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
Index
Command descriptions are not indexed here. For page references for
specific commands, see Chapter 8 or the Quick Reference card.
A
Application software. See Software
ASCII codes, 4-5, 8-l--36, Quick
Reference
Assembling the printer, l-7--15
Auto line feed, selecting with
SelecType, 3-18-22
Auto tear off. See short tear-off
B
Baud rate, setting with SelecType,
3-18-22
Buttons. See Control panel, buttons
C
CHANGE DEFAULTS mode,
3-18-22
CHANGE MACRO mode, 3-15-18
Character set, 3-15-18, 3-39
Character size. See Pitch
Character tables, 3-15--18,
3-40-41, B-6--7
Character pitch. See Pitch
Characters per inch (cpi). See Pitch
Cleaning printer, 5-2-3
CLEAR ALL MACROS mode,
3-24-26
Codes. See ASCII codes, Commands,
Control codes
Color
graphics, 4-14
selecting with SelecType,
3-15-18
Command Summary, 8-l--36
using, 4-7
Commands, 4-6-7, 8-l--36, Quick
Reference
by topic, 8-8-36
in numerical order, 8-5-7
Communication. See
Computer-printer communication
Computer
computer-printer communication,
4-5-7
connecting to the printer,
1-22--27
Computer-printer communication
ASCII codes, 4-5
control codes, 4-5
escape sequences, 4-6
printer commands, 4-6-7. See
also Commands
using the Command Summary,
4-7
Condensed mode. See Typestyles
Continuous paper
loading, 2-6-13
positioning, 2-5-6
printable area, A-4
reversing to standby position,
2-14-15
tearing off, 2-13--14. See also
Short tear-off
using, 2-5-22
Control codes, 4-5, 8-1-36, Quick
Reference
Index-l