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... 8 Ticket Program Description 10 1 The FX Printers 13 Additional Supplies and Accessories 16 Printer Location 16 Printer Preparation 17 Paper separator 17 Covers 18 Manual-feed knob 19 DIP switches 20 Ribbon Installation 23 Paper Loading 24 FX-80: built-in tractor feed 24 FX-80 and FX-100: friction feed 28 FX-80 and FX-100: removable tractor unit (optional on...
... 8 Ticket Program Description 10 1 The FX Printers 13 Additional Supplies and Accessories 16 Printer Location 16 Printer Preparation 17 Paper separator 17 Covers 18 Manual-feed knob 19 DIP switches 20 Ribbon Installation 23 Paper Loading 24 FX-80: built-in tractor feed 24 FX-80 and FX-100: friction feed 28 FX-80 and FX-100: removable tractor unit (optional on...
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... Easy-2 Ticket to success 8 10 1-1 The FX-80 and FX-100 printers 1-2 Printer parts 1-3 Paperpath 1-4 Paper separator 1-5 Protective lids 1-6 Tractor covers 1-7 Manual-feed knob 1-8 DIP switch vent 1-9 DIP switch location 1-10 DIP switch factory settings 1-11 Ribbon insertion 1-12 Printer readied for paper insertion 1-13 Pin feeder adjustment 1-14 Loading the FX-80 14 15 17 18 19...
... Easy-2 Ticket to success 8 10 1-1 The FX-80 and FX-100 printers 1-2 Printer parts 1-3 Paperpath 1-4 Paper separator 1-5 Protective lids 1-6 Tractor covers 1-7 Manual-feed knob 1-8 DIP switch vent 1-9 DIP switch location 1-10 DIP switch factory settings 1-11 Ribbon insertion 1-12 Printer readied for paper insertion 1-13 Pin feeder adjustment 1-14 Loading the FX-80 14 15 17 18 19...
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Chapter 1 The FX Printers Once you've unpacked your printer, you will find these items installed: 7. This FX Series Printer User's Manual The FX-80 has a tractor built into its platen for the tractor unit As you unpack your new printer, the first thing you should receive the items shown in ...separator 4. With the FX-80 or FX-100 printer, you must purchase the optional FX-80 tractor unit. On an FX-100 you may want to save all of each model that we discuss in the future for repacking. Figure 1-2 displays with labels the parts of the parts. One ribbon cartridge (in width...
Chapter 1 The FX Printers Once you've unpacked your printer, you will find these items installed: 7. This FX Series Printer User's Manual The FX-80 has a tractor built into its platen for the tractor unit As you unpack your new printer, the first thing you should receive the items shown in ...separator 4. With the FX-80 or FX-100 printer, you must purchase the optional FX-80 tractor unit. On an FX-100 you may want to save all of each model that we discuss in the future for repacking. Figure 1-2 displays with labels the parts of the parts. One ribbon cartridge (in width...
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..., others require both a cable and board. For instance, you may want to flow freely, as cables. Your Epson dealer stocks a variety of FX interface boards as well as in memory Be sure the outlet is three million characters (roughly 1,000 pages of a...a print head is the limiting factor), but there are designed to a printer. The FX printers use an adapter plug). FX printers are other considerations in Appendix K. Ribbon cartridge replacement. Print head replacement. The expected life of paper. Printer Location Naturally, your Epson dealer: Printer cable or interface kit.
..., others require both a cable and board. For instance, you may want to flow freely, as cables. Your Epson dealer stocks a variety of FX interface boards as well as in memory Be sure the outlet is three million characters (roughly 1,000 pages of a...a print head is the limiting factor), but there are designed to a printer. The FX printers use an adapter plug). FX printers are other considerations in Appendix K. Ribbon cartridge replacement. Print head replacement. The expected life of paper. Printer Location Naturally, your Epson dealer: Printer cable or interface kit.
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Paper path Printer Preparation Once you've found a good home for FX, you'll need to do some internal switches, and then inserting the ribbon cartridge. Figure 1-3. Press down gently but firmly until the separator snaps into place. Paper separator To install the paper separator, hold it vertically so that ... up operations. This section describes the first steps, which include installing a few parts, checking the setting of some preparing before you can print. Note: The printer should be turned OFF during all set-up on the two slots at the back of its slot. 17
Paper path Printer Preparation Once you've found a good home for FX, you'll need to do some internal switches, and then inserting the ribbon cartridge. Figure 1-3. Press down gently but firmly until the separator snaps into place. Paper separator To install the paper separator, hold it vertically so that ... up operations. This section describes the first steps, which include installing a few parts, checking the setting of some preparing before you can print. Note: The printer should be turned OFF during all set-up on the two slots at the back of its slot. 17
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... you need to slightly bow the middle of the printer opening. Paper separator Covers For protection from dust and foreign objects and for quiet opera- When you can snap the tabs into slots (one tab per side on the FX-80, two on the FX-100). Install the center protective lid by giving it... or the FX-100 or the built-in tractor on either the front protective lid or the tractor cover by using the hinge posts at its full vertical position, slide the right hinge fitting over the friction-control lever (you may need to load paper or ribbon. Figure 1-4. To install the cover, hold...
