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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Declare About Trademark Corporation names and product names are the registered trademarks or commodity names of the corporation. * EPSON and ESC/PK2 are the registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation. * IBM and IBM 2391 are the registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Important Safety Instructions Read all of these instructions carefully and thoroughly and save them for later reference. The unauthorized operation would lead to malfunction or accident. Manufacturers have no responsibilities for the problems which are led by misoperations.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 8.1 Paper Specification and Printable Area ..................... 53 8.1.1 The Notice Relates to Paper....................... 53 8.1.2 Useable Paper Types and Guarantee Area ................54 8.1.3 Cut Sheet Paper ......................... 54 8.1.4 Fanfold paper ..........................58 8.1.5 Envelope............................. 65 8.1.6 Delivery Note ..........................
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 1 Function Characteristic Rolling Paper-feed Mechanism. Paper type and paper thickness are selectable: It can print with cut sheet paper and fanfold paper (1~9 plies) of different thicknesses (Max. 0.9mm). Paper feeding way is adjustable: Friction feeding way can be chose when printing with cut sheet paper;...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 2 Preparation 2.1 Unpacking & Checking Check each item against the following packing list, if any of these items are missing, please contact your dealer. Soundproof Cover Ribbon cartridge Printer Paper rack CD-ROM Power cord (Including owner’s manual and drivers)
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Soundproof cover Printer cover Paper cutter Paper rack L-angle hinge Top rear cover Control panel Tractor lock lever Rear cover Tractor cover Figure 2-3 (1) Main parts of printer (rear view) Power supply inlet Ethernet interface...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 2.5 Installing the Paper Rack 1. Slide the right and left paper guiders to both sides of paper rack. 2. Install the pivots on both sides of paper rack vertically into the groove of top rear cover. (As shown in...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual L-angle hinge Figure 2-6 Installing the soundproof cover Note: Make sure the two tabs are plugged into the Soundproof Cover holes entirely, or else, the Soundproof Cover would get stuck. 2.7 Installing the Ribbon cartridge 1. Make sure the printer is turned off.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Caution: Don’t move the print head when the printer is power on, or else, it may damage the printer. Moreover, don’t touch the print head if the printer has just been recently used as the print head may be hot.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Screw Serial cable Serial interface Figure 2-10 Connect to the serial interface 2.8.3 Connecting to the USB Interface 1. Plug the USB cable A end (flat shape) into the computer's USB interface. 2. Plug the USB cable B end (square shape) into the printer's USB interface. (As Figure 2-11 shown)
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 2. Make sure the voltage required by the printer matches that of your electrical outlet. 3. Plug one end of the power cord into the printer’s power supply inlet. 4. Plug the other end of the power cord into an electrical outlet which connecting the ground properly.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual (XP-Vista-Win7)”, click “Open”, then click “OK” to return to the printer cover of “Install Printer Software”, click “Next”. 6. Follow the guide click “Next” gradually till the installation is finished. 2) The installing steps of parallel interface for Windows 7 are as follows: 1.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual environment, click “Next”. Otherwise, according to prompt, choose the printer is default: “Yes”, click “Next”, choose “Yes-(recommended)”, click “Finish”. A printer cover of “Printer test page completed” pops up, click “Yes”. 6. The printer driver process is installed successfully.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Yellow LED Green LED Description BLINK Connect to network Not connect to network 2.11.2 Setting IP Address 1. Run NetFinder Software Double click NetFinder.exe in the PC, which connects the printer in the same LAN. The figure of...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual If the printer still can not be found out when the network connection is correct and in the same network, Please check whether the network fire wall on the PC open or not. If there is a fire wall, please close it temporarily, open it again after finishing searching and setting a printer completely.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual address and Subnet Mask must be the same as those of PC connecting with a printer. For example, the address of working PC is 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0 (IP/Subnet Mask), then which of printer should be set to 192.168.0.x/255.255.255.0(x=2~254 and should avoid the IP in used. It is not restricted for NetFinder to search printers in the same network but different segment parts (can not stride gateway).
