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  • Page 1 DP321...

  • Page 2: Important Safety Instructions

    DP321 User's Manual Important Safety Instructions Read all of these instructions carefully and thoroughly and save them for later reference. Follow all warnings and instructions in the manual as well as marked on the product. If the printer has been used just now, please not touch the print head for overheating.

  • Page 3: The Guide

    DP321 User's Manual Warnings, Cautions, and Notes Pay attention to the following promises when using this manual: Warnings: Warnings must be followed carefully to avoid bodily injury. Cautions: Cautions must be observed to avoid damage to your equipment. Notes: Notes contain important information and useful tips on the operation of your printer.
  • Page 4 DP321 User's Manual Break pin compensation function User can set the printer to print using the pin which is in good condition to compensate the break pin. Pin switch in turn function User can set pins to switch while printing form transverse line in order to improve print head life.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    DP321 User's Manual Table of Contents Important Safety Instructions......................i The Guide............................ii Chapter 1 Preparation ........................1 1.1 Unpacking & Checking......................1 1.2 Unpacking the Protective Materials..................1 1.3 Main Parts of the Printer ......................2 1.4 Choosing a Place for the Printer ....................2 1.5 Assembling the Printer ......................
  • Page 6 DP321 User's Manual 3.3 Explaining Menu Terms......................29 3.4 Restore the Default Settings ....................31 Chapter 4 Problems and Solutions ....................32 4.1 Problems and Solutions ......................32 4.2 Power Supply......................... 32 4.3 Printing........................... 32 4.4 Paper Handling ........................34 4.5 Alignment Adjust Mode ......................

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Preparation

    DP321 User's Manual Chapter 1 Preparation 1.1 Unpacking & Checking Check each item against the followi ng packing list, if any of these items is missing, please contact your dealer. Figure 1-1 Packing list Printer Ribbon cartridge (JMR108) Power cord...

  • Page 8: Main Parts Of The Printer

    DP321 User's Manual 1.3 Main Parts of the Printer Figure1-3, Figure1-4 and Figure 1-5 shown are main parts of DP321. Gap adjust lever Tear part Paper guide Paper select lever Power switch Print head Paper feed knob Control panel Ribbon cartridge...

  • Page 9: Assembling The Printer

    DP321 User's Manual 2. Adequate room around the printer to allow easy operation and maintenance. Make sure it’s close enough to the computer for the printer cable to reach, and be sure you can easily unplug the power cord. 3. Moderate environmental conditions. Select a cool, dry area and protect your printer from direct sunlight, excessive heat, moisture, or dust.
  • Page 10 DP321 User's Manual 3. Dismantle the tear part. Impact the locked piece both sides of tear part, then pull up the tear part shown as follows. Tear part Locked piece Figure 1-8 Dismantle the tear part 4. Pull the gap adjust lever to the highest position.

  • Page 11: Installing The Tractor

    DP321 User's Manual Figure 1-11 Install ribbon cartridge 8. Use hands or other auxiliaries, to guide the ribbon between the print head and metal patch. Turn the ribbon-tightening knob to feed the ribbon into place, it should not be twisted or creased.

  • Page 12: Installing The Push Tractor

    DP321 User's Manual 1.6.1 Installing the Push Tractor Take the installing slots on both sides of tractor aim at the installation pin which is in the back of printer, press forward till it locked into the position. (Shown as the following figure) Figure 1-13 Install the push tractor 1.6.2 Installing the Pull Tractor...

  • Page 13: Connect The Power Cord

    DP321 User's Manual 3. Compact the locked piece of the tear part (shown as the following figure), lift it upwards. Tear part Locked piece Figure 1-16 Take down the tear part 4. Take up the tractor aiming at the installation slot on the top of printer (the slot for the tear part to be installed), press the tractor until it locked into the slot according to the following figure.

  • Page 14: Running The Self-Test

    DP321 User's Manual 1.8 Running the Self-test The built-in self-test function demonstrates that the printer is working properly. You can run the test with either tractor paper or cut-sheets; this section describes the easier way of ASCII self-test, with cut-sheets.

  • Page 15: Connecting The Printer To Your Computer

    DP321 User's Manual Figure 1-22 Install cut-sheets Caution: Always close the printer cover while the printer is printing. The printer cover helps the paper feed properly. 5. To stop printing temporarily, press the ONLINE button. 6. To end the self test, make sure the printer is not printing. Press LF/FF or LOAD/EJECT button to eject the sheet;...

  • Page 16: Connecting To The Parallel Interface

    DP321 User's Manual 1.9.1 Connecting to the Parallel Interface 1. Turn off both the computer and the printer. Plug the parallel cable connector securely into the printer’s parallel interface. Squeeze the wire clips together until they lock in place on either side of the connector.

