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Declare About Trademark Corporation names and product names are the registered trademarks or commodity names of the corporation. * EPSON and ESC/PK2 are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation. * IBM and IBM 2391 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
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. Follow all warnings and instructions in the manual as well as marked on the product. Do not touch the print head if the printer has just been recently used as the print head may be hot.
Table of Contents Declare................................i Important Safety Instructions ........................ii Chapter 1 Features .............................1 Chapter 2 Preparation ..........................2 2.1 Unpacking & Checking ........................2 2.2 Removing the Protective Materials......................2 2.3 Main Parts of the Printer........................2 2.4 Installing the Printer ..........................3 2.5 Installing the Ribbon Cartridge ......................3 2.6 Installing and Dismantling the Paper Rack Holders ................5 2.6.1 Installing the Paper Rack Holders....................5 2.6.2 Removing the Paper Rack Holders ....................5...
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7.2.1 Parallel Interface......................... 51 7.2.2 USB Interface ..........................52 7.2.3 Ethernet Interface ........................52 7.2.4 Serial Interface ........................... 53 Chapter 8 Paper Specification ......................... 56 8.1 Paper Specification and Printable Area ..................... 56 8.1.1 The Notice Related to Paper ...................... 56 8.1.2 Useable Paper Types and Guaranteed Area ................57 8.1.3 Cut sheet ............................
Chapter 1 Features Flatbed Paper-feed Mechanism. Paper type and paper thickness are selectable: It can print with cut sheet and tractor paper (1~7 copies) of different thicknesses. Paper feed way is adjustable: Manual feeding way can be chose when using cut sheet to print; Tractor feeding way can be chosen when using tractor paper to print.
Chapter 2 Preparation 2.1 Unpacking & Checking Check the following items in the package, if any of these items is missing, please contact your dealer. Paper rack Paper rack holder Ribbon cartridge Printer Driver CD Tractor Power cord Interface cable (Including manual and driver) Figure 2-1 Packing list in the package 2.2 Removing the Protective Materials...
Tractor connector Parallel interface / Serial interface (9-pin) USB interface Ethernet interface Tractor Power supply inlet Figure 2-3 Main parts of printer (rear view) Note: Please take the specific interface as standard. 2. This product can configured with DB-25 serial interface, so the interface type is parallel interface + DB-25 serial interface at this time.
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Caution: Never remove the print head when printer is on, or else the printer may get damaged. Besides, do not touch the print head if the printer has just been used as the print head may be hot. 3. Turn the ribbon feed knob in the direction of the arrow to remove any slack from the ribbon so it is easier to install.
Ribbon cartridge Figure 2-8 Install the ribbon cartridge Note: 1. When your print becomes faint, you need to replace the ribbon cartridge. Otherwise, the print quality will be affected and the print head may be damaged. 2. To remove the old ribbon cartridge, first make sure the power is turned off, move the print head to the left of the printer.
Right paper rack holder Rack knob Figure 2-10 Remove the right paper rack holder 2.7 Installing and Removing the Paper Rack 2.7.1 Installing the Paper Rack Firstly, hold the front of the paper rack vertically down, aim the right and left mounting slot at the positioning shafts on the right and left holders, then press them down and fit them into place, at last, rotate the paper rack outwards and press it into place.
Figure 2-12 Start to install tractor 1. Plug the connection cable of the tractor into the connector of the printer. 2. Aim the mounting slot on both sides of the tractor at the positioning shaft on right and left of the printer, then push them into place and put them down.
Note: Before connecting the parallel interface or the serial interface, please make sure the power of the printer is shut down. Must after tightening the cable may you turn on the power, or it will damage the printer. 2.9.1 Connecting to the Parallel Interface 1.
2.9.4 Connecting to the Serial Interface Note: Because of the different interface types, it could connect with DB-9 or DB-25 serial interface. 1. Turn off both the computer and the printer. Plug the serial interface cable connector securely into the printer's serial interface. Then tighten the screws on both sides of the connector. As shown in Figure 2-18 or Figure 2-19.
To turn the printer ON, press the I mark at the side of the power switch. To turn the printer OFF, press the O mark at the side of the power switch. Caution: 1. If the rated voltage doesn’t match the outlet voltage, contact your dealer for assistance.
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6. Follow the guide click “Next” gradually till the installation is finished. The USB interface installing steps for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 are as follows: The following steps are used Windows XP as an example. There are slight differences among different operating systems. 1.
the path as follows: CD → ROM → “Drivers”-“[WIN98 (WINME) \ USBdriver]”, then click “OK”. 5. Return to a window of “Search for new drivers”, click “Next”; a window of “Windows driver file search for the device” pops up, click “Next”. 6.
