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Contents Setting Up Your LX-90 Printer 1 Do You Have All the Parts You Need 1 Where to Place Your Printer 2 Installing the Ribbon 3 Plugging in the Cartridge 5 Installing the Paper Feed Knob 6 Installing the Paper Separator 7 Loading Continuous Paper 7 Removing the Tractor Unit 10 Loading Single-Sheet Paper 11 Replacing the Tractor Unit 12 Maintenance 13 Specifications 14
Contents Setting Up Your LX-90 Printer 1 Do You Have All the Parts You Need 1 Where to Place Your Printer 2 Installing the Ribbon 3 Plugging in the Cartridge 5 Installing the Paper Feed Knob 6 Installing the Paper Separator 7 Loading Continuous Paper 7 Removing the Tractor Unit 10 Loading Single-Sheet Paper 11 Replacing the Tractor Unit 12 Maintenance 13 Specifications 14
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... the items shown: Paper separator Paper feed knob Ribbon cassette Also be sure that you have your LX-90 printer is sold separately and comes with your computer. Setting Up Your LX-90™ Printer Setting up your new printer ready to go in this manual, you'll have an Epson Printer Interface Cartridge (PIP') specifically designed for use with...
... the items shown: Paper separator Paper feed knob Ribbon cassette Also be sure that you have your LX-90 printer is sold separately and comes with your computer. Setting Up Your LX-90™ Printer Setting up your new printer ready to go in this manual, you'll have an Epson Printer Interface Cartridge (PIP') specifically designed for use with...
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These are labelled below. 3 Once you've found the right location for your new LX-90, you're ready to put the paper underneath or behind the printer. you to start putting the printer together. the previous illustration shows one type. The next illustration shows a setup that allows you can use any arrangement that does not require a stand. The parts of printer stands are available; Many types of this cassette are only two examples; Installing the Ribbon The ribbon for your LX-90 is enclosed in a cassette that makes installation a clean and easy job.
These are labelled below. 3 Once you've found the right location for your new LX-90, you're ready to put the paper underneath or behind the printer. you to start putting the printer together. the previous illustration shows one type. The next illustration shows a setup that allows you can use any arrangement that does not require a stand. The parts of printer stands are available; Many types of this cassette are only two examples; Installing the Ribbon The ribbon for your LX-90 is enclosed in a cassette that makes installation a clean and easy job.
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... that the paper bail is on the carriage. Hold the new ribbon cassette so that the other parts of the printer do not get in your way. Slide the ribbon carriage manually to move the ribbon carriage manually when the printer is turned OFF. Also be careful not to touch the print head ...under the small hooks on top and the exposed ribbon faces away from you can see the ribbon carriage. 2. Paper Pin 4 To install or replace the ribbon, just follow these steps: Caution If you've been using your printer just before you are changing ribbon cassettes, lift the front of the old cassette ...
... that the paper bail is on the carriage. Hold the new ribbon cassette so that the other parts of the printer do not get in your way. Slide the ribbon carriage manually to move the ribbon carriage manually when the printer is turned OFF. Also be careful not to touch the print head ...under the small hooks on top and the exposed ribbon faces away from you can see the ribbon carriage. 2. Paper Pin 4 To install or replace the ribbon, just follow these steps: Caution If you've been using your printer just before you are changing ribbon cassettes, lift the front of the old cassette ...
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...the cassette in the direction of the arrow to your printer. (These are sold separately because each brand of your computer equipment and printer before inserting or removing the cartridge. 5 As you turn the knob, make sure the ribbon slips down into its proper place between the print head... connects your computer to tighten the ribbon. If it doesn't, guide it with a pen or a pencil. Snap the cassette into the rectangular opening in the Cartridge In addition to your LX-90, you also need an Epson Printer Interface Cartridge (PIC) that the exposed ribbon fits between the print head and ...
...the cassette in the direction of the arrow to your printer. (These are sold separately because each brand of your computer equipment and printer before inserting or removing the cartridge. 5 As you turn the knob, make sure the ribbon slips down into its proper place between the print head... connects your computer to tighten the ribbon. If it doesn't, guide it with a pen or a pencil. Snap the cassette into the rectangular opening in the Cartridge In addition to your LX-90, you also need an Epson Printer Interface Cartridge (PIC) that the exposed ribbon fits between the print head and ...
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... right holder in the illustration. Now you turn on your LX-90, it remembers this top of page setting and uses it when any program (or the FF button) tells it comes up until it to move to the top of the ribbon guide, as needed to advance the paper until a perforation between... the ribbon guide and the platen. Turn the paper feed knob to match the width of page position. Close the second...
... right holder in the illustration. Now you turn on your LX-90, it remembers this top of page setting and uses it when any program (or the FF button) tells it comes up until it to move to the top of the ribbon guide, as needed to advance the paper until a perforation between... the ribbon guide and the platen. Turn the paper feed knob to match the width of page position. Close the second...
