Dascom T2380 User manual

User guide T2365 T2380 Matrix printer

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Table of contents

Introduction 1

Printer features 1

Symbols used 1

About this manual 2

Printer at a glance 3

Printer in tractor mode 4

Paperway 5

Installation 7

Unpacking the printer 7

Placing your printer 8

Checking the printer voltage 9

Connecting the printer 9

Switching on the printer 10

Inserting the ribbon cassette 11

Installing the ribbon cassette the first time 11

Changing the ribbon cassette 17

Printer drivers 23

Installing a printer driver in Windows 95/98/ME 23

Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/2003/XP 23

Installing a printer driver in Windows 7 25

Installing a printer driver in Windows Vista 26

Other operating systems 27

Changing printer settings 28

Form settings (Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/

Windows 7/2008) 28

Loading optional firmware 29

Troubleshooting 29

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The control panel 31

The LC display 32

Online mode 33

Offline mode 33

Setup mode 34

Messages in the LC display 35

Key functions when turning on the printer 37

Paper handling 39

Loading paper 39

Paper transport 42

Moving the paper to the tear position 43

Removing paper 44

Settings 45

Setting the print head gap 45

Setting the tear position 46

Setting the first printing line (TOF) 47

Selecting character density and font 48

2T model 49

Introduction 49

Rear tractor paper path 49

Loading paper into the rear tractor 50

Paper guiding bracket 52

Selecting the rear tractor 52

The Menu 55

Programming via the control panel 55

Enabling access to menu mode 55

Calling up the menu 55

Menu configurations 56

Menu handling 57

Save settings 57

Selecting the LC display language 58

Terminating Setup mode 59

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Menu structure 60

Menu parameters 61

Printing out menu configurations (Print) 61

Loading menu configurations (Menu) 61

Reset to default values (Reset) 62

Quietmode (Quietm.) 62

Selecting font (Font) 63

Setting character density (CPI) 64

Setting line spacing (LPI) 64

Skiping perforation (Skip) 65

Selecting start signal for escape sequence (ESCChar) 65

Selecting emulation (Emulate) 66

Bidirectional printing (Bidir) 66

Settings for interfaces (I/O) 67

Serial interface (Serial) 67

Data transmission rate (Baud) 67

Data format (Format) 68

Further Settings (Special) 69

Error handling (ErrMode) 69

Block end character (Blockend) 69

Signal feedback (Remote) 70

Transparence (Handthr) 70

Protocol (Protocol) 71

Signal Processing (DTR) 71

Selecting interface (Interf.) 72

Interface buffer (Buffer) 72

Ethernet interface (ETH-INT) 73

Setting IP address (IP Addr) 73

Setting Gateway address (Gateway) 74

Setting Subnet mask (Subnet) 74

IP address administration (IP Get M) 75

Banner page (Banner) 75

Ethernet speed (EthSpeed) 76

Selecting character set (CG-Tab) 77

IBM character set (CharSet) 77

National character set (Country) 78

Slashed zero (Sl.Zero) 78

Automatic carriage return (Auto-CR) 79

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Automatic line feed (Auto-LF) 79

Menu lock (MenLock) 80

Language (Language) 80

Paper parameters (Paper) 81

Form length (Forml) 81

First printing position (FormAdj) 83

Printhead gap manually (Head) 83

View and tear position (AutoTear) 84

Line length (Width) 85

Barcode (Barcode) 85

Normal characters and barcode (Barmode) 86

Vertical position after oversized barcode (BarTop) 87

Vertical position after oversized character (LCPtop) 88

Form feed mode (FFmode) 88

Setting and activating options (PapOpt) 89

Activation of tractors (AutoTra) 89

Activation of automatic sheet feeder (AutoASF) 90

Setting the left margin (LeftMrg) 90

Setting the right margin (RightMrg) 91

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

(FFaftLC) 91

Enable/Disable paper handling features (Paphand) 92

Menu settings (example) 93

Advanced menu 95

Test functions 95

Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII) 96

Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode 97

Interface test (Hex-Dump) 98

Printout in Hex-Dump 98

Terminating Hex-Dump 99

Advanced settings 100

Automatic paper motion sensor (PMS) 102

Form length (Forml) 103

Automatic gap adjustment (AGA) 103

Paper handling (Paphand) 104

Increasing the printhead gap (Head up) 104

Paper width (Pagewid) 105

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Left-hand area (Leftzon) 105

Right-hand area (Rightzo) 106

Physical left margin (Physlm) 106

Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid) 107

Line wrap (Wrap) 107

Beep at paper end (Sound) 108

Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single) 108

Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back) 109

Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm) 109

Power save mode (Sleepmod) 110

Automatic paper width detection (APW) 110

Automatic detection of the top paper margin (AED) 111

Serial number (SerialN) 112

Asset number (AssetN) 112

Graphic print speed (GrSpeed) 113

Improvement of graphic and barcode print quality

(GrFreq) (T2365 only) 113

Ignore characters (Ignore) 114

Ignore character (IgnorChr) 114

Activate PJL language (Jobcntl) 115

Troubleshooting 117

General print problems 118

The display remains dark 118

The display is lit, but the printer does not print 118

Problems with the paper feed 119

Paper jam 119

Prints not or intermittent not with the internal

Ethernet interface (ETH-INT) 120

Problems with the print quality 121

Print is too pale 121

Smudged print 121

Prints undefined characters 121

The first line is not completely printed out at the top 121

Dots within characters are missing 121

Error messages via the display 122

Additional display messages 126

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Care and maintenance 127

Replacing the fuse 127

Cleaning the housing 128

Cleaning the interior 128

Cleaning the platen 129

Ribbon 129

Cleaning the upper friction 130

Carriage shafts 130

Specifications 131

Printer specifications 131

Interface specifications 135

Paper specifications 136

Character sets 137

MTPL standard character set 138

MTPL, international substitution characters 139

OCR-A character set 140

OCR-B character set 141

Available character sets and fonts 142

Emulations 145

General 145

Escape sequences 145

What are escape sequences? 146

MTPL sequences 146

Control codes 146

The $$ procedure 146

Example: 146

How are escape sequences used? 147

MTPL 147

Example in BASIC 147

Example in Pascal 147

Printout 147

List of available control codes 148

Genicom ANSI Emulation 158

PJL commands 160

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Barcode 161

List of available barcodes 161

US Postnet barcode 162

Royal Mail Customer barcode 162

KIX barcode 163

USPS Intelligent Mail barcode 163

Large character printing 164

List of additional control codes 165

Interfaces 167

Parallel interface 168

Connector assignment 168

Ethernet interface 169

Hardware 169

Supported operating systems 169

Supported protocols 169

Designation of IP address 169

Configuration 169

Status 169

Management 169

Setup 169

Physical printer port in Ethernet with TCP/IP 170

Example of a printer connected to a computer in

an Ethernet 170

Example of several devices in an Ethernet 170

Optional serial interface V.24/RS232C 171

Connector assignment 171

Interface cable (serial interface) 172

Input signals 172

Output signals 172

Protocols 173

Memory mode XON/XOFF 173

Memory mode Robust XON/XOFF 173

Extended menu functions with the ENQ/STX and

ETX/ACK protocols selected 173

ENQ/STX protocol 174

ETX/ACK protocol 174

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Options and accessories 175

Options 175

Tractor 2, front 175

Autocut facility 175

Printer pedestal 175

ESD brush 175

Cable cover 175

Interface modules 176

Optional firmware 176

Accessories 177

Ribbon cassettes 177

Programming manuals 177

Index 179

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