GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer CONTENTS 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION................3 1.1 O ....................3 VERVIEW 1.2 F ....................3 EATURES 1.3 A ....................3 CCESSORIES 2. MAIN SPECIFICATIONS................. 4 3. EXTERNAL APPEARANCE AND PART DESCRIPTIONS ......5 4. INSTALLATIONS..................... 6 4.1 H...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 9.12 W ................37 INDOWS 10. EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS................38 - 2 -...
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION 1.1 Overview The GTP-290 Series Line Thermal Receipt Printer is designed for use with ECR, electronic instruments, computer peripheral equipment, kitchen printers and so on. 1.2 Features 1). Compact desktop Line Thermal printer.
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 2. MAIN SPECIFICATIONS Item Description 1 Printing method Thermal line 2 Printing speed Approx. 150~220mm / second 3 Number of columns 40 columns 4 Character structure 12x24 (alphanumeric) 5 Line pitch 1/6 inch (4.23mm)
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 3. EXTERNAL APPEARANCE AND PART DESCRIPTIONS 1 Printer cover 2 Cover open lever 3 Cutter cover 4 Power switch 5 Control panel 6 DIP switch cover 7 Interface connector 8 Power connector 9 Cash Drawer connector...
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 4. INSTALLATIONS 4.1 How to Connect Power Adapter (1) Ensure that the power switch is OFF. (2) Plug the power connector into the printer’s power connector at the arrow mark facing upward. (3) Plug the power cord into the outlet, and turn on the power.
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 4.3 Setting of the Printer Cover and Setting Paper (1) Push the cover open lever, and open the printer cover (2) Remove any used paper roll’s core, and insert the paper roll as picture...
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 5. CONTROL PANEL 5-1. Basic Operation (1) Feed Line feed button When this push-button switch is pressed once briefly (for 0.5 seconds or less), the paper is fed forward by one line. When it is held down continuously, the paper is fed forward continuously until the switch is released.
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 5-2. Switch Operation (Combined Switch operation) (1) SELF PRINT TEST LF + POWER ON (Turn the power on while holding the LF button depressed, the buzzer gives one short beep.) Self-testing will be performed according to the VER.
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer (2) HEXADECIMAL DUMP MODE Repeat + POWER ON (Turn the power on while holding the Repeat button depressed, the buzzer gives one short beep.) Each of the signals sent from the computer to the printer will be printed out in hexadecimal code.
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 5-3. Setting Please use screw driver to unlock the DIP switch cover at the bottom, open it as shown on picture right side and it shows DIP switch DIP1 & DIP2 Settings as below (1).
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 6. INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS GTP-290 provides RS232c, IEEE 1284, USB and other interface cards, which is replaceable for more convenient adjustment according to requirement. 6.1 Changing the interface card Turn off the printer and all components connected to it, remove the 2 screws and remove the interface card unit.
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 6.2 Serial interface specifications 6.2.1 Specifications (Conform to RS-232C) Synchronizing system : Asynchronous system Handshaking : DTR/DSR control Baud rates : 9600,19200,38400,115200 (Refer chapter 5-3) Data length : Fixed 8 bit length Parity : None 6.2.2 Pin assignment...
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 6.3 Parallel interface specifications 6.3.1 Specifications (Conform to Centronics) Data transmission format : 8-bit parallel Synchronizing system : According to the strobe pulses Handshaking : According to the BUSY signal Signal level : TTL level 6.3.2 Pin assignment...
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 7. DRAWER KICK CONNECTOR 7.1 Specifications (1) Data Transfer System The pulse specified by “ESC p” is output to this connector. The host can confirm the status of the input signal by using the “ESC u” command.
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 8. COMMAND 8.1 Control Codes list Command HT Code (Hex) 09 Horizontal tab Name Command LF Code (Hex) 0A Print and line feed Name Command FF Code (Hex) 0C Print and return to standard mode in page mode...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer Command ESC FF Code (Hex) 1B 0C Print data in page mode Name Command ESC SP n Code (Hex) 1B 20 n Set right-side character spacing Name Command ESC ! n Code (Hex) 1B 21 n...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer Command ESC 2 Code (Hex) 1B 32 Select default line spacing Name Command ESC 3 n Code (Hex) 1B 33 n Set line spacing Name Command ESC = n Code (Hex) 1B 3D n...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer ESC J n Command Code (Hex) 1B 4A n Print and feed paper Name ESC L Command Code (Hex) 1B 4C Select page mode Name ESC M n Command Code (Hex) 1B 4D n...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer Command ESC c 3 n Code (Hex) 1B 63 33 n Select paper sensors to output paper end signals Name ESC c 4 n Command Code (Hex) 1B 63 34 n Select paper sensor(s)s to stop printing...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer FS g 2 m a1 a2 a3 a4 nL nH Command Code (Hex) 1C 67 32 m a1 a2 a3 a4 nL nH Read from user NV memory Name Command FS p n m...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer GS : Command Code (Hex) 1D 3A Start/end macro definition Name GS B n Command Code (Hex) 1D 42 n Turn white/black reverse printing mode Name GS H n Command Code (Hex) 1D 48 n...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer GS \ nL nH Command Code (Hex) 1D 5C nL nH Set relative vertical print position in page mode Name GS ^ r t m Command Code (Hex) 1D 5E r t m Execute macro...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer Command GS v 0 m xL xH yL yH d1…dk Code (Hex) 1D 76 30 m xL xH yL yH d1…dk Print raster bit image Name Command GS w n Code (Hex) 1D 77...
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GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer Command FS S n1 n2 Code (Hex) 1C 53 n1 n2 Set left- and right-side Kanji character spacing Name Command FS W n Code (Hex) 1C 57 n Turn quadruple-size mode on/off for Kanji characters...
GTP-290 1 Station Thermal Line Printer 9. CHARACTER CODE TABLES 9.1 International Character sets ASCII (Hexadecimal notation) Country 23 24 40 5B 5C 5D 5E 60 7B 7C 7D 7E à ° ç § é ù è ¨ France §...
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