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Button description: Exit — Exit from the software Search — Search printers in the same LAN Assign IP — Modify the IP address and other settings for the specified printer. 2. Search printer Click “Search” button in the main interface, the dialogue box appearing will begin searching automatically and displays the status, listing a printer in the main interface if found.
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description and the right is the IP and MAC address. What’s more, the assign mode (dynamic/static) is noted behind the IP address. 1) Correlative description for IP address settings In order to search and set printer’s IP address conveniently for the first time, the factory default setting is DHCP mode which assigns IP address dynamically.
Check the “Use DHCP” if needed to assign dynamic address, the settings above will be disabled automatically. Please make sure there is a DHCP server in the network, or the printer can not receive an effective IP address. When to specify static address, uncheck “Use DHCP” and fill in “IP address”, “Subnet Mask” and “Default Gateway”.
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4) A window of “Add standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard”, click “Next”. 5) A window of “Add Port” pops up, enter 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. “Port Name”...
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7) A window 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”. - 17 -...
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If PC has installed the printer’s driver, set driver’s network port to carry out network printing. The concrete steps are shown below: 1) Click “Start” → “Settings”, select “Printers”. 2) Right click FB-600E driver, click “Properties” on the window coming out. 3) A window of “Properties” pops up, click “Ports” and “Add Ports”. AUI FB-600E Properties...
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5) A window of “Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Next”. 6) A window 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. “Port name”...
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8) A window 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”. - 20 -...
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11) Return to “Printer Ports”, click “Close”. 12) Return to “Properties”, make sure the network port is selected, click “Apply”, and then click “Close”. Thus, printer’s network port setting is finished. AUI FB-600E Properties AUI FB-600E AUI FB-600E - 21 -...
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. 3.1.1 Control Panel View 3.1.2 Function Keys Descriptiom ONLINE...
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RESET Long press the ALT + ONLIN key, then “INITIALIZING...” is displayed on the LCD, and then the printer restarts and initializes which will clean the ONLIN ENTER printing buffer. (Each time 132K) Note: It is workable both in Online and Offline modes. RESET HIGH SPEED 1.
TEAR OFF When the paper is in the printing home position, press TEAR OFF key, the printer will feed paper to tear off position automaticallly (Only for TEAR OFF tractor paper), press this key once more, the printer will feed the paper back to the printing home position.
Position Paper feeding way Manual Tractor 3.1.5 Gap Adjust Lever This lever is for adjusting the gap between the print head and the paper. 1. When the lever is in AUTO position, the printer will measure the paper thickness before printing and then automatically adjust the gap between the print head and the paper.
ON: Printer is paper out or malfunction occurs. OFF: No error is detected. ERROR (Amber) BLINK SLOWLY: Functional error has occurred. FAST BLINK: Functional error has occurred. OFF: There is no printing data. DATA (Green) ON: There is printing data. 3.1.7 Quick Function Function Resume...
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TEAR OFF HEAD PIN PIN SWITCH BC/ENL. CHAR DHCP IP ADDRESS SUBNET MASK GATEWAY MENU LISTING 3) Press key to enter into submemu. Such as, select BAUD RATE, press key to enter BAUD RATE and the particular items are shown (as shown below): MENU SETUP BAUD RATE 39.
Chapter 4 Printer Setting 4.1 Setting the Manual Mode 1. Adjust the positions of the right and left paper guides. Caution: Check whether it is necessary to adjust the right paper guide when using wide paper. 2. Pull the paper path lever to the position of “ ”.
automatically (The Paper skew function in the Menu should be on). 4.2 Setting the Tractor Mode 1. Firstly, please ensure the tractor has been installed at the back of the printer, and then adjust the right and left paper guides on the paper rack to the proper positions. 2.
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7. F.TR PG LGTH ► 3.5 INCH 10 INCH 11/3 INCH 10.5 INCH 4 INCH 11 INCH ※ 4.5 INCH 11.5 INCH 5 INCH 12 INCH 5.5 INCH 12.5 INCH 6 INCH 13INCH 6.5 INCH 13.5 INCH 7 INCH 14 INCH 7.5 INCH 14.5 INCH 8 INCH...
Chapter 5 Menu Function Description This section mainly introduces the item functions in the Menu Setup Mode. 5.1 MULTIPART According to customer's printing requirement, select the printing capability. Setting process: MENU SETUP MULTIPART 1. MULTIPART ► 2. TOF ADJ.MANL ► ※...
