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Page 1: Mobile Printer
Technical Manual Mobile Printer 2000 DCA Intertel BV Distributieweg 25, 2404 CM Alphen a/d Rijn The Nederlands Phone: +31(0)172 604963 Fax: +31(0)172 605237 website: www.dca-group.com Intertel Intertel... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
Table of Contens 1. DESCRIPTION 1.1 Printer Overview 1.1.1 Control Panel 1.1.2 Push Buttons 1.1.3 Signal Lights 1.2 Connectors 1.3 Sensor - Paper End 1.4 Sensor - Automatic Form/Paper loading and advance 2. INSTALLATION 2.1 Unpacking 2.2 Procedure for Installation 2.3 CAUTION! 2.4 Power Supply 2.5 Printer Set up... - Page 3 4.3 CHARACTER SET 4.3.1 Control characters printing (German characters) 4.4 GRAPHIC CAPABILITIES 4.4.1 Graphics control characters 5. TECHNICAL INFORMATION MP 2000 5.1 Technical Specifications 5.2 Printing Specifications 5.3 Paper 5.4 Inked Ribbon Cartridge 5.5 Interfaces 5.6 Sensors 5.7 Power Supply 5.8 Environmental Limits...
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Page 4: Description
150 cps in draft mode and 25 cps in NLQ (Near Letter Quality) mode on multi-copy paper (one original and up to four copies). Due to its compact size and reduced weight (2.2 kg), the MP 2000 is particularly sui- ted for portable applications. -
Page 5: Control Panel
Back Feed Paper retracts by one line. When MP 2000 is “OFF LINE”, the combined activation of the “ON LINE” and “FORM FEED” push-buttons causes the printer to go “ON LINE”. It assumes then the actual paper position as “beginning of page”. Three beeps are generated to acknowledge the operation. - Page 6 After a “PAPER END” condition, when the printer is switched “ON LINE” after inserting new paper, the actual paper position is assumed to be the “beginning of page”. DCA Intertel ONLINE Paper End...
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Page 7: Connectors
1.2 Connectors See figure for connector pin numbering Specification for logic levels are the following: Output J1 low level: Vol < 0.5 Volt, lol = 5mA high level: Voh > 4.5 Volt, loh = -5mA Input J1 low level: Vil < 0.8 Volt, lil = -1.6mA high level: Vol <... -
Page 8: Sensor - Paper End
1.3 Sensor - Paper End A reflective sensor is used on the MP 2000 to detect the “PAPER END” condition. When this sensor detects the end of the currently printed sheet, the following takes place: a: printing stops b: the printer switches to “OFF LINE” (ON LINE indicator goes off) c: PE (Paper End) indicator comes on. -
Page 9: Sensor - Automatic Form/Paper Loading And Advance
1.4 Sensor - Automatic Form/Paper loading and advance The MP 2000 with serial interface has the ability to accept single forms. By inserting a single form sheet (with a maximum of four copies) in the printer, the paper will automatically go to “Top Of Form”. After the printing is finished, the paper/ form will automatically be ejected. - Page 10 QUICK JUMP COMMAND ESC #j+d+n The printer makes a forward or backward feed of the paper of “n” lines. d= 0 (binary or ASCII): forward feed d= 1 (binary or ASCII): backward feed n= number of lines (the dimension is set up by the proper command) to feed. The paper feeding is limited according to the form dimensions.
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Page 11: Installation
2. INSTALLATION 2.1 Unpacking Take the printer out of its shipping box and remove any padding material. It is ad- visable to keep the shipping box in case the printer needs to be re-shipped for repair, replacement or placed into storage. 2.2 Procedure for Installation Mechanical Installation Paper movement should meet the following requirements:... -
Page 12: Power Supply
2.4 Power Supply The MP 2000 should be powered by a direct current source whose voltage falls strictly within the following range : +10.8 to + 14.0 Vdc. Owing to the print head’s needle firing, it is important to consider that the printer, acts as a very discontinuous loads with I max. -
Page 13: Printer Set Up
2.5 Printer Set up The MP 2000 can operate with different hardware/software. It can be configurated by using the SW1/SW2 DIP-switch set, as shown in Fig. 3 The function of the DIP-swit- ches is shown in Table 3. TABLE 3 - DIP SWITCHES... -
Page 14: Paper Loading
2.6 Paper Loading MP 2000 can print on DIN A4/A5 size single sheet paper/forms or multi part paper/ forms or continuous fan-fold paper with hole to hole spacing of 227 mm (8.94”). -
Page 15: Inked Ribbon Cartridge Installation And Replacement
