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The User`s Manual of TK500 Control Board

1. GS FF Carries the BM printing O O paper to the printing starting position GS Set character size O O O GS Set absolute vertical Ignored O printing position under the page mode GS Define download bit O O O image GS A Execute test print O Ignored GS E User setting command O O Disabled GS F Set adjustable value O O O GS K Select printing control O O O mode GS M User defined printer O A control value GS Print download bit image 0 O GS Begin finish macro O O O definition GS B Turn opposite blank O O O printing mode on off GS C 0 Set count value printing O O O mode GSC 1 Select count mode A O O O GS C 2 Set count value O O O GS C Select count mode B O O O GS H Select HRI character O O O printing position GS I Transmit printer ID O GS L Set left side blank O O O measure GS T Set printing position to O Ignored the start printing line GS V Select cutting mode and O O cut paper GS W Set printable width O O A GS Set relative vertical Ignored O printing position under the page mode GS Operate macro O O GS a Enable disable automatic O O O status back ASB GS b Turn level and smooth on O O O 41 off GS c Printing count value O O O GS f Select HRI character O O O type GS h Set bar code height O O O G
2. m selects the bar code system as follows m Bar codd Character units Notes system 0 UPC A 11 lt k lt 12 48 lt d lt 57 1 UPC E 11 lt k lt 12 48 lt d lt 57 2 JAN13 EAN13 12 lt k lt 13 48 lt d lt 57 3 JAN8 EAN8 7 lt k lt 8 48 lt d lt 57 4 CODE39 1 lt k 48 lt d lt 57 65 lt d lt 90 32 36 37 43 45 46 47 5 ITF 1 lt k k is even 48 lt d lt 57 6 CODABAR 1 lt k 48 lt d lt 57 65 lt d lt 68 36 43 45 46 47 58 7 Standard EAN13 12 lt k lt 13 48 lt d lt 57 8 Standard EAN8 7 lt kS8 48 lt d lt 57 65 UPC A 11 lt n lt 12 48 lt d lt 57 66 UPC E 11 lt n lt 12 48 lt d lt 57 67 JAN13 EAN13 123n lt 13 48 lt d lt 57 68 JAN8 EAN8 71 lt n lt 8 48 lt d lt 57 69 CODE39 1 lt n lt 255 48 lt d lt 57 65 lt d lt 90 32 36 37 43 45 46 47 70 ITF 12n lt 255 n is 48 lt d lt 57 even 71 CODABAR 1 lt n lt 255 48 lt d lt 57 65 lt d lt 68 36 43 45 46 47 58 72 CODE93 1 lt n lt 255 0 lt d lt 127 73 CODE128 1 n lt 255 0 d lt 127 74 Standard EAN13 123 lt n lt 13 48 lt d lt 57 75 Standard EAN8 7 lt nS8 48 lt d lt 57 Notes This commands be finished by NUL When the used bar code system is UPC A or UPC E prints the bar code and deals with the continued data as the normal data after the printer received 12 bytes bar code data When the used bar code system is JAN13 EAN13 prints the bar code and deals with the continued data as the normal data after the printer received 13 bytes b
3. bottom 1 49 From bottom Bottom left to top corner figure B 2 50 From right to Bottom right left corner figure C 3 ol From top to Top right corner figure D Print area Forward 65 Notes Default Reference ESC Vn Name Format Range Description Notes Default Reference ESC Inputs this command under the standard mode the printer only executes the inner mark operation This command no affects the printing under the standard mode This command sets data buffer position on the scale of printing area which set by ESC VW n 0 ESC ESC L ESC W ESC GS GS Turn clockwise 90 revolved on off ASCII ESC V n Hex 1B 56 n Decimal 27 86 n OX lt nS1 48 lt n lt 49 Turns clockwise 90 revolved on off The use of n as follows n Function 0 48 Turn clockwise 90 revolved off Turn clockwise 90 revolved on 1 49 This command affects printing under the standard mode And the set always affects For the character of clockwise 90 revolved when sets the underline mode the printer doesn t add the underline Under the clockwise 90 revolved mode the character direction which be enlarged by double height and double width is opposite to the character direction which sets under the normal mode If inputs this command under the page mode the printer only operates fo
4. end Default ESC c5n Name Format Range Description Notes Short data When takes this command to enable a printing paper sensor only uses the relevant printing paper the printer stops printing When without paper sensor detects that the printing paper to The printer stops printing and on offline conditions When bit 1 is on the printer selects paper near end sensor and stops Printing n 0 Enable disable panel buttons ASCII ESC c 5 Hex 1B 63 35 Decimal 27 99 53 0Sn lt 255 Enables or disables the panel buttons e When the LSB of n is 0 the panel buttons are enabled e When the LSB of n is 1 the panel buttons are disabled e Only uses the LSB of n e If disable the panel buttons then all the buttons can t be used when closing the print head bar e For this printer the only one panel button is feeding paper button e When the printer on the wait whatever this command set the feeding paper button will be affected But can t feed paper n 0 ESC dn Name Printing and feeding n lines Format ASCII ESC d n Hex 1B 64 n Decimal 27 100 n Range O lt n lt 255 Description Prints the data in the output printing buffer area and feeds paper n lines Notes This command sets the line starting point to the printing starting position This command no affects the line spacing which set by ESC 2 or ESC 3 command The max quantity of feeding paper is 1016 mm 4
5. 0O lt xL lt 255 0 lt xH lt 255 here 1 lt xL xHX256 lt 128 0O lt yL lt 255 0 lt yH lt 8 here 1 lt yL yHX 256 lt 4095 01 d lt 255 K xL xHX256 X yLtyHX256 k 0 112 Description Sets grating bit image m as follows m Mode Vertical Dot Horizontal Dot Density Density 0 48 Normal 203 2 dpi 203 2 dpi 1 49 Double width 203 2 dpi 101 6 dpi 2 50 Double height 101 6 dpi 203 2 dpi 3 ol Four times size 101 6 dpi 101 6 dpi dpi per 25 4mm one inch printing dots e xL xH sets bit image horizontal direction data bytes xL xHX 256 e yL yH sets bit image vertical direction data bytes yL yHX 256 Notes Under the standard mode this command only affects when there are no data in the printing buffer area For the grating bit image printing this command no affects by the printing mode character size over striking overlap up down printing underline reverses blank printing mode and so on If the printable area width which sets by GS L and GS W is narrower than the min width the printer only extends the problem line to the nine width The min width for normal mode m 0 48 and double height mode m 2 50 is a dot for the double width mode m 1 49 and four times size mode m 3 51 is two dots The data out of the printing area be read and discarded one by one If the printing position of continued character is the multiple of 8 The continued will be the character pri
6. 79 5mm Paper width type about 72mm 576 203 2inch 60 mm Paper width type about 56 mm 448 203 2inch 58 mm Paper width type about 54mm 432 203 2inch Under the page mode the length of the horizontal direction 82 5 m Paper width type about 80mm 640 203 2inch 79 5 mm Paper width type about 72mm 576 203 2inch 60 mm Paper width type about 56mm 448 203 2inch 58 mm Paper width type about 54 mm 432 203 2inch Under the page mode the length of the vertical direction 82 5 mm Paper width type about 83 mm 664 203 2inch 79 5 mm Paper width type about 92mm 738 203 2inch 60 mm Paper width type about 119 mm 949 203 2inch 58 mm Paper width type about 123mm 984 203 2inch 6 Printable area The printable range is set by command the printable area must be not more than the area which could be printed 7 Ignored 8 Inch 9 MSB 10 LSB All the command contains parameter on this condition be read then be discarded but not takes any operation A unit of length One inch is 25 4 mm The highest validity The lowest validity 11 Baseline The standard position of the character data which stored in the printing buffer The normal character position under the standard mode and page mode as the following graphics Base line 44 When the character selected A the width is 21 dots When the character selected B the width is 16 dots Revolve the character under the stan
7. The example 1 BASIC procedure example when opening the 1 document could transmit the data to printer 100 PRINT 1 CHRS amp H1B L 110 PRINT 1 CHRS amp HI1B W CHRS 0 CHRS 0 CHRS O CHRS O 120 PRINT 1 CHRS 200 CHRS 0 CHRS 144 CHRS amp 1 130 PRINT 41 CHRS H1B T CHRS 0 140 PRINT 1 Page mode lesson TEST 1 150 PRINT 1 CHRS amp HC At the procedure of example 1 sets a 200X400 dots printable area which begins 0 0 and the characters prints at the first line in the printable area the picture as follows 124 Page mode lesson TEST 1 TA Printing paper The page mode example 1 Note As the above picture plugs a feeding paper line between lesson and TEST 1 Because at the horizontal scale of 200 X400 printable area behind the word lesson there are no position to capacity the blank mark so plug this feeding paper line automatically The feeding paper quantity at this position sets by ESC 3 Before executing FF could set any one of quantity printable area If there are any one of printable area overlaps so the logical sum of the overlapping part data prints as the final data The data which have been made could be deleted partly Takes ESC W to specify a printable area this area will be made the deleted part then deletes data by CAN All data in the specified printable area will be deleted even if it s the only part of characters The exam
8. n 3 Error cause status Bit Off On Hex Decimal Function 0 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 1 On 02 2 No used On selected 2 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 3 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 48 4 On 10 16 No used On selected 5 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 6 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 7 Off 00 0 No used Off selected Bit 2 The printer put the bar raised during printing to mechanical error Bit 6 If the temperature of the print head is over during printing the bit 6 beset on until the temperature declined effectively or the bar during printing opened n 4 Roll paper sensor status Bit Off 0n Hex Decimal Function 0 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 1 On 02 2 No used On selected 2 3 Off 00 0 Roll paper near end sensor paper adequate On 0C 12 Roll paper near end sensor paper near end 4 On 10 16 No used On selected 5 6 Off 00 0 Roll paper near end sensor with paper On 60 96 Roll paper near end sensor paper near end 7 Off 00 0 No used Off selected Reference DLE ENQ GS a GS r Appendix C DLE ENQ n Name Send real time request to printer Format ASCII DLE ENQ n Hex 10 05 n Decimal 16 5 n Range n 2 Description Responds to a request from the host computer n designates the following requests Request n 1 Restart printing from the error recovered to appear error 2 Recover
9. t contain another characters out of the op to g If the grammar is incorrect then the relevant parameters setting is not effective and deals with the following data as the normal data Default sa 1 sb 65535 sn 1 sr 1 sc 1 Reference GS C0 GSC 1 GSC 2 Ge GS Hn Name Select the printing position of HRI character Format ASCII GS H n Hex 1D 48 n Decimal 29 72 n Range 0 lt n lt 3 48 lt n lt 5l Description When prints bar code selects the printing position of HRI character n selects the printing position the table as follows n Printing position 0 48 Not printing 1 49 Above the bar code 2 50 Below the bar code 3 51 Above and below the bar code Note The position of the printer prints HRI characters is not set according to the standard position HRI Human Readable Interpretation indicates the readable bar code relevant characters Note Takes the characters which specified by GS f to print HRI characters Default n 0 Reference GS f GS k 96 GSIn Name Transmit the printer ID Format ASCII GS I n ID 49 n Decimal 29 73 n Range 1 lt n lt 3 49 lt n lt 51 Description Transmits the specifying printer ID n specifies the type of printer ID The printer ID types ID n 1 49 The printer model ID Model T80 Hex code
10. 1 lt n lt 255 0 lt m lt 3 48 lt m lt 51 Description Prints NV bit image n use the mode specified by m m Mode Vertical Density Horizontal Density 0 48 Normal 203 2dpi 203 2 dpi 1 49 Double width 203 2 dpi 101 6 dpi 2 50 Double height 101 6 dpi 203 2 dpi 3 51 Four times 101 6 dpi 101 6 dpi size Dpi per 25 4m 1 inch printing dot count n is the quantity of NV bit image defined by FS q m specified bit image mode Specification NV bit image is a bit image which defined at the not easy losing memory Defined by FS q printed by FS q This command will not affect when the specified NV bit image not existed Under the standard mode this command affects when there are no data in the printing buffer area This commands no affects under the page mode This command not be affected by the printing mode bold repetition underline character size or reverse blank printing unless the reversed printing mode If the width of NV bit image printable area set by GS L and GS W is less than a vertical line then executing the following 73 operation only for the problem lines At the NV bit image mode a vertical line means a dot under the normal mode m 0 48 and double height mode m 2 50 two dots under the double width mode m 1 49 and four times size mode m 3 51 Under the NV bit image mode the width of printable area extends to right a vertical line In such circumstances the print
11. Recommendatory operation environment Item Notation Standard Value Unit Min Typical Max The voltage Vp 21 6 24 0 26 4 V supplied by printer Operation Topr 0 55 C temperature Operation Hopr 10 z 80 humidity no coagulation Can t take the power supply to short circuit for any outputted pins Takes a low impendence to short circuit an output pin maybe it will bring heat damage because of surpassing circuit There are no electric material as paper etc which followed on the circuit board Maybe it will bring heat damage to the pins on the short circuit board because of the surpassing circuit Be sure to use the defined cable linker device Maybe it will bring fire or strike fire because of the incorrect linker This product can t be disassembled or modified The incorrect modification for this product will bring damage fire or electric shock Can t be used on the high humidity and excessive dust environment Maybe it will bring damage fire or strike fire because of high humidity and excessive dust This product can t be disassembled or modified The incorrect modification for this product will bring damage fire or electric shock Chapter II CONFIGURATION AND INSTALLATION 2 1General Configuration 2 1 1The figure of control board configuration D6 D5 D3 on 1 TA mo o o 2 1 2Dimension Height About 25 mm 0 98 inch Width
12. SOH 01 1 mA DC1 11 17 mo STX 02 2 mB DC2 12 18 BR ETX 03 3 mC DC3 13 19 mS EOT 04 4 MD NAK 14 20 mT ENQ 05 5 ME SYN 15 21 mu ACK 06 6 mr ETB 16 22 mv BEL 08 7 Hc CAN 17 23 mv BS 09 8 BH EN 18 24 mx HT 09 9 mi EN 19 25 mY LF OA 10 Ej SUB 1A 26 M7 VT OB 11 mx ESC 1B 27 mA FF 0C 12 mL FS 1C 28 mB CR 0D 13 My GS 1D 29 mc SO OE 14 MN RS 1E 30 MD SI OF 15 mo US IF 31 ME DEL TF 127 mT For example Prints GS k 72 7 67 111 100 101 13 57 51 AAN When takes CODE128 m 73 About CODE128 bar code and code table information refers to the appendix E When the printer takes CODE128 please considers the following which about the data transmitting data The head of bar code data font needs to be the code font selected character CODE A CODE B or CODE C takes to be selected the first using code fond gt Defines the special character by character and a character group Defines ASCII character through continuing transmitting twice Special Transmit data characters ASCII Hex Decimal SHIFT S 7B 53 123 83 CODE A A 7B 41 123 65 CODE B B 7B 42 123 66 CODE C iC 7B 43 123 67 ENC1 1 7B 31 123 49 FNC2 2 7B 32 123 50 110 FNC3 3 7B 33 123 51 FNC4 4 7B 34 123 52 sod A 7B 7B 123 123 For example Prints the actual example data of No 123456 At this actual example first the printer t
13. SPACE 3 to 15V Logic 0 ON Baud rate 4800 9600 19200 38400bps bps transmits bit count per second Date word length 8 bit fixed Check out manner No Even Odd Stop bits 1 bit or more than 1 bit Socket side of the printer D SUB9 male thread positive Notes Handshaking signal baud rate and check out manner decided by DIP switch setting refer to section 3 3 2 The stop bits on the side of the printer fixed 1 3 2 1 2 Switching between online and offline The printer goes offline 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Between when the power is turned on or the printer reset and during the printer have ready to receive the data During the self test When the cover is open During paper feeding by taking the paper FEED button When the printer stops printing due to the paper end On the macro execution ready conditions When an error has occurred 3 2 1 3 Interface socket pin assignments and signal functions Interface socket pin assignments and signal functions are described in the following table Signal assignments and functions Pin Signal Signal Function number name direction 2 RXD Input Receive data 3 TXD Output Transmit data 4 DTR Output 1 When DTR DSR control is selected this signal indicates whether the printer is busy SPACE indicates that the printer have ready to receive data and MARK indicates that the printer is busy The busy condition can be changed by taking
14. can t over the printable area 2 If the width of printable area can t extend a vertical line then the left blank will be narrowed and to held a vertical line If the printable download bit image over a line then the over data not to be printed Under the normal and double width mode this command feed paper n dots n is the height of NV bit image Under the double height and four times size mode this command feeds paper 2n dots n is the height of NV bit image it s not relevant to the line spacing which set by ESC 2 or ESC 3 After printing bit image this command sets the printing position at the beginning of a line and deal with the continued data as the normal data Reference ESC FS q GS GS vo FS q n xL xH yL yH d1 dk 1 xL xH yL yH d1 dk n Name Format dl dk dl dk dl dk Range n n n Define NV bit image ASCIT FS q n xL xH yL yH dl dk 1 xL xH yL yH Hex 1C 71 n xL xH yL yH dl dk 1 xL xH yL yH Decimal 28 113 n xL xH yL yH dl dk 1 xL xH yL yH 13n lt 255 0 lt xL lt 255 0 lt xH lt 3 when 1 lt x1 xhX256 lt 1023 0 lt y1 lt 255 0O lt yh lt 1 when 1 lt yl yhX256 lt 288 0 d lt 255 K xl xhX 256 X ylt yhX256 X8 The total of defined data area 192k byte Description Defines NV bit image which uses the specific value n n specifies the quantity of NV bit image XL xH specifies the dot count of
15. 21H 2 50 Type ID See the following table 3 51 Fixed version ID 43H Type ID Off On Hex Decimal Function Bit 0 OFF 00 0 Not supports double byte character code ON 01 1 Supports double byte character code 1 OFF 00 0 Uninstalled auto cut paper machine ON 02 2 Installed auto cut paper machine 2 a Undefined 3 Unused 4 Unused 5 Undefined 6 Undefined 7 a Unused Specification Under the serial interface mode when selecting DTR DSR control be sure that the host computer have ready to receive data DSR signal is SPACE The printer only transmits one byte If the host computer have not ready to receive data DSR signal is MARK the printer will be waited until the printer have ready Under the serial interface mode when selecting XON XOFF control the printer only transmits one byte and not be sure that the conditions of DSR signal When spreading the data in the receiving buffer area transmits printer ID After receiving this command could be waited a period of transmitting conditions it decided by the 97 conditions of receiving buffer area When taking GS a to enable automatically restoring ASB must be distinguished the conditions of transmitting by GS I and ASB Note At present no the conditions changing information of bit0 GS L nL nH Name Set left side blank quantity Format ASCII GS L nL nH Hex 1D 4C nl nH Decimal 29 76 nl nH Range 0 lt nL lt 255 0
16. 3 1 3 1 Print head connection socket O CN9 CN6 21 pi CN7 iSpin Print head connection socket 3 1 3 2 FFC The FFC cable which connected with the print head needs to satisfy the measure requirements as the following figure FFC Type user pin pitch 1 25 mm 0 049 3 5 mm or more 3 5 mm or more Conductive face Conductive face 10mm 10mm Cable length Maximum 300 mm 11 8 Switch spacing 1 250 1 mm Switch width 0 80 05 mm Min connection length 3 5 mm Switch thickness 0 25 0 4 mm 3 1 4 Operation board connection The control board could connect single buttons and indicators through this connection socket PAPER OUT LED ERROR LED w O on A CNA TK500 Side User Side The type of end user connection Plug HER 06 JST Plug end SHE 001T PO 6 JST 3 1 5 Paper near end sensor connection If the user needs to install paper near end sensor the connection needs to according to the following figure The paper near end sensor which uses the mechanical touch switch Near end sensor CNS TK500 Side User Side The end user linker type Plug IL S 2S S C2 S JAE Plug end IL S C2 S 1000 JAE 3 2 Interface Connection 3 2 1 RS 232 serial interface 3 2 1 1 Specification Data transmission Serial Synchronization manner Asynchronous Handshaking signal CTS RTS DTR DSR or XON XOFF control Signal level MARK 3 to 15V Logic 1 OFF
17. Character type A 12 X 24 On 01 1 Character type B 9X17 1 gt gt Undefined z Undefined Off 0 Emphasized mode not selected On 8 Emphasized mode selected 4 Off 0 Double height mode not selected On 16 Double height mode selected 5 Off 0 Double width mode not selected On 32 Double width mode selected 6 ES DEE Undefined 51 7 Off 0 Underline mode not selected On 128 Underline mode selected Specification When select double height and double width mode at the same time then printing four times size character The printer could add the underline to all characters But couldn t add the underline to the blank which causes by HT command or the character of revolving 90 according to wise clock direction The thickness of the underline set by ESC it is not relevant to the characters When some of double height or more height characters in a line all the characters in a line will be stayed at the same level along baseline ESC M could be set the font type of characters At last the set of the received command is effective ESC E could be set or cancel the emphasize mode At last the set of the received command is effective GS could be set the size of character At last the set of the received command is effective The emphasize mode is effective for the English characters and Chinese The entire printing modes except for emphasize
18. ESC T ESC W ESC GS GS rtm Name Operate macro Format ASCII GS r t Hex 1D 5E r t Decimal 29 94 r t Range 0 lt r lt 255 0 t lt 255 m 0 1 Description Operates macro r specifies the times of operating macro t specifies the waiting time of operating macro m specified the macro operating mode When the LSB of m is 0 Macro continues to execute r times at the specified time spacing When the LSB of m is 1 After the waiting time which specifies by t PAPER OUT LED will be flashed and the printer be on waited FEED button will be pushed After the button to be pushed the printer executes one macro The print operates r time s repeat Notes For executing macro every time the waiting time is tX100ms If received this command when defining a macro then the macro definition will be failed and the definition will be cleared If not defined the macro or r is 0 not executing any operation When operating macro m 1 feeding paper can t take the FEED button Reference GS GSa n Name Enable disable automatic status back ASB Format ASCII GS a n Hex ID 6l n Decimal 29 97 n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description Enable disable ASB and contained conditions specified by n As follows 102 Notes Bit Off On Hex code Decimal ASB status code 0 Off 00 0 Not takes the off which is fixed 1 Off 00 0 Disable online offlind On conditions
