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Options Problem When you press the FEED or LINE ITED button, the printer does not feed the paper. The puper jams or does tiot feed smoothly. solution The printer may be on line..Before you press the FDRM FEED or LINE FEED button to feed the paper, be sure Wprinter is off line (the ON LINE light is out). See page 3-4 The paper cutter may not be correctly ins-. Remove the paper cutter and then rein&l it, making sure the mounting notches and pins fit together properly. See page 5-19. The paper cut&r may cut the paper so that the perforation at the end of the last printed page remains with the paper loaded in the printer. This perforation may cause a paper jam. Use the MICRO FEED buttons to position the paper so that the perforation at the end of the last printed page is even with or just past the cutting he. Be sure to set the page length to match your paper. See page 5-24. You may be using multi-part forms that vary in thickness with the paper cutter. Multi-part forms that vary in thickness include forms with labels on them and forms that overlap sbghtly where they are glued together. Do not use these forms when the paper cutter is installed. see page 5-19. There may be some obstacle, such as a cable, in the way of the paper or something on top of the paper supply. TroubIeshooting 7-21

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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Options

Problem

solution

When you press the

FEED

or LINE

ITED

button, the

printer does not feed

the paper.

The

puper

jams

does

tiot

feed

smoothly.

The printer may be on

line..Before

you

press the

FDRM

FEED

LINE FEED

button

feed the paper, be sure

Wprinter

is off line

(the ON LINE

light is out). See

page 3-4

The

paper cutter may not be correctly

ins-.

Remove the paper cutter and then

rein&l

it, making sure the mounting

notches and pins fit together properly.

See page

5-19.

The paper

cut&r

may cut the paper so that

the perforation at the end of the last printed

page remains

with

the

paper loaded in

the

printer. This perforation may cause a paper

jam.

Use

the

MICRO

FEED

buttons to

position

the

paper so that the perforation at the end

of the last printed page is even with or just

past the cutting

he.

Be sure to set the page

length to match your paper. See page

5-24.

You may be using multi-part forms that

vary in

thickness

with the paper cutter.

Multi-part

forms that vary in thickness

include forms with labels on them and

forms that overlap

sbghtly

where they are

glued together. Do not use these forms

when the paper cutter is installed.

see page

5-19.

There may be some obstacle, such as a

cable, in the way of the paper or something

on top of the paper supply.

TroubIeshooting

7-21