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
Control panel, 3-2--8
buttons, 3-4--7
data dump, 3-8
display, 3-2
lights, 3-3--4
SelecType. See SelecType
self test, 3-8. See also Self test
Conventions, 4
Country. See character set
Courier. See Typestyles, fonts
Cut sheet feeder, 7-2-21
installing, 7-2-6
loading paper, 7-6-9, 7-11--13,
7-18-19
removing, 7-20--21
testing, 7-9--11
using, 7-13--16
D
Data dump mode, 6-6
Default macro, selecting with
SelecType, 3-18--22
Default settings, A-14. See also
SelecType
Display. See Control panel, display
and SelecType
Double-high printing, 4-9
Double-strike printing, 4-9--10
Double-wide printing, 4-9
Draft. See Typestyles, fonts
E
Emphasized printing, 4-9--10
Envelopes, 2-26--27
loading, 2-26--27
loading in cut sheet feeder,
7-11--13
printable area, 2-27
specifications. See Paper,
specifications
Escape sequences, 4-6, 8-1-36,
Quick Reference
F
Features, list of, 1-2
Fonts. See Typestyles
Form length. See Page length
Friction. See Paper select
G
Graphics, 4-4-5, 4-12--23
color, 4-14
24-pin, 4-15
H
Hex-to-decimal conversion, B-8
I
Indicator lights. See Control panel,
lights
Initialization, A-13--14
Installing the platen knob, 1-7--8
Installing the paper guide, 1-12--15
Installing the ribbon cartridge,
1-9--12
Interface boards, optional, 7-33--45
choosing, 7-33--34
compatibility, 7-33--34
installing, 7-34--45
Also see Parallel interface and
Serial interface
Interfaces. See Interface boards,
Parallel interface, Serial interface
International character set. See
Character set
Italic printing, 4-10
Index-2