under the printer cover and immediately in front of the release
lever (Figure 2-12). Pulling the adjustment lever towards you
will widen the gap; pushing it away from you will narrow the

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There are four positions; you can feel the lever clicking into
the various notches. The first step (shown) is the one most com­monly used for single sheets of paper.

Try different positions until you get the best printing results.

Figure 2-12.

of paper.

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TESTING THE PRINTER

Your printer has two built-in programs that printout sample

lines of letters, numbers, and other characters - to show you
that everything’s in good working order. Self-test 1 is the long
version, and self-test 2 is the short one. You can use either one

to show the characters available in the printer, to check the in-

stallation of the ribbon and paper, and to check the adjustment

of the head-to-platen gap.

You can print the self-test without hooking up the printer to

your computer. Simply:

1. Plug in the printer (don’t turn it on yet).

2. Insert a sheet of paper (or sprocket paper, either one).

3. While holding down one of the following keys, turn on
the power switch:

Paper Feed key - Self-test 1 (long)
On Line key - Self-test 2 (short)

When you want to terminate the long self-test function, turn

off the power switch.

CONNECTING THE PRINTER

Now that you’ve assembled and tested your printer, all that re-

mains is to connect it to your computer as follows:

1. Make sure that both your computer and printer are
turned off.

2. Connect the printer end of the interface cable to the con­nector socket at the right rear of the printer as shown in
Figure 2-14.

3. Connect the other end of the cable to your computer as
described in the computer manual.