19. Range 0 lt n lt 255 114 Description Sets the character print mode set n as follows Bit Off On Hex Decimal Function 0 gt Undefined 1 Undefined 2 Off 00 0 Prohibit double width ode On 04 4 Permit double width ode 3 Off 00 e Prohibit double height ode On 08 8 Permit double height ode 4 a Undefined 5 Undefined 6 al Undefined 7 Off Undefined On Undefined Specification e On the conditions of setting the double wide and height mode contains the right and left character spacing will print the four times size character The printer can add underline for all characters contains right side and left side character spacing but can t add underline for the blank which set by HT command and clockwise 90 revolved characters The width of underline designated by FS It is not relevant to the size of character When some of characters in a line is double height characters or more all characters in this line will stand at the same level along datum line Enlarge Chinese character could use FS W or GS command the set is effective when received finally e The command which received finally is effective the set is effective when received finally Short data n 0 Reference FS FS W GS FS Name Set Chinese mode Format ASCII FS amp Hex 1C 26 115 Decimal 28 38 Description Selects Chi
20. Transmitting Hex code Decimal Data byte data code Head 37H 55 1 byte 2 Mark 21H 33 1 byte 3 Data 30H 31H 48 49 8 bytes NUL 00H 0 1 byte The above indicates the following contents Memory switch on off sets that the definition is off hex code 30H decimal code 48 or on hex 31H hex 49 For each byte of 8 memory switches transmits according to the sequence from Bit 8 to bit 1 Example Transmits data 10110001 31H 30H 31H 30H 30H 31H Switch No 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Status On Off On On OFF Off Off On If selects a memory switch number which not supportedla surpasses the range this command will be ignored In such circumstances lt G S a gt 7 byte will be discarded If ignores this command the printer won t transmit any data The memory switch number a and the memory switch number a in 83 the function 3 have the same meanings iat aly forward GS pL pH a m nL nH Name Set the adjustable value Format ASCII GS F pL Hamn oH Hex 1D 28 46 pL pH a m nL nH Decimal 29 40 70 pL pH a m nL Nh Range pL pHX 256 4 here pL 4 pH 0 1SaS2 m 0 48 or 1 49 O lt nL nH X 2561600 here 0 lt nL lt 255 0 lt nH lt 6 Description This command only affects when enabling BM sensor Sets the printer operation adjustable value which specified by parameter pL an
21. area according to HT ESC or ESC Default n 0 For example Left justification Centered Right justification ABC ABCD ABCDE 69 ESC c3n Name Select paper sensor to output paper end signal Format ASCII ESC c 3 n Hex 1B 63 33 n Decimal 27 99 ol n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description Selects paper sensor to output paper end signal The use of each parameter n as the following table Bit Off On Hex Decimal Function 0 Off Undefined 1 Off 00 0 Disable paper near end sensor On 02 2 Enable paper near end sensor 2 Off Undefined 3 On 00 0 Disable paper end sensor On 08 8 Enable paper end sensor 4 7 Undefined Notes Inputs signal which could select several sensors In such circumstance if any one of sensors detects no paper it will input the signal which means no paper This command only affects to the parallel interface under the serial interface mode this command will be ignored Default n 0 ESC c4n Name Select paper sensor s to stop printing Format ASCII ESC e 4 n Hex 1B 63 34 n Decimal 27 99 52 n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description When detecting no paper selects paper sensors to stop printing The use of parameter n as follows Bit O f On Hex Decimal Function 0 Off Undefined 1 Off 00 0 Disable paper near end sensor On 02 2 Enable paper near end senor 2 7 Undefined 70 Notes
22. chroma Switch number 3 4 1 Tiny On On 2 Normal Off Off 3 Thick On Off 4 Dense Off On Table 3 5 7 Operation mode selecting Operation mode Switch number 5 Hex printing On Normal Off Note This operation mode prints the any one of receiving data by hex value 3 5 2 Set memory function switch Except for DIP SWl and SW2 Could use memory function setting switch to take the other function settings these settings confirmed by the specific printing setting commands the setting parameters will be stored in the printer non easy losing memory and it will not lose when turning the power off The memory function switch 1 Switch Function ON 1 OFF 0 Default Note number 1 Reserved 0 is fixed 2 Reserved O is fixed 3 BUSY The receiving The conditions buffer is full receiving buffer is full or offline 4 Receiving Ignored Prints 0 1 error dealt with 5 Change a new Enabled Disabled 0 2 line automatically 6 Reserved gt 0 is fixed 7 Reserved ES 0 is fixed 32 8 Reserved 0 is fixed 0 Notes 1 only affects under the serial interface 2 only affects under the parallel interface Please refer to the illustration of CR command Memory function switches 2 3 4 5 6 7 Switch Function ON 1 OFF 0 Default Note number 1 Reserved 0 is fixed 0 2 Rese
23. data sequence the printer performs this command For example ESC m nL nH dl dK dl lt 10 gt H d3 lt 01 gt H e Do not embed this command within another command For example If want to transmit ESC 3 n to printer before transmitting n DTR for the host is DSR is MARK So before n received occurs that DLE EOT 3 interrupted the code lt 10 gt H of DLE EOT 3 will be dealt with as the code lt 10 gt of ESC 3 n 1 Printer status Off 0n Hex Decimal Function Bit 0 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 1 On 02 2 No used On selected 2 On 04 4 No used On selected 3 Off 00 0 Online On 08 8 Offline 4 On 10 16 No used On selected 5 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 6 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 7 Off 00 0 No used Off selected Note bit 5 the online error is the process of the printer executes macro command period and self test period which waited push buttons n 2 Offline cause status Bit Off On Hex Decimal Function 0 Off 00 0 No used Off selected On 02 2 No used On selected 2 Off 00 0 The print head lever is closed On 04 4 The print head lever is opened 3 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 4 On 10 16 No used On selected 5 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 6 Off 00 0 No used Off selected 7 Off 00 0 No used Off selected Bit 5 When the without paper detector test that the paper have used and stopped printing it is on
24. function only affects to the user defined GS E PL PH m m1 b18 b11 ak bk8 bk11 when m 3 Format Range Description ASCII GS E pL pH m al b18 b11 ak bk8 bk1 Hex 1D 28 45 pL pH 03 al b18 b11 ak bk8 bk1 Decimal 29 40 69 pL pH 3 al b18 b11 ak bk8 bk1 10 lt pL pH X 256 lt 65530 here pL pHX256 9Xk 1 O0OXpL lt 255 0 lt pH lt 255 m 3 1 lt a lt 8 b 48 49 50 1 lt k lt 7281 Through the value of b changes the memory switch settings which specified by a b Function 48 Set the specified bit to off 49 Set the specified bit to on 82 50 Not change the specified conditions The total data bit of memory switch is 8 Deals with the value of 8 according to the sequence from the bit 8 to bit 1 If occurs the error during writing the data executes that dealing with the memory error For memory switch referss to section 3 5 2 Sets the reserved bit to 2 50 If changes the settings These settings only affects when resets the printer or repeatly turns the power on Checkout the setting value by executing self test GS E pL pH m a when m 4 Format ASCII GS E pL pH Hex ID 28 45 pL pH m a Decimal 29 40 69 pL pH m a Range pL pH X 256 2 pL 2 pH 0 m 4 1 lt aS8 Description Sends the setting value of memory switch which specified by a The transmission data contents as follows
25. lt nH lt 255 Description Sets the left side blank quantity by nL and nH Notes The left side blank quantity set nL tnHX 256 X0 125 mm Printable area The left side blank The width of printable width Under the standard mode this command only affects when dealing with at the starting of a line If input this command under the page mode the printer only executes inner marked operation Under the page mode this commands no effects printing If the set over the printable area then taking the max value of the printing unit When executing the light bit image command GS v o sets the left side blank quantity through this command and only could take the unit of 8 bits If the left side blank quantity which wanted be set can t divide by 8 then omit the remainder counts For example If nL nHX256 20 the data set by 16 Note Takes this command and others likes GS ESC when combining to Default use the printing outcome may be not the expected nL 0 nH 0 Reference GS W GS T m Printing mode 98 1 49 Partial cut reserve a little 66 Feeds paper to cutting paper position nX0 125 mm and takes partial cut reserve a little p type cutter Name Set printing position to the start printing line Format ASCII GS T n Hex 1D 54 n Decimal 29 84 n Range n 0 1 48 49 Description The printing position set to the start printing lin
26. n s s os 0 so f u e 3 a a 0 A A A a me so w e 3s s maj m s 12349 Por ou n o s s ome mos 12 50 ae a a a e A naa d aar x sf o s mef sa 123 52 oa ua f lt sc eo smer 753 123 83 pom sf af a o com rea 123 66 sw 16 2e gt ae e coc 7543 12367 ere rel pos s oe ow w aw poe a s n we we J gt af ofj a mf Printing character among code fond B 128 Transmit Data Transmit Data Cravacer craacer Hex jDeemal J Character Hex_ Decimal gt EEFFEFTEFFEF ai ka gt o T Ne XE KECK OK 0D N o te m 3 J K L M N o P Q R s T u v w x Y z A OONAN Om BELKEFEBSSSESSBSKERESRESSSAYRRSAW BIEBIBEREBRESA O G UG sms 2388288288288 8088280 R28558355t165R2588986288 033 70 MQA090 OB On7mmoowregerviarrs Printing character among code fond C 129 Transmit Data Transmit Data Transmit Data Character Hex Decimal_ Character_ Hex Decimal Character Hex Decimal 0 38385 28R28 00020 MOODS EE o gt SEBIEREBRESA 3838528 R288828 528ER28 w B w o CODE A 7841 a m Be eRESR FES 40 at 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 3B 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 BBSKRREBRESBRENEREBRES Appendix F Sw
27. nStrobe signal Handshaking nAck and Busy signal Signal levels TTL compatibility Connector ADS B36BLFDR176 Honda or equivalent products IEEE 1284 Type B 3 Switching between online and offline The printer is not equipped with any online offline switch The printer enters into offline status in the following conditions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 When the power turned on or initialized the printer by reposition signal nlnit from the interface to the head that the printer has ready to receive data During self test When the cover is open During paper feeding by the paper FEED button When the printer stops printing due to paper end in cases when without paper is detected by either the paper end sensor or the paper near end sensor and stops printing which sets by ESC c 4 On the macro execution conditions When an error has occurred 3 2 2 2 Sending back data mode Transmits the status data from the printer to the host by four bits mode nibble or byte mode Note At present only supports sending back data by nibble mode Description This mode allowed data transmission from the asynchronous printer under the host control Transmits data by four bits mode which works through the existed control line of four bits each group a Nibble In the eight bits mode transmits data which completed by dealing with the eight data line as the bidirectional Both modes can t work at the same time
28. recover error automatically When the printer tests the error which could be restored automatically After the printer tests the error which could be restored automatically automatic restore to online If enables ASB and occurs errors the printer transmits the ASB Then the printer won t transmit ASB until the printer restores to offline For this product the print head high temperature error is the one of automatic restoring error 8 When occurs restored error online offline Initialization for paper loading 1 4 When the printer detects When the printer receives a possibly recoverable a recoverable error error command When the printer tests the error which could be restored transmits a restored error status and offline When the printer could be restored to online status restores offline through restored error command or reset for the resetting time refer to the first point of this section If enables ASB the printer transmits ASB when occurs error Then the printer doesn t transmit ASB until the printer restores to online status For this product automatic cutting paper error is one of the restored error 9 When occurs an error which couldn t be restored online offline A When an unrecoverable error is detected When the printer tests an error which couldn t be restored the printer transmits this error status and changes to offline status The only one method is
29. strike mode is turned off When the LSB of n is 1 double strike mode is turned on Only the LSB of n enabled to use It s the same that the printer outputted in double strike mode and boldfaced mode n 0 ESC E Print and feed paper ASCII ESC J n Hex 1B 4A Decimal 27 74 0 lt n lt 255 Prints the data in the print buffer and feeds the paper nX 0 125 mm e After printing this command sets the starting position of printer to the beginning of line e Feeding paper quantity set by this command not affects the data which set by ESC 2 or ESC 3 command At the standard mode the printer used the vertical moving unit y At the page mode according to the starting position of the printable area the function of this command as follows DD When sets the starting position to the printable area s up left or down right by ESC T uses the horizontal moving unit y 2 When sets the starting position to the printable area s 62 ESC L Name Format up right or down left uses the vertical moving unit x Select page mode ASCII ESC L Hex 1B AC Decimal 27 76 Description Changes from the standard mode to page mode Notes At the standard mode this command only affects at the beginning of the one This commands no affects under the page mode Finished printing by taking FF or executing ESC S command the printer returns to the standard mode This command sets the position of the data buffe
30. the memory Standard mode ESC L ESC FF ESC S Figure 3 9 1 Transform between normal mode and page mode 3 9 2 The setting value under the normal mode and page mode 1 The commands and parameters are the same under the normal mode and page mode But ESC SP ESC 2 ESC 3 commands have the different setting values under the normal mode and page mode It will be recorded respectively under the different mode 2 Under the normal mode If takes the roll paper which the width is 82 5 mm the max printing width of printing dot image is 640 dots But the same roll paper under the page mode could be print 664 dots at the direction of y paper feeding direction The above needed to take the following setting the y direction printable area is 664 dots set by ESC W command the value of the printing direction parameters n set by ESC T 151 013 38 Chapter IV Printing Control Commands 4 1Command Table Name Command Standard Page Command Type Mode Mode Execute Set command Command HT Horizontal tab O O O LF Print and line feed O O O FF Print and turn to O Ignored O standard mode under the page mode CR Print and carriage O O O return CAN Cancel printing data O Ignored O under the page mode DLE EOT Real time status O O O transmission DLE ENQ Real time request to O O O printer ESC FF Print data under the O Ignored O page mode ESC SP Set r
31. the 8 dot bit image be selected 57 Bit image data MSB Bit image data Print data Print data 01 dot Single density When the 24 dot bit image be selected Bit image data di d2 d3 d4 d5 d d7 d8 d9 MSB i ES Bit image data M HEE a LSB HHHH EEI HH Print data a Print data HHHH O 1 dot unn na HHH HHH HH on Single density Double density ESC n Name Turn underline mode on off Format ASCII ESC n Hex 1B 2D n Decimal 27 45 n Range 0 lt n lt 2 48 lt n lt 50 Description On the basis of the following value turns underline mode on off n Function 0 48 Turn underline off 1 49 Turn underline on one dot is boldfaced 2 50 Turn underline on two dots is boldfaced Notes Default Reference ESC 2 Name Format Description Note mode Reference ESC 3 n Name Format Range The printer could print the underline for all characters contains right character spacing but except for the blank which sets by HT The printer can t print the underline for the characters which revolved 90 according to clockwise and reversing blank characters Turns underline off through setting that the data of n is 0 or 48 the next data can t be printed the underline and before turning the underline mode on the degree of boldfaced not be changed the boldfaced default underline is 1 dot Change
32. the horizontal direction in defined NV bit image the dot count is xL xHX256 X8 yL yH specifies the dot count of the vertical direction defined NV bit image the dot count is yL yHX256 X8 Specification This command cancels the NV bit image which defined by this command At the serial defined data the printer can t define any one of data renewable If renew to define certain data then all data needs to send again From beginning to deal with this command to finish hardware reset can t execute mechanical operation contains initialized print head position when opening the print head bar feed paper used the paper feeding button and so on During deal with this command when writing data to user NV memory the printer is busy and stops receiving data So Disabled sending data during executing this command contains real time command V bit image is a bit image which defined at the not easy losing memory Defines and prints FS p by FS a Under the standard mode this command only affects to deal with the beginning of a line This commands no affects under the page mode This command affects after the seven bytes lt FS yH gt be dealt with normally When the data quantity over the left capacity of the scale which defined by xL xH yL yH the printer deals with xL xH yL yH out of the defined scale At the first group bit image when any parameters in xL xH yL yH over the de
33. the host haven t ready to receive 111 data DSR signal is MARK the printer waited until the host have ready to If sets SON XOFF control the printer only transmits one byte and be not sure the DSR signal status Executes this commands when the data affects in the printing buffer area So between receiving this command and transmitting status may be have a time spacing it decided by the status of receiving buffer area When takes ASB by GS a distinguished the transmitting status of GS r and ASB status which refers to the table in the appendix C The transmitting status types as follows The printing paper sensor status n 1 49 Bit Off On Hex Decimal ASB status 0 1 Off 00 0 Paper near end sensor printing paper enough On 03 3 Paper near end sensor printing paper enough 2 3 Off 00 0 Paper end sensor printing paper enough On OC 12 Paper end sensor without paper 4 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed 4 6 Undefined 7 On 00 0 Unused Off is fixed Bit 2 and 3 When the paper end sensor tests the printing paper end the printer enters into offline So bit 2 and 3 not transmits without paper status Reference DLE EOT GS a GSvOmxL xH yLyHdl dk Name Format Range Print grating bit image ASCII GS v 0 m xL xH yL yH dl dk Hex 1D 7630 m xL xH yL yH dl dk Decimal 29 118 48 m xL xH yL yH dl dk 0Sm lt 3 48 lt m lt 51
34. the min value then return to max and count again When executes this command clears the inner counter which indicates repeat count and specified by r Default al 1 aH 0 bL 255 bH 255 n 1 r 1 Reference GS CO SCZ GSE Ge GS C 2 nL nH Name Set count value Format ASCII GS C 2 nL nH Hex 1D 43 32 nL nH Decimal 29 67 50 nl nH Range 0 n Description lt nL 255 lt nH 255 Sets the serial count value 94 nL and nH confirms the serial count value is nL nHX 256 Notes At the mode of increasing by degrees If the command sets the counter value which increased over the counter operation scale specified by GS C 1 or GS C then changing to min value through GS c At the mode of decreasing by degrees If the command set the counter value which decreased over the counter operation scale specified by GS C 1 or GS C then changing to max value through GS c Default nL 1 nH 0 Reference SCO GSC GSC Ge GS C sa sb sn sr sc Name Select count mode B Format ASCII GS C D sa sb sn sr sc Hex ID 43 3b sa 3B sb 3B sn 3B sr 3B sc 3B Decimal 29 67 59 sa 59 sb 59 sn 59 sr 59 sc 59 Range 0 lt sax 65535 0 lt sb lt 65535 0 lt sn lt 255 0 lt srs 255 0 lt sc lt 65535 These date are serial characters Description Selects a count pattern for the counter and specifies the data of counter sa sb
35. 0 inch If the specified quantity of feeding paper n X line spacing is 1016 mm 71 40 inch Reference ESC 2 ESC 3 ESC tn Name Select character code table Format ASCII ESC t n Hex 1B 74 n Decimal 27 116 n Range 0O lt n lt 5 16 lt n lt 19 n 255 Description Selects page n from the character code table n Page 0 PC437 America Europe standard 1 Katakana 2 PC850 Multi language 3 PC860 Portuguese 4 PC863 Canada France 5 PC865 North Europe 16 WPC1252 17 PC866 Yugoslavia2 18 PC852 Latin2 19 PC858 Europe 255 Space page Default n 0 Reference Character table ESC n Name Turn upside down printing mode on off Format ASCII ESC n Hex 1B 7B n Decimal 27 123 n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description Turns upside down printing mode on off When the LSB of n is 0 turns upside down printing mode off When the LSB of n is 1 turns upside down printing mode on Notes Only the LSB of n is effective This command only affects when inputting at the beginning of the line under the standard mode This command no affects the printing under the page mode At the upside down mode the printer firstly revolved the printing line 180 then printing 72 Default For example n 0 ABCDEF 330399Vv 012345 svectlo Paper direction FS pnm Name Print NV bit image Format ASCII FS p Hex 1C 70 Decimal 28 112 Range
