Epson DFX-8500 Support Question
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Product Brochure - Page 1
... so reliable that the kind of the gate comes a swift and superbly reliable performer for high volume, heavy duty business printing: the EPSON DFX-8500 impact printer. The DFX-8500 runs fast on a printer?
Windows® 95 users can count on it to race through demanding print jobs at up to eight different forms and two special...
Product Brochure - Page 2
..., 14 dots per character
Product Codes/Accessory Part Numbers
DFX-8500 printer DFX-8500 ribbon Perforation cutter Paper cutter Printer stand Interface boards - EPSON
Optional printer stand
• Powerful 9-pin technology
q Performs with legendary EPSON reliability
q Tireless print head lasts for 400 million characters
• The fastest Epson impact
printer q Prints up to eight form...
Product Information Guide - Page 1
EPSON DFX-8500
front cover
control panel
power switch
sprockets* * front ...Printer Specifications
Printing Printing method:
9-pin impact dot matrix
Printing speed:
Characters per inch available
Font
Available pitches (cpi)
EPSON Super Draft
10
EPSON Draft
10, 12, 15
EPSON Roman (NLQ) 10, 12, 15, proportional
EPSON Sans serif (NLQ) 10, 12, 15, proportional
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EPSON DFX-8500...
Product Information Guide - Page 2
...envelopes, postcards, overlapping forms, and continuous forms with metal staples or bar-gluing. EPSON DFX-8500
Character tables: Character sets:
One Italic and 10 graphical character tables. (26 graphical ...gluing and crimping on each side
t When using single-sided crimping may cause the printer to 431 mm)
Number of continuous multi-part forms should be securely joined together along...
Product Information Guide - Page 3
... voltage 220−240V.
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EPSON DFX-8500 - 3 EPSON DFX-8500
Labels Size:
Total thickness: Quality:
2.5... inches W × 15/16 inch H (63.5 mm W × 23.8 mm H)
4 inches W × 15/16 inch H (101 mm W × 23.8 mm H)
4 inches W × 17/16 inch H (101 mm W × 27.0 mm H)
0.0075 inch (0.19 mm) maximum The difference in the printer...
Product Information Guide - Page 4
...printer responds to the extensibility request in the affirmative when the request is 00H or 04H, which means:
00H:
Request nibble mode of reverse channel transfer
04H:
Request device ID in nibble mode of reverse channel transfer
Serial Interface Specifications
The DFX-8500...plug: EIA 25-pin connector
4 -
EPSON DFX-8500
Environmental
Temperature: Operation: Storage:
Humidity: Operation: ...
Product Information Guide - Page 5
... is on and power is selected. Selects one of the following fonts: Super Draft, Draft, Roman, or Sans Serif.
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EPSON DFX-8500 - 5 The printer remembers any change you make to the printer.
On when the rear tractor is supplied to the top-of-form position when this light is selected.
Select 1 to 8 if...
Product Information Guide - Page 6
...
When you enter and exit the top-of the next page. EPSON DFX-8500
5/98 When the top cover is loaded. Also, the printer remembers separate top-of Form)
Tear Off
Selects the characters per inch ... one second. Selects the front or rear tractor. Always tear off , and printing positions. EPSON DFX-8500
Pitch Copy TOF (Top of -form positions for the front and rear tractors.
This button can...
Product Information Guide - Page 7
... you can use
You can use most often onto the front tractor.
This feature prints the codes that advanced users can find the cause of -form position as well as described below . ...the print position, adjust your printer and paper: with the front tractor loaded, with the rear tractor loaded, and with labels. To change more information. EPSON DFX-8500
Other control panel features
Self test...
Product Information Guide - Page 8
... to fall. Press the button once to 33.9 mm (1.33 inch) below the top edge of -form mode. EPSON DFX-8500
5/98 If the printing is hidden behind the print ribbon.
5.
The printer remembers the temporary top-of-form position until the next time you can set the loading and top-of -form...
Product Information Guide - Page 9
...printer is on the control panel. The printer remembers the new tear-off position even after you press the Tear Off button once and the Tear Off light is turned off, reset, or initialized.
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EPSON DFX-8500 ...part forms with the tear-off edge, adjust the tear-off position.
EPSON DFX-8500
Tearing off the printed pages
After you finish printing, you can use the tear-off feature...
Product Information Guide - Page 10
... the exposed part of -form position. If you have a printed document or excess paper still in the printer, use the tear-off feature described in the printer. Never feed more than one page. EPSON DFX-8500
5. The instructions below explain how to switch from the rear tractor to eject the remaining labels. Then follow...
Product Information Guide - Page 11
EPSON DFX-8500
corresponding pins in the ribbon.
Insert the ribbon guide over the metal ...printer. Remove the ribbon cartridge from the ribbon) and turn the ribbontightening knob in place.
4. Also, if you don't pull on both hands and lower it .
1. let it cool for a few minutes before touching it into place over the two
print head
6. Close the top cover.
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EPSON DFX-8500...
Product Information Guide - Page 12
... 12 seconds.
Close the cover and press the Pause button.
Press the Pause button.
then turn the printer back on page 7.
State of the printer. 5. EPSON DFX-8500
Error Indicators
You can identify many common printer problems with the printer.
12 - Also in the printer and then press the Pause button to and feed the proper paper.
The...
Product Information Guide - Page 13
... water on the front or rear tractor. Nonprintable codes, such as the case. If the outer case or paper guide is set on the printer mechanism or electronic components. These chemicals can print data in water. Turn off the printer while it by the printer. EPSON DFX-8500
To perform a self test, follow these steps: 1. Always...
Product Information Guide - Page 14
... lb (5 kg)
Related Documentation
4007064 TM-DFX8500 PL-DFX8500
EPSON DFX-8500 User's Guide EPSON DFX-8500 Service Manual EPSON DFX-8500 Parts List
14 -
The EPSON interface cards below are compatible with... (n < 7) and within the total thickness
Note: You cannot use optional interface cards to supplement your printer. (Not all of copies:
4 to 16 inches (101 to 406 mm)
2.5 × 15/...
User Manual - Page 5
...-4
Directive 73/23/EEC: EN 60950
March 1998
Y. Bavincklaan 5 1183 AT Amstelveen The Netherlands
Declares that the Product:
Product Name: Type Name: Model:
Dot Matrix Printer DFX-8500 P970A
Conforms to ISO/IEC Guide 22 and EN 45014
Manufacturer: Address:
SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION 3-5, Owa 3-chome, Suwa-shi, Nagano-ken 392-8502 Japan
Representative...
User Manual - Page 109
... DIP switch 3-6 is off to select table 2, hex codes 80H to 9FH of the character tables are used for characters. IBM character table This function is available only in IBM 2381 Plus emulation mode. Buzzer (beep) The printer beeps when an error occurs. Auto CR (carriage return) This function is available only in...
User Manual - Page 119
...'s status changes. When you when printer errors occur, and provides troubleshooting instructions when needed. For more information, see page 5-12. Click START, then Run.
5-2 Using EPSON Status Monitor 2 This utility allows you must install an optional Type B Ethernet Interface Card (C82357@ ) in a disk drive.
3. Note: To monitor a DFX-8500 printer through a network, you to register...
User Manual - Page 171
...timing When the unused area for data in your interface card manual. Error handling When the printer detects a parity error, it is ready to receive data. Selecting a baud rate You can...errors, including framing and overrun errors.
6-38 Using Printer Options For all other end of the cable into your computer.
10.
When the unused area increases to 512 bytes, the printer outputs an X-ON code...
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