Epson Lq680 User Guide
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Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono Takahashi HoadleyR4C4590 Rev. C A5 size FRONT.FM 10/30/00 Pass 1 R User’s Guide 24-Pin Dot Matrix Printer All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers. Neither SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by the purchaser or third parties as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product, or (excluding the U.S.) failure to strictly comply with SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION’s operating and maintenance instructions. SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION shall not be liable for any damages or problems arising from the use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as Original EPSON Products or EPSON Approved Products by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. EPSON and EPSON ESC/P are registered trademarks of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. EPSON disclaims any and all rights in those marks. Copyright © 2000 by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Nagano, Japan. ®
ii R4C4590 Rev. C A5 size FRONT.FM 10/30/00 Pass 1 L Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______ FCC Compliance Statement For United States Users This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio or television reception. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause interference to radio and television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures. qReorient or relocate the receiving antenna qIncrease the separation between the equipment and receiver qConnect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected qConsult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. WARNING The connection of a non-shielded equipment interface cable to this equipment will invalidate the FCC Certification of this device and may cause interference levels which exceed the limits established by the FCC for this equipment. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain and use a shielded equipment interface cable with this device. If this equipment has more than one interface connector, do not leave cables connected to unused interfaces. Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s authority to operate the equipment. For Canadian Users This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003. Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.
iii R4C4590 Rev. C A5 size FRONT.FM 10/30/00 Pass 1 R Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______ DECLARATION of CONFORMITY According to 47CFR, Part 2 and 15 for Class B Personal Computers and Peripherals; and/or CPU Boards and Power Supplies used with Class B Personal Computers: Declare under sole responsibility that the product identified herein, complies with 47CFR Part 2 and 15 of the FCC rules as a Class B digital device. Each product marketed, is identical to the representative unit tested and found to be compliant with the standards. Records maintained continue to reflect the equipment being produced can be expected to be within the variation accepted, due to quantity production and testing on a statistical basis as required by 47CFR §2.909 Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.We: Located at:EPSON AMERICA, INC. MS 6-43 3840 Kilroy Airport Way Long Beach, CA 90806-2469 Telephone: (562)290-5254 Trade Name: EPSON Type of Product: Dot Matrix Printer Model: P220A/P220B
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v R Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______R4C4590 Rev. C A5 size USERS.TOC 10/30/00 Pass 1 Contents Getting to Know Your Printer Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Print Head Caution Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ENERGY STAR Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 For United Kingdom Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Use of options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Warnings, Cautions, and Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Chapter 1 Setting Up the Printer Unpacking the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 Choosing a Place for the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Assembling the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Attaching the paper guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Plugging in the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5 Connecting the Printer to Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6 Installing or Replacing the Ribbon Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8 Installing the Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12 Installing the printer software in Windows 98, 95, 2000, or NT 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-13 Installing the printer software in Windows 3.1 or NT 3.5x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14 For DOS programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16
vi LR4C4590 Rev. C A5 size USERS.TOC 10/30/00 Pass 1Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______ Chapter 2 Paper Handling Selecting a Paper Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Paper source and paper types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Setting the paper release lever (LQ-680) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 Setting the Paper Source button (LQ-680Pro) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5 Adjusting the Paper Thickness Lever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6 Using Continuous Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8 Positioning your continuous paper supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8 Loading continuous paper with the tractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9 Using the tear-off function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14 Removing continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17 Using Continuous Multipart Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17 Using Overlapping Multipart Forms (LQ-680Pro) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18 Using Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19 Using Single Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20 Using Single-Sheet Multipart Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23 Using Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24 Using Postcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25 Switching Between Continuous Paper and Single Sheets . . . . . 2-26 Switching to single sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26 Switching to continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28 Using Micro Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28 Adjusting the loading position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28 Adjusting the tear-off position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31 Adjusting the printing position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32 Chapter 3 Using the Printer Software About Your Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 Using the Printer Driver With Windows 98 or 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3 Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu . . . . . . . 3-5 Changing the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5
