Quick start guide Installation7ENGLISH Placing your printer Place the printer on a solid, flat, surface, ensuring that the printer is positioned insuch a way that it can not topple, and that there is easy access to the control paneland paper input devices. Also ensure that there is sufficient space for the printedoutput.If you expect that frequent forward and reverse feeds will oc-cur, you should place the printer as shown in the figure, ifpossible.The power supply cable may be damaged if the pa-per edges constantly chafe the insulating sheath.The user must always ensure that there is sufficientdistance between the power supply cable and thepaper.When selecting the printer location, observe the following additional instructions:Never place the printer in the vicinity of inflammable gas or explosive substances.■ Do not expose the printer to direct sunlight. If you cannot avoid placing theprinter near a window, protect it from the sunlight with a curtain.■ When connecting a computer to the printer, make sure not to exceed the maxi-mum cable length (see User guide on the Online CD-ROM, Technical Specifi-cations).■ Ensure sufficient distance between the printer and any heating devices/radia-tors.■ Avoid exposing the printer to extreme temperature or air humidity fluctuations.Above all take care to avoid the influence of dust.■ It is recommended to install the printer in a place which is acoustically isolatedfrom the workplace because of the noise it may produce.STOPSTOPQuick Start-en.book Seite 7 Dienstag, 22. Juni 2004 1:33 13

Introduction

Using the Online CD-ROM

Printer at a glance

Installation

Placing your printer

Checking the printer voltage

Connecting the printer

Control panel

Setup mode

Changing the ribbon cassette

Paper handling

Changing the paper type in the Setup menu

Single sheets

Paper transport

Moving the paper to the tear position

Removing paper

Settings

Setting the first printing line (TOF)

Setting the print head gap

Selecting character density and font temporarily

Printing out status page

Technical data

Paper specifications

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Printer in fanfold paper mode

Paperway

Switching on the printer

Printer drivers

Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/NT 4.0/XP

Other operating systems

Changing printer settings

Graphic options

Loading optional firmware

The control panel

The LC display

Online mode

Messages in the LC display

Key functions when turning on the printer

Changing the paper type in the setup menu

Loading paper

The Menu

Menu configurations (Macros)

Menu handling

Selecting the LC display language

Terminating Setup mode

Menu structure

Menu parameters

Reset to default values (Reset)

Selecting font (Font)

Setting line spacing (LPI)

Selecting Protocol (emulation)

Bidirectional printing (PrintDir)

Settings for interfaces (I/O)

Data format (Format)

Buffer control (BuffCtrl)

Selecting interface (Interf.)

Selecting interface timeout (Timeout)

Automatic line feed (Auto-LF)

Language (Language)

Form length (Formlen)

First printing position (FormAdj)

Print head gap manually (Head)

View and tear position (TearView)

Line length (Width)

Barcode (Barcode)

Form feed mode (FFmode)

Setting and activating options (PapOpt)

Automatic gap adjustment (AGA)

Paper handling (Paphand)

Paper width (Pagewid)

Right-hand area (Rightzo)

Line wrap (Wrap)

Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm)

Setting the page margins (Margin)

Setting the bottom margin (Botmrg)

Setting the DEC Mode (DECMode)

Character set (CharSet)

User preference character set (UserChr)

Printer ID (Prn.ID)

Disconnection on end of transmission (Discnct)

Automatic answerback (Answbck)

Setting the IBM mode (IBMMode)

Code page (CodPage)

IBM Double Height (DblHigh)

Slashed Zero (Sl.Zero)

Setting the EPSON Mode (EPSMode)

Menu settings (example)

Advanced menu

Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII)

Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode

Interface test (H-Dump)

Terminating Hex-Dump

Advanced settings

Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back)

Troubleshooting

General print problems

Problems with the paper feed

Paper jam (single sheets)

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