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Compuprint SP40 User Manual

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  • Page 1 Rev. 001...

  • Page 2: Com Puprint Products Inform Ation

    Your printer is a reliable working equipment that will be very useful in your daily job. Our printers have been designed to be compact and respectful of the work environment. They offer a wide range of features and multiple functions that confirm the high technological level reached by the CPG printers with Compuprint brand.

  • Page 3: Fcc Notes

    CPG advises the customers not to use products for which the compliance to this safety rules are not warranted. Finally seek your dealer or contact a CPG office and be sure that are provided you the original Compuprint branded consumables.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Printer Setup ...23 Entering the Printer Setup Mode ...23 Printing the Test Page ...24 Printing the Printer Setup Forms ...28 Filling in the Printer Setup Forms ...30 Setup Parameters ...31 Of f set Adjustments ...43 Reading the Preprinted Forms ...47 Printer Setup Ov erv iew...48...

  • Page 5: Printer Presentation

    The operator places the paper on the front table and the printer loads it without any other user intervention. The paper ejection towards the front or the rear of the printer allows an easy access to the printed document. • Automatic document alignment feature The printer checks automatically the alignment of the top margin of the document and adjusts it, if necessary.
  • Page 6 • S tandard parallel and serial interface and automatic switch-over function. • Easy printer setup through an optically managed menu. • Supported emulations: Epson 570, IBM Proprinter XL24E, XL24E AGM , IBM 2390+, 4722, 9068 and Olivetti PR40+, PR2, 2845.

  • Page 7: Unpacking The Printer

    • Power cable • CD-ROM with the printer documentation and drivers. Always keep the packing material in a safe place as you must repack the printer into it, when Notify any damage to your supplier. you need to move it.

  • Page 8: Printer Parts

    Never remove any printer part unless it is expressly indicated in this manual. Printer Cover Operator Panel Paper Stand Power-on Push-button...

  • Page 9: Inside View

    Printhead Print Head Assembly Print Area Paper Jam Removal Cog-wheel...

  • Page 10: Rear View

    Power Cable Connector Serial Interface Cable Connector Parallel Interface Cable Connector...

  • Page 11: Printer Installation

    • Your printer must not be exposed to direct sunlight, extreme heat, cold, dust or humidity; • When printing on standard paper formats, the paper comes out partially on the rear side of the printer. M ake sure that behind the printer there is sufficient clearance to correctly move the paper.

  • Page 12: Installing The Power Cable

    1. Find the power cable connector and the rating plate on the rear side of the printer. 2. Insert the power cable into the connector on the printer and the other end into a convenient mains outlet. 3. Press the key on the left side of the printer front to power the printer on.

  • Page 13: Installing The Ribbon Cartridge

    In order to avoid damaging the print head assembly, this printer accepts only original Compuprint ribbon cartridges. Therefore, if you install a not original cartridge, the printer may 1. Remove the cartridge from its bag. Turn the tension knob in the direction of the arrow to tighten the ribbon.
  • Page 14 2. Open the printer cover. 3. Open the print head assembly pushing the two green levers towards the rear of the printer. The print head assembly moves up.
  • Page 15 4. M ove the print head to the middle of the print carriage bar. 5. Insert the upper cartridge pins (1) onto the corresponding groove on the print head assembly. Then push the lower pin (2) into the corresponding lower groove until it clicks into place.
  • Page 17 6. Insert the ribbon mask onto the print head: match the two grooves (1) on both sides of the ribbon mask with the pins (2) on both sides of the print head. 7. Push the mask up until it clicks into place.
  • Page 18 9. Push the print head assembly down, until it clicks into place. If you do not close the print-head assembly correctly, the printer does not print and you may 10. Close the printer cover. damage the printer cover.

  • Page 19: Paper Handling

    This printer is designed for versatile and reliable paper handling. The flat-bed mechanism allows the handling of special documents, such as multiple invoices, postcards, labels, passbooks and tickets. The print head detects the paper edges automatically, the sheet can therefore be inserted in any position within the detection area according to the rules described in the following paragraph.
  • Page 20 • Before inserting a passbook into the printer, open it and crease it in both directions along the binding stitch, so that the passbook lays flat on the paper stand when it is inserted into the printer. • The document may not exceed the limits of the paper stand.

