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Rev. 1.5
MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3
Direct Thermal Printer
MTP-850P / 8100P / 8100P3
210mm
/ 216mm
[A4]
[US Letter]
200 dpi / 300 dpi Printing Resolution
User Manual
1/54 Page
Mechatro, INC.

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  • Page 1 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 Direct Thermal Printer MTP-850P / 8100P / 8100P3 210mm / 216mm [A4] [US Letter] 200 dpi / 300 dpi Printing Resolution User Manual 1/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 2 New description for Windows Driver. Now the driver is available with Auto-installer. Installation of the driver has been modified. 2007/09/20 CE certificate is added FCC certificate is added 2007/12/15 Paper Specification is changed. Black mark specification is added. 2/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 3 All rights reserved. No matter what form, reproduction or modification of this document is forbidden. This document is carefully written and checked by Mechatro, INC. however, there may be an omissions or errors. If you see any omissions or errors, please let us know.
  • Page 4 This manual contains the information such as printer specification, DLL commands list, printer lay-out drawings...etc. Printer features MTP-850P/8100P/8100P3 is 8inch (210mm~216mm) paper width direct thermal printer that features; 50mm/sec Printing Speed for MTP-850P 100mm/sec Printing Speed for MTP-8100P and MTP-8100P3...
  • Page 5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 Model Classification Chart of MTP-8xxxx Series Mechanism Printer Printer w/ Presenter Option 200dpi Resolution Optional MTP-850B MTP-850C MTP-850P 50 mm/sec Speed 8inch Paper Roll 200dpi Resolution MTP-8100B MTP-8100C MTP-8100P 100 mm/sec Speed Holder...
  • Page 6 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 CE Certificates 6/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 7 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 FCC Certificates 7/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 8: Table Of Contents

    3.2 Removing a Paper Jam 3.3 Self-Test Printout 4. Printer Set up 4.1 Text Oriented 4.2 Driver Oriented 4.3 Commands for BeginDOC 4.4 Commands for Your Program 4.5 Status Monitor 4.6 Status Monitoring Program 4.7 Errors and Error Recovery 8/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 9: General Printer Information

    1. General Printer Information 1.1 Components A. Exterior View 1. Printer 2. Cutter 3. Presenter with Retractor 4. Motor 5. Keys and LEDs 6. Cutter Cover 7. Presenter Cover 8. Paper Exit Direction 9. Paper Entrance Direction 9/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 10 1. TPH up/down Lever 2. Serial (RS-232C) Interface 3. USB 2.0 Interface 4. Power Connector The power connector on the picture shows 2-pin connector. But in our production unit, it is 4-pin connector. Please refer power connector specification. 10/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 11 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 C. Exterior View (Back Side) 1. Power Switch 2. Adjustable Paper Guide 3. Near - End Sensor Connector 11/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 12: Indicators

    3. While you are press and holding the “Test” button, turn on the power. 4. The printer will print one sample page and now you are in “Test Mode” To go back to “Communication Mode”, turn off the power and turn back on. - Blank Space - 12/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 13: Specifications

    (2) Print Speed : 50 mm/sec = MTP-850P 100mm/sec = MTP-8100P, MTP-8100P3 (3) Dot Pitch : 0.125 mm (8 dots/mm) = MTP-850P, MTP-8100P 0.08 mm (12 dots/mm) = MTP-8100P3 (4) Paper Loading : Semi Auto Paper Loading or Manual Loading (5) Paper (Thermal) ①...
  • Page 14 (25) Core Diameter Min 30mm when using our Paper Roll Holder Due to down loop presenter; MTP-850P / 8100P / 8100P3 require using paper roll described as below picture. Printing Surface Temperature sensitive coating side is internally rolled 14/54 Page...
  • Page 15 Mechanical switch is located just below the cover. This mechanical switch detects the cover open or not open. (10) Presenter Cover Sensor Mechanical switch is located just below the cover. This mechanical switch detects the cover open or not open. 15/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 16 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 F. Sensor Locations Note: TPH Thermostor is located inside the TPH (Thermal Print Head) Near-End Paper sensor is located in the Optional Paper Roll Holder Mechanical Switches are not described in above drawing 16/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 17: Dimensions

    MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 1.4 Dimensions (All units are in mm) Top View with mounting holes position YOU CAN DOWNLOAD DWG (AUTO-CAD) FILE FROM OUR HOMEPAGE Paper Insert Paper Exit Direction Direction 17/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 18 Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 Left Side View When you design your enclosure, please remember to have clearance space for looped paper. Blue line describes paper path of the printer 18/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 19 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 Right Side View with opening cover Prepare enough space for opening covers described in below drawing. Blue line describes paper path of the printer 19/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 20 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 Optional paper roll holder with mounting holes dimensions 20/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 21: Installation