5.5 MANL PG LGTH Specify the page length of cut sheet. Printer feeds to next page according to the specified page length. If the print data is with page length instruction, printer would give priority to print data instruction. Setting process: MENU SETUP MANL PG LGTH 5.
4 INCH 11 INCH ※ 4.5 INCH 11.5 INCH 5 INCH 12 INCH 5.5 INCH 12.5 INCH 6 INCH 13INCH 6.5 INCH 13.5 INCH 7 INCH 14 INCH 7.5 INCH 14.5 INCH 8 INCH 15 INCH 8.5 INCH 15.5 INCH 9 INCH 16 INCH 5.8 RGHT PG WDTH...
5.11 BOTTOM MRG Set the distance between the bottom of the paper printable area and the printing home position of the next page (use “line feed pitch” as unit). Setting process: MENU SETUP BOTTOM MRG 11. BOTTOM MRG ► 0 LINE ※...
20 CPI PROPORTION 5.15 LF PITCH Set the printing characters’ line space which can be 1/3 inch, 1/4 inch, 1/6 inch (initialized value), 1/8 inch or 1/9 inch. Setting process: MENU SETUP LF PITCH 15. LF PITCH ► 3 LPI 16.
Setting process: MENU SETUP INTL FONT 19. INTL FONT ► U.S.A. NORWAY ※ 20. CODE PAGE ► FRANCE DENMARK 2 GERMANY SPAIN 2 U.K. LATIN AM DEMARK 1 KOREA SWEDEN LEGAL ITALY NETHERLAND SPAIN 1 TURKEY JAPAN 5.20 CODE PAGE Select the code page according to different using circumstances of international characters.
displayed on the LCD. Setting process: MENU SETUP JAM DETECT 27. JAM DETECT ► ※ 28. PAGE LOCK ► 5.28 PAGE LOCK After selecting this function on, printer would lock the page length setting. Printer feeds to next page according to the current setting parameter and would not affected by the page length instruction of the print data.
5.37 DATA LENGTH Specify the serial data bits. Setting process: MENU SETUP DATA LENGTH 37. DATA LENGTH ► 8 BITS ※ 38. STOP BIT ► 7 BITS 5.38 STOP BIT Specify the serial data transfer stop bit. Setting process: MENU SETUP STOP BIT 38.
MENU SETUP PRINT DIRECT 41. PRINT DIRECT ► BI-DIRECT ※ 42. COVER DETECT ► UNI-DIRECT 5.42 COVER DETECT Select the function of cover-open detection ON or OFF. Setting process: MENU SETUP COVER DETECT 42. COVER DETECT ► 43. LOAD DELAY ►...
5.46 HEAD PIN Select the broken pin. Printer would automatically replace it with other pin to print. Setting process: MENU SETUP HEAD PIN 46. HEAD PIN ► LIVE ※ 47. PIN SWITCH ► PIN1 …… PIN 24 5.47 PIN SWITCH After selecting this function on, printer would switch different pins to print table line automatically.
50. IP ADDRESS ► 010.000.000.001 51. SUBNET MASK ► 5.51 SUBNET MASK It is the subnet mask of the printer Ethernet. Setting process: 1. After entering this option, current setting will be shown on the LCD, and the first parameter would be underlined.
Chapter 6 Troubleshooting How to Solve the Problem 1. Printing speed is slow Press HIGH SPEED key and select Speed Mode. NORMAL HIGH 1 HIGH 3 HIGH 2 LQ speed is slowest while the print quality is the best; HIGH 2 (Super high speed) is fastest while the print quality is the worst.
—— Modify the corresponding print direction in Menu Setup Mode. —— Adjust the printer’s alignment (see details in Appendix A2). 8. Print the wrong characters. The communicated transportation of the printer may be incorrect. —— Check if the connection of the cable is correct or damaged. Check if the control system of the computer and the data code are consistent with the printer setting.
The printer detects the home sensor error automatically. 1. Remove the paper and restart the printer. HOME SENSOR 2. If the malfunction can not be solved, please contact your dealer for ERROR assistance. Power on the printer, open the front cover, the LCD will display this information, then the printer will enter the stop state with the ONLINE FRONT COVER IS LED blinks at the same time.
need to turn on the power.) 2. Being used under dust circumstance, the carriage shaft may stack much dust and affect the print quality. Please shorten the cleaning period 3. Print head and the surrounding part may be high temperature after using. Please avoid cleaning it at the moment.