vii R Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______R4C4590 Rev. C A5 size USERS.TOC 10/30/00 Pass 1 Using the Printer Driver With Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6 Accessing the printer driver from the Control Panel . . . . . 3-8 Changing the Printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 Using the Printer Driver With Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 . . . . . 3-9 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-9 Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu . . . . . . . . 3-11 Changing the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12 Using the Printer Driver With Windows NT 3.5x . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13 Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13 Accessing the printer driver from the Control Panel . . . . . 3-15 Changing the Printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16 Printer Driver Settings Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17 Using the EPSON Remote! Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19 Installing EPSON Remote! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19 Accessing EPSON Remote! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19 Using the EPSON Status Monitor 3 Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Setting up EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20 Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22 Chapter 4 Changing Printer Settings From the Printer’s Control Panel Selecting a Built-In Font and Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 About Your Printer’s Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Changing default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9
viii LR4C4590 Rev. C A5 size USERS.TOC 10/30/00 Pass 1Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______ Chapter 5 Troubleshooting Using the Error Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2 Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4 Power supply problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5 Single-sheet paper loading or feeding problems . . . . . . . . 5-6 Continuous paper loading or feeding problems . . . . . . . . 5-8 Printing position problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9 Printing or printout quality problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11 Clearing Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16 Aligning Vertical Lines in Your Printout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17 Printing a Self Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18 Printing a Hex Dump. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19 Appendix A Enhancing Your Printer With Options Cut-Sheet Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2 Installing the cut-sheet feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3 Loading paper from the cut-sheet feeder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6 Switching between the tractor and the cut-sheet feeder . . A-13 Loading paper manually from the paper guide . . . . . . . . . A-14 Roll Paper Holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15 Installing the roll paper holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15 Loading a roll of paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-17 Removing roll paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-18 Optional interface cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-19 Installing an interface card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-20 Appendix B Cleaning and Transporting the Printer Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2 Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3
ix R Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______R4C4590 Rev. C A5 size USERS.TOC 10/30/00 Pass 1 Appendix C Specifications Printer Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2 Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2 Electronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4 Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6 Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6 Paper. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6 Printable area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-11 Safety approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-14 CE marking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-14 Command Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-15 EPSON ESC/P2 control codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-15 IBM 2390 Plus emulation control codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-16 Appendix D Customer Support Information Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-2 For Users in North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-3 For Users in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland . D-4 For Users in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-6 For Users in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-7 For Users in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-8 For Users in Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-8 For Users in Hong Kong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-9 For Users in the Philippines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-10 Glossary Index
R4C4590 Rev. C A5 size COVER.FM 10/30/00 Pass 0 L Proof Sign-off: Takahashi, Kono _______ Takahashi _______ Hoadley _______ Control Panel Buttons and Lights Tear Off/Bin button (LQ-680)lAdvances continuous paper to the tear-off position.lFeeds continuous paper backward from the tear-off position to the top-of-form position. lSelects a cut-sheet feeder bin.lTurns on the card mode to print on postcards and envelopes. Tear Off/Bin lights (LQ-680)lf f when continuous paper is in the tear-off position.lo n when bin 1 of the optional cut-sheet feeder is selected.ln o when bin 2 of the optional cut-sheet feeder is selected.ln n when the printer is in the card mode.Pause button Stops printing temporarily, and resumes printing when pressed again. When pressed for three seconds, turns on the *micro adjust mode. To turn off, press again. Pause light lOn when the printer is paused.lFlashes when the printer is in the *micro adjust mode. lFlashes when the print head has overheated. Font button Selects the font. Condensed buttonTurns on and off the condensed mode. Reset When you press both the Font and Condensed buttons simultaneously, the printer clears its buffer and return to its default settings. Paper Out light lOn when no paper is loaded in the selected paper source or paper is not loaded correctly. lFlashes when paper has not been fully ejected or a paper jam has occurred. Paper Source button & lights (LQ-680Pro) Select a paper source. See Chapter 2. Tear Off/Special Paper button (LQ-680Pro)lAdvances co ntinuo us paper to the tear-off position. lFeeds continuous paper backward from the tear-off position to the top-of-form position. lTurns on the card mode or envelope mode. Tear Off/Special Paper lights (LQ-680Pro)lf f when continuous paper is in the tear-off position. lo n when the printer is in the card mode. ln o when the printer is in the envelope mode.*Micro Adjust mode When you hold down the Pause button for three seconds, the printer enters the micro adjust mode. In this mode, you can press the LF/FF D and Load/Eject U buttons to adjust the top-of-form or tear-off position. See Chapter 2. LF/FF button lFeeds paper line by line when pressing shortly.lEjects a single sheet or advances continuous paper to the next top-of-form position when held down. Load/Eject button lLoads a single sheet of paper.lEjects a single sheet of paper if a sheet is loaded. lLoads continuous paper from the standby position. lFeeds continuous paper backward to the standby position. LQ-680 LQ-680Pro n = On f = Flashing o = Off