User manual

manager. Once the same printer is selected in the printer and the computer, try to print a Windows test page.
Please refer to the A600 User's manual for more detail.
10 Performax Printers Trouble Shooting Left Margin Moving to the Left While Printing 2
I have a DS A600 that the left margin moves to the left during a print job. I have tried replacing the main logic, p/h
ribbon cables, encoder and strip, p/h driver board, and motor. I don't know what to try next. I'm thinking maybe
firmware or possibly the backplane on the printhead.
Answer Margin drift on a A600 comes from an intermittant break in the path from the encoder to the main lb this is
not a main board problem it is ether the encoder, printhead or print cables.
11 Performax Printers Technical Bulleti Performax A-600 Print Head 2
We have a Datasouth Performax Model A-600. I have run the printhead test on it. Wires 1A&B and 3A are bad.
What is it's part number?
Answer An A600 printhead is part number 106489 and is available through our parts department.
12 Performax Printers Trouble Shooting FIFO OVERFLOW Error 2
We have been using our Datasouth A600 performax dot matrix printers for serveral years now and this is the first
time we've seen this error.
While printing checks the printer would all of a sudden print a line of ** FIFO OVERFLOW *********.
This would then lose the rest of the check data and start printing the next check. Is this a printer error message or is
this from network. The person printing the checks did say that she also had several false paper jams during the same
run(all she did was put it back online). I don't know if these happened at the same time. We were able to use
different stock paper and reprint the same print file with know problem on the same printer. Any ideas?
Answer FIFO OVERFLOW is a message from the printer telling you that information has been lost due to a failure
in communication between the printer and the computer, this could come from a change in the software, bad cable or
failure in the printer port. A false paper jam message is something totally different, this is from a faulty tractor
switch in the left tractor.
13 Performax Printers General How do I hook up to an HP Jetdirect print server? 2
Is it possible to hook up a Performax A 600 printer to an HP Jetdirect printer server? If so, are there any switch
settings, config changes that need to occur?
Answer From default the printer can run both serial or parallel without changing features, other than the baud rate
for serial operation there should be nothing special.
14 Performax Printers Drivers Performax Printer Driver 2
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Which driver should I use for this printer?
Answer At 10/09/2001 09:15 AM we wrote - AMT Datasouth does not provide printer drivers for Performax series
printers, since these printers do not contain a native AMT command language. Instead, these printers contain Epson
and IBM printer emulations. To use these printers with Windows, use the IBM XL Proprinter, or the Epson FX-80.
These drivers all can be found on the Windows Installation disks