  • Page 21: The Operator Panel

    The operator panel is located on the front left side of the printer and is composed of function keys and leds with which you can easily check the printer status and select the functions as described below: STATION STAT ION...

  • Page 22: Function Key S

    STATION1 Pressing this key, when the printer is offline, or when the printer is online and no print data are in the buffer, the printer ejects the paper, if inserted ( EJECT function). In the Olivetti emulation, the EJECT function may be performed only if the printer is offline.

  • Page 23: Leds

    Unlit, when the printer is off line. ON L INE Blinks, when data are present in the printer buffer and the printer is not ready (offline or paper out condition). If the printer is in Setup M ode, this led indicates which setup page is selected for printing. See “...

  • Page 24: Softw Are Driver Selection

    Together with the printer you receive a CD-ROM containing the printer drivers for the Windows environment. This printer supports the Plug&Play facility in the Windows 95 / 98 / 2000 / NT4.0 / M illennium® environment.

  • Page 25: Connection To The Host

    This printer can be connected to the host by means of a parallel standard Centronics or bi-directional IEEE 1284 type interface or by means of the serial RS-232/C interface. Proceed as follows: M ake sure that both the host and the printer are turned off.

  • Page 26: Setting The Interf Ace Parameters

    The parameters set for the parallel interface match most of the most common environments and the printer can be used immediately after the connection to the host. In case you need to modify the standard parameters see “ Because of the great variety of the possible connection configurations, when you use the serial interface you will need to set the parameters accordingly.

  • Page 27: Printer Setup

    The following is the complete description of the Setup Procedure. To enter the Printer Setup M ode press and hold the ON LINE key pressed for at least 1 second while powering the printer on. The printer enters the Setup M ode.

  • Page 28: Printing The Test Page

    Printing the Printer Setup Forms • Insert a filled-in Printer Setup Form to set the corresponding Setup values. The Self Test page is useful to test, if the printer has been correctly installed, and allows to see the current parameter settings.
  • Page 29 HONOR CTS INPUT BUFFER PARITY BIT 8 Kb none...

  • Page 30: Program Setup

    PROTOCOL FONT FAST LQ HORIZONTAL PITCH VERTICAL PITCH LOCK FORM LENGTH LEFT MARGIN RIGHT MARGIN TOP MARGIN BOTTOM MARGIN IBM C-SET IBM COMPRESS EPSON C-SET NATION C-SET CODE PAGE OLIVETTI C-SET VERT. RESOLUTION RESET WITH EJECT LINE MODE WRAP MODE SLASHED ZERO PRINT DIRECTION EJECT ON FF...
  • Page 31 VERT.POS 1/10” VERT.ADJ 1/60” HORIZ.POS 1/10” HORIZ.ADJ 1/60”...

  • Page 32: Printing The Printer Setup Forms

    If you already have the preprinted forms for the printer setup, go to “ Filling in the Printer Setup 1. With the printer in Setup M ode, insert a blank sheet in A4 or Letter format. 2. The printer loads the sheet and stops.
  • Page 33 4. Pressing the STATION2 key, the printer prints the selected Setup Page. The printer setup forms contain all printer parameters and the values that can be set. The current value is indicated by an asterisk (*). For a detailed description of the parameters and the settings see “ Setup Parameters ” later in...

  • Page 34: Filling In The Printer Setup Forms

    If more than one value is set for a parameter, the printer ignores these parameters and Do not fill in the marker beside the title of the preprinted form, otherwise the printer will not be For a detailed description of the parameters and values contained in the Configuration and Program1/Program2 M enus, see “...

  • Page 35: Setup Parameters

    JOB BUZZER no beep, Description The selected values are not set to factory defaults. The values set in all printer setups are reset to factory default values. The values set in the configuration setup are reset to factory default values.
  • Page 36 1 beep, signal ( no beep continuous continuous ), one beep ( ) or a continuous signal 1 beep...
  • Page 37 Selects the buffer size. When the 'financial' interface is selected, this setting is ignored. Selects w hether the printer signals the paper empty condition ) or not ( disabled enabled...
  • Page 38 XON/XOFF+DTR...