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 1. Newly-install printer network driver 1) Click “Start” → “Settings”, select “Printers”. 2) Click “Add printer”, then a printer cover of “Add Printer Wizard” pops up, click “next”, then please read the select guide carefully. Such as, select “Local or Network Printer”, then click “next”.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 6) A printer cover of “Additional Port Information Required” pops up, select “Custom” in the “Device Type”, then click “Settings”. 7) A printer cover of “Port Settings” pops up. Affirm that “Port name” and “Printer name or IP address”...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 8) Return to “Additional Port Information Required”, click “Next”. 9) A printer cover of “Completing the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Finish”. 10) In the selection of “Manufacturers/Printers”, click “Have Disk”, and then click “Next”.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 5) A printer cover of “Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Next”. 6) A printer cover of “Add a port” pops up, import the IP address reported by the “Setting printer’s IP address” in the “Printer name or IP address” column. Take IP address “192.168.0.240” for example.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 8) A printer cover of “Port Settings” pops up. Affirm that “Port name” and “Printer name or IP address” are correct, “Protocol” is “RAW” and “Port Number” is “9100”, click “OK”. - 18 -...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 9) Return to “Additional Port Information Required”, click “Next”. 10) A printer cover of “Completing the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Finish”. 11) Return to “Printer Ports”, click “Close”. 12) Return to “Properties”, make sure the network port is selected, click “Apply”, and then click “Close”.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 3 Control Panel 3.1 Control Panel The liquid crystal display (LCD) on the control panel displays the processing conditions of the printer and the setting of the functions. The keys on the control panel provide various functions.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual In Offline mode, according to the LF pitch of the menu setting, press LF key once will feed paper in forward direction according to the LF pitch. Hold on pressing this key can continuously feed paper in forward direction according to the LF pitch.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual SPEED: NORMAL LQ COPY: NORMAL 2. Error information shown on the LCD display. COVER OPEN P.OUT FANFOLD 3.1.4 LED indicator LED indicator State Description ON: The power of printer is ON. POWER (Green) OFF: The power of printer is OFF.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 3.1.7 Self-test Before self-test, please make sure ribbon cartridge has been installed correctly and paper in. There are kanji self-test and ASCII self-test. During self-test, ONLINE LED turn on and LCD shows the current self-test state.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual There is paper in the printer as well as the printer is in Online mode, long press TEAR OFF key. M.LF key: Advance. Adjust the tear off position (For M.RLF key: Backwards. fanfold paper state) ENTER key: Comfirm and save.
Menu Setup Mode, the LCD shows as below: EXIT SETUP 1. MULTIPART 2)Press ← or → key to select the menu item (as shown below). 2. PAGE FANFOLD BP-9000E printer now totally contains 46 menu items (mainmenu): MULTIPART PAGE FANFOLD PAGE SINGLE FONT SELECT CHAR PITCH...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 5)Press key to exit the MENU SETUP MODE. EXIT SETUP - 26 -...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 4 Printer Setting 4.1 Setting up the Manual Mode 1. Push the paper select lever ① to the cut sheet paper position. 2. Adjust gap adjust lever ②. In most time, pull the gap adjust lever to graduation 1 when using cut sheet paper.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 2. Adjust gap adjust lever ②. In most time, pull the gap adjust lever to graduation 1 when using cut sheet paper. 3. Remove or open the top rear cover ③, stop it in the open position.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 4.4 Gap Adjust Lever Gap adjustment is used to obtain the best print quality possible when using different paper types. When using multi-ply paper, pull the gap adjust lever toward the multi-ply paper position to widen the gap between the print head and the platen.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 5 Menu Function Description This section is mainly introducing the item functions in the Menu Setup Mode. 5.1 MULTIPART Select this function ON during printing. The multipart mode increases the print intensity on multi-ply papers.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual SIZE: B4 P SIZE: B4 L SIZE: LETTER P SIZE: LETTER L SIZE: LEGAL P SIZE: LEGAL L SIZE: A3 P SIZE: A3 L Note: P refers to portrait while L refers to landscape orientation. The default setting is A4 P.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual COMPRESS: 75% COMPRESS: 50% 5.7 TOF FANFOLD Set the printing home position of fanfold paper. After loading paper, printer starts to print according to the TOF FANFOLD value. Setting process: 7. TOF FANFOLD TOF: 10/60 INCH ※...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 5.11 CODE PAGE Select the code page according to different national characters use circumstances. Setting process: 11. CODE PAGE C.P.: U.S.A. C.P.: BULGARIA C.P.: TUR8859-9 ※ C.P.: MULTI C.P.: MAZOVIA C.P.: ISO LTN9 C.P.: PORTUGAL C.P.: GRK 437 C.P.: KBL...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 5.15 CR SETTING Specify the printer to advance the paper one line automatically after receiving every carriage return instruction. Setting process: 15. CR SETTING CR: CR ONLY ※ CR: CR + LF 5.16 LF SETTING Specify the printer to carriage return automatically after receiving every line feed instruction.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Setting process: 25. TOP MARGIN T.M.: 0 LINE ※ … T.M.: 15 LINE (0 ~ 15 LINE) 5.26 BOTTOM MARGIN Specify the distance between the bottom of the paper printable area and the printing home position of the next page (use the LF pitch as unit).