    To ensure proper printer operation, design the printer enclosure so that it prevents direct sunlight or light from the indoor lamps from reaching the sensor through the paper entry. Do not install lamp near the printer inside your enclosure. C. Possible installation example 21/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 22: Aligning Paper Roll Holder

    Below drawing describes dimensions for centering the paper roll holder with the printer As you can see from above drawing, end line of left side screw fastening frame is aligned. When you design your own paper roll holder, please make sure to center the paper roll holder. 22/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 23: Adjusting Paper Width

    3. If you move both screws to inner side the paper width is set to 210 mm A4 size If you move both screws to outer side the paper width is set to 216 mm US letter size. The printer is set to 210 mm A4 size when you first open the box 23/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 24 3. Adjusting paper width on the paper roll holder is basically same method as on the printer. Moving the side frames to inner side will give you A4 (210 mm) paper width, Mobbing the side frames to outer side will give you US Letter (216 mm) paper width. 24/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 25: Adjusting Near-End Sensor Position

    You can “Swing” adjust to find your suitable warning time. 2.5 Connecting to the computer A. Using the serial (RS-232C) interface Connect the printer to the serial port of the computer to be used. Computer Printer 2(Rx)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------2(Rx) 3(Tx)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------3(Tx) 4(TR)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------4(DTR) 5(SG)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------5(SG) 6(DSR)------------------------------------------------------------------------------6(DSR) 7(RTS)------------------------------------------------------------------------------7(RTS) 8(CTS)------------------------------------------------------------------------------8(CTS) 25/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 26: Connecting The Power

    3. Connect the power cable to the line outlet. 4. Turn on the power supply. B. Power Connector Information Header = Molex 5569-04 Housing = Molex 5557-04 Molex 5556 Function Housing Female Terminal Note: Red Cable = +24Vdc Black Cable = GND 26/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 27: Windows Driver Installation

    4. After click on Install button, the message will pop up. If this is first time of MTP-8100 Series driver installation, please click OK. If you have previous version of MTP-8100 series driver is installed in your PC, please erase it first and click OK. 5. Keep following guided steps to install the selected component. 27/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 28: Operation

    After auto-feeding, the printer will cut and eject 1 print. 5. Press ‘Test’ button to see if you correctly install the paper. Test print couple times. Before inserting the paper, make sure you cut it cleanly. 28/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 29: Removing A Paper Jam

    2. Open the cutter cover and presenter cover. 3. Remove and tear the jammed paper. 4. Close the cover and down position the thermal print head leaver. 5. Insert the paper again then printer will automatically feeds the paper. 29/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 30: Self-Test Printout

    When you press this button, the printer will print 2 different test patterns. B. Feed Button When you press this button, the printer will eject one blank document. Press this button when you first set the paper on the printer. - Blank Section - 30/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 31: Printer Set Up

    Windows dialogue boxes. A. Printing Preferences You can reach the Printing Preference either through the button in the Printer Properties or directly through right-click printer menu in the Printers Control panel. 31/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 32 For MTP-8xxxPx series, you need to choose A4 size or Letter size or Custom size. You can select dpi of the printer; For MTP-850P and MTP-8100P, you must select 200 DPI For MTP-8100P3, you must select 300 DPI By choosing custom size at the Paper Size selection box, you can be able to choose your own paper size.
  • Page 33 B. Normal (100mm/sec) C. Fast (125mm/sec) For MTP-850P customer, you must select “Slow” for your printing speed. For MTP-8100P and MTP-8100P3 customer, you must select “Normal” for your printing speed. The MTP-8xxxPx series printer can print up to 125mm/sec. But this option will reduce your print quality by 30%.
  • Page 34 Next job will start after first job is completely finished. Next Job: If user does not take the last page within 30sec, and if next job is coming to the printer, the printer will retract the holding page immediately and start the new job. 34/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 35 If user does not take the last page within 30sec, and if next job is coming to the printer, the printer will retract the holding page immediately and start the new job. 7. Page Holding Mode. Please refer item Retract setting for this option. 35/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 36 This feature will allow you to set the length of the feeding before printer cut the paper. Also 0 -255 level increased by 1mm. Example: 200 = 200mm 11. Paper Eject. This feature will allow you to length of the paper ejected. Also 0-255 level increased by 0.725mm. Example: 200 = 145mm. 36/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 37 If you want to send command after printing Page, you will need to write your command in this typing box. Length of Line Feed = Do not use this function. Please leave ‘0’ in the typing box 37/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 38: Commands For Begindoc