36. 02 2 Enable online offlind conditions 2 Off 00 0 Error conditions disabled On 04 4 Error conditions enabled 3 Off 00 0 Disable the printing papel On sensor conditions 08 8 Enable the printing papel sensor conditions 4 Undefined Undefined Off 00 0 Disable printing paper FEE On button conditions 40 64 Enable printing paper FEEI button conditions 7 Undefined If any one of conditions in the above table is enabled then the printer transmits conditions when executing this command Once the enabled conditions changed the printer transmits conditions automatically Because every condition transmission means the current conditions So the disabled conditions could be changed If all conditions are disabled the ASB function also be disabled If put ASB enabled as the default set then when the printer opened at the first time and could receive and transmit the printer data the printer is transmission conditions Transmits the following four condition bytes not be sure whether the host computer have ready to receive data The four condition byte needs to be continued except for the XOFF code Because executes the command data in the receiving buffer area so there are a period of stopping time between date receiving and condition transmission When takes DLE EOT or GS r needs to distinguish the conditions and ASB status which transmits by these commands according to appendix C the process of transmissio
37. 1 2 2 PCB installing methodi sinnena unsrer aae oia Ei pe atista eases 11 Chapter HI SYSTEM INSTALLATION AND OPERATION cccsesssseseeseseseeseseeseseeseseeseseneeseeees 12 3 1 System A datbaneietanuaedvneesuiens 12 3 1 1 LALA eiO a EAERI T A 12 3 1 2 Interface connection a 13 3 1 3 Print head connect Onis senior n aane o ee ee le E 13 3 1 4 Operation board CONNECTION cccccccccesscssceseeseceseeseeeseeseeeceeeseessseeeceeeeceaseeeeasens 14 3 1 5 Paper near end Sensor CONNECTION cccccceeecescesscssceseesceeseeeceeeeseeceeseseceeesceeeeasenes 15 3 2 A e ee a aeaeaie a esie siie 15 32 WRS 232 Serial Mte aC Sen teed estan Tc eke he se O 15 3 2 2 IEEE 1284 Bidirectional Parallel Interface ceceeeseeeeseeeeeseeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeneeeees 21 3 3 Panel Buttons and Imdicators cceccescssesseceseesceseeseseeseesecseeceeaeececeseceeseeseeeeeseeeseeeaeeaeenees 27 3301 Panel button tala 27 E Indicators aane e a r A EN OEN 27 3 4 Special operation MOE ccescccseesscescessesscesseseesseesecescesseseceseeseceseessceecesecsecessessceseeseeesees 28 DAA SEE ACSE cee A E ce evi AA A A ETE 28 IMAZ HOR DUMP tii 29 3 5 DIP switch and memory switch Settings cccceseeseeceeseseesseseeseeceeseeeccenecseceeeaeeseeseeseeeens 30 3 5 1 DIP switch Sii iaa 30 3 5 2 Set memory function SWitCh ooooooonconconooonconconncononononnnononnnonnononoononno ono nonnncnnonnno 32 3 0 Error Process o i 34 TOETO Ly PO sy A NENE R eng
38. 1B 52 n Decimal 27 82 n 0SnS13 Selects the data of n according to the following table sets an international character set n Character Set 0 U S A 1 France 2 Germany 3 England 4 Denmark I 5 Sweden 6 Italy T Spain I 8 Japan 9 Norway 10 Denmark II 11 Spain II 12 Latin America 13 Korea n 0 International Set Select standard mode ASCII ESC S Hex 1B 53 Decimal 27 83 This command only affects under the page mode Under the page mode clears the data in the buffer area The starting of the line sets the printing position by this command 64 Reference ESC Tn Name Format Range Description Initialized the printable area setting and which sets by ESC This command sets the following command under this command the data of the standard mode and page mode could be set respectively to shift the relevant set of the standard mode Sets right side character spacing ESC SP Selects default line spacing ESC 2 ESC 3 FF ESC FF ESC L Select printing direction under the page mode ASCIT ESC T n Hex 1B 54 n Decimal 27 84 n 0 lt n lt 3 48 lt n lt 51 Under the page mode selects printing direction and starting position Parameter n used to be designated printing direction and starting position the figure as follows right n Printing Printing Direction Position 0 48 From left to Top left corner figure A
39. 26 E 1 The description of CODE128 bar code ccccccccccsscsscesseseeeseeseceecesecsecesseseceseeseeeseesseseees 126 E 2 Code Tableti ion a 127 Appendix F Switch on online and Of liM ooooocnocnocnnonnoonnonoonnonnnononnnoononnonononnno nono nonncnnnnonccnnnn ninos 130 Appendix G Status transmission disposal ccccccccssessceseesscescesscseceseesecseeescecascseceeseaeseeseaeesesseens 134 Appendix H The calculation method that GS F sets the adjustable ValUe oooonononincnnnonionmo 136 Chapter INTRODUCTION This standard reference manual applied to TK500 printing control circuit board 1 1 The characters of this product 1 1 1 Model TK500 has the following models TK500 P S model supports IEEE 1284 bidirectional parallel interface RS 232 serial interface 1 1 2 The supporting character set FONT A 12X24 dot characters FONT B 9X17 dot characters Chinese Support GB18030 Chinese downwards compatibility GB2312 1980 Note At present GB18030 only supports double byte 1 2 3 4 5 area 1 1 3 The print head models of the equipment linker At present supports EPSON M T510 T520 T530 T540 serial print head all characters driven by 24V DC Select the model of printer by the DIP switch High speed printing Feeds paper which needs the printing speed about 150 mm second 5 9 inch second 1 1 4 The functions and applications that the printer carries out The standard commands protocol on th
40. 48B gt ooococnconooncocononoonoonncnnonnno noc nononoononononncnnnos 86 GS K pL pH n m when n 49 lt function 49 gt ccc ccessceseessceseesecseceseeseesseeseceeeeseenees 86 OSMA e Chace ed a aed 87 GS M pL pH n m n 1 49 lt function Lo ccc ccccccccccsseseeeseeseceecesecsecessssecsseesecnseeaeens 88 GS M pL pH n m n 50 lt function 2 gt 000 0 eeeeseeseeceeseeeeeeeseeneeeeens 88 GS M pL pH n m 053 51 lt function 3 gt 0 0 ececcecseesceseeseeseeceesceeeeeeaeeseeaeeseeeeeaeereeees 89 GSi Y APA dO y 8 E e Actes Waa tied ee 90 GS Ao O 91 GS erate eats eee ete erst enter oe A a ae cha anes Bac oe 92 AS 92 GSC Omme a a e eg eens Mate cede a Seine ta te achalasia ich ace 93 GSC lis hank ene dunias Wiis Neh ea Nec As 93 ERRESA 1 Bail c MEE RAEE AR E reece cere etree eee eee eer eer 94 GS Cosa sosa Ste ii skits Aas Aine o da 95 SHO e ties S 96 GS Tithe E tds estes alk esl tae aA 97 SE TS TVET sae ve ateese caiatubca seats caved eh E vies ica yeah deaveanteatea sik udavvartve scdhdeaneareesteaseasveass 98 O E TEE esas ostangsasana cave EET AE 98 GS V m DGS A Het tease ate a RE eve e lait Seen E O em bona tae atone 99 GS W ND NN 100 E rowenta o 101 GSO E Beto NE Ss 102 ASA MAA AAA di 102 O A ein einetesdeconaddeen chic oadadeieiateesteigeet chad eudenitecteedscteeees 106 E R ate e a eters A 106 A eile ara eae Gohl ileal tilled Staite 107 CGS elite ioe EAN 107 GS kmdl dk NUL GS A ea ee bdo 107 A E OOO NN 111 GSvO
41. About 120 mm 4 72 inch Depth About 96 mm 3 78 inch 2 1 3 Weight Mass About 122g 2 2 PCB installing method In order to install the control board on the case the designable case must be conformed to the following requirements O Between the above of electrolytic condenser which on the control board and case be sure there are 3 MM or more space O Be sure the installation pins of control board have 5 mm or more space O Fixes the control board on the mental case h min26 mm Chapter III SYSTEM INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 3 1 System connection 3 1 1 Power connection The power connection socket be used to connect printer with exterior power 3 1 1 1 Power requirement 24 VDC 10 3 1 1 2 Power socket There are installed power connection socket CN3 on the board as the figure 3 1 1 2 CN3 Figure 3 1 1 2 24VDC power connection socket 3 1 1 3 Socket model 5195 04 MOLEX plug model 5194 MOLEX 3 1 1 4 Pin definition Pin Number Signal Name 1 GND 2 24 V DC 3 24 V DC 4 GND Form 3 1 1 Power socket pin definition 3 1 2 Interface connection o Parallel interface socket Serial interface socket Socket Panel Appearance Illustration For unused interface socket closes the socket cover If the control board installed on the mental case needs to fix the two ends of serial interface on the case firmly 3 1 3 Print head connection
42. Center position of the BM sensor Paper feeding direction Approx 2cm 3 9 Page Mode 3 9 1 Introduction The printer has two operation modes only on the conditions of selecting roll paper as the paper source normal mode and page mode Under the normal mode each time the printer receives the data or begins to print and feeds paper after feeding paper command Under the page mode all the printing data and feeding paper commands received by printer will be dealt with and stored in a special memory the printer does not to do any operation When received ESC FF or FF commands all the stored data will be printed For example When received data ABCDEF lt LF gt under the normal mode the printer prints the characters ABCDEF and feeds the paper by one line Under the page mode ABCDEF be wrote to a special printing data area in the memory at the same time the printing position descend one line of the next printing data in data area ESC L command makes the printer to the page mode all the following data and commands dealt with according to the page mode Executed ESC FF command which could print all the received data but executes FF command which may lead the printer to return to the normal mode after printing all the data Executes ESC S command which will lead 37 the printer to return to the normal mode directly but not to print the received data under the page mode these data will be deleted from
43. S k Print bar code O J O GS r Transmit status O O O GS v 0 Print grating bit image O O GS w Set bar code width O O Chinese commands table Command Name Command Type Standard Page Execute Set Mode Mode Command Command FS Set print mode s for O O O Chinese characters FS amp Set Chinese mode O O O FS Turn underline mode O O O on off for Chinese characters FS Cancel Chinese O O O character mode FS 2 Define user defined O O O Chinese characters FS C Select Chinese O O O character code system FS S Set left and right side O O O Chinese character spacing FS W Turn quadruple size O O O mode on off for Chinese characters Command type Execute command The printer executes this command and changes the command no affects the next data Set command The printer set through relative symbol these set will affect the next data Standard mode O Enabled O This command only affects when the command stand at the beginning of a line O Only affects when there are no data in the buffer area Page mode 42 O Enable A Only could set data value Disabled Parameter dealt with as the printable data Ignored Ignored all the command codes exclude parameters and not executes any operation 4 2 Command Introduction 4 2 1 Command notation Name The name of the command Format The code sequence k indicates the contents of the should be repeated k times Range Gives the allowable ranges Description D
44. SC 2 Executes ESC amp 8 The printer reset or turns the power off The connection between download bit image and printing data as follows Ye x x 8 dots MSB y x 8 dots LSB Reference GS 90 GS m Name Print download bit image Format ASCII GS m Hex 1D 2F m Decimal 29 47 m Range 0 lt m lt 3 48 lt m lt 51 Description Prints the download bit image through the mode which specified by m m sets the mode from the following table m Mode Vertical dot Horizontal dot density density 0 48 Normal 203 2 dpi 203 2 dpi 1 49 Double width 203 2 dpi 101 6 dpi 2 50 Double height 101 6 dpi 203 2 dpi 3 51 Four times size 101 6 dpi 101 6 dpi Dpi per 25 4mmfone inch printing dot count Notes If the bit image data have not defined then this command will be ignored Under the standard mode this command affects only when there are no data in the printing buffer area This command is not effective under the printing mode bold overlap underline character size or reverses blank printing except for up down printing mode If the near printing download bit image over the printable area then the over data is not printing If the printable width which set by GS L and GS W is less than the width needed by GS command to send the data then executes the following continued operation for the problem lines the print not over the max printable area The width of the print
45. TXD is TXD 3 4 DTR DIR 4 5 SG SG 5 6 DSR DSR 6 7 RTS RTS fi 8 GIs CTS 8 9 NC RI 9 1 2 3 Note After turning the printer power on and initializing transmitting data to printer 3 2 1 6 Notes on setting the memory switch 1 3 The printer only stops operating but not in busy conditions when an error has occurred the cover opened without paper or paper fed When setting the memory switch ON and enabling the handshaking effectively be sure to check the printer status taking GS a command and ASB function In such circumstances the default value of n for GS a is 2 The printer automatically transmits the printer status it decides by the change of online offline status When taking DLE EOT be sure that the receive buffer is empty e The host can t transmit the data when the printer is in busy conditions When the printer is busy because of the buffer area is full If occurs errors DLE EOT can t be used e The host can transmit the data when the printer is in busy conditions If the buffer area is full when transmitting the bit image it is the same as the DLE EOT which transmitted when dealing with bit image both are bit image data When the receive buffer area is full the transmitted date could loss For example When taking 4KB receive buffer every time transmits a line data checks the printer conditions by GS r 1 Transmits one line data to make sure the rec
46. The User s Manual of TK500 Control Board Shenzhen Icod Digital Co Ltd The manufacture has authorized to revise the contents of this document without notice Table of Contents Chapter T INTRODUCTIO N aat reana eare nae aate anaa ane esra Et iaa ore EPO ISSE EEs 6 1 1 The characters of this Droite a T EN 6 Lidl Model ee er rep 6 1 1 2 The supporting character Set cccceccesesceseeseeceseceseseeseesceseeeceneceeenesaeeseeaeeseeeeeeeeeenss 6 1 1 3 The print head models of the equipment linker o oonononncnnnnnnonnnnoncnncnonornconono conos 6 1 1 4 The functions and applications that the printer carries OUt cceseseeeeeseeeeeeeees 6 1 1 Hard Waresecisciccccccscccccstccceedsatnesbced ceeceuteatuced set ccenceducenced colds sobadencot EE E EEA ARE 7 1 2The main use and applicable area ccessccseesscescesscseceseesecseesscecesecsecsssececseeescesseasessengs 7 1 3 Environmental SpecifiCatiOM ooooconnnccoonoonconcoonconcnononncononnnconcon ai aS an n caninos 7 1 4Operation SpecificatiOl ooocoocnonnoonoonnononnnonnnonncnnonnno nono nonnnnonoo nono non nan nn nn non n non E E 8 A EN 9 Chapter I CONFIGURATION AND INSTALLATION cccccccssseesssseseeseceeseseseeseseeseneeseeeneeeneeaes 10 2 1 General Config uration s ein ees a ui Ae Pe RAM aoa aL RR a ess 10 2 1 1The figure of control board configuration cccecsesseeeeeeceseeeeeeeeseeseeeeeeeeeneens 10 2 1 2DAUMMEN SION sc3 A E 10 in de 1
47. The code lt 10 gt H of DLE ENQ 2 will be dealt with as the code lt 10 gt H of ESC 3 Reference DLE EOT ESC FF Name Print data under the page mode Format ASCIT ESC FF Hex 1B OC Decimal 27 12 Description Under the page mode concentrates all data in the printing buffer Specification This command only affects under the page mode After printing the printer not clear the data ESC T and the setting value of ESC W in the printing buffer and the position of character data in buffer area Reference FF ESC L ESC S ESC SP n Name Set right side character spacing 50 Format ASCII ESC SP n Hex 1B 20 Decimal 27 32 n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description Set right side character spacing is nX0 125 mm Specification The right side character spacing is two times than the the normal mode for the double width mode When the characters are broadened n times the right side character spacing is n times than the normal mode This command no affects the Chinese character settings This command separately sets the right side character spacing under the normal mode and the page mode Default n 0 ESC n Name Select print mode s Format ASCII ESC n Hex 1B 21 n Decimal 27 33 n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description Selects the printing mode through designating the value of n the definition of parameter n as follows Bit O On Hex Decimal Function 0 Off 00 0
48. UU when the print print head head cools is over 57 below 45 C e 2 Error can be recovered Error can be recovered Error Description LED flashing pattern Recovery The cover The printer When open error can t work installing cover on the BM printing p Approximately 5 125 gt the print print head head opened fo Aepensinalety 8 126 then restoring by DLR ENQ 1 or DLE ENQ 2 Auto cutter Abnormality If occur paper error in the auto jams recovers cutter by DLE ENQ 1 Ji JL or DLE ENQ 2 Approximately 5 12s gt when the jammed paper be exclusion BM sensor Can t test Installed the test error BM even the correct BM roll paper paper again then restoring correct by DLE ENQ 1 or DLE ENQ 2 3 Error can t be recovered Error can t be recovered Error Description LED flashing pattern Recovery CPU executin CPU execute Can t recover 34 g error s one error AAA y a er fa Approximately 5 125 gt connects I F board Memory or Tests an Can t dot list error when recovery read error executing read checkout High voltage The voltage Can t error provides fl j IS f recovery too low Low voltage The printer Can t error not linkers recovery well or j l j NA y inner linker error CPU linker Can t error A U recovery f Approximately 5 125 Note When occurring any one of the a
49. a which sets by ESC W to default set This command sets the printing position to the line starting position Reference ESC FF ESC L ESC S 2 When BM sensor affects Description Prints the data in the printing buffer area and carries the BM paper to the printing starting position Notes This command only enables when the BM sensor setting is effective by DIP SW1 1 This command sets that the printing position is the line starting position If executing this command at the printing starting position which contains BM printing paper the printer feeds the BM printing paper to the next printing starting position Reference GS F GS FF 3 5 1 2 DIP switch 1 CR Name Print and carriage return Format ASCII CR Hex OD Decimal 13 Description When automatic line feed is enabled functions the same as LF When automatic line feed is disabled this command will be ignored Specification For serial interface mode the function of feeding paper will be ignored For parallel interface mode sets this command through storage switch 1 5 The starting position sets to the printing starting position 46 Reference CAN Name Format Description Specification Reference DLE EOT n Name Format Range Description Specification LF Cancel printing data under the page mode ASCII CAN Hex 18 Decimal 24 Under the page mode deletes all the printing data in t
50. able area which extends to the right and holds the data capacity 2 If the step haven t provided enough width for data then narrows the left blank to hold the data Each data under the normal mode m 0 48 and double height mode m 2 50 the printer prints one dot Each data under the double width mode m 1 48 and four double mode m 3 51 the printer prints two dots Reference GS 91 GS Name Format Begin finish macro definition ASCII GS Hex 1D 3A Decimal 29 58 Description Begins and finishes the macro definition Notes When received this command under the normal operation begins the macro definition When received this command during the macro definition finishes the macro definition During macro definition when received GS the printer stops macro definition and clears the macro definition When turns the power on not defined macro ESC does not clear the content of the macro definition So ESC could contain in macro definition If the printer received GS before receiving GS again then the printer stays on the macro definition conditions The content of macro definition could reach to 2048 bytes If the Reference GSBn Name Format Range content of macro definition is over 2048 bytes then not stores over the part of data GS Turn opposite blank printing mode on off ASCII GS B n Hex 1D 42 n Decimal 29 66 n 0 n 255 Descri
51. above procedure the character font GHI will be deleted and lead to the following printing result When an area deleted by CAN the deleted part will be reserved blank Page rode baon ARGOS an or e ifm citee i Printing paper The page mode example 3 Appendix E CODE 128 bar code E 1 The description of CODE128 bar code At the CODE128 bar code system using one bar code character fond it could indicate 128 units ASCII characters and 2 bit counts These bar code characters defined by 103 units bar code characters and 3 units code fond Per code fond indicates the following characters 126 e Code fond A ASCII character 00H to 5FH e Code fond B ASCII character 20H to 7FH Code fond C Use one character indicates 2 bits natural characters 100 units numerals from 00 to 99 There are other special characters among CODE128 e SHIFT character At the code fond A the code which followed with SHIFT be treated as the code B character At the code fond B the code which followed with SHIFT be treated as the code A character SHIFT character can t be used at code fond C e Code fond chosen character CODE A CODE B CODE C This character changes the following code fond to code fond A B or C e Function character FNC1 FNC2 FNC3 FNC4 The use of function character depends on the application software In the code fond C only FNC 1 in practical E 2 Code Table Printing character among code fond A 127 cr ow
52. ace 4 RS232 serial XON XOFF DTR DSR or Off interface RTS CTS handshaking 5 Serial interface Used Unused Off x parity checkout 6 Serial interface Even checko Odd checko Of f x 30 checkout mode ut ut Selects serial interface baud rate Refer to table3 5 3 Off x Off x only affects when selecting RS232 serial interface Communication ports selecting Port DIP switch number 2 3 Parallel interface IEEE1284 Off Off bidirectional parallel interface Serial interface RS232 Off On Baud rate selecting Transmission speed baud rateBPS DIP switch number 7 8 4800 On On 9600 Off On 19200 On Off 38400 Off Off Note BPS bits per second 3 5 1 3 DIP switch 2 DIP switch 2 SW2 Switch Function ON OFF Default number 1 Print head model Off 2 selecting Off 3 Printing chroma Refer to 3 5 6 Off 4 selecting Off 5 Operation mode Refer to 3 5 7 Off selecting 6 Manufacture using Off 1 7 Serial interface DSR Off signal SPACE level reset Logic 0 8 Serial interface DSR Off 2 signal MARK level Enabled Disabled reset Logic 1 1 OFF is fixed 2 only affects when selected RS232 serial interface Note At present the set of bit8 is no effective 31 Table 3 5 6 Printing chroma selecting Chroma grade Printing