  • Page 17: Installing Driver

    5. Come out a window of “Install From Disk”. Please according to the operating system environment, you should select the path as follow: CD-ROM-“Driver”-“WIN 2000 (XP-Vista-Win7)”, that you can find a file named: DP321.inf, click “Open”, then click “OK”, click “Next”.
  • Page 18 5. Come out a window of “Install From Disk”. Please according to the operating system environment, you should select the path as follow: CD-ROM-“Driver”-“WIN2000 (XP-Vista-Win7)”, where you can find a file named: DP321.inf, click “Open”, then click “OK” to return to the window of “Manufacturers/Printers”, click “Next”.
  • Page 19 “Browse”, select the path as follow: CD-ROM-“Driver”-“WIN98 (WINME)”, where you can find a file named: DP321.inf “Open”, and then click “OK”. 4. Come out a window of “Install From Disk”, click “OK”, return to a window of “Add Printer”, then click “Next”.

  • Page 20: Chapter 2 Control Panel Operations

    DP321 User's Manual Chapter 2 Control Panel Operations You can use the four keys on the control panel to operate your printer. Figure 2-1 Control pannel 2.1 LED Description BLINK OFFLINE ONLINE Micro-Adjust ONLINE (Green) TURN OFF TURN ON PAPER OUT or ERROR...

  • Page 21: In The Cut-Sheet Mode

    DP321 User's Manual 2. If the paper is at the tear position in the offline mode, press ONLINE button, the printer will go back to the printing home position of the current page or next page. 2.2.2 In the Cut-Sheet Mode LF/FF If the paper is at the print position in the offline mode, press the LF/FF button once (less than 0.5...

  • Page 22: Feed Paper To The Tear Position

    DP321 User's Manual 2.2.5 Feed Paper to the Tear Position 1. Turn on the printer, hold the ONLINE button 3 seconds till the ONLINE indicator blinks with a beep in the offline mode. 2. Hold the TEAR button 3 seconds that you can switch the function of feeding paper to the tear position automatically ON or OFF.
  • Page 23 DP321 User's Manual Use the table below to select the appropriate paper thickness. Copies (including original) Lever position (Reserved) Standard paper (cut-sheets or tractor papers) Multi-part forms 20-pound Envelopes 24-pound (Reserved) - 17 -...

  • Page 24: Chapter 3 How To Use The Printer

    DP321 User's Manual Chapter 3 How to Use the Printer Here are the steps of using printer: 1. Assemble the printer as the chapter 1, connect the printer to your computer and install the driver correctly. 2. Load the correct type of paper.

  • Page 25: Printing On Tractor Papers

    DP321 User's Manual Figure 3-3 Raise the paper guide upright 4. Slide the left edge guide until it locks in place at the triangular guide mark. Next, adjust the right edge guide to match the width of your paper. As shown below.
  • Page 26 DP321 User's Manual position, such as continuous forms with printed tables, multiple sheets and labels. Here’s how to load tractor paper: Printing in the push tractor position 1. Make sure the printer is turned off. Remove the paper guide and place the paper-select lever in the tractor paper position.
  • Page 27 DP321 User's Manual sprocket unit to remove any slack in the paper and lock it in place. Now the paper is in the ready position. Figure 3-9 Load the continuous paper in the tractor Caution: Only paper jams are cleared when the printer is turned off, can use the knob on the right side of the printer.
  • Page 28 DP321 User's Manual position can not be adjusted for a further time. The position is in effect before next adjustment. (The margin set in the software can cover this adjustment, so you had better adjust the printing home position with the software.) 9.
  • Page 29 DP321 User's Manual Figure 3-13 Insert the tractor paper into the paper slot 5. Slide the left sprocket unit so that its sprockets match the position of the holes in the paper and lock the unit in place. Then slide the right sprocket unit to match the width of your paper, but do not lock it.

  • Page 30: Multi-Part Forms

    DP321 User's Manual tractor paper position. Remove the printer cover, adjust the gap adjust lever according to the paper type. 2. Make sure the tractor installed correctly (refer to chapter 1). 3. Load the tractor paper on the sprocket of the push tractor refering to “Printing in the push tractor position”.

  • Page 31: Labels

    DP321 User's Manual Figure 3-17 Raise paper guide 3.1.4 Labels You must use the tractor as a pull tractor to print on labels. Keep these tips in mind: 1. You load labels the same way you load tractor paper, except that thegap adjust lever should be set to 1.

  • Page 32: Using The Printer Setting Mode

    DP321 User's Manual 3.2 Using the Printer Setting Mode 3.2.1 To Print the Current Settings 1. Press the ONLINE button on the control panel as well as turn on the printer. The print head returns with the printer beeping once. If the ONLINE indicator is off and the power indicator blinks, it can be indicated that there is paper out.
  • Page 33 DP321 User's Manual Current Setting Report VX.X-XXX XXXX/XX/XX SYSTEM SETUP LANGUAGE ENGLISH CHINESE EMULATION EPSON CHAR. MODE ASCII CHINA CHARACTER FONT ROMAN SANS SER ENG PITCH 10 CPI 12 CPI 15 CPI PROPORTIONAL CHI PITCH 6.7 CPI 7.5 CPI INTL CHAR SET U.

