1 Model name Add paper width, modified2004.06.28 2004.06.28
2 Configuration Add jack socket, add notes3 Print speed Add notes 4 Presenter Added 4 External dimension Add A type 4 Weight Add A type 6 Power specification Modified chart, notes 7 Presenter life Added 7 Safety Regulation certified 8 External drawing Add dimensions (NP-266) 12 External drawing Added (NP-366 II AU) 13 Upstream port Modified 14 Datasignalinput Add notes 15 CN9 USB Data signa Added l input 16 DS1-7: ON 150mm/s, added notes 16 Dip switch R,U type 17 Error details Add presenter error Add presenter cramp Add blink-3 20 Presenter drive Add / modify notes 22,45 Presenter compulsoryAdded eject
time setting 36 Printer status bit5, bit6 transmission 41 Printer auto status bit5, bit6 transmission 60 Mode status of Add presenter retraction time settings (line mode) setting
Wrong handling of the printer may cause its performance declined and the product damaged. Please read
the notes below before handling.
1. Static discharge prevention must be made for installation and removal of the printer to protect IC and
other electrical parts. Connect it to the earth ground. It is also requested to remove the static from
body of the person before handling, especially, the input terminal.
2. Avoid excessive force to the input terminal for handling.
3. When any type of paper, other than specified in this manual, is used, it may cause deterioration of the
print quality and thermal head reliability.
Examples of troubles
1) Print quality deterioration by using low sensitivity paper.
2) Thermal head wears due to roughness of paper surface.
3) Sticking between heat receipt layer and thermal head, and vibration noise during printing.
4) Print ink disappears on low print durability paper.
5) Electrolyte corrosion on thermal head due to low quality of heat receipt layer.
4. Avoid printing with no paper loaded. It damages platen and thermal head, printer life will be shorten.
5. Do not scrabble thermal head with sharp edge or something hard, or give impact. The heat element
may be damaged.
6. Set the power of printer off before connecting or removing connecters.
7. When printing in high speed under low temperature of high humidity environment, the paper may be
stained by moisture that appears from paper, or the printer may have condensation. Avoid dew from
dropping down to the thermal head that may cause electrolyte corrosion. Turn the power off until any
dew is removed.
8. The printer is not protected from water or dew formed. Do not water the printer or handle it with a wet
hand, which may cause damage to the printer due to short circuit, or heat or fire.
9. The printer is not protected from dust or dirt. If it is used at dusty place, the thermal head may be
damaged or paper feed is not operated properly.
10. When cooling the printer with a fan, avoid the printer’s paper outlet from locating fan’s air inlet. It may
cause mal-function of printer.
11. Reflection type of infrared ray sensors are used at some locations in the printer. Direct sun light may
cause mal-function of printer. Avoid from such a location for installation.
12. This printer does not support any operations caused by the commands or control commands not
specified in this manual.
13. Please use both hand when you hold the printer.
14. In order to prevent excess current, please put elemental device to external 24V power line (Please
refer to the power supply specification for the details), and also put fuse.
15. Please plug off the printer when you do not use the product for a long time. Please also insert paper
between the platen.
16. When paper jam occurred, please make sure to slowly remove the paper to paper exit direction
after head up status.
17. The product is designed to use with general electronic devices (Computer, PC, OA, others). This is not
designed and not guaranteed to use with extremely high quality, high reliability product or product whose
failure may danger human life (Atomic power control device, aerospace aircraft devices, Transportation
devices, Traffic signal devices, Ignition control devices, Medical devices, other safety equipments: we call
“Specific application” thereafter). Users take full responsibility for using with such specific application.
18. The product uses part that includes GaAS (Gallium arsenide).Please do not break the product, no
chemical splitting ,otherwise it may harm human with such part broken pieces.
19. If less than Ø18 mm roll paper is used, the paper may be prevented to exit. Please do not use roll
paper with coreless.
This printer is 2-inch (NP-266) / 3-inch (NP-366) receipt thermal printer with super high printing
speed. The NP-266/366 is designed compact and user-friendly by adopting easy operation
mechanism. It is a high performance printer unit equipped with auto cutter, featuring super high
speed and high quality printing, supporting a variety of applications.
1.2 Features
1) Easy operation mechanism applied for easy paper replacement
2) Super high printing speed of Max. 220mm/sec (when printing ASCII in full line, head temp. more
than 35 degree C excluding transmission time)
3) Low cost
4) Interface available for USB (V2.0 FULL SPEED) and Serial (RS232C)
5) Downloading the firmware is available by communication.
6) Easy to rewrite firmware by flash memory
7) 3 patterns of registration available with bit image.
8) Emulation: compliant with ESC/POS
9) Universal type AC adapter (AC100V-AC240V) available.(see Note 1 below)
10) Windows drivers (Windows95/98/NT4.0/2000/XP) available.
Note 1: AC adapter is an option
Note 2: Windows Driver supporting USB is Windows 2000/XP version.
1.3 Model name
NP-266 II F U - *
① ② ③ ④ ⑤
1: Paper width (Factory option)
2: 58 mm (2 inch) 3: 80 mm (3 inch)
2: Board specs (Factory option)
I: Direct input to the control board with serial / USB 2 power supply 5V and 24V (18P) II:Power supply and Interface input through the board
R: D-sub 9 pin connecter
U: USB connector B jack (4P) Single power supply 24 V
5. Print speed (Max.) Max. 220 mm / sec
Condition Head temp. more than 35 ℃/ ASCII full print
Except for communication time
※Max. 150 mm/sec for A type
6. Print digits Font A (12×24) 36 digits 48 digits
Font B (9×17) 48 digits 64 digits
7.Space between Adjustable by the command characters ※Default value
Font A (12 x 24) 0 mm
Font B (9 x 17) 0 mm
8. Line feed pitch 0.125 mm
2 Character 1. Character size
specs. Font A (12×24) 1.50×3.00 mm
Font B (9×17) 1.13×2.13 mm
2. Character types ASCII 224
Block graphics 80 x 2
International 32
2.2 Printing area and cut position
Partial cut remaining tab: approx. 2 mm (P type only)
Cut Position
Cutter to Head
Approx.13±1.0mm
1dot 2dots D dots (Note1)
Feed direction
0.125mm
0.125mm
B ±0.2mm
(Note1)
A ±1.0mmA ±1.0mmApprox. 6 mm feed will take place by the C mm firmware, so the margin
0
-1
will be 19±1mm.