53. akes CODE B to print No then takes CODE C to print the following figures GS k 73 10 123 66 78 111 46 123 67 12 34 56 PON If the data font head of bar code is not the code fond selected character the printer stops to command disposal and deals with the continued data as the normal data If the combined of and continued characters is not fit for the any special characters the printer stops to command disposal and deals with the continued data as the normal data If the printer received characters which can t be used to special code font the printer stops to command disposal and deals with the continued data as the normal data The printer doesn t print the HRI characters which relatives to shift characters or code font selected characters The HRI characters of function character is blank The HRI characters is the blank which about control characters lt 00 gt H to lt 7F gt H Others Be sure to reserve spacing at the left and right of bar code Reference GS H GS f GS h GS w GSrn Name Transmit status Format ASCII GS r n Hex 1D 72 Decimal 29 114 n Range n l 49 Description Transmits the status n which specified by n as follows n Function 1 49 Transmits the printing paper sensor status Notes When taking serial interface If sets DTR DSR control the printer only transmits one byte after be sure that the host have received the date DSR signal is SPACE If
54. and FS q GS E or GS M may be brought damage to NV memory So suggests that write to NV memory is less than 10 times When the printer turns to busy conditions during dealing with this command forbidden to transmit the data 87 Default It s the same that storage area at the beginning which will be reserved and the first setting value of GS F command Reference ESC GS M pL pH n m n 1 49 lt function 1 gt Format ASCII GS M pL pH n m Hex 1D 28 4DpL pH n m Decimal 29 40 77 pL pH n m Range pL pH X 256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 n 1 49 m 1 49 Description The data which set by GS F command will be stored to the user NV memory If have wrote the data to the user NV memory then writing the same data to the NV memory again not executing the operation of storing the data If occurs error when writing data the printer executes the error disposal Specification The printer executes the following procedures Before writing the data to the NV memory the printer sets the interface to BUSY In such circumstances whatever the memory switch settings the printer enters into busy conditions Even enables the ASB function the printer aslo doesn t transmit the ASB conditions But If occurs the conditions which be changed during data transmission the printer transmits the ASB conditions after finishing the data transmission Default No Reference The lt function 2 gt and lt
55. and from the host First stores it in the receiving buffer area then executes this command at the process of executing another normal commands Therefore after the printer received this command maybe executing this command after executing a period time The extended time decided by the status of receiving buffer area GS K pL pH n m when n 480 lt function 48 gt Format ASCII GS K pL pH n Hex 1D 28 4B 02 00 30 Decimal 29 40 75 2 0 48 Range pL pHX256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 n 48 nem lt 3 48 lt m lt 51 Description m specifies the printing control mode M Function 0 48 Specifies the printing control mode when the first turns the power on 1 49 Specifies the not divided printing print head electric mode 2 50 Specifies the two parts print head electric mode 3 51 Specifies the four parts print head electric mode The printing control mode and the print head electric mode which specified by 0 48 are the same Note At present only supports m 1 another 3 conditions doesn t support Default m 0 GS K pL pH n m when n 49 lt function 49 gt Format ASCII GS K pL pH n m Hex 1D 28 4B 02 00 3l m Decimal 29 40 75 2 0 49 m Range pL pHX 256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 n 49 10 lt m lt 10 the relative printing grey degree from 50 to 150 86 Description n specifies the printing density If 10 lt m lt 1 the printing density setting is lighter than the s
56. ange then nL and the 56 following data dealt with as the general data e nL and nH specifies the dots of the horizontal direction up bit image Through nL nHX256 and counts to dots e If the bit image date input overs one line which the dots be printed then the cover data will be neglected ed indicates bit image data 1 sets by the relevance bit and prints one of dots or sets 0 and not prints one of dots If the printing scale width which sets by GS L and GS W is less than the requisite width which the data sends by ESC command so executes the following operation for the error line but the printing can t over the largest printing scale The width of the printable area enlarges to right and adapts to the data amount If the step can t provide enough width for data then the left will be decreased and adapted to data For each bit data at the single density mode m 1 32 The printer prints two dots for each bit data at the single density mode m 1 33 the printer prints one bit When calculating the data account in a line all these needs to be considered After printing one bit image the printer returns to the normal data dealing mode This command not be affected by the printing mode bold repetition underline character size or reverse blank printing unless the reversed printing mode The following graphic described the relations between bit image data and the dot which be printed When
57. ar on standby condition initialized the installing of printing paper Initialization for paper loading online offline When the platen is unloaded When the platen is loaded If the printer be on standby condition takes the print head bar off the printer enters into offline condition this is not sure that the error has occurred If installs the print head bar again the printer enters into online condition If enable ASB when occurs matters the printer will transmit a condition When the printer sensor tests the change of condition even it is on offline condition the printer will also transmit ASB If at the period of printing paper installed initialization the change of sensor condition the printer transmits the unknown reasons about offline information If the offline which doesn t brought by error or without paper If the offline because of the printing paper near end then waiting that the printer deals with a status change or the printer restores to online 4 Discharge the print head bar during printing 131 online offline When the platen is unloaded If during printing discharges the print head bar the printer will enter into offline condition and it will lead to error Only installed the print head bar can t restore the printer to the normal from offline condition It needs to transmit error to restore command DLE ELQ or reset 5 When feeding paper by paper feeding button onli
58. ar code data When the used bar code system is JAN8 EAN8 prints the bar code and deals with the continued data as the normal data after the printer received 8 bytes bar code data The units of ITF bar code data must be the even When the input data 108 is odd the printer ignores the last received data Notes The notes The notes n specified the data bytes and the printer deals with the n byte data as the bar code data from the next character If n over the specified scale then the printer stops to deal with this command and deals with the continued data as the normal data under the standard mode If d over the specified scale the printer only feeds paper and deals with the continued data as the normal data If the size in the horizontal direction over the printable area the printer only feeds paper This command feeds paper according to the printing bar code In spite of the line spacing which sets by EX X2 or EX X3 This command effects only when there are no data in the printing buffer area When there are data in the printing buffer area the printer deals with the continued data of m as the normal data After printing the bar code this command sets the printing position to the beginning of a line This command no effects by the printing mode over striking overlap underline character size opposites blank printing or character 90 revolved and so on except for the reversed printing
59. as the compatible mode Or it will cause half duplex transmission 3 2 2 3 The interface pin assignments under the each mode Pin Source Compatibility Mode Four Bits Mode 1 Host nStrobe HostCIk 2 Host Ptr Data0 LSB Data0 LSB 3 Host Ptr Datal Datal 4 Host Ptr Data2 Data2 5 Host Ptr Data3 Data3 6 Host Ptr Data4 Data4 7 Host Ptr Data5 Datad 8 Host Ptr Data6r Data6 9 Host Ptr Data MSB Data USB 22 10 Printer nAck PtrCIk 11 Printer Busy PtrBusy Data3 7 12 Printer Perror AckDataReq Data2 6 13 Printer Select Xflag Datal 5 14 Host nAutoFd HostBusy 15 NC ND 16 GND GND 17 FG FG 18 Printer Logic H Logic H 19 GND GND 20 GND GND 21 GND GND 22 GND GND 23 GND GND 24 GND GND 25 GND GND 26 GND GND 27 GND GND 28 GND GND 29 GND GND 30 GND GND 31 Host ninit ninit 32 Printer nFault nDataAvail Data0 4 33 GND ND 34 Printer DK STATUS ND 35 Printer 5V ND 36 Host nsSelectln 1284 Active Notes NC Not Connected ND Not Defined 1 The letter n effective 2 If the host can t provide all signal lines which lists as above all communication modes will be failed 3 For interface before signal names indicates that the low level is signal lines needed to use the twisted pair cable and the return sides connected to the signal ground 4 Interface status setting are taking TTL level which is satisfy the foll
60. bove error please turns the power off as soon as possible 3 6 2 Operation when an error is detected The printer executes the following operations when detecting an error Stops all mechanical operations Enter into BUSY state DIP switch when the memory switch 1 3 is off Flashes the error LED 3 6 3 Data reception error If any of the following data reception errors occur during serial interface communication the printer prints or ignores the data according to the setting of Memory Switch 1 Checkout error Framing error Overrun error 35 3 7 Status test 3 7 1 Paper status test The printer has the following two paper sensors 1 Roll paper end sensor This sensor tests whether there are paper in print head When the printer detects the paper end stops printing 2 Roll paper near end sensor This sensor tests whether the paper is near end When the roll paper narrowed to some extent the roll paper end detector tests paper near end signal paper end detector no paper light turns on If this sensor to be used use ESC c 4 command when printer test paper near end signal stop printing Notes Installed the new roll paper and covered the bar the printer will print again e The paper near end sensor set by user 3 7 2 Print head bar status test Print head bar sensor tests the open close state of print head bar there are installing rubber stick which takes to feed pap
61. change to be undefined Receiving buffer area and printing buffer area be cleared all set returned to default data The printer read the set of switch DIP again The printer cuts the paper when finishing test printing During executes this commands the printer enters into BUSY conditions 80 GS E pL pH m Name User defined command Description The user defined command controls the value which stored in the user NV memory The function sets by m as follows m Format Function 1 GS E pL pH p dl d2 1 Start user defined mode 2 GS E pL pH p dl d2 d3 2 End user defined mode 3 G E pL pH m fal 3 Set memory switch and b18 b11 ak bk8 bk1 customize data 4 GS CE pL pH ma 4 Transmit the customized data in the memory switch pL pH specified that the byte which behinds of pH m and the parameter is pL pHX256 m specifies the functions dl d2 d3 specified the parameters to select mode a specifies the type of memory data a specifies the value of memory data which sets by bk8 bkl The user defined mode is a special mode under this mode could take this command to change the data in the user NV memory At the function 2 the printer executes soft reset So the printer clears the receiving buffer area and printing buffer area and resets all sets user defined characters down load bit image macro and character type to the up electric effective mode Notes Freq
62. character enlarged to right and the baseline according to the left side of characters Turn the quadruple side mode on off by FS or GS which could through selecting double width and double height mode The command set which receives at last is also effective Default n 0 Reference FS GS Chapter VI MALFUNCTION ANALYSIS AND EXCLUSION 5 1 Malfunction and exclusion Malfunction Phenomenon Exclusion Method If the external objects for exampl If the problem isn t serious The 120 e clip which fallen to the auto auto cutter machine could be cutter machine and led to lock restore to the normal position and about the auto cutter machine then needn t to restore by manual The the printer enters into error error indicator flashed continually status and restores operation but the error could be corrected automatically by itself If the auto cutter machine doesn t restore to the normal position by itself then please revolves the auto cutter machine motor wheel to make it restore to _ starting position Auto cutter machine locked and Reserve to run and loose the wheel couldn t revolve the motor wheel then push the paper feeding button Next checkout the error indicator if the error indicator flashes and repeat the same process until confirming the error indicator turned off When the error indictor turned off the cutter of auto cutter machine have restor
63. command set the printing position from the current position to nL nHX256 X0 125 mm Notes Any set which over the printable area will be ignored When the space N specified to the right nL nH X 256 N When the space N specified to the left reverse direction uses added code 65536 nL nH X 256 65536 N Under the standard mode uses the horizontal moving unit At the page mode according to the starting position of the printable area the function of this command as follows When set the starting position to the printable area s up left or down right by ESC T uses the horizontal moving unit x 2 When set the starting position to the printable area s up right or down left uses the vertical moving unit y Reference ESC ESC an Name Select justification mode Format ASCII ESC a n Hex 1B 61 Decimal 27 97 n Range 0 lt n lt 2 48 lt n lt 50 Description According to specified position and justified one line data Uses the following n to select the justification mode n Justification 0 48 Left justification 1 49 Centered 2 50 Right justification Notes Under the standard mode only dealing with the beginning of a line this command effects If input this command under the page mode the printer only executes the inner mark operation This commands no effects to the page mode This command executes justification in the printable area This command justified blank
64. d Bit 0 Could see the relative explanation of DLE EOT Bit 2 Could see the relative explanation of DLE EOT Bit 6 When stops printing because of the print head over temperature bit 6 is ON open until the print head temperature declines to enough low or the cover of roller paper will be opened during printing roller paper Printing restored Bit 6 changed to OFF The third byte the printing paper sensor information Bit Off 0n Hex code Decimal ASB status code 0 1 Off 00 0 Printing paper near end enough printing paper On 03 3 Printing paper near end the printing paper near end 2 3 Off 00 0 Printing paper end sensor printing paper existed On 0C 12 Printing paper end sensor printing paper not existed 4 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed 5 6 Undefined 7 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed The fourth byte the printing paper sensor information Bit Off 0n Hex code Decimal ASB status code 0 3 Undefined 4 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed 5 6 Undefined 7 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed Default When memory switch 1 3 is off n 0 When memory switch 1 3 is on n 2 Reference DLE EOT GS r 105 GS b n Name Turn level and smooth on off Format ASCII GS b n Hex 1D 62 n Decimal 29 98 n Range 0 lt n lt 255 Description Turn level and smooth mode on off When the LSB of n is 0 turn level and smooth mo
65. d pH specified that the number of parameter is pL pH X 256 bytes a be taken to specify the setting value of starting printing position and cutting paper position a Function Set the setting value of starting printing position 2 Set the setting value of starting cutting paper position m specified the adjustable direction m Function 0 48 Specifies that the forward direction is the feeding paper direction 1 49 Specifies that the backward direction is the feeding paper direction nL and nH specifies that the setting value is nL tnHX256 X 0 125 mm Note When sets the starting cutting paper position only supports m 0 48 that s to say only supports feeding paper Specification If executes this command for GS F is three bytes during macro definition the printer will stop macro definition and start executing process by this command The adjustable value of the printing starting position n l affected by the following command FF GS FF 84 Default Reference The adjustable value of the cutting paper position a 2 affected by the following command GS V m n Receives this command from host First stores it in the receiving buffer area then executes this command at the process of executing the normal command Therefore after the printer received the data maybe executing this command after extending a period time The extended time decided by the status of receiving buffer area Starts the star
66. dard mode only when the character A selected 10 dots e Base line 4 3 Command Specification HT Name Horizontal tab Format ASCII HT Hex 09 Decimal 9 Description The printing position moved to the next position Specification This command will be ignored if haven t set the next horizontal anchor point position If the next horizontal anchor point out of the printable area moves the printing position to printing width 1 The horizontal anchor point position sets by ESC D command This command received when the printing position located on printable area width 1 the printer executes the full printing buffer area and prints the current line and deals with the anchor position at the beginning of the next line Reference ESC D LF Name Print and line feed Format ASCII LF Hex 0A Decimal 10 Description Prints the data in the buffer and feeds one line based on 45 the current line spacing Notes The printing position set at the beginning position of the line by this order Reference ESC2 ESC3 FF Name Print and turn to standard mode under the page mode Print and carry BM paper to the printing starting position When selects the page mode Description Prints all the data in the printing buffer area and turns to the normal mode Notes This command only affects under the page mode The data in the printing buffer deleted after printing Resets the printable are
67. de on When the LSB of n is 1 turn level and smooth mode off Notes Only the LSB of n is effective The level and smooth mode for the inner set user defined character is useful Even setting the level and smooth mode when the width of character or the height of character is not the normal size not executes level and smooth Default n 0 Reference ESC E GS Note The enlarged level and smooth arithmetic of characters and Chinese is complex At present there are no practical realization method takes this command now can t reach to the printing result that you expects GSc Name Printing count value Format ASCII GS c Hex 1D 63 Decimal 29 99 Description Sets a serial count value and sets the increase or decrease of count value in the printing buffer area Notes After setting the current counter value to the printing data one character font in the printing buffer area on the basis of the count mode setting the printer counts increase or decrease by degrees When the printer received a printing command or on the conditions of the full printing buffer area prints the count value in the printing buffer area At the count mode of increasing by degrees If the count value which sets by this command is over the count operation scale which sets by GS C 1 or GS C then the count value to be changed to min value At the count mode of decreasing by degrees If the count value which sets by this command i
68. dia lt 03 gt H gi lt 03 gt H lt 00 gt H 019 lt 80 gt H a G3 lt 00 gt H d6 lt 002H dI lt 00 gt H sedi2 lt 00 gt H Select user defined character area ASCII FS C n Hex 1C 43 n Decimal 28 67 n n 0 1 2 48 49 50 118 MSE N User defined area Code scale 0 48 User area 1 AAA1 AFFE 1 49 User area 2 F8A1 FEFE 2 50 User area 3 A140 A7A0 Notes 1 Changes the user area will clear all characters which defined before 2 When taking user defined characters notes that the selected area as 3 Default the same as the defined area Or may print incorrectly Before using that FS 2 defined firstly ensure FS S ni Name Format Range Descriptio Specification Default n n 0 n2 Set Chinese right and left character spacing ASCII FS S nl n2 Hex 1C 53 nl n2 Decimal 28 83 nl n2 0 lt n1 lt 255 0 lt n2 lt 255 Respectively sets left side and right side Chinese character spacing is nl and n2 The left side character spacing is n1X0 125mJ the right character spacing is n2X0 125 mn This command sets the left side and right side character spacing of normal size character When setting double width mode the left side and right side character spacing is twice than the normal mode Could set the spacing by this command respectively under the standard mode and page mode Under the standard mode takes the horizontal moving unit Under t
69. e n specifies the data solving method in the printing buffer area n Printing position 0 48 After deleting all data in the printing buffer area se the printing position to the starting of printing line 1 49 After printing all data in the printing buffer area se the printing position to the starting of printing line GSVm GSVmn Name Select cut paper mode and cut paper Format ASCII GS y m Hex 1D 56 m Decimal 29 86 m ASCII GS V m n Hex ID 56 m Decimal 29 86 m n Range m 1 49 2 m 66 0 lt n lt 255 Description Selects a cut paper mode and executes cut paper operation Selects model by taking the value of m as follows The description for and According to the different of the auto cut paper machine type the cut paper conditions is different This command effects only when dealing with this command at the beginning of a line The specification for Only partial cut paper not full cut paper The specification for When n40 the printer feeds paper to cutting paper positiont n X0 125 mm 0 0049inch and cut paper 99 GS W nL nH Name Set printing area width Format ASCII GS W nL nH Hex 1D 57 WE nH Decimal 29 87 nll nH Range 0 lt nL lt 255 0 lt nH lt 255 Description nL and nH sets the printing area width The printable width set by LtnHX256 X0 125 mm Printable area The left side blank The width of printable width Notes Thi