  • Page 34: Online-Aptitude Parameter Settings

    4. Turn off the printer, and turn on again. 3.2.2 Online-aptitude Parameter Settings DP321 supports the function of online-aptitude parameter settings, which can be set in the PC with the driver installed in. The concrete setting steps are shown as follows: 1.

  • Page 35: Explaining Menu Terms

    DP321 User's Manual 5. The setting way is corresponding with that of printer menu system. In the “Printer Settings” layout, select the first class menu in the combobox of “Select Printer Setting Class”, select the second menu in the “Configuration” and set the item in the current parameters list.
  • Page 36 DP321 User's Manual 4. FONT Set the font for the printer to use in the absence of any font control instructions from your software. 5. ENG PITCH Set the pitch to determine the horizontal spacing of the printed English. 6. CHI PITCH Set the pitch to determine the horizontal spacing of the printed Chinese.

  • Page 37: Restore The Default Settings

    DP321 User's Manual please turn off this function. 20. TEAR POS Users can select the tear off position according to the requirement. 21. PIN SWITCH Select pins switch mode. The printer auto switches the different pin to print table line.

  • Page 38: Chapter 4 Problems And Solutions

    DP321 User's Manual Chapter 4 Problems and Solutions 4.1 Problems and Solutions Most problems you may encounter while operating your printer have simple solutions. You can check the operation of your printer using the self test. See “Running the Self Test” on page 1.6.
  • Page 39 DP321 User's Manual 1. The ribbon cartridge may not be installed properly. See “Installing the ribbon cartridge”. 2. The ribbon may be worn out. Replace the ribbon. 3. Check whether the gap adjust lever is too high, if so, please set the gap adjust lever to the corresponding position according to the paper thickness.

  • Page 40: Paper Handling

    DP321 User's Manual 1. It is also possible to adjust the loading position using the LF/FF button in the micro adjust mode. To use micro adjust, see “Micro-Adjust”. 2. Check the page length set by your software and adjust it in the sofeware or in the printer to match the paper length.

  • Page 41: Alignment Adjust Mode

    DP321 User's Manual 6. Check that the holes on the both sides of the paper are aligned with each other. Also, make sure the sprocket units are locked and their covers are closed. 7. Check whether the paper specifications meet the standard request according to the Appendix Phenomenon 3: The paper does not eject completely.

  • Page 42: Chapter 5 Printer Maintentance

    DP321 User's Manual Chapter 5 Printer Maintentance 5.1 Printer Cleaning Carriage shaft Figure 5-1 Printer cleaning Periodical cleaning and cleaning tool Periodical cleaning: every 6 months or 300 working hours Cleaning tool: Dry cloth (Use soft cloth while cleaning metal parts) Cleaning carriage shaft There is a layer of oil covered on the carriage shaft which guarantees the carriage runs smoothly.

  • Page 43: Appendix A Specifications

    DP321 User's Manual Appendix A Specifications A.1 General Item Description Type 9 Pin Dot Matrix Impact Printer Print direction Uni-directional or bidirectional logic seeking Number of columns 80 columns (10 CPI)/ 203.2 mm Normal peed High speed Super high speed...

  • Page 44: Printable Area

    DP321 User's Manual Cut sheet: Feed paper by friction Paper feed type Tractor paper: Feed paper by drive tractor Feed paper by draught tractor Cut sheet (Feed by tractor): Width: 148 ～ 257 mm Thickness: 0.065 ～ 0.14 mm Weight: 52 ～ 90 g/m Tractor paper (Feed from rear to front): Width: 101.6 ～...

  • Page 45: Tractor Paper

    DP321 User's Manual A: The minimum top margin ≥ 8.0 mm. B: The minimum right/left margin is 3.0 mm. However, the maximum printable width is 203.2 mm. C: The minimum bottom margin ≥ 9.0 mm. A.2.2 Tractor Paper A: The minimum top and bottom margin above and below the perforation are≥ 8.0 mm.

  • Page 46: Usb Interface

    DP321 User's Manual A.3.2 USB Interface The following table provides the standardized contact terminating assignments by number and color for Series “A” and Series “B” connectors of Full-speed USB 2.0. Contact Number Signal Name Color VBUS White Green Black Figure A-2 USB-B type connector A.3.3 Serial Interface...

  • Page 47: Appendix B Command Summary

    DP321 User's Manual Appendix B Command Summary This printer supports EPSON ESC/PK2 control commands shown as the follow table: Classify Command Description ESC @ Initialize Printer Cancel Line Select Printer Deselect Printer Delete Character ESC # Cancel MSB Control Sequence ESC >...
  • Page 48 DP321 User's Manual Select half-size mode pitch adjustment for character Cancel half-size mode pitch adjustment for character Select /Cancel high speed printing Select half-size mode for Chinese character Cancel half-size mode for Chinese character Select Chinese character print mode Select/Cancel form connect line...
  • Page 49 DP321 User's Manual ESC ( ^ Print Data as Characters ESC S n Select Superscript/Subscript Mode ESC T Cancel Superscript/Subscript Mode ESC C Set Form Length in Lines ESC C NUL Set Form Length in Inches ESC ( C Set Form Length in Defined Unit...

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