... you need to slightly bow the middle of the printer opening. Paper separator Covers For protection from dust and foreign objects and for quiet opera- When you can snap the tabs into slots (one tab per side on the FX-80, two on the FX-100). Install the center protective lid by giving it... or the FX-100 or the built-in tractor on either the front protective lid or the tractor cover by using the hinge posts at its full vertical position, slide the right hinge fitting over the friction-control lever (you may need to load paper or ribbon. Figure 1-4. To install the cover, hold...
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... because in Figure 1-9 and check that you need a Phillip's-head screwdriver. the right side and twist until the flat sides of the FX printer allows easy access to the ribbon section and check the switches later. You can check these switches now, or you can skip to the internal switches. Locate the two...
... because in Figure 1-9 and check that you need a Phillip's-head screwdriver. the right side and twist until the flat sides of the FX printer allows easy access to the ribbon section and check the switches later. You can check these switches now, or you can skip to the internal switches. Locate the two...
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... shaded boxes show the factory settings. With switch 2-4 on, the printer automatically adds a line feed to every carriage return it expects the computer to the middle of the platen. Switch 2-4 enables the FX to perform the automatic line feed. We recommend two changes now. If...the switch the way you find it, but remember that you requested. Ribbon installation First, be sure the printer is turned off , it receives from its left-most position), and rely on the printer to match either all on to the printer at each print line. Table 1-1. DIP switch functions Switch 1 No...
... shaded boxes show the factory settings. With switch 2-4 on, the printer automatically adds a line feed to every carriage return it expects the computer to the middle of the platen. Switch 2-4 enables the FX to perform the automatic line feed. We recommend two changes now. If...the switch the way you find it, but remember that you requested. Ribbon installation First, be sure the printer is turned off , it receives from its left-most position), and rely on the printer to match either all on to the printer at each print line. Table 1-1. DIP switch functions Switch 1 No...
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.... Continuous-feed paper usually comes fanfolded into place. FX-80: built-in tractor feed The FX-80's built-in the printer frame (Figure 1-11). This allows the printer's pin feeders to the width of a dull pencil. Both the FX-80 and the FX-100 include tractors so that is 9% inches wide, which...hot from 4 inches to engage the paper and pull it if you replace a ribbon, remember that you are using. to Figure 1-2. end of the arrow. To refresh your paper depends on the FX-100) handle continuous paper in the direction of the cartridge into place with pin-feed holes...
.... Continuous-feed paper usually comes fanfolded into place. FX-80: built-in tractor feed The FX-80's built-in the printer frame (Figure 1-11). This allows the printer's pin feeders to the width of a dull pencil. Both the FX-80 and the FX-100 include tractors so that is 9% inches wide, which...hot from 4 inches to engage the paper and pull it if you replace a ribbon, remember that you are using. to Figure 1-2. end of the arrow. To refresh your paper depends on the FX-100) handle continuous paper in the direction of the cartridge into place with pin-feed holes...
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... head when you turn it on. Starting Up It is finally time to connect the printer to accommodate various paper thicknesses. Connect the printer end of the printer cable to the connector at the right rear of the FX (as discussed in Chapter 8. Although you have the position set it for printing one...the power switch is used for head alignment and will not recognize the top of form until a perforation lies slightly below the top of the ribbon. Paper-thickness lever The paper-thickness lever shown in normal operation. This position is off. Top-of-form position After you have loaded the ...
... head when you turn it on. Starting Up It is finally time to connect the printer to accommodate various paper thicknesses. Connect the printer end of the printer cable to the connector at the right rear of the FX (as discussed in Chapter 8. Although you have the position set it for printing one...the power switch is used for head alignment and will not recognize the top of form until a perforation lies slightly below the top of the ribbon. Paper-thickness lever The paper-thickness lever shown in normal operation. This position is off. Top-of-form position After you have loaded the ...
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...in column 1; At each of lower- Figure 3-1 shows one each position, the printer fires only the pins that are formed within the top seven rows of the matrix. and uppercase letters. ...Electrical impulses cause the FX to nine dots. and pins 1 through 7 in Figure 3-2, the print head uses a vertical column... the matrix, then fire the appropriate pins. Because there is fired, it presses against the ribbon to produce one column of pins, the head must move sideways sequentially to each of the ...
...in column 1; At each of lower- Figure 3-1 shows one each position, the printer fires only the pins that are formed within the top seven rows of the matrix. and uppercase letters. ...Electrical impulses cause the FX to nine dots. and pins 1 through 7 in Figure 3-2, the print head uses a vertical column... the matrix, then fire the appropriate pins. Because there is fired, it presses against the ribbon to produce one column of pins, the head must move sideways sequentially to each of the ...
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... In the process you increased capability for a very good reason. Ignore one of printing and the wear and tear on the ribbon. Just to see Compressed print, the FX remembers that a mode is not possible, even at all. Used sparingly, however, they can give you 'll find that ...ll attain a higher level of all the different mode combinations. For example, you cancelled Elite to produce a little more printout evidence, change your printer. As you found out in Chapter 3 when you cannot mix either Emphasized or its variation, Proportional, with all others cannot be mixed at the...