70. e left spacing to adapt a vertical line Default The mode types to bd Horizontal Default selected dot count 82 5 mm paper width model 640dots nL 128 nH 2 79 5 mm paper width model 576dots nL 64 nH 2 60 mm paper width model 448dots nL 192 nH 1 58 mm paper width model 432dots nL 176 nH 1 Reference GS pLpH Name Set relative vertical printing position under the page mode Format ASCII GS nL nH Hex 1D 5C nL nH Decimal 29 92 nL nH Range 0 lt nL lt 255 0 nH 255 Description Under the page mode sets from the current position and relative vertical printing starting position The space sets by this command from the current position to nL nH X 256 X 0 125 mm Notes If not selects the page mode this command will be ignored When N specified to the downward moving nL nH X 256 N When N specified to the upward moving negative direction takes 65536 added code When N specified to the upward moving nL nH X 256 65536 N Any set which over the specified printable area will be ignored According to the printing starting position which sets by ESC T the function of this command as follows When set the starting position to the printable area s up left or down right by ESC T uses the horizontal moving unit y 2 When set the starting position to the printable area s up right or down left uses the vertical moving unit x 101 Reference ESC
71. e basis of ESC POS Through the page mode could carry out manifold different design Could enlarges the characters to the 64 times than the standard measure Could prints the bar code through taking bar code printing command The bar code printing could print along the horizontal direction the grid bar code and vertical direction trapezium bar code 1 Could print standard EAN13 bar code Takes macro definition which could carry out the repeat operation and copy printing Selects the font size 12X24 or 9X17 through the commands Could print bit image Note l the trapezium bar code only affects under the page mode 1 1 5Hardware An inner parallel interface IEEE 1284 An inner serial interface RS 232 Equipped an interface linker Selects the printing mode and uses the interface through DIP switch 1 2The main use and applicable area The printer control board is a new type thermal line printing control board it contains the characters of the low printing speed and noise the high reliability and printing quality and dispensing with ribbon and avoids the daily care trouble The printer control board supports manifold bar code printing contains EAN8 EAN13 CODE39 etc manifold one dimension bar code printing Supports GB18030 Chinese characters set and high speed to print Chinese The printer control board has the small bulk simple operation and wide applicable area 1 3Environmental specifica
72. e distinguished reasons the offline which is brought by one error or without paper Appendix G Status transmission disposal This product transmitted status according to the following sequence At this manual Supposes that the ASB is enabled and the memory switch 8 5 is on disuses the data in the special offline status Only when the memory switch 8 5 is on one buffer area clears the relevant transmission 3 bytes 37H 24H and 00h 1 When the printer is offline which brought by an error or without paper HOST When an error occurs or paper is empty Printer ASB offline with a cause When feeds paper by FEED button the printer is offline Looses the 134 printing paper FEED button and finishes to feed paper the printer backs to online If ASB is enabled the printer transmits every status item when occurs one matter When the printer tests a status change by sensor even the printer is offline The printer also transmits ASB 2 When the printer is offline because of one error which could be restored automatically this error brought by an temporary low voltage Because the printer can t disuse the data under the automatic restored offline status so the printer also can t input buffer area clearing response HOST When a temporarily low When the voltage recovers voltage is detected to the normal range Printer 3 When the printer is offline because of an automatic restored error this erro
73. ed to the normal position Open the cover and move the paper which be jammed and install the roll paper again Finally close the cover 5 2 Transport Storage 1 During transport and storage store the sets to the electric sponge lead Be sure to protect the equipments 2 The electric materials clips and so on fallen to the circuit board The pins on the short circuit board may bring heat damage or blowout fuse because of the over circuit 3 During transport and storage store the sets to the electric sponge lead Be sure to protect the equipments 4 Be sure to put this set to the fixed steady horizontal surface If the set be fallen may lead to break or another damages 5 The set can t be used to the high humid and dusty environment The over humid and dusty may be brought damage fire or strike fire to set 6 The heavy objects can t be put on this set stand or lean against this set 121 7 forbidden This set fallen or collapsed which will be brought broken and damaged Be sure to safe please pull the plug down if you won t use this set for a long time Appendix A Miscellaneous Notes Notes on printing and feeding paper 1 2 3 The printer is line printer so it can feed paper automatically after printing the data So when a line spacing set value is smaller than the printing data maybe the quantity of feeding paper is larger than the quantity which be set and print the data F
74. eive buffer won t be filled 3 2 1 7 Resetting the printer by the serial interface Through changing the set of DIP switch the printer could repost by interface pin 6 Reset Changed Signal line DIP switch Reset condition Pin 6 DSR DSW 2 8 ON MARK level inputting If needs to reset the printer must be satisfied the following 20 requirements DC characters Reposition DC Characters Pin 6 DSR Positive reposition VA 15 to 3V voltage Negative reposition AN 3 to 15V voltage Positive reposition IA 5 3 mA max voltage Negative reposition IN 5 0 mA max voltage Input impedance RIN 3K Q min AC Characters The min reset plus width TRS 1 millisecond min When taking pin 6 DSR DIP switch 2 8 is ON TRS The min reposition plus width pin 6 When pin 6 DSR and DIP switch 2 8 are ON the printer resets Note When the signal inputted which is not satisfied with the above requirements the printer operation can t be confirmed 3 2 2 IEEE 1284 Bidirectional Parallel Interface Copyright C 1994 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc 3 2 2 1 Compatible Mode The data sent to the printer by the host Censorings Compatibility 1 Introduction Compatible mode supports Censorings parallel interface compatibility 2 Specifications Data transmission 8 bit parallel 21 Synchronization External supply
75. er on the bar On the waiting conditions when the bar sensor tests that the bar has raised the printer enters into offline conditions the printer recovered automatically after closing the bar 3 8 Notes on the BM function It could take the printing paper which prints BM and to realize the accurate orientation printing function The BM function which needs to move the DIP SWI 1 to ON then resets the printer Refer to section 3 5 1 2 The following graphic shows the relative connection of black mark testing position cutting paper position and printing starting position The distance which from the BM testing sensor of M T530 T540 printing framework to print head is about 17 6 mm to cutter blade 33 6 mm these framework are fixed The connection of them could be understand like this when carries paper to the BM which under the BM sensor meanwhile the printer detects BM the cutter is front of the BM which about 33 6mm At this moment the print head is front of the BM which about 17 6mm as the following graphic As the graphic when the BM testing sensor tests the BM the BM paper 36 passes the testing sensor about 2mm In order to repeat testing error the printer doesn t test the BM at the following about 2 cm The default printing starting position and cutting paper position are the opposite position as the following graphic the user could adjust by GS F command Cutting position Print starting position
76. escribes the function of the command Specification Specification describe the use of command Notes Provides important information on setting and using the printer command if necessary Short data If the command with the parameter gives the parameter short data Reference Gives the relevant reference The data signed by lt gt A is hexadecimal The data signed by lt gt B is binary system 4 2 2 Explanation of Terms 1 Receive buffer The receive buffer is used to store data from the host All receive data is stored in this buffer and processed in the order receiving Then solves by sequence 2 Print buffer The print buffer is used to store image data for printing 3 Print full buffer The status indicates that the print buffer is full When the print buffer is full If appears new print data the data in the print buffer area will be printed and executed the operation of changing a new line The operation same as the LF command 4 Line starting point Satisfied the following conditions defined starting point e There are no printing data in the print buffer area e Not passes the printing position which designated by ESC or ESC command 43 5 The area could be printed At the specification of printer it can print the max area The printable area about this printer as follows Under the standard mode the length of the horizontal direction 82 5mm Paper width type about 80mm 640 203 2inch
77. fined scale this command will be disabled At any one of group bit image except for the first group when the printer meets that xL xH yL yH over the defined scale then stops to deal with this command and begins to write to NV image At this moment disabled the undefined NV bit image undefined but any NV bit image defined before always affects d indicates defined data At the data d one bit specified one printing dot and one 0 bit specified one couldn t print dot n be defined the quantity of NV bit image by this command The quantity goes up according to the sequence which begins from bit image 01H Therefore the first data group xL xH yL yH dl dK is the NV bit image 01H The last data group xL xH yL yH dl dK is the NV bit image n The total count is consistent with the NV bit image which set by FS p command The definition data of one NV bit image formed by xL xH yLl xH dl dK So when only have one NV bit image n l the printer only deals with the data group xL xH yL yH dl dK one time The printer uses data xL xH X 256 X yL yH X 256 x 8 header 4 bytes of the NV memory The definition area of this printer is 192K bytes max This 75 Reference For example command could define several bit images but can t define the bit image which the total capacity bit image data head over 192K bytes Whatever the set of DIP switches 2 1 the printer turns to busy bef
78. function 3 gt of this command GS M pL pH n m n 50 lt function 2 gt Format ASCII GS M pL pH Hex 1D 28 4D pL pH Decimal 29 40 77 pL pH Range pL pHx256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 n 2 50 0 lt m lt 1 48 lt m3 lt 49 Description m 0 or 48 Set the setting value of GS F command to the default which described in the reference manual m 0 or 48 Stores setting value on the m area of memory Specification Under the standard mode this command only deals with the 88 Default Reference beginning of a line Under the page mode this command is ineffective If receives this command during defining macro command the printer finishes the macro definition and starts to executing this command About the setting value of this function please refer to this command lt function 1 gt No lt Function 1 gt GS M pL pH n m n33 51 lt function 3 gt Format Range Description ASCII G M p pH on m Hex ID 28 D pL pH n m Decimal 29 40 77 pL pH n m pL pH X 256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 N 3 51 O lt mX1 48 lt m lt 49 When m 0 or 48 when initializing the printer not takes data from the user NV memory After initializing the setting value of GS F is the initialized value as before When m 0 or 48 when initializing the printer takes data from the user NV memory After initializing the setting value of GS F is the setting value which stored in the me
79. he current printable area Enable this command only under the page mode The data in the designated printable area to be deleted ESC L ESC W Transmit real time status ASCII DLE EOT Hex 10 04 n Decimal 16 4 1 lt n lt 4 Takes real time status Parameter n is used to designate the transmission printable area the definition as follows n l Transmits printer status n 2 Transmits offline cause status n 3 Transmits error cause status n 4 Transmits roll paper sensor status e Transmit the current status each byte per status e Printer couldn t be sure whether the host can receive data when transmitting status e Printer starts to execute when received this command e Under the serial If the printer is offline the full or the occurred also can execute this command interface pattern received buffer is error Under the parallel interface pattern when the printer is busy can t execute this command When the printer is offline enter into BUSY condition the Memory Switch 1 3 is on the printer can t When return ASB through GS a command enabled conditions should be distinguished the condition sent by DLE EOT command with ASB Refer to C the identified sending conditions status appendix If the external equipment command not be selected by printer the command selected by ESC also affects 47 Notes e Whenever received lt 10 gt H lt 04 gt H lt n gt 1 lt n lt 4
80. he page mode takes the horizontal moving unit or vertical moving unit changed by page mode depends on the difference of printable area starting position The specification as follows DWhen set the starting position to the printable area up left or down right by ESC T uses the horizontal moving unit y When set the starting position to the printable area up right or down left uses the vertical moving unit x For appendix the widest right side spacing about 32 mm 255 X 0 125 mm Any set which over the max will change to the max value automatically nl 0 n2 0 119 FS Wn Name Turn quadruple size mode on off for Chinese characters Format ASCII FS W n Hex 1C 57 n Decimal 28 87 n Rang 0 lt n lt 255 Description Turn quadruple size mode on off for Chinese characters When the LSB of n is 0 quadruple size mode is turned off When the LSB of n is 1 quadruple size mode is turned on Specification Only the LSB of n is effective Under the quadruple size mode the printing character size is the same as the printing character size when sets double width and double height When taking this command to turn the quadruple size mode off prints the following characters according to the size of normal characters When the different of some characters height in a line all characters in this line will flush on the basis of baseline When the characters enlarged along the horizontal direction the
81. idth automatically set to horizontal printable area horizontal starting position If vertical starting position printable area width over the printable area the printable area width automatically set to vertical printable area horizontal starting position Use 0 125 mm spacing to set horizontal starting position and printable area width and use 0 125 mm spacing to set vertical starting position and printable area height x0 y0 dx dy separately specifies the horizontal starting position vertical starting position printable area width and printable area height The printable area set as follows 67 Forward Print area Default According to DIP and push the switch 2 1 and 2 2 which selects the type model dxL dxH dyL and dyH as follows Select model type Horizontal Default direction dot count 82 5 Mmm paper width 640 dots dxL 128 dxH 2 type dyL 152 dyH 2 79 5 mm paper width 576 dots dxL 64 dxH 2 type dyL 226 dyH 2 60 mm paper width 448 dots dxL 192 dxH 1 type dyL 181 dyH 3 58 mm paper width 432 dots dxL 176 dxH 1 type dyL 216 dyH 3 Reference CAN ESC L ESC T ESC Y nLnH Name Set relative printing position Format ASCII ESC aL nH Hex 1B 5C nL nH Decimal 27 92 nL nH Range 0 lt nL lt 255 0 lt nH lt 255 Description The current position is base point and uses the horizontal and vertical moving units set the printing starting position This
82. ight side character O O O spacing ESC Set absolute printing O O O position ESC Select cancel user O O O defined character set ESC amp Define user defined O O O characters ESC Select bit image mode O O O ESC Turn underline mode O O O on off ESC 2 Select default line O O O spacing 39 ESC 3 Set line spacing O O ESC Cancel user defined O O character ESC Initialize printer O O O ESC D Set horizontal tab O O positions ESC E Turn emphasized mode O O on off ESC G Turn double strike mode O O on off ESC i Full cut O O O ESC J Feed paper and printing O O O ESC L Select page mode O O Ignored ESC m Half cut O O O ESC M Select character type O O ESC R Select an international O O character set ESC S Select standard mode O Ignored O ESC T Select printing A O direction under the page mode ESC V Turn clockwise 90 O A revolved on off ESC W Set printable area under A O the page mode ESC Set relative printing O O O position ESC a Select justification O O ESC c 3 Select paper sensor to O O output paper end signal ESC c 4 Select paper sensor s O O to stop printing ESC c 5 Enable disable panel O O buttons ESC d Printing and feeding n O O O lines ESC t Select character code O O table ESC Turn upside down O O printing mode on off FS p Print NV bit image O O O FS q Define NV bit image O O 40
83. ing this bytes of ASB will be transmitted as follows Accumulated ASB O First Status Second Status Third Status a total of eight 8 Fourth Status 0101 1000 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000 0000 Accumulated ASB The latest ASB First Status Second Status Third Status Fourth Status 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000 0000 Fourth Status 26 3 3 Panel Buttons and Indicators 3 3 1 Panel buttons 1 Feed button Type Non locking push button Function When BM sensor disabled the printer feeds paper one line based on the line spacing which set by ESC 2 and ESC 3 When BM enabled the length which feeds by printer is the BM paper length unit Push feed paper button will not feed paper at the following states Disabled the buttons when takes ESC 5 command O Paper end sensor tests no paper 8 Raises the print head bar On the conditions of macro waiting execution push feed paper and execute the defined macro e At the process of self test push keys could stop self test printing push again could self test continued Note ESC c 5 command could turn buttons function on off When push buttons disabled it is no effective when push the buttons 3 3 2 Indicators 1 Power supply LED Green On Power supply is stable Off Power supply is not stable 2 Roll paper end LED Red On The roll paper near end or real end Off Paper i
84. itch on online and offline At the following conditions the printer switches from the offline to online or from the online to offline 1 Turns the power on or takes to self test by paper feeding button FEE While initializing the printer mechanism and loading the paper During the self test t online offline 4 Power on RESET During turning the printer power on or resets the printer to that the printer have ready to receive the data the printer be offline status If enables ASB the printer transmits per status as the error occurs Even the 130 printer be offline status when the printer sensor tests the changes the printer also sends ASB As the above description when the printer initializing If the status of sensor have changed the printer transmits the offline information which can t be analyzed the reasons If occurs this phenomenon then waiting that the printer deals with a change of status or the printer restores online 2 Executes self test by a command While initializing the printer During the self test mechanism and loading the paper 1 I online 1 1 T t t When the self test reset command is received offline The printer enters into offline status during self test When finished self test the printer resets automatically When executes self test through commands even enables ASB the printer also doesn t transmit the offline status 3 Discharges the print head b
85. l be ignored Under the standard mode the vertical direction is the paper feeding direction However when the character direction revolved clockwise 90 the relation of vertical direction and horizontal direction will be reversed Under the page mode the vertical direction and horizontal direction is based on the character direction When enlarges the characters in a line and use the different size all characters in a line will be paralleled along the baseline Uses ESC command could open and close the double width and double height mode The set of command which received at last will be affected Default n 0 Reference ESC GS nL nH Name Set absolute vertical printing position under the page mode Format ASCII GS nL nH Hex 1D 24 nl nH Decimal 29 36 nL nH Range 0 lt nL lt 255 0 lt nL lt 255 Description Under the page mode sets absolute vertical printing starting position for buffer data This command sets the absolute printing position in nL nH X 256 X0 125 mm Notes This command only affects under the page mode If nL nHX256 X vertical or horizontal moving unit over the specified printing area this command will be ignored The position of horizontal starting buffer area won t be moved The reletive starting position specified by ESC T The operation of this command as follows decided by the printable area starting position which set by ESC T When the starting position sets at
86. mal position by itself please rotate the motor until it recovers to the starting position If the cutter blade knob can t be rotated rotate it in the reverse direction to loosen it Next check the error LED If the error LED is not off repeat the same procedure and confirm that the error LED is off When the error LED is off the auto cutter blade has returned to its normal position and the roll paper cover can be opened Open the roll paper cover remove the jammed paper and reinstall the roll paper Then close the roll paper cover 123 Appendix C The transmission status mark Because the transmission special status bit from this circuit board to the printer is fixed the user could confirm the status belonged command Table C 1 transmission status mark Command and Function Reply status GS r KOKO B XON lt 00010001 gt B XOFF lt 00010001 gt B DLE EOT lt O 1 10 gt B ASB 1st byte lt 0x 1 00 gt B ASB 2nd to 4th byte lt 0 x0kkkx gt B Appendix D The page mode printing example Takes the page mode printing example and which notes in this appendix Under the page mode the type process of transmitting command as follows Transmits ESC L to enter into the page mode Defines printable area by ESC W Specifies the printing direction by ESC T Transmits the printing data Sends FF to print data together 006000 After printing the printer back to the standard mode automatically
