Epson ActionPrinter 4500 User manual

4000111

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EPSON®

Product Update Notice

This booklet describes the new features of your printer that have

been added since the User’s Manual was printed.

Print Speed

Your printer now prints at the following speeds.

Quality

Draft

Letter

Characters/inch Characters/second/line

160

192

Loading Single Sheets of Paper

The printer now automatically loads single sheets of paper. Follow

these steps whenever you load a single sheet of paper:

Turn on the printer.

Insert a sheet of paper in the paper guide until it meets

resistance. After about two seconds, the printer loads the paper

automatically and is set on line so that it can accept data from

your computer.

When loading a single sheet of paper, you do not press

LOAD/EJECT

ON LINE.

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Note: If the platen turns without loading the paper, press ON LINE

to take the printer off line. Then remove the paper and reinsert it

more firmly.

Follow the above steps to load a single sheet of paper when you

perform the self test (described in Chapter 1 of your User’s Manual),

when using single sheets (described in Chapter 21, and when you switch

from continuous paper to single sheets (described in Chapter 2).

Using SelecType

The printer now has ten built-in fonts: draft, Epson Roman, Epson

Sans Serif, Epson Courier, Epson Prestige, Epson Script, OCR-A,

OCR-B, Epson Orator, and Epson Orator-S.

Eight of the fonts are selectable from the SelecType feature of the

front panel.

DRAFT

-0

ROMAN

SANS SERIF

COURIER

PRESTIGE

iii

SCRIPT

OCR-B

ORATOR

OTHER

BLINKING

FONT

Product Update Notice

When you press the FONT button, the printer scrolls through eight of

the ten built-in fonts. The indicator lights show the selected font.

indicates the light is off.

indicates the light is on.

\ I

indicates the light is blinking.

You use the software command ESC k to select the other two built-in

fonts:

ESCk6

OCR-A

ESCk8 Epson Orator-S

When you select one of these two fonts, the indicator lights show the

OTHER pattern. The software commands are described in Chapter 9

of your User’s Manual.

The SelecType feature is described in Chapter 3 of your User’s

Manual. Chapter 3 shows samples of the draft, Epson Roman, and

Epson Sans Serif fonts. The Multi-Font Module section of Chapter 5

shows samples of the Epson Courier, Epson Prestige, Epson Script,

OCR-B, OCR-A, Epson Orator, and Epson Orator-S fonts. These

fonts are now built-in and do not require the Multi-Font Module.

Therefore, ignore any references to the Multi-Font Module.

Product Update Notice

The DIP Switch Tables

The tables below show the settings for each DIP switch.

DIP switch 1

Description

OFF

International character set/

Graphics character sets

See tables 1 and 2

Page length

See table 3

Condensed mode on/off Condensed Normal

Character table

Graphics

italics

Cut sheet feeder mode on/off

Off

DIP switch 2

SW Description

OFF

2-1 Not used - -

2-2 Tear-off mode

On Off

2-3

1 -inch skip over perforation

Off

2-4 Auto line feed

Off

2-5

Input buffer capacity

8 KB

1 KB*

2-6 Graphics print direction

Bidirect. Unidirect.

2-7 Character spacing See table 4

2-8

*Required for use of user-defined (downloaded) characters

Product Update Notice

Table 1 International character sets

Table 2 Graphics character sets

Graphics character set

Epson Extended Graphics

PC 437 (United States)

PC 850 (Multilingual)

PC 860 (Portugal)

PC 863 (Canada-French)

SW l-l

SW 1-2 SW 1-3 SW 1-7

ON ON ON

ON OFF ON

OFF

OFF OFF ON

PC 865 (Norway)

OFF

Table 3 Page length selection

12 inches

8.5 inches

OFF

OFF ON

11.7 inches

ON ON

Table 4 Character spacing

Character spacing

SW 2-7

SW 2-8

10cpi

12cpi

OFF OFF

ON OFF

15 cpi

OFF

Proportional

Product Update Notice

Graphics Character Sets

Epson Extended Graphics Character Sets

PC 437 (United States)

PC 850 (Multilingual)

Product Update Notice

PC 860 (Portugal)

PC 863 (Canada-French)

Product Update Notice

PC 865 (Norway)

Application Notes

The Application Notes booklet for this printer is no longer available.

Product Update Notice Printed in Japan 90.09-10

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