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

L
Labels, 2-23-25
Letter Quality. See Typestyles, fonts
Lights. See Control panel, lights
LOAD MACRO mode, 3-13-15
Loading position, setting, 3-30-31
M
Macros, See SelecType.
Maintaining printer, 5-1--6
Margins, settings, 3-15-18
Master Select, 4-11-12
Menu, choosing printer from, 1-28,
4-2
Micro-adjstment, 3-6, 3-30--31
Micro feed mode. See
Micro-adjustment
Multi-Font Module, 3-37, 7-45
Multi-part forms, 2-22-23
O
OCR-A. See Typestyles, fonts
OCR-B. See Typestyles, fonts
Optional interfaces. See Interface
boards, optional
Options,
cut sheet feeder. See Cut sheet
feeder
interface boards. See Interface
boards, optional
list of, 2-3
pull tractor. See Pull tractor
P
Page length
in cut sheet feeder mode, 7-9
setting with SelecType, 3-26-28
Paper
continuous paper. See
Continuous paper
cut sheet feeder. See Cut sheet
feeder
envelopes, 2-26-27
handling, 2-1-27
labels, 2-23-25
loading position. See Loading
position, setting
multi-part forms, 2-22-23
printable area, 2-27, A-4
single sheets. See Single sheets
specifications, A-3--4, A-6--8
standby position, 2-14-15
switching between continuous
and single-sheets, 2-16-22
tearing off, 2-13-14. See also
Short tear-off
Paper guide, attaching, 1-12--15
Paper select, 3-3, 3-7
Parallel interface
connecting, 1-22-24
selecting with SelecType,
3-18-22
specifications, A-9--12
Parity, selecting with SelecType,
3-18-22
Pitch, 4-8. See also Typestyles
Platen gap adjust, 3-4, 3-6
Platen knob, installing, 1-7--8
Plugging in the printer, 1-15--16
Prestige. See Typestyles, fonts
PRINT OUT SETTINGS mode,
3-23-24
Printable area
envelopes, 2-27
paper, A-4
Printer
assembling, 1-7-15
choosing a place for, 1-6--7
cleaning, 5-2--3
connecting to a computer,
1-22--27
Index-3