87. mode under the page mode This command makes the bar code data in the printing buffer area but not printing After dealing with the bar code data this command moves the printing position to the right side of bar code If d over the specified scale the printer stops to deal with this command and deals with the continued data as the normal data In such circumstance the position of data buffer area not changed If the bar code width over the printable area the printer doesn t print the bar code but moves the position of data buffer area to left and out of the printable area Refers to the section 3 9 the page mode When takes thermal mark LEE he bar code width is not fit for the current mark the over part to be printed on the next mark When takes CODE93 m 73 The printer prints a HRI character at the beginning of the HRI character font O as the starting character of HRI character font The printer prints a HRI character at the end of the HRI character font O as the ended character of HRI character font The printer prints HRI character Ml tone character as the control character lt 00 gt H to lt 1F gt and lt 7F gt H Control character HRI Control character HRI ASCIT Hex Decimal character ASCIT Hex Decimal character 109 NUL 00 0 mu DLE 10 16 mp
88. mode only effects for the English character Default n 0 Reference ESC ESC E GS ESC nL nH Name Set absolute printing position Format ASCII ESC nL nH Hex 1B 24 nl nH Decimal 27 36 nL nH Range 0 lt nL lt 255 0 lt nH lt 255 Description Set the spacing from the beginning of a line to the position of the printing character which will be printed The spacing from the beginning of a line to the printing position is nL nHX 256 X0 125 mm Specification Designated the set which out of the printable area that is neglected Under the normal mode uses the horizontal unit x Under the page mode with the difference of the printable area starting position that the horizontal or vertical 52 Reference ESC n Name Format Range Description Specification Default Reference ESC amp y cl c2 Name Format Range Description Specification moving unit is different the specification as follows When set the starting position to the printable area s up left or down right by ESC T takes the horizontal moving unit x When set the starting position to the printable area s up right or down left takes the vertical moving unit y ESC GS GS Select cancel user defined character set ASCII ESC n Hex 1B 25 n Decimal 27 37 n 0 lt n lt 255 Selects cancels user defined character set When the LSB of n is 0 the user defined character
89. mory m area The setting data of this command which stored in the NV memory When writing the data to the NV memory If the memory have wrote the same data then not executes the data memory operation If occurs the error when writing data then the printer executes the memory error disposal operation Specification When the data loaded automatically executes any one of the Default Reference disposal procedure will be executed the initialization disposal Executes the added electric disposal by power switch When resets the hardware through the interface executes the added electric disposal Executes ESC 0 m 0 ESC 2 lt function 1 gt of this command 89 GS xydl d x y 8 Name Define download bit image Format ASCII GS x y dl d xX yX 8 Hex 1D 2A x y dl d xX yX 8 Decimal 29 42 x y dl d xX yX 8 Range 13 lt x3 lt 255 lt y lt 48 xX yX 1536 0 d lt 255 Description Specifies dot counts by taking x and y and defines the download bit image X specifies the horizontal dot counts y specifies the vertical dot counts Notes The dot counts of horizontal direction is xX8 the dot counts of vertical direction is yX8 If xXy over the specified scale then this command will be disabled d indicates the bit image data The data d specifies the printing bit is 1 the not printing bit is 0 At the following conditions clears the download bit image definition Executes E
90. mxL xH yh yH dl dk anneanne ar eiis oies 112 GTS WT NN 114 4 AChinese control COMMANA eccecceeesceeeeseeseeseesesccecesecscesecseeceeseeecsceneceeenecseceeeseeeeeseeeeaeeats 114 ESA iors tery peters eee re let ima oer o ele Deo el recto TAE 114 PS Al a 115 O ghee he Bs ibe Se ad tel Sieg ani Mea at atts ete woe ate 116 FS AAA A aie aa 117 FS 2 ell c12 dl d1k 1 cn1 en2 d1 dnk n NULL cee teeeeeetetees 117 A a E E EE TE dheee alae 118 ES S Hle O ae is 119 FES WM ad E eine 120 Chapter VI MALFUNCTION ANALYSIS AND EXCLUSION ceccecccccsesseseteeseseeeeteeeeneneeseeees 120 5 1 Malfunction and ex clusion ii Ra 120 52 Transports Storage a ds 121 Appendix A Miscellaneous Notes cccccccccccsscsscsssesecsseesecescesscsecseeseceseesscssceeecseceaseasseseeaeenseeeeeas 122 Notes on printing and feeding paper eccccececeescesceseeseeseeeesecseeseeseeceeseseeeeesecseeseeseeeeeaeaeeneeas 122 Notes on the external power CONNECCtION eceseeceeseseeeseseesceceeseecceneceeeneeseeeeeseeseeeescseeateas 123 Appendix B Recovery from an auto cutter C1rOr cceccecescessesceseeseeseesceeeesecseeseeseeeeeaeseeeeeseeeeaees 123 Appendix C The transmission status mark ccccccccsccsscsscesscsscessessceseesecsecesscseceseessceeeeceeessesseaeenes 124 Appendix D The page mode printing example cecececeesessceseseeeeeeeseeseeceesceeeeeaeeeeaesaeeneeseereees 124 AppendixE CODE T28 barcodes ita ds 1
91. n t execute the underline printing but the underline width which be specified before not be changed The default underline width is 1 dot Sets or cancel the underline mode through FS and the 116 final received command is effective When selecting appendix even n is 2 or 50 the width of underline is 1 dot Default n 0 Reference FS FS P Name Cancel Chinese character Format ASCII FS Hex 1C 2E Decimal 28 46 Description Cancel the Chinese character mode Specification e This command only affects when selects GB18030 code system When not selects the Chinese character mode all character code is ASCII code per character dealt with each time When turns the power on the printer enters into Chinese mode automatically Reference FS FS C FS 2 cll c12 d1 d1k 1 cn1 en2 d1 dnk n NULL Name Define use defined Chinese Format ASCII FS 2 ell c12 dl dlk 1 enl en2 dl dnk n NULL Hex 1C 32 c11 c12 d1 d1k 1 enl en2 dl dnk n NULL Decimal 28 50 cll c12 dl d1k 1 enl en2 dl dnk n NULL Range cl c2 is the area and bit code in user defined Chinese which confirmed by FS 2 needs to confirm the used yard area K 72 n is the units of the defined Chinese dl dk is the user defined Chinese data Not on the scale of the selected user defined Chinese it will be as the ineffective definition Description cl is an area code c2 is a bit code User defined Chinese hold i
92. n and starting printing position is 0 only needs GS V m to finish each of position printing 2 Only needs the cutting tearing paper position offset is not 0 needs GS F to set cutting tearing paper position offset a 2 and starting printing position offset a 1 separately 140 Only after setting the starting printing position can feed paper to starting printing position by GS FF command Or may be occurred incorrect position or fed an empty note When changed the last time setting offset by GS F maybe when printing the first note occurred incorrect position or fed an empty note but the following notes is correct 141
93. n conditions in read The conditions needs to transmit as follows 103 The first byte the printer information Bit Off On Hex code Decimal ASB status code 0 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed 1 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed 2 On 04 4 Undefined On is fixed 3 Off 00 0 Online On 08 8 Offline 4 On 10 16 Unused On is fixed 5 Off 00 0 Close the print head bar On 20 32 Open the print head bar 6 Off 00 0 Button feeding papel couldn t be throug taking the printing papel FEED On 40 64 Button feeding paper coul be through taking thd printing paper FEED 7 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixed The second byte the printer information Bit Off On Hex code Decimal ASB status code 0 Off 00 0 Offline waiting conditions On 01 1 Online waiting conditions 1 Off 00 0 Turn the printing papel FEED off On 02 2 Turn the printing papel FEED on 2 Off 00 No mechanical error On 04 Occurred that thd mechanical error 3 Off 00 No auto cut paper error On 08 Occurred auto cut papel error 4 Off 00 Unused Off is fixed 5 Off 00 Any error could bd restored On 20 32 Occurred that the errol which can t be restored 6 Off 00 0 No error could be resto 104 ed automatically On 40 64 Occurred that the errol which could be restore automatically 7 Off 00 0 Unused Off is fixe
94. n FLASH it won t loss if power off Before defining user defined Chinese by FS 2 command needs to confirm the used code area takes FS C command the specification please refer to the FS C command After transmitting FS 2 c11 cl2 dl d1k 1 enl cn2 dl dnk n finishes definition by transmitting NUL finally Repeat note to define the character frequently It may break FLASH MEMORY so suggests that it is less than ten times each day Defining several characters finishes by one command and makes definition together Specification This command could define n characters after finishing FS 2 117 Default Reference For example character FSCn Name Format Range Description ell c12 di dikli enl cn2 dl dnk n to end the definition by transmitting NUL finally You could define all characters in the scale of user defined area and bit code according to this command Repeat definition that s to say takes the definition for the same area and bit code which selected the scale of user defined more than two times Complete blank FS C 24 dots LLL WT CA CC ET ESENE EEE Sones E E ANE GEEN S CA S msa f sn EES CEN CE E COM ICA CI COT CO O COT Eo CO CUCD MET GE COO MO O COCU MT O COCO MEO Oo CES CE Oe COT CE Co lt 00 gt H lt 0D gt H a w di lt 00 gt H a4 lt 03 gt H a7 lt 0F gt H oed10 lt 0C gt H di6 eed tt lt 00 gt H
95. n prints the received print data in hexadecimal numbers and in their corresponding characters Notes 1 If a character does not correspond to the data received the printer prints 2 During hexadecimal dumping any commands other than DLE EOT DLE ENQ and DLE DC4 do not function 3 Insufficient print data to fill the last line can be printed by mode of the printer is offline for example press the paper feed button 3 Ending hexadecimal dumping Hexadecimal dumping ends by turning the power off pressing the paper feed button three times or resetting the printer after printing has finished lt Printing example gt 29 Hexadecimal Dump 1B 21 00 1B 26 02 40 40 1B 69 t amp i 1B 25 01 1B 63 34 00 1B 30 31 c4 01 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A ABCDEFGHI J completed 3 5 DIP switch and memory switch settings 3 5 1 DIP switch setting 3 5 1 1 DIP switch There are two DIP switches on the control board and the number of DIP switch prints on it signs SWl and SW2 the graphics as follows PET Ar EA NNR Y AN ON Ee Ray 6 gt A ES f 8 Wi SW2 Note The change of DIP switch setting only affects when the printer turned the power on again or reset 3 5 1 2 DIP switch 1 DIP switch 1 SW1 Switch Function ON OFF Default No 1 Black mark Enabled Disabled Off sensor 2 Selects Refer to table 3 5 2 Off 3 communication Off interf
96. nd turn it on if necessary Be sure not to connect the external power supply with the wrong polarity If it is connected incorrectly the internal circuit fuse of the printer may be blown or the external power supply may be damaged The power supply voltage is within the range of 24V 2 4V If the power supply voltage drops to a value outsides the range above during printing the printer stops printing and waits until the voltage returns to normal and then automatically begins printing again If the voltage does not return to normal the printer generates an error Therefore printing speed may slow the print pitch may not be correct and some dots in some characters may not be printed The error of high or low voltage listed on the table 3 7 3 The flashing mode listed on the table When either a high or low voltage error occurs turn off the power as soon as possible The power capacity of the printer to be suggested over the 150W Appendix B Recovery from an auto cutter error If a external object such as a push pin or paper clip drops in the auto cutter and caused the auto cutter to lock up the printer enters an error state and begins the recovery operation automatically If the problem is not serious the auto cutter returns to its normal position without any intervention by the user The error LED blinks continuously but it is possible for the error to be corrected automatically If the auto cutter does not return to its nor
97. ne offline 4 4 PF SW ON PF SW OFF When feeding paper through pushing FEED button the printer be offline status When finished feeding paper lose the FEED button the printer enters into offline status If enables ASB when happened one matter the printer will transmit every status item When the printer sensor tests the condition change even on the offline status the printer always transmits ASB 6 When testing without paper While Loading and initializing paper gt gt A t Paper end is detected Paper is loaded When testing without paper the printer enters into offline status and halt printing it not be sure the error If installed and initialed the printer when the printer have ready to receive data and restored to online status If enables ASB when happened one matter the printer will transmit each status item The printer sensor tests the status change even on the offline status the printer will always transmit ASB During installed printing paper and initials the sensor tests the status change the printer may enter into offline status and not take the reason distinguish If occurs this condition then waiting that the printer deals with a condition change or the printer restores to online status 7 Occurs the error which could be restored automatically 132 online Offline 4 When the printer detects an When the printer detects automatically recoverable status that
98. nese characters mode Specification e This command only affects when selects GB18030 code system e GB18030 only affects double byte 1 2 3 4 5 area e When selects Chinese character mode the printer deals with all the Chinese code two bytes each time The sequence arranged the Chinese code according to the first and the second byte e When turn on the power the printer enter into Chinese mode automatically e When selects Chinese character mode at first the printer check the code whether the Chinese If it is the Chinese then deals with the first and the second bytes of Chinese code Reference FS FS C FS n Name Turn underline mode on off for Chinese characters Format ASCII FS n Hex 1C 2D n Decimal 28 45 n Range 0 lt n lt 2 48 lt n lt 50 Description For the receipt and appendix according to the following n value turn underline mode on off for Chinese characters n Function 0 48 Turn underline mode off for Chinese characters 1 49 Turn underline mode on for Chinese characters 1 dot width 2 50 Turn underline mode on for Chinese characters 2 dot width Specification The printer can add underline for all characters contains right side and left side character spacing but can t add underline for the blank which set by HT command and clockwise 90 revolved characters Through setting n which is 0 after turning the underline off for Chinese characters wo
99. ng paper direction and the starting printing position offset calculation see the formula 4 m 1 starting printing position offset distance Q Qo cutting tearing paper position offset distance mm starting printing position offset distance Q Qo xX 8t cutting tearing paper position offset dot 4 Note 3 When the setting BM printing position L is near to printer mechanical Lo and L gt Lo If the distance Q of cutting tearing paper position starting printing position gt L which needed to feed paper that can reach to the requested starting printing position then the calculation may be happened Q Qo cutting tearing paper position offset distance gt the distance of two conjoint BM here the needed tarting printing position offset as the formula 5 tarting printing position offset distance Q Q3 cutting tearing osition offset distance the distance of two conjoint BM tarting printing position offset Q Q3 cutting tearing position ffset distance the distance of two conjoint BM X8 5 xed mechanical value of printer refer to 2 5 3 DO nT NN Lo A mm the distance from cutting tearing paper position to the BM testing switch Qo C mm the distance from cutting tearing paper position to the starting printing position 137 Figure 1 Figure 2 atting Position utting Position L gt Lo Figure 3 Figure 4 The example for BM position control command which specifies the prin
100. nt is OFF Output LOW LoL eK current 24 No guarantee offered to Vo and Lo while the power is turned off 3 2 2 5 Parallel data receiving timing Parallel interface signal timing graphic as follows compatible mode Approx Ss Approx Sus Sars MIN Mara EN 3 2 2 6 Repositing printer by the parallel interface At the compatible mode the printer resets by the interface nlnit signal pin31 The nlnit signal brought by changing DIP switch setting To enable the printer reset should be satisfied the following signal timing DC characters TTL level AC characters The min reset plus width TRS 50 microsecond min nSelectin 1284 Active min min 1 ms ninit TRS _ Note The character n before the signal name indicates that the low is effective 3 2 2 7 Receiving printer status through the bidirectional parallel interface In the bidirectional parallel interface specifications the printer status transmission is available by the bidirectional communication 25 1 2 3 facility which operates in the 4 bits 8 bits modes accordance with the IEEE 1284 standard In such RS 232 specification the real time interruptions from the printer to the host are circumstances as opposed to the serial interface disabled and thus precautions must be taken as the following Allowable capacity of the printer internal buffer is 99 bytes except ASB S
101. nt user defined character mode for each character type When executing the command the down load bit will be cleared At the following states the user defined character will be cleared Executes ESC 0 Executes GS Executes ESC Resets the printer or turns off the power When defining the user defined character at the character type 9X17 only the third highest bit is effective in the vertical direction Inner character set ESC ESC When setting the character type A 12X24 54 i Ani mmm AE E ad 1H AARARANA i ed by t E amm HObObuoOo HHHHHE THREE peat tape nat ESC mnL nH dl dk Name Select bit image mode Format ASCII ESC m nb nH dl dk Hex 1B 2A nL nH dl dk Decimal 27 42 nL nH dl dk Range m 0 1 32 33 0 lt nL 255 0 lt nH lt 3 0 d lt 255 Description Selects bit image mode to use m the dot of bit image specified by nL and nH as the following table m Mode Vertical Horizontal Direction Direction Dot Dot Dot Density Data Number K Counts Density 0 8 dot 8 67 7dpi 101 6 dpi nL nH X 256 single density 1 8 dot 8 67 7 dpi 203 2 dpi nL nH X 256 double density 32 24 dot 24 203 2 101 6 dpi nL nH X 256 X single dpi 3 density 33 24 dot 24 203 2 203 2 dpi nL nH X 256 X double dpi 3 density Dpi per 25 4mm 1 inch print dot count Notes e If the data of m over the specified r
102. nter transmits data after confirming this signal When XON XOFF control is selected the printer does not check this signal except the command transmitted by DLE EOT and GS a When XON XOFF control is selected the printer does not check this signal Changing DIP switch enables this signal to be used as a reset signal for the printer 7 RTS Output Same as DTR signal 8 CTS Input This signal indicates whether the host can receive the data SPACE indicates that the host computer can receive the data and MARK indicates that the host can t receive the data When DTR DSR control is selected the printer transmits data after confirming this signal When XON XOFF control is selected the printer does not check this signal except the command transmitted by DLE EOT and GS a When XON XOFF control is selected the printer does not check this signal 1 When the spare space in the receive buffer declined to 100 bytes the printer status turns to buffer full and keeps buffer full status until the free space in buffer area increased to 140 bytes 3 2 1 4 XON XOFF transmission timing When XON XOFF control is selected the printer transmits XON or XOFF signals as follows Transmission timing differs depending on the memory switch setting XON XOFF Transmission Timing Printer status Memory Switch ON OFF XON When the printer goes online Transmit Transmit Transmission af
103. nting position of grating bit image sets by HT horizontal table ESC set absolute printing position ESC set relative printing position and GS L set left side spacing The set by ESC a set justification for the grating bit image is effective Receives this command during macro definition the printer finishes the macro definition and begins to execute this command Should clear the definition of this command d designates bit image data Set the printing dot 1 no printing dot 0 For example When xL xHX256 64 113 xl xH 256 gt 8 dots 512 dots OOE eee Pipe ta tafe fo Ta f 65 66 67 126 127 128 IO RE RS PER REA yL yH 256 dots GS wn Name Set bar code width Format ASCII GS w n Hex 1D 77 Decimal 29 119 n Range 2 lt n lt 6 Description Set bar code horizontal size n set the bar code width as follows n Multi bar code unit Two bar code Width mm Narrow width mm Wide width mm 2 0 250 0 250 0 625 3 0 375 0 375 1 000 4 0 560 0 500 1 250 5 0 625 0 625 1 625 6 0 750 0 750 2 000 e The following is the multi bar code UPC A UPC E JAN13 EAN13 JAN8 EAN8 CODE93 CODE128 e The following is the two bar code CODE39 ITF CODABAR Short data n 3 Reference GS k 4 4Chinese control command FS n Name Set character print mode s Format ASCII FS n Hex 1C 21 n Decimal 28 33 n
104. or example when the line spacing be set 10 dots 10 180inch only executes feeding paper the paper moved ahead 10 dots if print the bit image character will feed paper 24 dots When only printing revolved characters in a line executes feeding paper as the table A 1 The feeding paper quantity to be needed dot Normal Character type A 24 X vertical enlargement characters multiple Character type B 17 X vertical enlargement multiple Chinese 24 X vertical enlargement multiple Revolved Character type A 12 X vertical enlargement characters multiple Character type B 9 X vertical enlargement multiple Chinese 24Xvertical enlargement multiple Bit image ESC 24 When the printer enter into waited conditions data waited in the printing period then it stops printing and feeding paper for the moment When executing that the data transmitted and printed the paper will offset one to three dots from the starting position it mainly effects the bit image printing The space time of auto cutting operation in bill parts For the auto cutting machine of the driving bill parts the narrowest 122 space is ten printing lines or feeding paper lines avoid that the slice paper fallen into the auto cutting paper machine Notes on the external power connection Connect the external power supply to the power supply connector of the printer Then plug in the external power supply a
