Tally T2265plus User manual

User guide T2265+ T2280+ 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

Printer in single-sheet 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 Windows 2000/XP/Vista/

Windows 7) 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 36

Paper handling 37

Changing the paper type 37

Changing the paper type in the setup menu 38

Loading paper 39

Fanfold paper 39

Single sheets 41

Paper transport 43

Moving the paper to the tear position 44

Removing paper 45

Settings 47

Setting the print head gap 47

Setting the tear position 48

Setting the first printing line (TOF) 49

Selecting character density and font 50

2T model 51

Introduction 51

Rear tractor paper path 51

Loading paper into the rear tractor 52

Paper guiding bracket 54

Selecting the rear tractor 54

The Menu 57

Programming via the control panel 57

Enabling access to menu mode 57

Calling up the menu 57

Menu configurations 58

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Menu handling 59

Save settings 59

Selecting the LC display language 60

Terminating Setup mode 61

Menu structure 62

Menu parameters 63

Printing out menu configurations (Print) 63

Loading menu configurations (Menu) 63

Reset to default values (Reset) 64

Quietmode (Quietm.) 64

Selecting font (Font) 65

Setting character density (CPI) 66

Setting line spacing (LPI) 66

Skiping perforation (Skip) 67

Selecting start signal for escape sequence (ESCChar) 67

Selecting emulation (Emulate) 68

Bidirectional printing (Bidir) 68

Settings for interfaces (I/O) 69

Serial interface (Serial) 69

Data transmssion rate (Baud) 69

Data format (Format) 70

Further Settings (Special) 71

Error handling (ErrMode) 71

Block end character (Blockend) 71

Signal feedback (Remote) 72

Transparence (Handthr) 72

Protocol (Protocol) 73

Signal Processing (DTR) 73

Selecting interface (Interf.) 74

Interface buffer (Buffer) 74

Ethernet interface (ETH-INT) 75

Setting IP address (IP Addr) 75

Setting Gateway address (Gateway) 75

Setting Subnet mask (Subnet) 76

IP address administration

(IP Get M) 77

Banner page (Banner) 77

Selecting character set (CG-Tab) 78

IBM character set (CharSet) 78

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National character set (Country) 79

Slashed zero (Sl.Zero) 79

Automatic carriage return (Auto-CR) 80

Automatic line feed (Auto-LF) 80

Menu lock (MenLock) 81

Language (Language) 81

Paper parameters (Paper) 82

Form length (Forml) 82

First printing position (FormAdj) 84

Printhead gap manually (Head) 85

View and tear position (AutoTear) 86

Line length (Width) 87

Barcode (Barcode) 87

Normal characters and barcode (Barmode) 88

Form feed mode (FFmode) 89

Setting and activating options (PapOpt) 90

Activation of tractors (AutoTra) 90

Activation of automatic sheet feeder (AutoASF) 91

Setting the left margin (LeftMrg) 91

Setting the right margin (RightMrg) 92

Allow a local copy (screen print) form a Coax or Coax/PDS

(FFaftLC) 92

Enable/Disable Paper Handling Features (Paphand) 93

Menu settings (example)

Advanced menu 97

Test functions 97

Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII) 98

Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode 99

Interface test

(Hex-Dump) 100

Printout in Hex-Dump 100

Terminating Hex-Dump 101

Advanced settings 102

Automatic paper motion sensor (PMS) 104

Form length (Forml) 105

Automatic gap adjustment (AGA) 105

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Paper handling (Paphand) 106

Increasing the printhead gap (Head up) 106

Paper width (Pagewid) 107

Left-hand area (Leftzon) 107

Right-hand area (Rightzo) 108

Physical left margin (Physlm) 108

Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid) 109

Line wrap (Wrap) 109

Beep at paper end (Sound) 110

Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single) 110

Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back) 111

Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm) 111

Automatic paper width detection (APW) 112

Automatic detection of the top paper margin (AED) 113

Serial number (SerialN) 114

Asset number (AssetN) 114

Graphic Print Speed (GrSpeed) 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 (fanfold paper) 119

Paper jam (single sheets) 120

Paper does not move to tear off position 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 125

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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 139

MTPL standard character set 140

MTPL, international substitution characters 141

OCR-A character set 142

OCR-B character set 143

Available character sets and fonts 144

Emulations 147

General 147

Escape sequences 147

What are escape sequences? 148

MTPL sequences 148

Control codes 148

The $$ procedure 148

Example: 148

How are escape sequences used? 149

MTPL 149

Example in BASIC 149

Example in Pascal 149

Printout 149

List of available control codes 150

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Barcode 160

List of available barcodes 160

US Postnet barcode 161

Royal Mail Customer barcode 161

KIX barcode 162

USPS Intelligent Mail barcode 162

LC printing 163

List of additional control codes 164

Interfaces 165

Parallel interface 166

Connector assignment 166

Ethernet interface 167

Hardware 167

Supported operating systems 167

Supported protocols 167

Designation of IP address 167

Configuration 167

Status 167

Management 167

Setup 167

Physical printer port in Ethernet with TCP/IP 168

Example of a printer connected to a computer in an

Ethernet 168

Example of several devices in an Ethernet 168

Optional serial interface V.24/RS232C 169

Connector assignment 169

Interface cable (serial interface) 170

Input signals 170

Output signals 170

Protocols 171

Memory mode XON/XOFF 171

Memory mode Robust XON/XOFF 171

Extended menu functions with the ENQ/STX and

ETX/ACK protocols selected 171

ENQ/STX protocol 172

ETX/ACK protocol 172

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Options and accessories 173

Options 173

Automatic cut sheet feeder, front (ASF-F) 173

Automatic cut sheet feeder, rear (ASF-R) 173

Autocut facility 173

Tractor 2, front 173

Face down insertion 173

Printer pedestal 173

Paper basket 174

Cable cover 174

ESD brush 174

Interface modules 174

Optional firmware 174

Accessories 175

Ribbon cassettes 175

Programming manuals 175

Index 177

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