Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- FRONT MATTER
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP 1-SETTING UP THE PRINTER
- CHAP 2-PAPER HANDLING
- CHAP 3-USING THE PRINTER
- CHAP 4-USING SOFTWARE AND GRAPHICS
- Using the LQ-2550 With Application Programs
- Computer-Printer Communication
- Enhancing Your Printing
- Graphics
- User-Defined Characters
- Designing Your Characters
- Design Grids
- Data Numbers
- Sending Information to Your Printer
- Printing User-Defined Characters
- Copying ROM Characters to RAM
- Letter Quality Characters
- Proportional Mode Characters
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- The Graphics Command
- Column Reservation Numbers
- A simple Graphics Program
- Using Hand-Calculated Data to Print Graphics
- Using Software and Graphics
- Mixing Print Styles
- CHAP 5-MAINTENANCE AND TRANSPORTATION
- CHAP 6-TROUBLESHOOTING
- Troubleshooting
- Problems and Solutions
- The Printer Does Not Print
- The Printer Stops Printing
- The Printout is Spaced Incorrectly
- The Printout is Faint or Uneven
- The Printout is Not what You Expect
- Single Sheets Do Not Feed Properly
- Continuous Paper Does Not Feed Properly
- Cut Sheet Feeder Does Not Load Paper Correctly
- The Short Tear-Off Feature Does Not Work Properly
- Color Printing Is Not What You Expect
- Data Dump Mode
- CHAP 7-USING PRINTER OPTIONS
- CHAP 8-COMMAND SUMMARY
- APPENDIX A-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
Vertical Motion
Form feeding
FF
Form Feed
Format:
ASCII code: FF
Decimal:
12
Hexadecimal: 0C
Comments:
Prints the data in the print buffer and advances the paper to the next
top of form according to the current page length. The default page
length is 66 lines, but the page length can be changed with ESC C. In
cut sheet feeder mode, an FF ejects a sheet but does not load one.
ESC C
Set Page Length in Lines
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC C n
Decimal:
27 67 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 43 n
Comments:
Sets the page length to n lines in the current line spacing. The value of
n must be from
1-127.
The top of form position is reset to the current
line. Overrides the SelecType page length setting.
ESC C 0
Set Page Length in Inches
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC C 0 n
Decimal:
27 67 0 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 43 00 n
Comments:
Sets the page length to n inches. The value of n must be from l-22.
The top of form position is reset to the current line. Overrides the
SelecType page length setting.
Command Summary
8-13