  • Page 39: Security Mode

    Setup Parameter Values ROBUST XON enabled, disabled WORD LENGTH 7 bit, 8 bit BAUD RATE 600 – 115200 bps PARITY BIT even, odd, none SECURITY MODE enabled, disabled PASSBOOK TYPE Fixed thick Vertical Horizontal GET EDGE QUOTE 0/2”, 1/2”, 2/2”, 3/2”, 4/2”, 5/2”, 6/2”, 7/2”...
  • Page 40 Configuration Menu to INTERFACE TYPE financial Selects the font. Selects the fast LQ printing mode. The printer prints at 120dpi instead of 180 dpi. Selects the character spacing in characters per inch (cpi). Selects the line spacing in lines per inch (lpi).

  • Page 41: Form Length

    Setup Parameter Values FORM LENGTH # lines, A4, letter, A5, legal Example: How to set the form length to 82 lines: FORM LENGTH #lines A4 100 x 10 x Setup Parameter Values LEFT MARGIN 10 x Example: How to set the Left M argin to 20. LEFT MARGIN Description Sets the page length in number of lines or standard formats A4, Letter,...

  • Page 42: Top Margin

    10 x ( ) ( ) Setup Parameter Values RIGHT MARGIN 100 x 10 x Example: How to set the Right M argin to 101. RIGHT MARGIN 100 x 10 x ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Setup Parameter Values TOP MARGIN 10 x...

  • Page 43: Bottom Margin

    10 x ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Setup Parameter Values BOTTOM MARGIN 10 x Example: How to set the bottom margin to 34 lines: BOTTOM MARGIN 10 x ( ) ( ) Setup Parameter Values IBM C-SET IBM set 1, IBM set 2 IBM COMPRESS 17.1 cpi, 20 cpi...
  • Page 44 Code Pages to be used w ith the Olivetti protocol. Sets the vertical character resolution. Setting used for the OLIVETTI protocols. When the printer receives a reset command, selecting it ejects the paper, selecting it performs only the reset command.

  • Page 45: Slashed Zero

    RESET WITH EJECT no, yes Description If the printer receives a LF code (LF), it only performs a line feed. If the printer receives a CR code (CR), it only performs a carriage return. If the printer receives a CR code (CR), it performs a carriage return follow ed by a line feed.
  • Page 46 command.

  • Page 47: Print Impact

    For a precise adjustment of the position of the printed characters on a preprinted form, the printer allows to easily adjust the first line and the first printing column as follows: 1. When the printer is in Setup M ode, press the STATION1 key until the leds are lit in the following configuration: 2.
  • Page 48 OFFSET TUNING SETUP Vertical Position Offset (1/10 INCH) PROGRAM 1 ( )* PROGRAM 2 ( )* Vertical Offset Tuning (1/60 INCH) PROGRAM 1 PROGRAM 2 Horizontal Position Offset (1/10 INCH) PROGRAM 1 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )* ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) PROGRAM 2 ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )* ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Horizontal Offset Tuning (1/60 INCH)
  • Page 50 The Vertical Offset Tuning values correspond to 1/60 inches and set the vertical offset of the first print line starting from the default standard position at 1 mm from the upper paper margin. The Horizontal Offset Tuning values correspond to 1/60 inches and set the horizontal offset of the first print line starting from the default standard position at 3 mm from the left paper margin.

  • Page 51: Reading The Preprinted Forms

    When the Printer Setup Forms have been filled in, insert them back into the printer, when the printer is in Setup M ode. The printer is able to recognize the Setup Forms by means of the markers on these pages. The printer reads the values marked for the various parameters and configures the printer accordingly.

  • Page 52: Printer Setup Ov Erv Iew

    Printer OFF ON LIN E O N L INE ON LIN E O N L INE ON LIN E EJECT STATION STATI ON EJECT STATION STA TIO N EJECT STATION STATION EJECT STATION STATION ON LIN E Printer ready Setup Mode...