③ IEEE1284 NIBBLE Parallel interface + RS-232C Serial interface (DB 25-PIN) Note: Please take the specific interface as standard Input Buffer 132 KB Model: original AUI ribbon Ribbon Life: 20 million characters (draft mode) Noise <58 dB (A) (ISO7779 standard)
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Control Panel 8 Buttons+ 4 LED indicators + LCD Cut sheet: Load/eject from front; Load from front and eject from rear Paper feed type Tractor paper: Load front rear, eject from front Thickness adjust Automatically detect the paper thickness and adjust the gap, or adjust through gap adjust lever. Width: 127 ~ 406 mm Tractor paper Thickness: 0.08 ~ 0.12 mm...
① Operating: 110 W; ② Standby: Approximately 15.9 W Power consumption Caution: Only when the product is unconnected with outer power supply, it can achieve zero energy consumption state. Note: All the technical instructions in this user's manual are the laboratorial measurements which achieved under national standard store and work environment (room temperature), the measuring paper accords with the specification in this user's manual.
7.2.4 Serial Interface FB-600E printer serial interface can be compatible with RS-232C, and supports RTS/CTS and X-ON/X-OFF handshaking. Its interface connectors are DB-9 type connector and DB-25 type connector. 7.2.4.1 Serial Interface (DB-9) DB-9 serial interface connector’s pin number is shown as Figure 7-5:...
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7.2.4.2 Serial interface (DB-25) DB-25 serial interface connector’s pin number is shown as Figure 7-7: Figure 7-7 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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Connect to the circuit frame ground PIN 3 RD (Received Data) 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.
Chapter 8 Paper Specification 8.1 Paper Specification and Printable Area 8.1.1 The Notice Related 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. •...
8.1.2 Useable Paper Types and Guaranteed Area Useable papers are shown in the following table: Paper type Guaranteed grade Other conditions Cut sheet ● Continuous paper ● Card ▲ Envelope ▲ Delivery note ▲ Postcard × Deposit book × Label ×...
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◆Cut Sheet Dimension and Printable area ○ Single-ply paper First character (10 CPI) Printable area : Printable area : Print area Print area is not included in print specification. Mark Name Specification value Paper width 127 ~ 430 mm Paper length 127 ~ 430 mm (Caution 1) Home position ≥2 mm...
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○ Multi-ply paper (NCR paper) Datum line (1 mm) Paper inserted 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. Unit: mm Mark Name...
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Strong mucilage Paper inserted direction (1mm width) ◆ The combination requirements of multi-ply paper (NCR paper) We recommend using the perfect paper or which the quality is in the first class or above. The low quality NCR paper will affect the copy effect and the printer’s life. The papers which accord with the specification are shown as follows.
• Paper with the whole page folded can not be used. (As the paper strength has been changed even after amending.) • Please amend the fold of the corner to less than 2 mm. Paper with the whole page folded can not be used. Amend less than 2mm More than 15 mm...
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Single-ply paper White paper Paper Multi-ply paper NCR paper Width ≥ 140 Length Copy capability 7 copies (Original + 6 copies), paper weight based on the standard.of 40g/ m (Max.) Single-ply paper: 60 ~ Multi-ply paper (each sheet): 40 Weight ~...
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Figure of tractor 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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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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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. • Paper binding should be in the paper side and the surface should be even. •...
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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 places together The size and position of paper binding (Double-ply) Expanding figure of...
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◆ 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. Toothed hole Warp is less than 0.4 mm Toothed holes section ◆Binding hole, Clipped corner It is not support the paper which is with binding holes and clipped corners.
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. ◆ Print Size and Printable Area Envelope type Code name Length (mm) Width (mm) Support Sample 1...
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Sample 2 Envelope print direction and printable area Caution: • Envelope refers to single layer envelope. The double layer envelope is not supported and the envelope should not be with solid edge. • When the envelope pulp at the top or bottom, please don’t print at that area within 5mm. •...
8.1.6 Delivery Note Delivery notes here refers to the multi-ply papers (2-ply ~ 7-ply). Its paper size and printable area are based on the specifications of tractor paper and cut sheet. Moreover, the copy capability and printing precision are not guaranteed because they are affected by paper thickness and inner paper quality (such as, thickness).
Appendix A Self-test and Adjustment A.1 Self-test Function FB-600E printer supplies several print-test functions which make you run the self-test of the printer in different states. A.1.1 ASCII Test Mode After install the paper (tractor paper: 136 lines, manual paper feed: A4 paper), then use the following way to run the ASCII self-test.
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 Barcode type B5: Industrial 2of5 B6: Interleaved 2of5 B7: Matrix 2of5 BE: Code 128 Type B...
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