    Selects printing speed n from the following table: Printing Speed Slow (50mm/sec) Normal (100 mm/sec) Fast (125 mm/sec) [Default] n = 0(50mm/sec Model), n = 1(100mm/sec Model) [Example] \x1c\x62\x01 (100 mm/sec printing speed) FS b n command allows you to select printing speed. 38/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 39 Selects printing density n from the following table: Speed Level 0 Level 1 Light Dark Level 14 Level 15 [Default] n = 8 [Example] \x1c\x63\x08 FS c n command allows you to select printing density which means darker or lighter the print. 39/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 40 For example, if you select N value for 0, the printer will start as soon as you send the data to the printer. If you select N value for 5, the printer will wait 5sec then print after data received from the host. For 300dpi model, only “Page Download” method is working. 40/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 41 Retract/Retract(Wait 120sec) Retract/Retract(Wait 150sec) Retract/Retract(Wait 180sec) Retract/Retract(Wait 210sec) Retract/Retract(Wait 240sec) [Default] n = 3 [Example] \x1c\x65\x03 (Eject/Retract –wait 30sec) This command will allow you to control printer presenter function which is retraction or ejection of the receipt. 41/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 42 A4 size page. If you send 1 job with 10 pages of print that is A4 size and if you select N value for 4, the printer will cut after the job is completely finished means 1 cutting. 42/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 43 This function will allow you to select the cutting position on the black mark on your paper For example, if your paper’s black mark size is 6mm. and if you want to cut in the middle, please select n value for 3 which is 3mm. 43/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 44 0 = 0mm, 1 = 0.786mm ~ 255 = 200 m [Default] n = 250 [Example] \x1c\x67\xFA This function will allow you to select length of the paper eject. Basically, value 0 ~ 255 means 255 steps. Each step is length of 44/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 45: Commands For Your Program

    You can either insert command in your program or type in Windows dialogue box. Below is sample code Write User Code by WIN32 API #include <stdio.h> #include <windows.h> int main(void) BOOL testWriteUserData(HANDLE hPrint); char PrinterName[]="Mechatro Thermal Printer Series"; HANDLE hPrinter; DOC_INFO_2 DocInfo; DWORD JobId; memset(&DocInfo, 0x0, sizeof(DocInfo)); DocInfo.pDocName = "Test"; DocInfo.pOutputFile = NULL;...
  • Page 46 User Manual Rev. 1.5 MTP-8 50P / 8 100 P / 810 0P3 Write User Code by Mechatro Thermal Printer Series Driver Extention #include <stdio.h> #include <windows.h> BOOL testUserCode(HDC PrintDC); int main(void) char PrinterName[]="Mechatro Thermal Printer Series"; HDC PrintDC; PrintDC=CreateDC("winspool", PrinterName, NULL, NULL);...

  • Page 47: Status Monitor

    To use Status Monitoring on MTP series printer, you must select check box on printer properties dialogue box as shown below picture. Mechatro Thermal Printer Series Mechatro Thermal Printer Series If you enable bidirectional support, the below listed command will be automatically send to the printer at the beginning of the document and end of the document.
  • Page 48 Decimal Function Not used. Fixed to Off. Undefined. Cover is closed. Cover is open. Undefined. Not used. Fixed to On. No paper-end stop. Printing stop due to paper-end. No error. Error occur. Not used. Fixed Off. 48/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 49 Paper near end is detected by the paper near end sensor. Undefined. Not used. Fixed to On. Paper end sensor. Paper adequate. Paper end is detected by the paper end sensor. Undefined. Not used. Fixed Off. 49/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 50 Below is sample code for your program to ask printer’s status. Get Last Checked Printer Status #include <stdio.h> #include <windows.h> int main(void) char PrinterName[]="Mechatro Thermal Printer Series"; HANDLE hPrinter; DWORD Type, Needed=0, ErrorCode; DWORD IsChecked, LastCheckTime; BYTE EpsonStatus[4]; if(!OpenPrinter(PrinterName, &hPrinter, NULL)) printf("[ERROR] fail to OpenPrinter.\n");...

  • Page 51: Status Monitoring Program

    ● If you click tray icon, the status box will pop up. ● If error occurs, the status box will automatically pop-up and hide after 10 sec. ● If the Job is done without any problem, the status will show as below picture. 51/54 Page Mechatro, INC.

  • Page 52: Errors And Error Recovery

    This is more likely a warning rather than the error. Once you replace the old paper roll to new paper roll, this error will be recovered. Even though, there is a near-end paper error, the printer will still be working. 52/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 53 With over 15 years of experience in thermal Kiosk/ATM printers, we will provide you our design and solution. New Development If you are looking for new printer development, please contact us. From the design to manufacturing, we will take care of you everything with our solution. 53/54 Page Mechatro, INC.
  • Page 54 Loaner Printers While your printers are in our factory service, we can provide you loaner printers when available. Please contact us for details. Customers are subject to pay all shipping cost. MECHATRO, INC. Address 459-40 Gasan-Dong, Geumchun-Gu Seoul, Korea 153-803 Telephone...

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