105. ore writing into NV memory Though set ASB the printer not send the ASB status or executer conditions test during dealing with this command When received this command during macro definition the printer stops macro definition and executes this command Once defines one NV bit image it can t be executed ESC 0 command and deleted when resets and turns power off This command only executes the definition of NV bit image not executes printing The printing of NV bit image executed by FS p command Frequently executes the written command which could be broken the NV memory So suggests that executes the written operation not over ten times for NV memory in a day After the process of putting one bit image into NV memory the printer executes one hardware reset operation So defines the user defined character downloads bit image and macro after finishing this command The printer clears receiving and printing buffer area and resets to the effective mode when connecting the power supply At this moment the switch DIP device be checked once again FS p When xL 64 xH 0 yL 96 yH 0 76 xL xH x 256 x 8 dots 512 dots d97 di d49057 d2 vn 3 pa co 2 Mm 2 d3 8 co K J gt GS FF Name Carry the BM printing paper to the printing starting position Format ASCII GS FF Hex 1D OC Decimal 29 12 Description Carry the BM printing paper to the printing s
106. owing characters In addition both rise time and fall time of all signals should be no more than 0 5 microsecond 5 Data transmission shouldn t ignore the nAck or Busy signal Transmits data when ignoring nAck or Busy signal it will cause the data losing For printer transmits data should at the behind of checking nAck signal or when the Busy signal in low level 6 Interface cables should be the min length which is required 23 3 2 2 4 Electrical Characters DC Character Except for Logic H 5V Characteristics Symbol Specifications Conditions Min Max Output HIGH Vou 2 4V 5 5V Lon 0 32mA voltage Output LOW VoL 0 5V x0 4V Lo 12 mA voltage Output HIGH Lou 0 32mA Vou 2 4V current Output LOW LoL 12mA Vo 0 4V current Input HIGH Vin 2 OV voltage Input LOW Vin 0 8V voltage Input HIGH Vin 0 32mA Vin 2 OV voltage Input LOW Vin 12mA Vi 0 8V voltage Logic H Signal Sender Characters Characteristics Symbol Specifications Conditions Min Max Output HIGH VoH 3 0V 5 5V While the power voltage is OFF Output LOW VoL 2 OV voltage 5V Signal Sender Characters Characteristics Symbol Specifications Conditions Min Max Output HIGH Vou 2 4V 5 5V Lon 0 32mA voltage While the power Outpu LOW VoL gt eK is OFF voltage Von 2 4V Output HIGH Lou 0 32mA While the power curre
107. ple 2 BASIC procedure example 100 PRINT 1 CHRS amp H1B L 110 PRINT 1 CHRS amp H1B W CHR 0 CHRS 0 CHRS 0 CHRS 0 120 PRINT 1 CHRS 200 CHRS 0 CHRS 144 CHRS 1 130 PRINT 1 CHRS amp H1B T CHRS 0 140 PRINT 1 Page mode lesson2 CAN command 150 PRINT 1 CHRS amp HA 160 PRINT 41 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTI12 34567890 170 PRINT 1 CHRS amp HC The procedure of this example as follows At first changes to the page mode 100 lines by transmitting ESC L Then specifies the printable area which sends eight parameters from nl to n8 by ESC W Specifies a printable area from 0 0 x direction is 200 dots y direction is 400 dots Transmits the parameters according the sequence of 0 0 0 0 200 0 144 1 the line number is 110 and 120 In addition O be set the printing direction by ESC T the line number is 130 After setting these items transmits the printing data Page mode lesson 2 CAN command and ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST1234567890 the line number from 140 to 160 Brings the following printing result through transmitting FF 125 the line number is 170 AA Printing paper The page mode example 2 If contains the following procedure lines before transmitting FF the part of data will be deleted 170 PRINT 41 CHRS H1B W CHRS 72 CHRS 0 CHR 96 CHRS 0 180 PRINT 1 CHRS 51 CHRS 0 CHRS 81 CHRS 0 190 PRINT 1 CHRS amp H18 200 PRINT 1 CHRS amp HC If contains the
108. ption Turns opposite blank printing mode on off Notes When the LSB of n is 0 turn opposite blank printing mode off When the LSB of n is 1 turn opposite blank printing mode on Only the LSB of n is effective This command effects to inner set characters and user defined characters When turning the opposite blank mode on it affects the blank area which set by ESC SPL This command no affects to bit image user defined bit image bar code HRI character and the space skipped by HT ESC and ESC This commands no affects to line spacing The opposite blank mode is surpassing than the underline mode When setting opposite blank mode even though opening the underline mode which will be disabled but not to cancel 92 Default n 0 GSCOnm Name Set count value printing mode Format ASCII GS C 0 n m Hex 1D 43 30 n m Decimal 29 67 48 n m Range 0 lt n lt 5 0 m 2 48 lt m lt 50 Description Sets printing mode for the continued counter The near printing figures set by n as follows When n 0 the printer prints the actual figure value When n 1 to 5 this command sets the figures which is near to print m sets printing position at the whole scale of printing figures the table as follows m Printing Deal with the figures which ig position less than the specified bit counts 0 48 Flush right Add blank at the left 1 49 Flush right Add 0 at the left 2 50 Flush left Add blank a
109. r inner mark position n 0 ESC ESC W xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH Name Format Range ASCII ESC W Hex 1B 57 Decimal 27 87 Set printable area under the page mode xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH O lt xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH lt 255 except for dxL dxH 0 or 66 dyL dyH 0 Description x0 y0 dx dy separately specifies the horizontal starting Notes position vertical starting position printable area width and printable area height Each setting data calculation for printable area as follows xo xL xH X 256 X0 125 mm yo yLt tyHX 256 X0 125 mm dx dxL dxH X 256 X 0 125 mm dy dyL dyH X 256 X0 125 mm If input this command under the standard mode the printer only executes the inner mark operation This command no effects the printing under the standard mode If the horizontal starting position setting and vertical starting position setting over the printable area the printer stops dealing with command and deals with continued data as the normal data If the setting of printable area width and height is 0 the printer stops dealing with command and deals with continued data as the normal data This command set the position of data buffer area the position specified by ESC T in the printable area If horizontal starting position printable area width over the printable area the printable area w
110. r is brought by the high temperature of a print head Because the printer can t disuse the data under the automatic restored offline status so the printer also can t input buffer area clearing response HOST When a head When the head temperature goes high temperature is detected down to a normal range Printer ASB an automatic ASB online recoverable error offline 4 When the printer is offline because of without paper or occurring an error HOST When a paper end or an error is detected Printer ASB Paper end offline 5 When the printer restores to online For example the printing paper from without paper to enough paper HOST When paper is reloaded Printer ASB offline without Buffer clear response ASB online a cause When installed the printing paper again the printer with the BM sensor turns to offline when initial BM sensor An error has occurred during the error restores the printer transmits ASB offline because of certain reason and doesn t restore to online when the print head bar is from open to close under the standby condition the operation 135 of the printer as the above description 6 Limited If the printer hasn t ready to receive the data the printer stores data in the data transmission buffer area but doesn t transmit the data until the host has ready to receive data At the parallel mode if ASB and other status data are stored in
111. r to the position which specified by ESC T command at the printable area The printable area specified by ESC W This command sets the following command under this command the data of the standard mode and page mode could be set respectively to shift the relevant set of the page mode Sets right character spacing ESC SP 2 Selects default line spacing ESC 2 ESC 3 Under the page mode only could set the following command data but these command not executes Sets cancels the revolved clockwise 90 ESC V 2 Selects parallel mode ESC a Sets cancels the reversed printing mode ESC Sets the left side page spacing GS L Sets printable area width GS W Turns the power on resets the printer or uses the ESC command the printer returns to the standard mode Reference FF CAN ESC FF ESC S ESC T ESC W GS GS ESC Mn Name Select character font Format ASCII ESC M n Hex 1B 4D n Decimal 27 TT n Range n 0 1 48 49 Description Selects character font n Function 63 0 48 Character font A 12X24 selected 1 49 Character font B 9X17 selected Specification ESC could select the character type But the set is Reference ESC Rha Name Format Rang Description Default Reference ESC S Name Format Notes effective which only sets by the final received command ESC Select an international character set ASCIT ESC R n Hex
112. rved 0 is fixed 0 3 Reserved ES 0 is fixed 0 4 Reserved n 0 is fixed 0 5 Reserved 0 is fixed 0 6 Reserved 0 is fixed 0 T Reserved 0 is fixed 0 8 Reserved z 0 is fixed 0 Memory function switch 8 Switch Function ON 1 OFF 0 Default Note number 1 Printing mode 2 control 3 Retreats Enabled Disabled 0 1 paper 4 Installs Not installed Installed 0 cutter paper automatically 5 Reserved DE 0 is fixed 6 The step of 88 steps 108 steps retreating paper 7 Reserved ER O is fixed 8 When up elect Not Initialized initialized initialized black mark position 1 Takes this function when only retreating printing institution be used If takes the retreating function the printer will take the following operation After taking GS V command to cut paper will execute retreating operation when the black mark disabled Set the printing starting position at the opposite direction of cutting paper position by GS F command Note At present not supports the selecting function of Memory switch 8 s 33 bit 0 bit 1 3 6 Error Processing 3 6 1 Error type 1 Error that recovers automatically Automatically Recoverable Error because of JUUUUUL T Error Description LED flashing pattern Recovery Print head over The gt he 320 ms Recovers temperature temperature automatically error of the UUU UUU
113. s command only effects when dealing at the beginning of the line If input this command under the page mode the printer executes the inner marked operation This commands no effects printing under the page mode If the setting value over the printable area takes the max printable area The setting PRI of GS L is surpass than the setting PRI of GS W If the left side blank printable area width is over the printable area the printer takes printable area width the left side blank However not takes the set which sets through GS W even if at the current printing reserves the set which sets through GS W If the width which sets in the printable area is smaller than the width of one character when printing character data executes the following disposals The printable area width extends to right and to adapt one character Printable area The left side Extends to right The printable area width set by nL and nH 2 If extends the printable area width not enough then narrows the right spacing If the width which sets by the printable area is narrower than a vertical line when printing non character data for example bit image 100 the bit image of user defined only for the problem lines to the following disposals Extends the printable area width to right and adapts a vertical line of bit image in the printable area 2 If extends the printable area width not enough then narrows th
114. s from an error after clearing receive and print buffers Specification Only on the state of auto cutter which occurs error or the error happened to the print head bar this command affects 49 The printer deals with the data when receiving this command Even if the printer is offline the printing buffer is full or the serial interface mode is error always executing this command Under the parallel interface mode this command can t be executed when the print is busy When Memory Switch 1 3 is ON even the printer is offline the printer not be set BUSY DLE ENQ 2 enabled to printer after clearing received buffer and prints the data in the buffer which stored from the error conditions The printer reserves the set For example ESC 1 ESC 3 and so on which is effective when the error occurred Could use this command and ESC initialize the printer completely This command only effects that the error could be stored and except for the print head temperature error Note Whenever received lt 10 gt H lt 05 gt H lt n gt 1 lt n lt 2 data sequence will be on sending status For example ESC m nL nH dk dl lt 10 gt H d2 lt 05 gt H d3 lt 01 gt H The command date which contains two or more bytes can t use this command For example If want to send the ESC 3 n to the printer before sending the n DTR DSR for the host computer will be changed to MARK So before receiving the n DLE ENQ 2 will be interrupted
115. s loaded normal condition Flashing Self test waiting state refer to 3 4 or macro waiting state e Execute macro waiting state when use executing macro command Table 3 3 waiting state indication State Paper LED flashing Recovery conditions pattern Waiting for self he about 320ms Pressing the feed test printing to be button caused self test continued or have JTUUUL printing to be ready to execute continued or executed macro macro Note A macro could be executed r times r means the times that the macro 27 be executed as an definition Macro could be executed continual ly and could push the paper feed button once If execute the macro pattern through pushing the button the paper end indicator will flash and indicates that have ready to execute macro Refer to Section 4 command 3 Error LED Red On Offline except during paper feeding using the feed button and during the self test Off Normal operation Flashing Error state Refer to 3 6 LEDI LED2 LED3 E fF f f Power Supply Paper end Error Paper carrier button Figure 3 3 2 Panel buttons and indicators 3 4 Special operation mode 3 4 1 Self test Self test could test whether the printer is normal operation If can print self test list correctly it indicates that the printer is normal except the connection with host Or needs to test 1 The printer has a self test function that checks the following e Control circuit f
116. s over the count operation scale which sets by GS C 1 or GS C the count value to be changed to 106 max value Reference GS C 0 GS C 2 GS C GSfn Name Select HRI Human Readable Interpretation character type Format ASCII GS f n Hex 1D 66 n Decimal 29 102 n Range n 0 1 48 49 Description When printing bar code selects one font for the HRI character which to be used n used to be selected one font as the following table n Font 0 48 Font A 12X 24 1 49 Font B 9X 17 Notes HRI Human Readable Interpretation indicates the relative characters of readable bar code Prints HRI characters on the position of specifying by GS H Default n 0 Reference GS H GS K GS h a Name Set the bar code height Format ASCII GS h n Hex 1D 68 n Decimal 29 104 n Range 1 lt n lt 255 Description Sets the bar code height n sets the dot counts in the vertical direction Default n 162 Reference GS k GS km dl dkNUL GSkmndl n Name Print bar code Format ASCII GS k m dl dk NUL Hex 1D 6B m dl dk 00 Decimal 29 107 m dl dk 0 ASCII GS k m n dl dn Hex 1D 6B m n dl dn 107 Range Decimal 29 107 m n d1 dn O lt mX lt 6 k and d decided by the used bar code system 65 lt m lt 73 n and d decided by the used bar code system Description Selects bar code system and prints bar code
117. set is canceled When the LSB of n is 1 the user defined character set is selected When canceling the user defined character set selects inner character set automatically n only affects to the LSB n 0 ESC amp ESC x1 d1 d yXx1 xk dl d yXx Define user defined characters ASCII ESC y cl c2 xl dl d yXx1D xk dl d yXx Hex 1B 26 y cl c2 xl dl d yXxl xk dl d yXx Decimal 27 38 y cl c2 xl dl d yXx1 xk dl d yXx y 3 32 lt c1 lt c2 lt 126 0 lt x lt 12 when Font A 12X24 is selected 0 lt x lt 9 when Font B 9X17 is selected 0 lt dl d yXxk lt 255 Defines user defined characters y specifies the number of bytes in the vertical direction cl specifies the beginning character code for the definition and c2 specifies the final code x specifies the number of dots in the horizontal direction The scale of defined character code the ASCII code 95 characters from lt 20 gt to lt 7E gt H 53 Default Reference For example 660600 Could define the continued character code of several characters When only needs one character the cl c2 d is the dot data of character Dot mode is beginning from the left in the horizontal direction The right left dot is bland The data defined that the user defined character is yXx bytes Set the relevant bit of the printing dot is 1 or the not printing dot is 0 This command could define the differe
118. signated by n After canceling the user defined character prints according to the inner character relevant mode Selects the character mode by using ESC This command deleted the mode which defined by designating code If a user defined character not be defined the printer ignored this command ESC amp ESC Initialize printer ASCII ESC Hex 1B 40 Decimal 27 64 Clears the data in the print buffer and resets the printer modes to the modes that affects when the power turned on e Not checks the DIP switch and the memory switch settings again e Not clears the data in the received buffer area Not clears the macro definition 60 ESC D n1 nk NUL Name Format Range Description Notes Default Reference ESC En Name Format Range Description Set horizontal tab positions ASCII ESC D nl nk NUL Hex 1B 44 nl nk 00 Decimal 27 68 nl nk 0 13n lt 255 0 lt kS32 Sets the horizontal tab positions n specifies the number of digits from the setting position to the left edge of the printing area k is used to indicate the number of bytes set for the horizontal tab position the character widthXn which be tested from the beginning of the The horizontal position stored as a value the value is The width of the character contains the character and the double width dealt with as the double width of normal character line right side spacing charac
119. sn sr and sc are ASCII code characters takes the code from 0 to 9 sa and sb specifies the count scale sn indicates the walking spacing of increasing or decreasing by degrees count sr indicates the repeat times the count value is fixed Notes When satisfied the following conditions it is the increase by degrees mode sa sb and sn 0 and sr 0 When satisfied the following conditions degrees mode sa gt sb and sn 0 and sr 0 When satisfied the following conditions sa sb or sn 0 or sr 0 When specifies the mode of increase by degrees count value sb is the max count value it is the increase by 1t stops counting sa is the min If the increase counts 95 value over the max value the count value returns to the min value and begins again If the count value set by sc over the counter operation scale will change the count value to min value through executing GS c When specified the mode of decrease by degrees sa is the max count value sb is the min count value If the decrease count value over the min count value the count value returns to the max value and begins again If the count value set by sc over the counter operation scale will change the count value through executing GS c value to max Could omit parameter sa to sc If omitting then these parameter value won t change The parameter sa to sa can
120. stance Lo the distance of two conjoint BM L mm Cutting tearing paper position offset Lo the distance of two conjoint L X8 dots 2 Note 1 When sets cutting tearing position offset the parameter a of GS F command is 2 Note 2 Cutting tearing position offset which needed to select m 0 and calculated along the feeding paper direction 3 When cutting tearing offset is not 0 or the distance Q from each starting printing position to cutting tearing position is larger than the printer mechanical value Qo as figure 4 The offset calculation about cutting tearing position of GS F command sees 136 formula 3 The offset distance of starting printing position Q Qo tearing position offset record mm The offset distance of starting printing position Q Qo X 8 tearing position offset record dot 3 Note 1 When sets the starting printing position offset the parameter a of GS F is 1 selects m 0 and calculates along the feeding paper direction Note 2 When the setting BM printing position L is near to printer mechanical Lot and L lt Lo If the distance Q from setting cutting tearing position to starting printing position is small needs that the retreating paper can reach to the requirement starting printing position the calculation value may be happened the conditions of Q Qo cutting tearing paper position offset distance lt 0 Only this moment setting according to the retreati
121. t tear paper line lt Lo 45 mm so the offset of cutting tearing paper position is 139 33 6 8 X 8 205 dots Takes the following command to set cutting tearing paper offset GS F lt 4 gt lt 0 gt lt 2 gt lt 0 gt lt 205 gt lt 0 gt Calculates the starting printing position is 11 16 X8 205 165 dots Takes the following command to set starting printing position offset GS F lt 4 gt lt 0 gt lt 1 gt lt 0 gt lt 165 gt lt 0 gt Example Notes remanded the length of note 140 mm The distance from cutting tearing paper position to BM is 132 mn The distance from starting printing position to cut tear paper position is 20 mm Cutting Postion ABCE G BCDEFGH BM Sensor 2147 l ml i y Cutting Position Calculates the offset of cutting tearing position Because the offset from BM to cut tear paper line gt Lo 45 mm so the offset of starting position is 33 6 140 132 X 8 333 dots Takes the following commands to set cutting tearing offset GS F lt 4 gt lt 0 gt lt 2 gt lt 0 gt lt 4D gt lt 1 gt Calculates the starting printing position offset 20 16 X8 333 365 dots Takes the following commands to set starting printing position offset GS F lt 4 gt lt 0 gt lt 1 gt lt 6D gt lt 1 gt Finishes the above settings when printing each of notes the commands which be used is the same as the example 1 Notes l On the conditions of the offset of cutting tearing paper positio
122. t the left Notes If n or m over the defined scale the advanced defined printing mode not changed If n 0 then m have no any meaning Default n 0 m 0 Reference GS C1 GSC 2 GSC Ge For example n 3 M 1 1 3M 2 001 AM lt Alndicates a space GSC1 Name Select count mode A 93 Format ASCII GS C 1 aL aH al bH n r Hex 1D 43 3l aL aH aL bH n r Decimal 29 67 49 aL aH aL bH n r Range 0 lt aL lt 255 0 lt aH lt 255 0 lt bLS lt 255 0 lt bH 255 0 n lt 255 0 r lt 255 Description Selects count mode for counter aL aH or bL bH specifies the scale of counter When taking count to increase or decrease by degrees n specified the walking value When the counter value is fixed r indicates repeat times Notes If satisfied the following conditions then setting count to increase by degrees aL aH X 256 lt bL bHX 256 and n40 or r 0 If satisfied the following conditions then setting count to decrease by degrees aLt aH 256 gt bL bH 256 and n 0 or r 0 If satisfied the following conditions then stopping counting laL aH 256 bL bH 256 and n 0 or r 0 When setting count to increase by degrees the min of counter is laL aHX 256 the max is bL bHX256 If the count value increased over the max value then returns to min and count again When setting count to decrease by degrees the max of counter is aL aHX256 the min is bL bHX256 If the count value decreased less than
