Panasonic KX-P1180 User manual

Impact

Dot

Matrix

Printer

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Panasonic

Before operating this unit, please read these instructions completely.

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R USE

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IMPORTANT:

The wires

the main leads

are

coloured

accordance with the following

code: Green and yellow: Earth

Blue: Neutral

Brown: Live

As the colours of the wires

the main lead of this apparatus may not

correspond with the coloured markings identifying the terminals-

your

plug, proceed

follows:

• The wire which

coloured green and yellow must

connected

the terminal

the plug which is marked

the letter E or

the

safety earth symbol

or coloured green or' green-and yellow.

• The wire which is coloured blue must

connected

the terminal

which is marked with the letter N or coloured black.

• The wire which is coloured brown must be connected

the terminal

which

marked with the letter

Lor

coloured red.

WARNING: This apparatus must

earthed. .

• This equipment

produced

B8800: 1977.

Any details given

these Operating Instructions are subject

change

without notice.

. ..

- :. .

WARNING

-!?ower source voltage

this unit

listed

the nameplate.

not

fail

plug into the right voltage.

prevent fire or shock hazard,

not expose this product to rain

or any type of moisture.

The serial number

the unit

may

found

the label

the rear

of the unit.

For your convenience, note this number

below,

and

retain this book,

along.-with your proof of purchase, to serve

a permanent record of

your purchase

the event of a theft,

for future reference.

MODEl:

NO.

KX-P1180 NAME

DEALER

-SERIAL

NO.

DATE

PURCHAS"::":E:-----

Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

IBM

and

IBM-PC -;

are

registered trademarks of International Business

Machines Corporation. - .

IBM

Proprinter

and

IBM

NLQ

are

trademarks

International Busi-

ness Machines Corporation. -

Apple

a registered trademark

Apple Computer, Inc.

FX-86e/FX-800

a trademark

ofSeiko

Epson Corporation;

Table of contents ·

Page

Introduction

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1-1

1.1

Product Overview

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1-1

1.2

Specifications................................

1-3

1.3 Names of the Parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-6

The Front View of the KX-P1180

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1-6

The Top View of the KX-P1180 . . . . . . . . . . .

• .

1-7

The Right View of the KX-P1180

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1-8

The Rear View of the KX-P1180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

1-8

Set

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2-1

2.1

Site Requirements

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; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-1

2.2 Unpacking and Inspection

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2-1

2.3 Initial

SetlJP

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2-2

Removing the Protective Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-2

Removing the Printer Cover

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2-2

Mounting the Ribbon Cassette

....

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2-3

2.4 Power

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2-4

2.5 Adjusting the Printing Head Gap

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:...

2-4

2.6 Paper Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-5

Single

Sheet.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-5

Continuous Fanfold Paper from

Rear.

. . . . . . . . .

2-6

Continuous Fanfold Paper from Bottom

. . . . . .

2-8

2.7 Aligning the

Top

Form

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2-10

2.8 Self

Test

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2-10

2.9 Connecting to Computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2-11

2.10 DIP Switch Setting

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2-11

3. Operation

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3-1

3.1

Front Panel Switches

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3-1

LINE Switch

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3-1

LF Switch

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3-2

Switch

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3-2

FUNCTION Switch

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3-3

3.2 Function Mode

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•. . . . . . . . . .

3-4

Setting the EZ-Set Operator Panel . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-4

ROW

Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. .

3-4

COLUMN Switch

.............•.............

3-4

SET Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

3-5

MEMO LOAD

..•

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. . . . . . . . .