To execute this procedure, simply keep the “LINE FEED” push-button pressed while the printer is powered up. The test procedure prints the first page where general infor- mation about MP 2000 is given and the second page showing the different fonts. - Continuous Alphanumeric Test To execute this selftest, it is necessary to keep the BACKFEED push-button pressed while powering up the printer. -
Page 16: Interfaces
3.0 INTERFACES 3.1 TTL Interface Serial Data Format: -1 start bit -8 data bits -No Parity -1 stop bit The transmission rate is selectable within the following values: 1200/2400/4800/9600 Baud. Baud rate selection is performed by setting dip-switches SW1-1and SW1-2 according to paragraph 2.5 Most important is to set SW1-3 according to the chosen serial interface, this being the protocol XON-XOFF (XON = 17dec.= 11hex;... -
Page 17: Rs 232- Serial Interface
Table 6 shows the pinout for connector J3 (10 way flat cable), used to connect the printer to the host computer. TABLE 6 - TTL SERIAL INTERFACE CONNECTOR J3 DIRECTION FUNCTION output +Vp for suppl. ext. dev. Imax=200mA output +Vp for suppl. ext. dev. Imax=200mA output +5V for suppl. -
Page 18: Parallel Interface
3.3 Parallel Interface The parallel interface board allows for data exchange with the printer under the cen- tronics parallel protocols. The pinout is shown in Table 8. The parallel interface board can’t be used at the same time with the T.O.F. sensor. TABLE 8 - PARALLEL INTERFACE CONNECTOR SIGNAL DESCRIPTION... -
Page 19: Printer Function
4. PRINTER FUNCTION 4.1 Printing Formats MP 2000 can print in different styles and formats, which can be selected by using sui- table command sequence (character strings preceded by the ESC character: Escape = 27 dec = 1 Bhex) A selection of different styles can be performed during the actual printing of the docu- ment. -
Page 20: Reset (Operating Commands.)
4.2.1 RESET (OPERATING COMMANDS.) ESC @ Printer reset Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: The printer is reset to the initial conditions and default settings. ASCII code 64 can re- present different characters according to the national character set used and the code could therefore appear with different symbols on the keyboard(see table 10) 4.2.2 Aligment Tuning ESC # J n... -
Page 21: Page Control
= 1 enables unidirectional printing n = 0 disables unidirectional printing MP 2000 normally prints text with bidirectional print head movement. This command forces unidirectional print and allows for a more accurate text positioning. Unidirectional printing can be useful when the ASCII extended graphic character set is used (from 176 dec to 223 dec.), which requires the finest vertical alignment tuning. -
Page 22: Sensors
ESC C NUL n Page length in inches Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: Page length is set to “n” inches ( 1 inch = 25.2 mm), where “n” is ranged between 1 to 12 (01hex...0Chex). The beginning of the page is assumed to be the current page position. -
Page 23: Buzzer Control
where: means reserved: these bits are not meant to be handled by the user. Therefore these should not be used. means printer activity: A=1 printer is ON LINE and is actually printing A=0 printer is ON LINE and is waiting for data to be printed. -
Page 24: Data Control
Comment: n = 1 enables “POWER ON” LED flashing n = 0 disables “POWER ON”LED flashing This command allows for disabling the POWER ON Led flashing, that normally comes on when supply voltage goes under the 11.5 Vdc threshold. Disabling this function could be necessary when the printer is powered at a voltage value between 10.8 and 11.5 Vdc. -
Page 25: Paper Feed
4.2.9 PAPER FEED Line Feed Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: All data in the input buffer are printed and the sheet advances by one line. The length of the actual fed paper is equal to the set line spacing. ESC J n Advance sheet by n/216 inch Format: ASCII:... - Page 26 Line spacing is set to n/72 of an inch (1/72” = 0.353 mm) for subsequent line feed commands. The range for “n” is from 0 to 85 (00hex...55hex). Note: When using uni A4 sheets on MP 2000 printer the minimum line spacing pitch becomes 1/217 of an inch (0.117 mm).
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Page 27: Vertical Margins (Format Commands)
4.2.10 VERTICAL MARGINS (FORMAT COMMANDS) ESC N n Set bottom margin Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: Set bottom margin to “n” lines from sheet’s bottom edge; “n” ranges from 1 to 127 (01hex...7Fhex). Actual bottom margin length will be determined by the set line spa- cing. - Page 28 channel “n” 0 is used. If no vertical tab has been set, the paper advances by one line. This command prints out all the remaining data left in the input buffer. ESC B n1 n2...NUL Set vertical tabs Format: ASCII: n2...NUL decimal: n2...0...
