Code; Enabling Code Page Character Support - Lexmark 258x Technical Reference

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CHAPTER 3: Code Pages

Enabling code page character support

In addition to the standard support for the US and Western Europe code pages, the
2500 series forms printers include support for characters contained in a variety of
other code pages.
When the printer is switched to one of these modes, the new set of code pages
replaces those supported in the standard operating mode.
1
Turn the printer off.
2
Raise the Ribbon access cover and manually move the Carrier all the way to the
left (Carrier home position sensor = ON).
3
Press and hold one or more buttons on layer 2 of the control panel while turning
the printer on as described in the following table.
Note:
Character
Support
Standard
Eastern Europe
Baltic
Arabic
Levant
OCR-B
OKI
a. Eastern European support can be restored via flash download. This is only required if Le-
vant or OCR-B has been downloaded.
Buttons must be held until the printer initializes.
Control Panel Buttons
Micro up
Micro down
Set up
Micro + Micro
Micro + Setup
Micro + Setup
must be enabled via
printer emulation
b
settings.
3-1
Enabling code page
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Support on 258x Support on 259x
printers printers
included included
included included
included included
included included
included requires flash download
and replaces Eastern
European support
included requires flash download
and replaces Eastern
European support
included not supported
a
a
a