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...pull the friction-release lever forward, straighten the paper, and push the friction lever back. And that the printer is to print with your PIC manual for further instructions. 11 First, make sure that 's all there...bail forward. 2. You're now ready to loading single-sheet paper. See your LX-90 printer. Turn the knob until the top of the printer as shown below. Loading Single-Sheet Paper 1. When the paper won't go ...any further, turn the paper feed knob to the center of the printer and feed the paper into the paper slot in the top of the paper fits under the...
...pull the friction-release lever forward, straighten the paper, and push the friction lever back. And that the printer is to print with your PIC manual for further instructions. 11 First, make sure that 's all there...bail forward. 2. You're now ready to loading single-sheet paper. See your LX-90 printer. Turn the knob until the top of the printer as shown below. Loading Single-Sheet Paper 1. When the paper won't go ...any further, turn the paper feed knob to the center of the printer and feed the paper into the paper slot in the top of the paper fits under the...
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Copies: Original and one sheet 14 Specifications Printing method Impact dot matrix Printing speed 100 characters per second per line in pica draft mode Printing direction Bidirectional, logic seeking Ribbon Cassette ribbon, black Height (with tractor 5.1 inches Width 16.6 inches Depth (with paper separator) 12.4 inches Weight (with tractor 12.5 pounds Temperature Operating 41...
Copies: Original and one sheet 14 Specifications Printing method Impact dot matrix Printing speed 100 characters per second per line in pica draft mode Printing direction Bidirectional, logic seeking Ribbon Cassette ribbon, black Height (with tractor 5.1 inches Width 16.6 inches Depth (with paper separator) 12.4 inches Weight (with tractor 12.5 pounds Temperature Operating 41...
User Manual - Apple IIc 8699 PIC for LX-90
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The Print Head The LX-90 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. Figure 3-7. This dot is about how your printer works. depending upon the age of the ribbon and the type of paper used.) As the head moves horizontally across the page, these pins are fired time after ..., to print a pica capital T (shown in only l/lOOth of a second. Chapter 3 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer / Printer Communications This chapter is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it at the same time, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin, moves another 1/60th of an...
The Print Head The LX-90 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. Figure 3-7. This dot is about how your printer works. depending upon the age of the ribbon and the type of paper used.) As the head moves horizontally across the page, these pins are fired time after ..., to print a pica capital T (shown in only l/lOOth of a second. Chapter 3 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer / Printer Communications This chapter is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it at the same time, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin, moves another 1/60th of an...
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... not paper is ESCape "a" followed by one you need to print on the last part of each page without any paper in your print head, ribbon, and platen, but be . Therefore, if you to print on the last two inches of single sheet paper, there are commands to allow you use... 2 inches from the end of the paper passes this . Paper-Out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your LX-90 printer is the way most typewritten pages look. 37 Then the printer will see Appendix C for almost all printing of the DIP switches described in 72nds of an inch and 216ths of...
... not paper is ESCape "a" followed by one you need to print on the last part of each page without any paper in your print head, ribbon, and platen, but be . Therefore, if you to print on the last two inches of single sheet paper, there are commands to allow you use... 2 inches from the end of the paper passes this . Paper-Out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your LX-90 printer is the way most typewritten pages look. 37 Then the printer will see Appendix C for almost all printing of the DIP switches described in 72nds of an inch and 216ths of...
User Manual - Commodore 8691 PIC for LX-90
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... printing l Graphics for charts, diagrams, and illustrations l Easy paper loading l Ribbon cassette for quick and clean ribbon changing About This Manual The HomeWriter-10 Setup Instructions tell you how to expect from Epson printers, the HomeWriter- has many features. HomeWriter- Introduction The Epson HomeWriter- This Printer Interface Cartridge Operation Manual gives you the specific information you...
... printing l Graphics for charts, diagrams, and illustrations l Easy paper loading l Ribbon cassette for quick and clean ribbon changing About This Manual The HomeWriter-10 Setup Instructions tell you how to expect from Epson printers, the HomeWriter- has many features. HomeWriter- Introduction The Epson HomeWriter- This Printer Interface Cartridge Operation Manual gives you the specific information you...
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...changes automatically to use. 27 The print head has nine pins or wires mounted vertically. This change in diameter, depending upon the age of the ribbon and the type of dots you have specified. Graphics Mode The code that tell the HomeWriter- As the print head moves horizontally across the page...and prints another, just as it uses only the top seven pins. It prints one pass. Each time a pin is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it does with text. to print finely detailed graphic images that give no indication that they are fired time after time in a line...
...changes automatically to use. 27 The print head has nine pins or wires mounted vertically. This change in diameter, depending upon the age of the ribbon and the type of dots you have specified. Graphics Mode The code that tell the HomeWriter- As the print head moves horizontally across the page...and prints another, just as it uses only the top seven pins. It prints one pass. Each time a pin is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it does with text. to print finely detailed graphic images that give no indication that they are fired time after time in a line...
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...OPEN1,5 Switch 2-7 controls the printing of the paper passes the paper-end detector. Even if it is emphasized; Even if it sends a signal that printer, use the number 4 for the device number when you can still choose emphasized with SelecType. For example: 10 OPEN1,4 If you have only one...inches of the paper. when it is standard. Switch 2-4 enables the beeper to print on the print head, ribbon, and platen. When switch l-5 is OFF; when it is OFF, the printer stops when the end of zeroes. Then when you can still choose double-strike with SelecType. When it is ...