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 5.30 DATA LENGTH Specify the serial data bits. Setting process: 30. DATA LENGTH LENGTH: 8 BITS ※ LENGTH: 7 BITS 5.31 STOP BIT Specify the serial data transfer stop bit. Setting process: 31. STOP BIT STOP: 1 BIT ※...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 5.35 COVER DETECT Specify whether the printer detects cover open or not. Setting process: 35. COVER DETECT COVER: OFF COVER: ON ※ 5.36 QUIET MODE Disable or enable the low noise function, when this function is on, print speed would reduced.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Setting process: 1. After entering this option, current setting will be shown on the LCD, and the first parameter would be underlined. 2. Use the ↑ and ↓ keys to modify the parameter, press ENTER key to save. and then press → key to modify the next parameter, so that you can modify the address according to your request.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 6 Troubleshooting How to Solve the Problem Printing speed is slow Press QUALITY key and select Speed Mode. NORMAL LQ HI1 HLQ1 HI2 HLQ2 HI3 SD HI3 DRAF HI3 SSD NORMAL LQ speed is slowest while the print quality is the best; HI3 SSD (Super high-speed draft 2) is fastest while the print quality is the worst.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual setting. ——In the Menu Setup Mode, set the correct emulation according to the requirement. The printing driver may be incorrect. —— Please reinstall the printer driver correctly. The printed result does not align. The top of form margin and the bottom margin are not the same.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 6.3 Maintenance 6.3.1 Clean the printer FPC cable plastic binder Make sure the plastic binder clamp the cable tightly. Exterior casings Inter of the printer Clean it with a soft cloth that Clean the dirt, dust and paper contains cleanser.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Tractor sensor Figure 6-4 Cleaning periodically and the cleaning tool Periodical cleaning: every three months or every 300 working hours once Cleaning tool: dry cloth (please use soft cloth to clean metal parts.) Cleaning the paper guide Please wipe off wasted paper and clean dirt and dust.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Clean it firstly, and then add the specified lube. Rear bar Front bar Figure 6-5 6.3.3 How to remove the printer cover Soundproof cover Pull the soundproof cover out of the printer L-angle hinge, and then pull out the L-angle tab from the soundproof cover hole, at last, remove the whole soundproof cover.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Top rear cover Remove the two cover stoppers at the top of printer. Loosen the screws on both sides of the top rear cover bottom, and then take out the stoppers. Stopper Stopper Remove the top rear cover Move the top rear cover towards the inner of the printer, and then turn it 90°reversely, at...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 7 Printer Specification 7.1 General Item Description Printing method 24-Pin Dot Matrix Impact Printer Printing direction Bidirectional logic seeking Number of columns 136 columns (10 CPI)/ 345.44 mm Speed ASCII 10 CPI NORMAL LQ 180 CPS (10 CPI)
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Life: 20 million characters (draft mode) Noise <55 dB (A) (GB/T 18313 / ISO7779 standard) Control panel Keys + LCD Display Cut sheet paper: Load and eject from top Paper feed type Fanfold paper: Back load and top eject...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 7.2 Interface Specification This printer can be configured with 2.0 Full-Speed USB interface, Centronics (IEEE1284 NIBBLE) parallel interface, RS-232 serial interface or 10/100Base-T Ethernet interface (Please take the specific interface as standard). You can connect the printer to computer according to your requirement.
