Dascom T2150 User manual

User guide T2150 T2250 Matrix printer

User guide Table of contents

Table of contents

Introduction 1

Printer features 1

Symbols used 1

Printer at a glance 2

Printer in tractor mode 3

Printer in single-sheet mode 3

Paperway 4

Installation 5

Unpacking the printer 5

Placing your printer 6

Checking the printer voltage 7

Connecting the printer 8

Switching on the printer 9

The control panel 10

The LC display 11

Online mode 12

Offline mode 12

Setup mode 13

Messages in the LC display 14

Key functions when turning on the printer 15

Changing the ribbon cassette 16

Printer drivers 19

Installing a printer driver in Windows 95/98/ME 19

Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/2003/XP 19

Installing a printer driver in Windows 7 21

Installing a printer driver in Windows Vista 22

Other operating systems 23

Changing printer settings 24

Form settings (Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/Windows 7) 24

Loading optional firmware 25

Troubleshooting 25

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Paper handling 27

Changing the paper type 27

Changing the paper type in the setup menu 28

Selecting character density and font 29

Loading paper 30

Fanfold paper 30

Single sheets 34

Paper transport 36

Moving the paper to the tear position 37

Removing paper 37

Settings 38

Setting the print head gap 38

Setting the tear position 39

Setting the first printing line (TOF) 40

The Menu 41

Programming via the control panel 41

Enabling access to menu mode 41

Calling up the menu 41

Menu configurations 42

Menu handling 43

Save settings 43

Selecting the LC display language 44

Terminating Setup mode 45

Menu structure 46

Menu parameters 47

Printing out menu configurations (Print) 47

Loading menu configurations (Menu) 47

Reset to default values (Reset) 48

Quietmode (Quietm.) 48

Selecting font (Font) 49

Setting character density (CPI) 50

Setting line spacing (LPI) 50

Skiping perforation (Skip) 51

Selecting start signal for escape sequence (ESCChar) 51

Selecting emulation (Emulate) 52

Bidirectional printing (Bidir) 52

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Settings for interfaces (I/O) 53

Serial interface (Serial) 53

Data transmssion rate (Baud) 53

Data format (Format) 54

Further Settings (Special) 55

Error handling (ErrMode) 55

Block end character (Blockend) 55

Signal feedback (Remote) 56

Transparence (Handthr) 56

Protocol (Protocol) 57

Signal Processing (DTR) 57

Selecting interface (Interf.) 58

Interface buffer (Buffer) 58

Ethernet interface (ETH-EXT) option 59

Selecting character set (CG-Tab) 59

IBM character set (CharSet) 59

National character set (Country) 60

Slashed zero (Sl.Zero) 60

Automatic carriage return (Auto-CR) 61

Automatic line feed (Auto-LF) 61

Menu lock (MenLock) 62

Language (Language) 62

Paper parameters (Paper) 63

Form length (Forml) 63

First printing position (FormAdj) 65

Printhead gap manually (Head) 66

View and tear position (AutoTear) 67

Line length (Width) 68

Barcode (Barcode) 68

Normal characters and barcode (Barmode) 69

Form feed mode (FFmode) 70

Setting and activating options (PapOpt) 71

Activation of tractors (AutoTra) 71

Activation of automatic sheet feeder (AutoASF) 72

Setting the left margin (LeftMrg) 72

Setting the right margin (RightMrg) 73

Local copy (screen print) from a Coax or Coax/IPDS

(FFaftLC) 73

Enable/Disable Paper Handling Features (Paphand) 74

Menu settings (example) 75

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Advanced menu 77

Test functions 77

Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII) 78

Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode 79

Interface test (Hex-Dump) 80

Printout in Hex-Dump 80

Terminating Hex-Dump 81

Advanced settings 82

Form length (Forml) 84

Automatic gap adjustment (AGA) 85

Paper handling (Paphand) 85

Increasing the printhead gap (Head up) 86

Paper width (Pagewid) 86

Left-hand area (Leftzon) 87

Right-hand area (Rightzo) 87

Physical left margin (Physlm) 88

Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid) 88

Line wrap (Wrap) 89

Beep at paper end (Sound) 89

Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single) 90

Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back) 90

Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm) 91

Power save mode (Sleepmod) 91

Serial number (SerialN) 92

Asset number (AssetN) 92

Graphic Print Speed (GrSpeed) 93

Troubleshooting 95

General print problems 96

The display remains dark 96

The display is lit, but the printer does not print 96

Problems with the paper feed 97

Paper jam (fanfold paper) 97

Paper jam (single sheets) 98

Paper does not move to tear off position 98

Problems with the print quality 99

Print is too pale 99

Smudged print 99

Prints undefined characters 99

The first line is not completely printed out at the top 99

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Dots within characters are missing 99

Error messages via the display 100

Additional display messages 103

Care and maintenance 105

Replacing the fuse 105

Cleaning the housing 106

Cleaning the interior 106

Cleaning the platen 107

Ribbon 107

Cleaning the upper friction 108

Carriage shafts 108

Specifications 109

Printer specifications 109

Interface specifications 113

Paper specifications 114

Character sets 117

MTPL standard character set 118

MTPL, international substitution characters 119

OCR-A character set 120

OCR-B character set 121

Available character sets and fonts 122

Emulations 125

General 125

Escape sequences 125

What are escape sequences? 126

MTPL sequences 126

Control codes 126

The $$ procedure 126

Example: 126

How are escape sequences used? 127

MTPL 127

Example in BASIC 127

Example in Pascal 127

Printout 127

List of available control codes 128

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Barcode 138

List of available barcodes 138

US Postnet barcode 139

Royal Mail Customer barcode 139

KIX barcode 140

USPS Intelligent Mail barcode 140

LC printing 141

List of additional control codes 142

Interfaces 143

Parallel interface 144

Connector assignment 144

Optional serial interface V.24/RS232C 145

Connector assignment 145

Interface cable (serial interface) 146

Input signals 146

Output signals 146

Protocols 147

Memory mode XON/XOFF 147

Memory mode Robust XON/XOFF 147

Extended menu functions with the ENQ/STX and

ETX/ACK protocols selected 147

ENQ/STX protocol 148

ETX/ACK protocol 148

Options and accessories 149

Options 149

Automatic cut sheet feeder, front (ASF-F) 149

Automatic cut sheet feeder, rear (ASF-R) 149

Tractor 2, front 149

Tractor 3, rear 149

Serial interface adapter 149

Optional paper support 149

Serial interface RS232/TTY 149

Pocket Ethernet interface 149

Others 149

Accessories 150

Ribbon cassettes 150

Programmer’s application manuals 150

Index 151

User guide Introduction

Introduction

Printer features Your printer has outstanding product features, e.g. high printing speed

and print quality plus flexible paper management, making it a highly

professional solution for many industrial sectors – particularly those

which use continuous paper and generate large volumes of print on a

daily basis.

Symbols used Important information is highlighted in this manual by two symbols.

CAUTION highlights information which must be observed in order to

prevent injuries to the user and damage to the printer.

NOTE highlights general or additional information about a specific

topic.

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Printer at a glance User guide

Printer at a glance

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Control panel

Front cover

Power switch

Power inlet and

fuse

Interface connector

Paper support

Top cover Latches

Tear edge

Bottom cover

Single sheet feeder closed

Print head

Ribbon cassette

Rear cover

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