123. tandard density 10 is the lightest If m 0 the printing density setting sets to the standard value If 1 lt m lt 10 the printing density setting is deeper than the standard density 10 is the deepest Specification If selects the normal mode even sets the different density the printing density always is the same in a line circumstances the last specified printing effective In such density is If selects the page mode all data specified by FF or ESC FF takes the same desity If sets the different printing density under the page mode the last specified printing density is effective Default m 0 GS M pL pHanm Name Customize the printer control value Format ASCII GS M pL pH nm Hex 1D 28 4D pL pH nm Decimal 29 40 77 pL pH nm Range pL pHX 256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 1 lt n lt 3 49 lt n lt 51 0 lt m lt 1 48 lt n lt 49 Description Stores or takes the data which defined by command n Function user NV memory 1 49 Stores the data which sets by GS F command to the user NV memory 2 50 Takes the data which sets by GS F command fromm setting 3 51 Enables or disables the data which be taken to the procedure automatically at the beginning of the m specified the data as follows m 0 48 It s the same as the first setting value of GS F command m 1 49 Will be stored to storage Notes Frequently executes the comm
124. tarting position Notes This command enabled only when the BM sensor setting is effective by DIP SWl 1 This command sets the next printing position to the starting of a line Even if this command executes at the printing starting position of the BM printing paper the printer doesn t carry the paper to the next printing starting position Reference GS F FF 3 5 1 2 DIP switchl Memory Switch 6 GS n Name Set character size Format ASCII GS n 77 Hex 1D 21 on Decimal 29 33 n Range O lt n lt 255 I lt vertical double counts lt 8 1 lt horizontal double counts lt 8 Description Sets the height of character and uses 0 to 2 sets the width of character and uses 4 to 6 The description as follows Bit Off On Hex Decimal Function 0 1 2 Sets the height of character See table 2 3 4 5 Sets the width of character See table 1 6 7 Hex Decimal Width 00 0 1 normal 10 16 2 double width 20 32 3 30 48 4 40 64 5 50 80 6 60 96 7 70 112 8 Hex Decimal Width 00 0 1 normal 01 1 2 double height 02 2 3 03 3 4 04 4 5 05 5 6 06 6 7 07 7 8 Table 1 Table 2 Character width setting Character height setting Notes This command affects to all characters English characters and Chinese except for HRI character 78 If n is out of the definition scale this command wil
125. tatus prevent possible signals exceeding this capacity will be discarded To status the host shall be data status loss of ready for acceptance Reverse Mode When ASB the host acceptance Reverse Idle Mode When this state is not available in the wait state for data the host shall enter the Reverse Mode to constantly monitor the presence of data When ASB is shall be the ASB transmission over the other states signals Any accumulated ASB statee is used is preferably used preference given to state for signals left for transmission from the last to the newest ASB status transmission shall be transmitted together at one time as one ASB state showing the presence of change followed by the latest ASB state Example In the normal wait state the ASB status is configured as follows First Status Second Status Third Status Fourth Status 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 When the following sequence of operations proceeds and near end is detected and the FEED button is pressed and released the following pieces of data are accumulated First Status Second Status Third status Fourth Status 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000 0000 Near end detection 0101 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000 0000 2 The printer board is opened 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000 0000 The printer board is closed When the ASB status is received follow
126. ter to be This command deleted the advanced setting horizontal position When setting n 8 the printing position be moved to ninth through sending HT Could be k 32 The positions which to be dealt with as the normal data set to 32 position data over 32 Transmits n k according to raise sequence and set a NUL code 0 on the end ESC D NUL cancels all of the horizontal position Even the character width changed the advanced specified horizontal position won t be changed For normal and page mode the character width be memorized Default position is the 8 character spacing for example9 17 25 of the type A 12X24 HT Turn emphasized mode on off ASCII ESC E n Hex 1B 45 n Decimal 27 69 n 0 lt n lt 255 Turn emphasized mode on off When the LSB of n is 0 When the LSB of n is 1 emphasized mode is turned off emphasized mode is turned on 61 Notes Default Reference ESC G n Name Format Range Description Notes Default Reference ESC Jn Name Format Range Description Notes Only the LSB of n enabled to use This command and ESC turns emphasized mode on off at the same way When this command and ESC to be used at the same time it needs to be careful n 0 ESC Turn double strike mode on off ASCII ESC G n Hex 1B 47 n Decimal 27 7ln 0 lt n lt 255 Turn double strike mode on off When the LSB of n is 0 double
127. ter turning the power on 2 When the receive buffer is rele Transmit Transmit ased from the buffer full state When the printer switches from offline to online 4 When the printer recovers from an error taking the DLE ENQ 1 or DLE ENQ 2 commands Transmit Transmit XOFF Transmission 5 When the receive buffer becomes When the printer switches from full online to offline Transmit Transmit Transmit Notes The XON code is lt 11 gt H and the XOFF code is lt 13 gt H e In case XON is not transmitted when the receive buffer is full In case XOFF is not transmitted when the receive buffer is full 3 2 1 5 The example of serial interface socket Could take the cable which have the following signal connections The sides of board MB The sides of user 500 D sub9 Signal Signal D SUB9 Socket pin name name Plug pin number number 1 NC DCD 1 2 RXD a aa RXD 2 3 TXD TXD 3 4 DTR x DTR 4 5 SG SG 5 6 DSR are DSR 6 7 RTS RTS 7 8 CTS CTS 8 9 NC RI 9 Couldn t take the cable which have the following signal connections The sides of board MB 500 The sides of user D sub9 Socket pin number Signal name Signal name D SUB9 Plug pin number 1 NC DCD 1 2 RXD mm a RXD 2 3
128. the Memory Switch Refer to section 3 3 2 3 Printer status Memory Switch 1 3 status On Off 1 During the power BUSY BUSY turned on including resetting to when the printer have ready to receive the data 2 During the self BUSY BUSY test 3 When the cover is BUSY open 4 During paper gt BUSY feeding taking the paper FEED button 5 When the printer LEN BUSY stops printing due OH O to a paper end 6 On the macro BUSY execution ready conditions 7 When an error has gt BUSY occurred 8 When the receive BUSY BUSY buffer becomes full 1 2 When XON XOFF control is selected The signal indicates whether the printer is correctly connected and have ready to receive the data SPACE indicates that the printer have ready to receive data The signal is always SPACE except in the following cases e During the period from the power turned on to the printer has ready to receive data e During the self test 5 5G Signal ground Signal assignments and functions continued Pin Signal Signal Function number name direction 6 DSR Input This signal indicates whether the host compu ter can receive the data SPACE indicates that the host can receive data and MARK indicates that the host can t receive the data When DTR DSR control is selected the pri
129. the character size not affects the current underline boldfaced degree Use ESC also could turn underline on off But needs to notice the final received command is effective n o ESC Select the line spacing ASCII ESC 2 Hex 1B 32 Decimal 27 50 Selects the line spacing 3 75 mm 30X0 125 mm Line spacing could be set under the normal mode and the page ESC 3 Set the line spacing ASCII ESC 3 n Hex 1B 33 n Decimal 27 51 n 0 lt n lt 255 59 Description Notes mode Short data Reference ESC n Name Format Range Description Notes Reference ESC Name Format Description Notes Sets the line spacing to nX0 125 mm Line spacing could be set under the normal mode and the page Under the normal mode uses the vertical moving unit y Under the page mode according to the beginning position of printable area the function of this command as follows When sets the starting position to the printable area s up left or down right by ESC T uses the horizontal moving unit y 2 When sets the starting position to the printable area s up right or down left uses the vertical moving unit x n 30 ESC 2 Cancel user defined characters ASCII ESC 2 on Hex 1B 3F n Decimal 27 63 n 32 lt n lt 126 Cancels the user defined characters This command stops to use the mode which defined by using the character code the character code de
130. the data transmission buffer area the printer transmits them firstly So this is the different sequence which compares with the above When doesn t take the data transmission suggests that inputs the vertical data for parallel interface If the printer statues have been changed such as when initialing the BM sensor tests that the paper near end the printer transmits the ASB at any moment Appendix H The calculation method that GS F sets the adjustable value 1 When the distance L from the cutting tearing position to BM printing position is the same as the printer fixed mechanical value Lo and the distance Q from the cutting tearing position to starting printing position is the same as the printer fixed mechanical value Qo as the figure 1 the offset which sets by GS F is 0 2 When the distance L from the BM printing position to cutting tearing position is shorter than the printer mechanical value Lo as the figure 2 The offset calculation about cutting tearing position of GS F command sees formula 1 Cutting tearing paper position offset distance Lo L mm Cutting tearing paper position offset Lo L X8 dots can CL When the distance L from the BM printing position to cutting tearing position is longer than the printer mechanical value Lo as the figure 2 The offset calculation about cutting tearing position of GS F command sees formula 2 Cutting tearing paper position offset di
131. the up left or down right this command sets the absolute position in the vertical direction When the starting position sets at the up right or down left this command set the absolute position in the parallel direction Reference ESC ESC T ESC W ESC GS 79 GS ApLpHnm Name Execute test print Format ASCII Hex GS A pL pH n 1D 28 41 pL pH n Decimal 29 40 65 pL pH n Range pH pHX 256 2 pL 2 pH 0 0 lt n lt 2 1 lt m lt 3 Description 48 lt n lt 50 49 lt m lt 51 Executes the test print at the specified printing paper and uses the specifying mode pL and pH sets that the parameter quantity is pL pH X 256 bytes n specifies the near test printing paper n Printing paper 0 48 Basic sheet roller paper 2 50 Roller paper m specifies the test mode Test mode m 1 49 Hex dump 2 50 The printer conditions 3 ol The roll paper printing Specification This command only affects at the beginning of a line under the standard mode This commands no affects under the page mode When received this command during macro definition the printer finishes the macro definition and begins to execute this command The printer will reset automatically after finishing printing Therefore the defined data before executing this command For example the user defined character download bit image and macro will
132. ting notes The following examples sets the tearing paper position to the printer tearing paper blade Lo 33 6 mm Qo 16 mm refer to 2 5 3 lexample 1 Note demanded the cutting tearing paper position on the printing BM position Each printing starting position on the 20 mm of cutting tearing paper position 138 Cutting Position a EA ABCDEFG BCDEFGH EBM Sensor Calculates cutting tearing paper position offset Because the BM on the cutting tearing paper position L 0 so Cutting tearing paper position offset 33 6 0 X 7 269 dots Takes the following commands to set the cutting tearing paper offset GS F lt 4 gt lt 0 gt lt 2 gt lt 0 gt lt D gt lt 1 gt Calculates the offset of starting printing position 20 16 X 8 269 301 dots Takes the following commands to set cutting tearing offset GS F lt 4 gt lt 0 gt lt 1 gt lt 0 gt lt 2D gt lt 1 gt After finishing the above settings when printing each note Feeds paper to the starting printing position by GS FF command Sends the printing data of each one and prints these data line by line Feeds paper to cut tear paper position by GS V m and cut tear the note Example 2 Notes remanded the distance from cutting tearing paper position to BM is 8 mn The distance of starting printing position to cut tear paper position is 11 mm utting Position 0 Calculates the offset of cutting tearing paper position Because the distance from BM to cu
133. ting printing position by GS F and about the setting method of cutting paper position adjustable value and specification please refer to appendix I All adjustable value sets 0 When the default be set from BM sensor testing to BM the separate position of print head and cutter are the printing starting position and cutting paper FF GS FF GS V GS K pLpHnm Name Format Range Description Specification Select printing control mode ASCII G K pL pH n m Hex 1D 28 48 pL pH n m Decimal 29 40 75 pL pH n m pL pH X 256 2 here pL 2 pH 0 1 lt n lt 255 For parameter m refer to the per function description of this command pL pH specifies that the byte behind of the parameter n is pL pH X 256 n specifies the setting value of printing density and the printer mechanical operation n Function Function number 48 Function Select printing control mode 48 49 Function Set printing density 49 In the following circumstances deals with the nonsupport reference this command will be ignored pLt pH X 256 lt 2 n doesn t relative any one of the printer functions At the every function m surpasses the scale 85 If satisfies all the specified parameters the printer starts to deal with the specified functions If the printer is offline not executing this command because the printer doesn t read the data at this moment Receives this comm
134. tion Temperature Operation 0 55 C Storage 25 70 C without printing paper Humidity Operation 10 80 RH no coagulation 80 needs 34 C Storage 19 90 RH without printing paper t gt 40 C 58 gt xXx i nn E PO AA 250 E 2 PRSIA a v Lo 0 Ambient temperature C Figure 1 4 The operation temperature and humidity range 1 4Operation specification Supply voltage DC 24 0 V 2 4 V Current consumption 24V M T530 T540 for 80 m 82 5 mm 3 15inch 3 25inch paper width type High mode Average about 9A Peak value about 14 A Two parts printing mode Average about 7 A Peak value about 11 5 A Four parts printing mode Average about 4 5 A Peak value about 5 5 A Waiting Average about 0 1 A M T510 T520 for 58 60 mm 2 28inch 2 36inch paper width type High speed mode Average about 6 5 A Peak value about 10 A Two parts printing mode Average about 5 A Peak value about 8 A Four parts printing mode Average about 3 5 A Peak value about 5 A Waiting Average about 0 1 A 1 5Security Can t impose the over max absolute fixed current and voltage on any pins Or it will bring heat damage Max absolute fixed value Item Notation Fixed Value Unit Input Voltage VIN 24 0 V Storage Tstg 25 to 70 G Temperature Storage Hstg 0 to 90 Humidity Operates the printer in the following circumstances
135. to reset again or turn the power off then opening again If a malfunction brings an error the printer won t restore until the printer have adjusted As for RESET time refer to the first part of this section 133 If ASB is enabled when occurs an error the printer will transmit ASB Next the printer won t transmit ASB until the printer restored to online status Among these products the high voltage is one of the errors which couldn t be restored However When tests an strong error as CPU executing error or memory error the printer won t transmit ASB 10 When the printer enters into offline status but have no specific reason online offline When a low voltage error When a normal voltage is detected is detected If the printer temporarily tests a low voltage when printing the printer halts printing and turns to offline under the condition of haven t distinguished the reasons After the printer tests a normal standard voltage the printer restores to offline and starts to printing automatically If the printer tests a low voltage again the printer sends low voltage error status the error couldn t be restored If the printer turns to offline which have no any distinguished reasons the offline which is not brought by one error or without paper When monitors the printer status suggests that not to judge the printer status until the printer restores to online or the printer turns to offline under th
136. uently executes NV memory to write commands FS q GS E which may bring damage for NV memory So suggests that the written operation for NV memory a day doesn t over 10 times When dealing with this command if writing data in the user NV memory the printer enters into busy conditions and stops receiving data So during executing this command forbidden transmitting the data which contains real time commands GS E pL pH m d1 d2 when m 1 Format Range ASCII GS E pL pH m dl d2 Hex 1D 28 45 pL pH 01 dl d2 Decimal 29 40 69 pL pH 1 dl d2 pL 3 pH 0 m 1 d1 73 sl Description d2 78 Starts user defined mode and sends the following data Head Hex 37H Decimal 55 1 byte Mark Hex 20H Decimal 32 1 byte NUL Hex 00H Decimal 0 1 byte Under the user defined mode only the following commands could be executed The function 2 function 3 and function 4 of this command and command GS I GS E pL pH m dl d2 d3 when m 2 Format Range Description ASCII GS E pL pH m dl d2 d3 Hex 1D 28 45 pL pH 02 dl d2 d3 Decimal 29 40 69 pL pH 2 dl d2 d3 pL 4 pH 0 m 2 d1 79 d2 85 d3 84 Finishes the user defined mode and executes the software reset So the printer clears the receiving buffer area and printing buffer area and resets all sets user defined characters down load bit image macro and character type to the effective mode settings when turning the power on This command m 2
137. unctions e The printer structure state when connecting to control board e Print quality e Interface type and operation conditions e Control software version DIP switch settings e Memory switch settings 2 Executing the self test Hold down the feed button and turn the printer on with the cover closed then the current printer state 1 is printed x1 Control software version e Interface type and communication state e DIP switch settings 28 e Memory switch settings 3 Self test standby state After printing the current printer state the printer prints the message Self test printing please press feeding button The paper out LED indicator flashes and the printer enters the test printing 2 standby state Press the feed button to start test printing 2 Prints a roll paper mode that only takes the internal character set 4 Ending the self test After a number of lines are printed the printer indicates the end of the self test by print completed and initializes and enters into the standard mode Refer to section 3 9 3 4 2 Hex Dump 1 Hexadecimal dumping function This function prints the data transmitted from the host in hexadecimal numbers and in their corresponding characters 2 Starting hexadecimal dumping Starting hexadecimal dumping has two patterns Turns the power on while pressing the paper feed button Executes the GS A The printer first prints Hexadecimal Dump and the
138. vens anu ee A des dabtontede ues eaten eeteees 2 Paaaeeeys 34 3 6 2 Operation when an error is detected oooconconnnnonnonconnnonconcnoncn nono non nonnconnconcnoncnncn nos 35 3 6 3 Data reception ioti negesi eaea ie A EAE E ES E AETA 35 JT Satus testa NN 36 Il Papel Status test e e S 36 3 7 2 Print head bar status test ias 36 3 8 Notes on the BM function ccccceecceseeseeceeseeeeeeeseeseeseeseecesaeseceeesecseeaeeaceeceneeseesesaeeaeaes 36 39 Page Modernen yesusentosyoduseusseataate diode oadesotobs odstaeastesate ate aaa SETENE 37 3 9 introductio O ate oR 37 3 9 2 The setting value under the normal mode and page Mode ceceeseereeteteeeeeeees 38 Chapter IV Printing Control Commands c ccceseseesseseeseeseesesececeseesceeeeseeecceeecaeeeeeaesseeaeeseeeeeaeerenees 39 4 1 Command Tables n yectocsies ots hark e te HG Bas dl 39 4 2 Command Introductions sissien ienna A A te 43 4 2 1 Command notation iii ias 43 4 2 2 Explanation Of Terms c ccccccccscesscsscessesseeseesecescesecsecessesecsseeseceecssecsecesesseeeseeseenees 43 4 3 Command Specification cios ici carton 45 A ee odo ia e de O E E da 45 O 45 rr e eo tele o a ee A 46 CR o a un ie de ie nee 46 CAN ne des dE dl al ata co i Mad ad ta 47 DLE EOT Mii Ad 47 DEE ENO O DIO A as oart acs uae 49 ESC BP catala iasii n 50 ESO e e e oo aes De enh o ca Bl 50 ESC of Ma 51 DSC Ti Omnia 1 E Bp er eae errr el EM RO Ale o ee end oer eer ree ees eer ere t
139. ye are 52 ESCASA A pate eee tees 53 ESC amp yclc2 x1 d1l d yXx1 xk dl cd Aa li 53 ESC mnb nH dl cdk ci 56 BSC T corer eee rete reas ree ere ers eee eer eter ee ry tree eres ee eter eee ee 58 o OEE TRETE Maa eae OES 59 A A 59 ESC F A id 60 I AOR AE o ETEA 60 ESCDAl akNU E lite 61 ESCENA o Da Le Poached e ale ng bend 61 ESC G tse ia ora ia 62 BO e prea a ieee npr Serre re 62 ES Dos sce Soscesedgns aia 63 ESCM ier Set oe ce aes ee es aed ats es atc a eters rR Salles te 28 63 ESC Rothe ee see a edt de eee te We 64 e 64 ESC e a alo E 65 ESC dd dd ae ned ld e de 66 ESC W xL XH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dylan eee cc ceceseeseeseeeseeeeeeeeeceneeseeeeeecseseeeeeeeees 66 ESC Now SVE parn O ONO 68 ee O E T E ETTO RTE E 69 ESCOIM o aa a A N aa 70 EN Ds O O O 71 O 71 ESCin eis ath oe ae eae ea cea Se cat te eie te eat at 72 ESA Aaa 72 ESPAI te eno elect no corte dates er del eos O ll o e ele 73 FS q n XL xH yL yH dl dk 1 XL xH yL yH dl dK DM oooonconnicninncionccionoccocnnncnos 74 GS SPRY ae 8h E E NE E a le od 77 GS Io Mines hiia EA E E E A A R EA A a 77 l T a E E E AA E E AAE 79 GS TL Ap pLPHAM tai Ee ee 80 GS EPLPH Misseri e e ato Ao OS 81 GS E pL pH m dl d2 when m I iro O A 81 GS E PL PH m ml b18 b11 ak bk8 bk11 When M53 eee eeteeseeeeeeteeteees 82 GS CE pL pH m a When mM anionen E e a aS 83 GS pL pH asi HE Nils hes ee et ee es ied ees 84 GS C NON 85 GS K pL pH n m when n 480 lt function

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