3-7

Table of contents

Page

3.3 Detectors

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Out of Paper Detector

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Overheat Detector

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,. 3N

3.4 Initialization

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3.5 Hex. Dump

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4. Software Introduction

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4N1

4.1

Introduction

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4.2 Control Codes

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4·1

4.3 Entering Control Codes through Commercial

Software Packages

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4N2

4.4 Entering Control Codes Directly from the

Keyboard

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4.5 Entering Control Codes from Within a Program

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4N4

4.6 EnteringHexadecimal Code. . . . . . . . ••. . . . . . . .

4N4

4.7 Control

Codes

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4.8 Special

Code

for

IBM

series

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4-6

5. KX-P1180 Features .

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5N1

5.1

Print Feature Control

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5-1

5.2 Download Characters

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. •. . . . . . . .

5-3

5.3 Bit Image (Graphics) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . .

5-21

6. Software Commands

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6-1

-Interfacing

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7-1

Maintenance

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8-1

Appendix A Character Set Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . •. . .

A-1

Appendix BProportional Spacing Tables

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B-1

Appendix C Download Character Matrix Blanks . . . . . .

C-1

Appendix D Paper

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0-1

Appendix E Printing

Area.

. •. . . . . . . . . • ••. ••. . •. . . .

E-1

Index

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1-1

OPTIONS and SUPPLIES

• 1..Introduction - -

1.1

Product Overview

This printer is a durable, highly reliable dot matrix printer.

addition, it has a small footprint, making it ideal for a compact

workstation.

This printer uses a nine pin print head to form a 9x9 dot matrix

character

Draft mode.

Near Letter Quality mode, the matrix

for Courier, Prestige

and

Bold

is 18x18; Sans Serif 18x9.

Available are the complete Epson

and

IBM character sets

well as

international character sets.

addition to Pica (10 characters per inch)

and

Elite (12 charac-

ters per inch) printing, this printer

can

Micron mode of

. 15 characters per inch, Compressed mode of 17 characters per

inch

and

Elite Compressed mode of

characters per inch.

Elite Compressed

mode

yields a total of 160 characters per line.

addition to the five print pitches mentioned above, this printer

has proportional spacing thus, six basic printing pitches

are

available.

The printer has

EZ-Set Operator Panel through which the

user can select the most commonly used features

and

func-

tions. A helpful feature·

the QUIET mode which reduces print-

ing noise.

convenience features, the printer

has

MEMO LOAD,

PERFORATION CUT and MICRO LINE FEED. By using the

MEMO LOAD,

you

can print a single sheet without removing or

wasting the continuous fanfold paper. PERFORATION CUT gives

you the ability to tear off a form without wasting paper.

using

MICRO LINE FEED you

can

easily feed the paper

the exact

printing position needed for preprinted forms. Section 3 in this

manual explains these functions.

The high speed printing

done at 192 characters per second

(cps)

Draft-Elite (12 cpi) pitch.

Draft-Pica (10 cpi) pitch,

the printing speed is 160 cps. Processing speed is increased

by Bi-directional printing. That is, the printer prints right-to-Ieft

well

the normal left-to-right manner. A logic seeking

technique is also used, giving the printer a look-ahead capability

which allows

to skip blank spaces at the beginning

and

the

end of a line and the blank lines between paragraphs.

1-1

Introduction

A wide variety of printing styles allows the user

create unique

documents and drawings.

You

can print characters

double III

width, double height or compressed, emphasized or_underlined

and

print super or subscripts, etc. Using Bit-mapped graphics,

the printer

can

produce special effects ranging from company

logos to photo-like images.

The printer has friction and tractor feed capabilities

stand-

ard

features

and

handles continuous fanfold

and

single sheet

paper. This enables the user to create letters

company let-

terhead or print reports from the computer. It also allows con-

tinuous fanfold paper

fed from beneath the printer

the

tractor feed position.

The printhead life is'designed for 100 million characters. The

seamless ribbon

can

four million characters

and

the

cassette design makes changing the ribbon quick, easy

and

clean.

This printer comes with a Centronics parallel interface.

RS-

232C serial interface which supports the XON/XOFF

and

DTR

handshaking protocols at baud rates up

9,600 bps .is avail-

able

option.