...OPEN1,5 Switch 2-7 controls the printing of the paper passes the paper-end detector. Even if it is emphasized; Even if it sends a signal that printer, use the number 4 for the device number when you can still choose emphasized with SelecType. For example: 10 OPEN1,4 If you have only one...inches of the paper. when it is standard. Switch 2-4 enables the beeper to print on the print head, ribbon, and platen. When switch l-5 is OFF; when it is OFF, the printer stops when the end of zeroes. Then when you can still choose double-strike with SelecType. When it is ...
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Paper loading D-5 Figure D-7. Pin feed holder adjustment Next, open the pin feed covers as shown in Figure D-7 and feed the paper under the paper separator and into the paper slot; push the paper through until it comes up between the ribbon guide and the platen. Figure D-6.
Paper loading D-5 Figure D-7. Pin feed holder adjustment Next, open the pin feed covers as shown in Figure D-7 and feed the paper under the paper separator and into the paper slot; push the paper through until it comes up between the ribbon guide and the platen. Figure D-6.
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... when any program tells it to move to set the top of page, each time you finish printing a document, push ON LINE to put the printer off-line and then push FF once to advance the paper so that your word processing or other applications program is putting your printing too... set the top of page position. Next pull the paper up until a perforation between sheets is approximately l/8 of an inch below the top of the ribbon guide, as needed to advance the paper until the top is above the pin-feed holders.
... when any program tells it to move to set the top of page, each time you finish printing a document, push ON LINE to put the printer off-line and then push FF once to advance the paper so that your word processing or other applications program is putting your printing too... set the top of page position. Next pull the paper up until a perforation between sheets is approximately l/8 of an inch below the top of the ribbon guide, as needed to advance the paper until the top is above the pin-feed holders.
User Manual - IBM PC Jr. 8690 PIC for LX-90
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... pin and the six below it against the paper to produce a dot. Chapter 3 Elements of Dot Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications This chapter is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it at the same time, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin, moves another 1/6Oth of...an inch in only l/lOOth of paper used. The Print Head The LX-90 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. This dot is about how your printer works. The size varies slightly depending upon the age of the ribbon and the type of a second. All this happens in diameter. ...
... pin and the six below it against the paper to produce a dot. Chapter 3 Elements of Dot Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications This chapter is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it at the same time, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin, moves another 1/6Oth of...an inch in only l/lOOth of paper used. The Print Head The LX-90 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. This dot is about how your printer works. The size varies slightly depending upon the age of the ribbon and the type of a second. All this happens in diameter. ...
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...your text. If you need to make such fine adjustments in the line spacing, see how useful changes in line spacing can 't print on your LX-90 printer is a small switch that senses whether or not paper is the way most typewritten pages look. 31 If you need for the proper commands. ...Paper Out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your print head, ribbon, and platen, but because of the distance between lines. This is in the printer. Therefore, if you use single-sheet paper in your LX-90, you can be careful not to allow you to print on the last part...
...your text. If you need to make such fine adjustments in the line spacing, see how useful changes in line spacing can 't print on your LX-90 printer is a small switch that senses whether or not paper is the way most typewritten pages look. 31 If you need for the proper commands. ...Paper Out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your print head, ribbon, and platen, but because of the distance between lines. This is in the printer. Therefore, if you use single-sheet paper in your LX-90, you can be careful not to allow you to print on the last part...
User Manual - Parallel 8620 PIC for LX-90
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The Print Head The LX-90 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. A capital T 15 Figure 3-1. Each time a pin is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it at the same time, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin, moves another 1/60th of an ... or graphics. For example, to print a pica capital T (shown in only l/lOOth of a second. Chapter 3 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications This chapter is for those of you understand some of the later chapters, particularly the ones on user-defined characters and graphics. It's a simple...
The Print Head The LX-90 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. A capital T 15 Figure 3-1. Each time a pin is fired, it strikes the inked ribbon and presses it at the same time, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin, moves another 1/60th of an ... or graphics. For example, to print a pica capital T (shown in only l/lOOth of a second. Chapter 3 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications This chapter is for those of you understand some of the later chapters, particularly the ones on user-defined characters and graphics. It's a simple...
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...Paper-Out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your LX-90 printer is a small switch that senses whether or not paper is in the printer. See Appendix D. When the end of the paper passes this ...to print on your print head, ribbon, and platen, but in some cases you four choices in the formatting of your printing. Therefore, if you use single-sheet paper in your LX-90, you need to 7/72-inch... Appendix C for almost all printing of text, but because of the distance between lines. The LX-90 has several commands to do this switch, it triggers a signal that gives you may want to...
...Paper-Out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your LX-90 printer is a small switch that senses whether or not paper is in the printer. See Appendix D. When the end of the paper passes this ...to print on your print head, ribbon, and platen, but in some cases you four choices in the formatting of your printing. Therefore, if you use single-sheet paper in your LX-90, you need to 7/72-inch... Appendix C for almost all printing of text, but because of the distance between lines. The LX-90 has several commands to do this switch, it triggers a signal that gives you may want to...