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Digital LA400 User's Guide (241 pages)

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Table of contents

Digital LA400 MultiPrinter

1

User Guide

1

First Printing, May 1996

2

As an Energy Star

2

Table of Contents

3

4. Operating Your Printer

5

5. Printing

5

6. Configuring Your Printer

5

7. Customizing Macros

6

8. Testing Your Printer

8

9. Adjusting Your Printer

8

10. Maintenance

8

11. Troubleshooting

8

A. Supplies and Options

8

About this User Guide

10

Notes, Cautions and Warnings

10

What Your New Printer Offers

11

Connectivity

12

Robustness and Reliability

12

Ease of Use

13

Low Cost Ownership

13

Getting to Know Your Printer

14

Parts of the Printer

16

The Ribbon Cartridge

17

The Push Tractor Unit

18

The Operator Panel

21

The State Indicators

22

The Paper Path Indicators

23

The Buttons

24

The Operating States

25

The Operating Modes

25

Top of Form

28

Top o f Fo r m

31

The Display

32

The Basic Screen

32

The Font/Pitch Screen

33

SoftContrl. Soft

34

Draft 10

34

The User Instruction Messages

35

The Printer Status Messages

35

The Operating Messages

35

The Error Messages

35

Paper Types

36

The Paper Paths

37

Push-Front

38

Push-Rear

38

Push+Pull

39

How to Select a Paper Path

40

Using Set-Up Mode

40

Using the Operator Panel

41

Continuous Form

41

Cut Sheets

42

Envelopes

43

Adhesive Labels

43

Handling Continuous Form

44

Warning:

45

Right Position (up)

47

Wrong Position (down)

47

Loading the Paper

48

Unlocking the Right Tractor

49

Locking the Tractors

52

Unlocking the Front Cover

52

Closing the Front Cover

53

4. Close the gear protection

55

rotating it upwards

55

5. Close the front cover

55

2. Take the rear slot cover

56

at the center and remove it

56

Orientating the Push Tractor

57

Aligning the Paper Edge

62

4. Mount the rear slot cover

66

Parking the Paper

67

Printing on Cut Sheets

68

Inserting the Cut Sheet

70

Ejecting Cut Sheets

71

Printing on Adhesive Labels

72

Moving the Paper

73

Viewing the Last Printed Line

74

FF/Load

75

Operating Your Printer

76

Switching between Macros

77

Selecting Print Features

78

Selecting the Font

79

Holding a Print Task

80

Recovering from a Fault State

81

Printing

82

Print Area Definition

83

Printing on Multipart Form

85

Managing Blank Pages

86

Printing on Pre-printed Forms

87

The Configuration Structure

90

Display Graphic Conventions

91

Configuration Quick Reference

92

(-8 to +8)

94

(2 to 30 seconds)

99

How to Configure your Printer

100

Example Configuring

101

Tips for Configuring

102

Configuring Your Printer

103

Restoring a Macro

104

Restoring all Macros

104

Saving a Configuration

104

LCD Language

105

Error Buzzer

105

Paper Path at Power-On

105

Interface Type

106

Interface Time-out

106

Input Buffer Size

106

Parallel Mode

107

AUTOFEED Signal

107

SELECT-IN Signal

107

Setting the Serial Interface

108

Disconnection on Fault

108

Word Length

108

Baud Rate

108

Parity Bit

109

Buffer Control

109

Robust XON

109

Customizing Macros

111

Setting the Publishing Style

112

Setting the Page Layout

113

Left Margin

114

Form Width

114

Top Margin

114

Bottom Margin

114

Selecting the Paper Path

115

Setting the Printing Modes

116

Blank Pages

117

Print Impact

117

Print Gap

118

Automatic Gap Offset

120

Perforation Anti-jam

120

Setting the Tear/View Mode

121

Automatic Advance Setting

122

Manual Advance Setting

122

No Tear/Reverse Setting

122

Paper Position Definition

123

Position Definition

124

Setting the DEC Mode

125

G0 Character Set

126

User Preference Character Set

127

Printer ID

127

Wrap or Truncate

128

Disconnection on EOT

128

Initial Report

129

Automatic ANSWERBACK

129

ANSWERBACK on ENQ

129

Configuring the IBM Mode

130

Code Page

131

Setting the EPSON Mode

132

Horizontal Pitch

133

National Character-Set

133

EPSON Character Set

135

Slashed Zero

135

Testing Your Printer

136

Printing the Self-Test

137

Hex Dump Printing

138

Initializing the Set-Up Card

138

Adjusting Your Printer

139

Sel/Save

140

Maintenance

143

Transporting the Printer

145

Troubleshooting

146

Printer Failure

150

Hex-Dump Mode

151

Supplies and Options

152

1. Power the printer off

154

FF/Load button

159

Set-Up Card

163

What is the Set-Up Card for ?

163

Preparing for Color Printing

166

Mounting the Color Mechanism

167

8. Close the top cover

169

10. Push the plastic bracket

173

it down until it clicks

173

11. Close the top cover

173

Removing the Color Cartridge

174

Supplies

175

Documentation

175

Technical Characteristics

176

Paper Specifications

179

Print area

180

Paper end

180

Paper Thickness

181

LCD Display Messages

182

Status Messages

183

Operating Messages

183

Rolling messages

184

DEC PPL2 Quick Reference

185

Conventions

186

Positioning Controls and Tabs

187

Sheet Size and Margins

188

* LPcm = Lines per centimeter

189

Selecting Character Sets

191

SCS Final Characters

192

SCS Final Characters (cont.)

193

Reports (cont.)

194

Miscellaneous

194

Miscellaneous (cont.)

195

Barcode Printing

196

Barcode Printing (cont.)

197

Sixel Graphics Control Codes

199

MLO-003973

200

MLO-003974

201

EPSON ESC/P2 Quick Reference

209

Character Sets

216

Generic Character Set Tables

221

IBM Character Set Tables

226

EPSON Character Set Tables

227

Japan Spain 1

229

Spain 2 Norway

229

Latin America

230

Turkey Legal

230

Old Hebrew

231

Word length 6-20

241

Wo rkl oa d B -2

241

WRAP vs TRUNCATE Option 7-18

241

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