The printer also comes equipped with

internal

stan.dard

buffer.

additional 32K buffer is available

option. This

expands the total buffer size

34K. The entire buffer area can

used

a receiving buffer or a portion -

can

used

download font area. When the 32K buffer option

installed, the

buffer area assignment is automatically selected.

Some software foryour computer requires

you

select a specific

printer for the output.

You

should select Panasonic jf it is listed.

If Panasonic

not listed

the software,

you

may

select

one

of the following:

• Epson

FX-S6e/FX-SOO

...(DIP switch 1=OFF)

•

IBM

Proprinter

ll*

...(DIP switch 1=ON)

Please check your

DIP

switches after making selection. Refer

to Section 2.10.

See Appendix A for applicable code

1-2

• Introduction --

1.2 Specifications

Power reqUirements:}

Frequency: Refer

~he

nameplate located

the rear

Current: of the prmter.

Interface: Centronics parallel, RS-232C serial

(option)

Printing fonts: Draft (Pica&Elite), Near Letter Quality

(Courier, Bold

PS,

Prestige, Sans Serif*),

Dot Graphics .

Software emulation: Epson FX-86e/FX-800 (Standard Mode),

IBM Proprinter

(IBM Mode)

Character set:

ASCII characters,

Italic ASCII characters,

or 32 International characters

(12 or 13 countries),

Italic International characters

(12 or

countries),

158 IBM special characters

Dot configuration: 3/254 inch (0.3

mm)

dot diameter

Draft (Pica)

NLQ

Sans Serif*

Dot alignment (Hor.xVer.) 9x9 18x18 18x9

Dot pitch (Hor.) 1/120"

(0.21

mm)

1/240"

(0.11

mm)

(Ver.)

" (0.35

mm)

1/144" (0.18

mm)

Maximum number of

characters per line

(cpl)

•

Pica (10 cpi)

Elite (12 cpi)

Micron (15 cpi)

Compressed (17 cpi)

Elite compressed

(20

cpi)

Pica elongated

cpi)

Elite elongated

cpi)

Semi Compressed .

elongated (7.5 cpi)

Compressed elongated (8.5.cpi)

Sans Serif* is

IBM

NLQ.

1-3

cpl

120 cpl

137 cpl

160 cpl

cpl

60 cpl

cpl

Printing speed:

Printing direction:

Line feed time:

Paper feed:

Paper used:

Copies:

Paper thickness:

Operating

environment:

Introduction

Draft-Elite

Draft-Pica

NLQ-Elite

NLQ-Pica

192 cps

160 cps •

38 cps

cps

Text printing (Draft., NLQ): Bidirectional

Bit Image printing: Unidirectional

(left to right)

Approx. 1

msec

[with 1/6 inch (4.2

mm)

line feeding]

Tractor feed (with continuous fanfold

paper)

Friction feed (with single sheet or en-

velopes)

Continuous fanfold paper:

Width:

4-10

inches (102"'254

mm)

Single sheet:

Width: 4-11.7 inches (102-297

mm)

Height: 5-14.3 inches (127-363

mm)

Thickness (paper weight

pound

and

g/m2):

...

24 pounds/53-90 g/m2

(only 1 sheet)

Original plus 3 non-carbon copies

Total

thickness of sheets must

Jess

than 0.013 inch (0.32

mm)

50·F (10·C)

95·F (35·C) temperature,

30"'80% humidity

(Please allow the printer to stabilize at

room temperature within the operating

temperature range before operation.)

Storage environment:

-4·F

(-20·C) to 140·F (60·C) temperature,

0-90%

humidity

1-4

Introduction

Head life:

• Ribbon:

Dimensions:

Weight:

Approx. 100 million characters in draft

mode

Specially designed cassette seamless rib-

bon

Ink color: Black

Life: Approx. 4 million characters in draft

mode

16.7

(VV)

x 13.4 (0) x 5.2 (H) in.

(423x341x133 mm)

Approx. 14.1 Ibs (6.4 kg)

1-5

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