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Page 29: Horizontal Margins
4.2.12 HORIZONTAL MARGINS ESC 1 n Set left margin Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: The left margin is set to “n” columns from sheets edge, where the column width is equal to the current character width; “n” value ranges from 0 to 160 (00hex...A0hex), but it is ignored if a margin higher than 8 inches (230 mm) is selected. -
Page 30: Horizontal Tabs
4.2.13 HORIZONTAL TABS Horizontal tabs Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: Pre-setting Presetting of horizontal positions within the line is possible with the HT character, to facilitate for example form or table printing. By this command the print head is moved to the next position of horizontal tab setting. -
Page 31: Text Justification Controls
4.2.14 TEXT JUSTIFICATION CONTROLS ESC a n Select justification mode Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: It is often convenient to print one or more centered lines, or texts with right and/or justified margins. This command causes text justification to be automatically perfor- med while printing. -
Page 32: Print Pitch (Printing Styles)
Comment: Selects a combination of styles listed in Table 9, where “n” is a figure obtained by summing up the identification numbers of the desired styles, e.g. to print a title in double width, double strike Elite character the following values must be added: Elite (12CPI) double-strike double-width... -
Page 33: Character Width
4.2.17 CHARACTER WIDTH Select condensed printing Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: This command causes the characters be reduced by the 60% of their normal width and it is cancelled by the DC2 command. ESC SI Select condensed printing Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment:... -
Page 34: Print Styles
Cancel double width printing for 1 line Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: This command cancels double width printing only if it has been activated by the SO or ESC SO commands; double width printing selected by the ESC W n or ESC ! n com- mands is not affected. - Page 35 Comment: Each character is printed twice, with the second character printed slightly under the previous one. Double strike printing can be combined with emphasized printing. Doub- le strike printing is not available in the NLQ mode, but the command is not cancelled if it has been sent before switching to NLQ mode.
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Page 36: National Character Set
Comment: n = 1 enables underlining n = 0 disables underlining All characters are printed underlined, including spaces. 4.2.19 NATIONAL CHARACTER SET ESC 4 Select italics printing Format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: Characters following this command are printed in italics. ESC 5 Cancel italics printing Format:... -
Page 37: Character Set
NOTE: When the printer switches off from the standby mode, the print head positioning procedure is performed and a shift of a few tenths of a millimetre on both the vertical and horizontal print head positions might occur. It is possible to exit from standby mode at any time by sending the ESC # s 0 command or by pressing the “ON LINE”... -
Page 38: Graphic Capabilities
ESC 7 Cancel “ESC 6” commands Format: ASCII: ESC 7 decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: This command, whose response is opposite to ESC 6, allows for using characters from 128 to 159 as control characters. 4.4 GRAPHIC CAPABILITIES The graphics pattern is printed immediately; if the dots are more than the possible dotline, the printer begins an other line. - Page 39 ESC K n1 n2 d select 8-bit single density bit image printing format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: Single density bit image mode is selected. If d value represents the total number of columns: n1 = dMOD 256 n2 = INT (d/256) This has the same effect as “ESC”...
- Page 40 ESC Z n1 n2 d select 8-bit quadruple-density image printing format: ASCII: decimal: hexadecimal: Comment: quadruple-density, bit image graphics is selected. If d value represents the total number of columns: n1 = dMOD 256 n2 = INT (d/256) This has the same effect as “ESC” with m set to 3. It is also possible to define again “ESC K”...
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Page 41: Technical Information Mp 2000
5. TECHNICAL INFORMATION MP 2000 5.1 Technical Specifications -printing housing Caged enclosure(for EMI suppression) 3 parts made of 1 mm Stainless Steel Dampingpads for noise suppression -printing method dot matrix impact printing (ballistic, 9 pins) -printing direction horizontal, bi-directional printing with optimum path, logic search... -
Page 42: Printing Specifications
1/216” and 255/216” (0.118 mm ...29.99 mm) -character set IBM FULL ASCII 256 (fig.) 5.3 Paper -Type MP 2000: DIN A4/A5 single sheet or continious forms -width 210 mm (DIN A4/A5) 240 mm (continious forms) -sprocket hole to hole distance 227 mm +/- 0.125 mm... -
Page 43: Inked Ribbon Cartridge
5.4 Inked Ribbon Cartridge -type snap-on cartridge -color black/purple -duration purple: 1.2 x 106 characters temperature: 5° + 50°C black: 0.7 x 106 characters temperature: 10° + 50°C 5.5 Interfaces TTL logic serial level (baud rate 1200/2400/4800/9600) RS-232C serial board Centronics parallel board 5.6 Sensors -paper end... -
Page 44: Dimensions And Weight
2.2 kg 6. MAINTENANCE 6.1 Care and Cleaning The MP 2000 does not require special maintenance, except for the following: −Periodical cleaning, to the print head bearing rod with isopropylic alcohol or some- thing similar. −When the printer has suffered a major shock or whenever bad quality printing is experienced, you need to measure the distance between print head and printing plate. -
Page 45: Spareparts By Article Number
8. SPAREPARTS BY ARTICLE NUMBER Paper Tray Inkribbon pkge of 4 2098001 Ruggedized Housing (Parallel or Serial) 2098002 Power Connector 2 PIN 2098003 Power Connector 3 PIN 2098004 DB 9 Serial Connector Female 2098005 DB 9 Serial Connector Male 2098006 DB 25 Parallel Connector Female 2098007 DB 25 Parallel Connector Male...