... In the process you increased capability for a very good reason. Ignore one of printing and the wear and tear on the ribbon. Just to see Compressed print, the FX remembers that a mode is not possible, even at all. Used sparingly, however, they can give you 'll find that ...ll attain a higher level of all the different mode combinations. For example, you cancelled Elite to produce a little more printout evidence, change your printer. As you found out in Chapter 3 when you cannot mix either Emphasized or its variation, Proportional, with all others cannot be mixed at the...
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... use the first line below the paper perforation as the top of form. The FX will now remember this result, turn the printer back on the printer. Now press the LF button a few times, then turn the printer off line). Setting the top of form Turn on line and type: LPRINT CHR$(12); Each... (using the high-order 140. 104 ASCII 12 is . Sure enough, the FX moves the paper right to the corresponding position on the paper as the topof-form line. Try pressing the FF button (with the top of the ribbon (see Figure 8-1 or consult Chapter 1). To get this position on the next...
... use the first line below the paper perforation as the top of form. The FX will now remember this result, turn the printer back on the printer. Now press the LF button a few times, then turn the printer off line). Setting the top of form Turn on line and type: LPRINT CHR$(12); Each... (using the high-order 140. 104 ASCII 12 is . Sure enough, the FX moves the paper right to the corresponding position on the paper as the topof-form line. Try pressing the FF button (with the top of the ribbon (see Figure 8-1 or consult Chapter 1). To get this position on the next...
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... to any value from 1 to the form length, CHR$(27)"N" is less than or equal to 127, as long as in line 10 tells the printer to skip 6 lines (1 inch), which moves the paper across the perforation to try this out. Figure 8-4. If the value is greater than that for other... the top of form. LINE";X 40 NEXT X Figure 8-4 shows the skip. For standard 11-inch forms, just position the paper correctly before turning on the printer; It's time to the next top of the ribbon (as the value is ignored. 108 Standard skip The CHR$(27)"N"CHR!$(6) in Figure 8-1), reset the...
... to any value from 1 to the form length, CHR$(27)"N" is less than or equal to 127, as long as in line 10 tells the printer to skip 6 lines (1 inch), which moves the paper across the perforation to try this out. Figure 8-4. If the value is greater than that for other... the top of form. LINE";X 40 NEXT X Figure 8-4 shows the skip. For standard 11-inch forms, just position the paper correctly before turning on the printer; It's time to the next top of the ribbon (as the value is ignored. 108 Standard skip The CHR$(27)"N"CHR!$(6) in Figure 8-1), reset the...
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The sensor automatically sounds the beeper and shuts down the page. While the sensor saves wear of print head, ribbon, and platen, it 's nice to have when needed. Some systems, however, ignore both the ESCape "8" code and the setting of 12-dot line spacing long. ... inches or 66 lines of DIP switch 1-3. (See Appendix F.) You'll want to use single-sheet paper on your FX printer and run of the form, the paper-out sensor prevents the printer from printing on or 110 If you use this code with caution, but it also prevents you from accidentally printing...
The sensor automatically sounds the beeper and shuts down the page. While the sensor saves wear of print head, ribbon, and platen, it 's nice to have when needed. Some systems, however, ignore both the ESCape "8" code and the setting of 12-dot line spacing long. ... inches or 66 lines of DIP switch 1-3. (See Appendix F.) You'll want to use single-sheet paper on your FX printer and run of the form, the paper-out sensor prevents the printer from printing on or 110 If you use this code with caution, but it also prevents you from accidentally printing...
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.... See Paper ROM (Read Only Memory), 2 Rows. Print head and dot graphics, 132-133 and dot matrix printing, 50 life of , 23, 200 See also Printer buffer; See Half-Speed Mode QX-10, 38, 40, 314-315 R RAM (Random Access Memory), 2 DIP switch control of , 16, 324, 328 replacement, ...See DATA statement REMarks in program lines, v-vi Reset Code, 45 Resetting. See lids Q Quadruple-Density. ESCape "p0" turns it on; See Line feed Ribbon installation and replacement, 23-25 life, 16, 65, 328 Right margin. See Reset Code RESTORE statement, 155-156 Reverse line feed. See Modes. See ...
.... See Paper ROM (Read Only Memory), 2 Rows. Print head and dot graphics, 132-133 and dot matrix printing, 50 life of , 23, 200 See also Printer buffer; See Half-Speed Mode QX-10, 38, 40, 314-315 R RAM (Random Access Memory), 2 DIP switch control of , 16, 324, 328 replacement, ...See DATA statement REMarks in program lines, v-vi Reset Code, 45 Resetting. See lids Q Quadruple-Density. ESCape "p0" turns it on; See Line feed Ribbon installation and replacement, 23-25 life, 16, 65, 328 Right margin. See Reset Code RESTORE statement, 155-156 Reverse line feed. See Modes. See ...