Note2: Please take care not to take the paper very hard after the partial cut, which cause heavy load on
platen and might cause the poor print quality on the head part of next line. To avoid such problem,
please take care by feeding approx. 1 mm at the beginning of print or by take the paper to the direction
to left or right.
Note3: The cut mode (full cut or partial cut) is set by the factory. No change of cut mode is done by the
command setting.
NP-266 NP-366
OptionalAC adapter will be used for this printer(Power to be supplied from outside)
Connector on printer side :TCS7960-532010 Hosiden or equivalent Connector on Adapter side :TCP8927-631100 Hosiden or equivalent
Power supply Printing average of 25% Printing average of 100 %
NP-266 I 24V Max. approx. 2.10 A Max. approx. 8.33 A
5V Max. approx. 0.16 A Max. approx. 0.17 A
NP-266 II 24V Max. approx. 2.10 A Max. approx. 7.33 A
NP-366 I 24V Max. approx. 2.90 A Max. approx. 11.33 A
5V Max. approx. 0.16 A Max. approx. 0.17 A
NP-366II 24V Max. approx. 2.90 A Max. approx. 10.67 A
NP-366 IA 24V Max. approx. 2.90 A Max. approx. 11.38 A
5V Max. approx. 0.16 A Max. approx. 0.17 A
NP-366IIA 24V Max. approx. 2.90 A Max. approx. 10.72 A
* Paper Feed only : Average approx. 0.30 A
3) Standard Adapter specifications(Option)
Model : POWER SUPPLY PS3 (UP0601S-24P) Maker : UMEC Input Power Voltage : AC100V~AC240VOutput Power Voltage : DC24V±5% 2.5A max
Note:
Printing average of 25% is available for the optional AC Adapter PS3 (UP0601S-24P) for NP-266 and
20% for the NP-366. Please use a higher capacity AC adaptor for more than such printing or for the
other power supply prepared by your side.
Pulse : More than 100 million pulses (Applied 25℃ of rated energy)
Wear distance : More than 100 km
* Normal temp. Normal humidity with recommended paper
1) Data signal input connector (Serial Type II)
Printer side : 17LE23090-027(D4CK) (DDK) or equivalent
Host side : 17JE13090-02(DDK) or equivalent
Pin No. Signal Input/Output Function Remark
1 N.C -
2 TXD Output Serial transmit data
3 RXD Input Serial receving data
4 N.C -
5 GND - Singnal ground
6 - -
7 CTS Input Transmit permission signal
8 RTS Output Transmit request signal
9 N.C
2) Data signal input connector (Serial Type I)
Data signal and power input
Connecter on printer: DF11-18DP-2DS (52) Hirose
Proper connecter : DF11-18DS-2C Hirose
Pin No. Signal name Input/Output Function Remarks
1 /RESET Input RESET Input (-)
※1
2 RTS Output Printer busy
3 CTS Input Host busy
4 - - N.C.
5 RXD Input Receives data
6 TXD Output Transmitted data
7 GND - Common GND
8 GND - Common GND
9 GND - Common GND
10 GND - Common GND
11 GND - Common GND
12 GND - Common GND
13 +5V Input Circuit power Vcc
14 +5V Input Circuit power Vcc
15 +24V Input Power supply VM for head, cuter, motor
16 +24V Input Power supply VM for head, cuter, motor
17 +24V Input Power supply VM for head, cuter, motor
18 +24V Input Power supply VM for head, cuter, motor
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※2
※1. It is reset by “L” pulse input at 50msec (typical). The level is below 0.7V.
/RESET signal input is effective only on Serial Type I.
※2. All pin no.7 -18 to be connected. Please connect thick and short, as large current may flow.
Please take necessary measure to stabilize the power supply by connecting a electrolytic
condenser (approx. 2200μ) or so. Withstand voltage over 35V must be applied.
3) Data Signal Input Connector (USB for type II)
Printer side connector: B jack DUSB-BRA42-T11(DDK) or equivalent
Host side Connector: B plug
Pin No. Signal Input / Output Function Remark
1 VBUS Input Power line Non twist power line
2 D- Input and output Data line Twist pair signal line
3 D+ Input and output Data line Twist pait signal line
4 GND - Power line Non twist power line
Shell Shield -
* Use USB cable which conforms to the standard (FULL SPEED)
* We do not support the operation by using a cable out of the standard.
4) CN9 Data Signal Input Connector (USB for type I)
Printer side connector: Mini-B 5P TCX0101-110100 Hosiden or equivalent
Host side Connector: Mini-B 5P equivalent
Pin No. Signal Input / Output Function Remark
1 VBUS Input Power line Non twist power line
2 D- Input and output Data line Twist pair signal line
3 D+ Input and output Data line Twist pait signal line
4 N.C -
5 GND - GND Non twist power line
Shell Shield - FG frame GND
* Use USB cable which conforms to the standard (FULL SPEED)
* We do not support the operation by using a cable out of the standard.