  • Page 53: Troubleshooting

    The straight paper path of this printer is designed for trouble-free handling of a great variety of documents. In case a paper jam condition occurs, proceed as follows: 1. Open the printer cover. 2. Open the print-head assembly pushing the green levers towards the rear of the printer. The print-head...
  • Page 54 3. Remove the jammed paper, pulling it towards the front of the printer. 4. In case it is not possible to remove the jammed paper because you cannot reach it with your hand or it is embedded so that you cannot move it, rotate the cog-wheel beside the paper path lever to free the paper.

  • Page 55: Paper Damaged Af Ter Printing

    5. Push the print head assembly down, until it clicks into place. If you do not close the print-head assembly correctly, the printer does not print and you may 6. Close the printer cover. If the paper damaged after printing , it probably does not correspond to the specifications given in this manual or was not loaded according to the indications given.

  • Page 56: Ribbon Cartridge Problems

    If the problem is not solved, change the ribbon cartridge. Change the ribbon cartridge. T he printer checks the inserted cartridge, to avoid damaging the print head assembly due to incorrect ribbon feeding. Insert an original Compuprint ribbon cartridge.

  • Page 57: Paper Specifications

    • The form to be printed must not contain foreign material. • Form opacity must be at least 75%. Forms with a lower opacity may cause feed errors. • Never print on documents with metallic or hard plastic fasteners or staples, they may damage the printer. Use only sewn passbooks.

  • Page 58: Cuts Sheets

    Dim ensions Form width Form length Distance between dot position and left or right paper edge Distance between top of the first printed line and top margin of the document Distance between the lower margin and the lower part of the last printed line Weight (original) Weight...

  • Page 59: Passbooks

    Paper Weight Thickness Multiple Page Passbooks Horizontal Fold T hickness difference across the fold of an open passbook Horizontal Fold Vertical Fold Single Page Passbook or Ledger Cards Covers • Passbooks with torn, folded, creased, incomplete or warped pages or covers should not be used. •...

  • Page 60: Passbooks With Horizontal Fold

    Insertion direction Print Area ABCD ABCD Print Area Dim ension Passbook width Passbook length Distance between print character position and left or right edge Distance between top edge of the document and top edge of first printed line Distance between bottom of last printed line and bottom edge of the document...

  • Page 61: Passbooks With Vertical Fold

    Insertion direction A BCD Print Area ABCD ABCD Dim ension Passbook width Passbook length Distance for the dot position nearest to the left or right edge Distance from the top edge of the document to the top edge of the first printed line Distance from the bottom of the last printed line to the bottom edge of the...

  • Page 62: Technical Specifications

    400 cps @ 10 cpi (Draft) 133 cps @ 10 cpi (LQ) Em ulation IBM ® Personal Printer 2390+, Proprinter XL24E, Proprinter XL24AGM, IBM 4722, 9068, Epson 570 and Olivetti PR40+, PR2, 2845 Resident Fonts Draft, Courier, Gothic, Prestige, Presentor, Script, OCR-A, OCR-B, Boldface...
  • Page 63 Character Sets (OLIVETTI protocols) CS000 – CS010 International, CS020 Germany, CS030 Portugal, CS040 Spain1, CS050 Denmark/Norw ay, CS060 France, CS070 Italy, CS080 Sw eden/Finland, CS090 Sw itzerland, CS100 Great Britain, CS110 USA ASCII, CS140 Greece, CS150 Israel, CS170 Spain 2, CS200 Jugoslavia, CS410 Olivetti TCV 370, CS510 SDC, CS520 Turkey, CS540 CIBC, CS680 OLI-UNIX, CS701 PC-220 Spain2, CS711 PC-Denmark/Norw ay, CS712 PC- Denmark OPE, CS771 PC-210 Greek Barcodes...
  • Page 64 Auto Alignment Auto Border Recognition Ribbon Life 4 million characters (black) Reliability MTBF: 10,000 hours Duty cycle 28000 pages/month Physical Dim ensions & Weight 400 (W) x 295 (H) x 200 (D) mm < 12 Kg Pow er Supply Type Universal - autosw itching Pow er consumption: <...

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