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Transporting the Printer 3. Open the rear cover and disconnect the interface cable from the printer and the computer. 4. Close the rear cover. 6-10 Maintenance

Section	Page
ADDENDUM	1
FRONT MATTER	3
TABLE OF CONTENTS	7
ABOUT THIS MANUAL	10
INTRODUCTION	12
CHAP 1-SETTING UP THE PRINTER	16
Unpacking the Printer	17
Checking the Parts	18
Removing the Protective Materials	19
Choosing a Place for the Printer	22
Assembling the Printer	24
Installing the Ribbon Cartridge	24
Testing the Printer	28
Plugging in the Printer	28
Running a Self Test	30
Solving any Self Test Problems	39
Connecting the Printer to Your Computer	41
The Parallel Interface	42
The Serial Interface	46
Setting Up Your Application Software	51
CHAP 2-PAPER HANDLING	53
Using the Two-Tractor System	54
Positioning the Paper Supply	54
Loading Paper Onto the Front Tractor	56
Loading Paper Onto the Rear Tractor	63
Switching Between Front and Rear Tractors	72
Changing the Paper	76
Printing on Special Paper	81
Copy Mode	81
Multi-Part Forms	82
Labels	84
CHAP 3-USING THE PRINTER	86
Operating the Control Panel	87
Lights	87
Buttons	89
Other Control Panel Features	91
Setting the DIP Switches	92
Changing a DIP Switch Setting	92
The DIP Switch Tables	95
The DIP Switch Functions	99
Page Length	102
Skip Over Perforation	103
Using the Paper Memory Feature	105
Saving Paper Format and Thickness Information	106
Saving Information for Overlapping Mulit-Part Forms	106
Adjusting the Top of Form Position	118
Adjusting the Printing Position	122
Using Short Tear-Off	125
Selecting Typestyles	128
Character Fonts	128
Character Spacing	130
Condensed Mode	131
Selecting an International Character Set	132
Choosing a Character Table	134
Data Dump Mode	136
CHAP 4-SOFTWARE AND GRAPHICS	139
Enhancing Your Printing	140
Print Quality and Fonts	140
Character Spacing	141
Character Size	142
Special Effects and Emphasis	143
Selecting Typestyles with Master Select	146
Graphics	148
The Print Head	149
The Graphics Commands	151
Column Reservation Numbers	152
Printing Simple Patterns	152
Printing Taller Patterns	154
Designing Your Own Graphics	155
Individual Graphics Commands	158
The Reassignment Command	158
User-defined Characters	160
Designing your characters	161
Sending information to your printer	162
Printing User-defined Characters	164
Copying ROM Characters to RAM	165
Mixing Print Styles	166
CHAP 5-USING THE PRINTER OPTIONS	167
Pull Tractor	168
Installing the Pull Tractor	168
Paper handling	171
Removing the pull tractor	181
Paper Cutter	185
Installing the Paper Cutter	185
Paper Handling	189
Removing the Paper Cutter	194
Interface Boards	198
Choosing an interface	198
Compatible Interfaces	199
Installing an Interface Board	199
#8143 New Serial Interface Board	205
CHAP 6-MAINTENANCE	207
Cleaning the Printer	208
Replacing the Ribbon	210
Transporting the Printer	215
CHAP 7-TROUBLESHOOTING	219
Problems and Solutions	220
Power Supply	221
Printing	222
Paper Handling	231
Options	236
CHAP 8-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS	242
Printer Specifications	243
Printing	243
Paper	244
Mechanical	250
Electrical	251
Environment	251
CHAP 9-COMMAND SUMMARY	260
Using the Command Summary	261
Control Key Start	263
Command In Numerical Order	264
Epson ESC/ P Commands Arranged by Topic	268
Printer Operation	268
Data Control	271
Vertical Motion	272
Horizontal Motion	278
Overall Printing Style	282
Print Size and Character Width	284
Print Enhancement	288
Word Processing	292
Character Tables	293
User-defined Characters	295
Graphics	297
IBM Emulation Mode Commands Arranged by Topic	300
Commands That Duplicate Epson ESC/P Commands	300
Commands That Differ From EPSON ESC/P Commands	301
APPENDIX	310
Proportional Width Table	311
Character Tables	315
Italic Character Tables	316
Epson Extended Graphics Character Table	317
IBM Emulation Mode	318
INDEX	331

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Transporting the Printer

Open the rear cover and disconnect the interface cable from the

printer and the computer.

Close the rear cover.

6-10

Maintenance