Figure 7-4 Ethernet Interface 7.2.4 Serial Interface BP-9000E printer serial interface can be compatible with RS-232C, and supports RTS/CTS and X-ON/X-OFF handshaking. Its interface connector is DB-9 type connector or DB-25 type connector. DB-25 serial interface connector’s pin number is shown as Figure 7-5:...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Figure 7-5 DB-25 serial interface connector pin number Data input/output mode: 7-bit or 8-bit serial interface Data input code: ASCII, JIS 7-bit or 8-bit, International character code, CG, Dot matrix graphic code based on graphic symbol code (8-bit) Data buffer: 132K bytes most Signal level: RS-232C, ±12V...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Receive serial data from the computer through this pin. This pin is low level when it receives no data. PIN 7 SG (Signal Ground) Connect to the signal ground PIN 20 DTR (Data Terminal Ready) This pin is high level when the printer is ready to receive data. It is low level when not ready to receive data.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Chapter 8 Paper Specification 8.1 Paper Specification and Printable Area 8.1.1 The Notice Relates to Paper Using the following paper will cause unstable paper feeding, paper jam or paper crease, even leads to break pin. So it is forbidden using.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual 8.1.2 Useable Paper Types and Guarantee Area Useable papers are shown in the following table: Paper type Guarantee grade Other conditions Cut sheet paper ● Continuous paper ● Envelope ▲ Delivery order form ▲ Label ▲...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Note: 1. This thickness is added by multi single-ply papers, and it is only achieved when just printing on the upper paper. (No need to copy) 2. Refer to the requirement of the multi-ply paper (NCR paper), the mount paper can be thicker than other plies, but we can’t guarantee the printing...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual ○ Multi-ply paper (NCR paper) Datum line (1 mm) Paper inserts direction Plumb at datum line Datum line Less than 0.2 First character Printable area : Printable area : Print area Print area is not included Print side in print specification.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Strong mucilage Paper inserts direction (1mm width) ◆ The combination requirements of multi-ply paper (NCR paper) We recommend using the perfect paper or which the quality is above. The low quality NCR paper will affect the copy effect and the printing life.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual ○ Fold (cut sheet paper, continuous paper) • The paper that the whole page has folded can not be used. (As the paper strength has been changed even though after amending.) • Please amend the fold of the corner for less than 2 mm.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Single-ply paper White paper Paper Multi-ply paper NCR paper Width ≥ 140 Length 9 copies (Original + 8 copies), paper weight bases on 40g/ m Copy capability standard. (Max.) Single-ply paper: 53 Multi-ply paper (each sheet): 40...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Figure of fanfold paper specification and gear hole Central line Central line Transverse perforation 90° Vertical perforation Vertical perforation Transverse perforation Edge Edge Item Mark Size (mm) Function The distance from central line to the nearer Position of Central line 6.0 ±...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual hole in the left and the center of corresponding gear hole in the right. The distance to other end when the parallel Lean of right and left – Below 0.15 moved right and left central lines superposes central line with one end.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual First Second Third Forth Fifth page page page page page Line pulp 1 ~ 2 mm ○ Paper Binding • Paper binding should be in both ends, it is not allow paper binding only in one end.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Loading direction Unit: mm 6.35 6.35 Fixed tightly Above 2 Transverse perforation Not fixed tightly Paper binding space is 25.4 over 50.8mm (2inches) 3 ~ 4 Press down to About 1 avoid warping 50.8 Space If bind the four...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Transverse perforation Less than1 mm Less than 1 mm Transverse perforation ◆ Warp between toothed holes of each ply Please use the paper which toothed holes warp between each ply (causes by the warp of multi-ply papers superposition) is less than 0.4 mm.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual folding part sticks up as the following figure shown, please not use it. Protrusive part 8.1.5 Envelope Envelope specification should accord with the following table. In this specification, some envelopes are beyond the support range because of shape, size and so on.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Sample 1 Envelope print direction and printable area Note: To load envelope, please place it on the paper guide with the front downwards and the back upwards. Stamp Sample 2 Envelope (Front view) Stamp - 67 -...
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Sample 2 Envelope print direction and printable area Note: To load envelope, please place it on the paper guide with the front downwards and the back upwards. Note: • Envelope refers to single layer envelope. Printer doesn’t support double layer envelope and the envelope should not with solid edge.
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual • Envelopes which seal lip parts are pulped. • If you print near the pulped area, even thought it belongs to the printable area, it may also cause paper dirt because of the pulp (especially when the edge is folded or stuck 8.1.6 Delivery Note...
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Appendix A Self-test and Adjustment A.1 Self-test Function BP-9000E printer supplies several print-test functions that make you run the self-test of the printer in different states. A.1.1 ASCII Test Mode After installing the paper (fanfold paper: 136 lines, cut sheet paper feed: A4 paper), then use the following way to run the ASCII self-test.
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AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual ←: The first and third line move leftwards (Value decreases) ENTER: Save and print. EXIT: Press this key to exit the adjust mode, and then the printer will restart automatically. Note: There are totally 10 adjustments modes (MODE 0 ~ 9 ).
AUI BP-9000E Owner's Manual Appendix B Barcode command data (i) HEX. data (i) Data count Including the total data count (besides ESC }) Character R Select the barcode type: 0xB1: NW 7 B2: EAN 13 B3: EAN 8 B4: Code 39...
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