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  • Page 1 User Manual LQ540DX...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 Setting up the printer CHAPTER 2 Paper Handling CHAPTER 3 Using the printer CHAPTER 4 Software Utilities CHAPTER 5 Technical Specifications CHAPTER 6 Command Summary CHAPTER 7 Language Selection CHAPTER 8 Service Information...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Important: Your printer is covered under 1-year parts warranty. The warranty service can be obtained from our vast and strategically placed WeP Printer Service Centres. New features in this printer ∗...

  • Page 4: Setting Up The Printer

    CHAPTER 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER • Unpacking the printer • Finding a suitable location • Assembling the printer • Testing the printer • Connecting the printer to your computer UNPACKING THE PRINTER Checking the parts As you unpack the printer, check that you have all the parts shown below and that none have been damaged during transportation 1.

  • Page 5: Finding A Suitable Location

    FINDING A SUITABLE LOCATION When selecting a place to set up your printer, keep the following in mind. ∗ Place the printer on a flat surface. ∗ Place the printer close enough to the computer for the printer cable to reach * Leave adequate room around the printer or easy operation, maintenance and proper Ventilation.
  • Page 6 In case of your site condition not meeting the above limits, you must go for a voltage stabilizing equipment, which will ensure regulated supply of voltage to your printer. You may install Servo voltage stabilizer with high/low trip unit. CVT (Constant Voltage Transformer)/Line conditioner. iii.

  • Page 7: Assembling The Printer

    ASSEMBLING THE PRINTER Installing the ribbon cartridge 1. Make sure the printer is turned off. 2. Turn the ribbon feed knob in the direction of the arrow to remove excess slack in the ribbon. 3. Insert the ribbon between the ribbon mask and the print head and position the cassette so that the ribbon feed shaft is inserted into the hole under the ribbon feed knob.

  • Page 8: Attaching The Paper Guide

    5. Turn the ribbon feed knob of the cassette to tighten the ribbon. Manually move the printhead back and forth across the carriage bar to make sure that the ribbon is properly positioned in front of the printhead. Attaching the paper guide When you use single sheets, the paper guide functions to feed the paper smoothly and efficiently into the printer.
  • Page 9 1. Turn off both your printer and computer. Then plug the connector of the cable securely into the printer. 2. Squeeze the wire clips together until they lock in place on both sides of the connector. 3. Plug the other end of the cable to a 25 pin parallel port in your PC.

  • Page 10: Paper Handling

    CHAPTER 2 PAPER HANDLING * Using single sheets (Friction mode) * Using continuous sheets (Tractor mode) * Switching between continuous and single sheets * Printing on special paper USING SINGLE SHEETS (Cut sheet i.e., Friction mode) Loading a sheet 1. Turn on the Printer 2.

  • Page 11: Loading Continuous Paper

    6. Slide and position the left and right paper guides to match the paper width. 7. The paper automatically advances to the TOF (Top of Form) position when the paper is dropped along the paper rack (auto load function). USING CONTINUOUS PAPER (Tractor mode) Positioning your continuous paper supply Note: Its important to keep your paper supply aligned with the tractor so that the paper feeds smoothly into the printer.
  • Page 12 2. Open the tractor cover. 3. Align the holes in the paper with the tractor paper feed pins. 4. If necessary, pull the tractor lock lever to release the tractor and adjust the tractor positions for the width of the paper being used. 5.
  • Page 13 6. Move the friction lever to the tractor feed position (toward the front of the printer). 7. Make sure the power is turned on. 8. Make sure the power is turned ON. 9. The paper advances to the TOF position automatically whenever the print command is executed.

  • Page 14: And Single Sheets

    SWITCHING BETWEEN CONTINUOUS AND SINGLE SHEETS Switching to single sheets 1. Remove the printed document. 2. Press the ON LINE button to set the printer offline and press the LOAD/EJECT button to advance the continuous paper backward automatically to a standby position. The paper is still attached to the tractor, but no longer in the paper path.
  • Page 15 Paper Type Lever Position Thin paper 1 or 2 Paper (single sheets or continuous) Paper with standard ribbon installed 24 lb. paper (single sheets) Paper Type Lever Position Multi-part forms 2-sheets 3-sheets Labels Envelopes Airmail 4 or 5 Plain Bond (20 lb.) Bond (24 lb.) To get the proper printing, make sure that the print head gap (through bail lever) position should be selected as shown above.
  • Page 16 Multi-part forms With the built-in tractor unit, your printer can print continuous multi-part forms (four parts including the original). You can load the multi-part paper in the same way as you load continuous paper. The only difference is that the paper thickness lever is to be adjusted before loading.

  • Page 17: Using The Printer

    CHAPTER 3 USING THE PRINTER • Operating the control panel • Printer setting through the front panel • Adjusting the TOF position • Online micro-feed • Buffer clear / Panel Reset • Selecting type styles • Data dump mode • BI_D Vertical line adjustment OPERATING THE CONTROL PANEL LEDs POWER ON (green)
  • Page 18 FONT (Tricolour) The LED colour shows the present font (Character Per Inch) selected of the printing. Press the FONT button to change the LED colour. The following table shows the LED colour Vs FONT setting. LED Colour FONT DRAFT GREEN ROMAN ORANGE SCRIPT...
  • Page 19 PRINTER SETTING THROUGH THE FRONT PANEL Keep ONLINE pressed, switch ON the power. Present Settings are printed as follows. Sl.No. Setting 1. High speed draft Disabled Enabled 2. Input buffer 64KB 40KB BI-D 3. Print direction UNI-D Graphics 4. Character table Italics Optional Language 5.
  • Page 20 • For page length setting, select FONT LED (RED) & PITCH LED (RED). Press LF_FF to change the current setting. To execute the change press ONLINE. Printer prints out the changed setting. • To skip remaining printer settings at any time through the process, just power off the printer.

  • Page 21: Character Fonts

    BUFFER CLEAR / PANAL RESET Hold down the LF/FF, FONT & PITCH buttons together till printer gives BEEP sound. The printer buffer gets cleared and the default printer settings are loaded. SELECTING TYPE STYLES The printer can produce several type styles by using different fonts, character spacing and other print enhancement features.

  • Page 22: Data Dump Mode

    GREEN ORANGE No Colour (One Beep) No Colour (Two Beep) DATA DUMP MODE Press FONT and POWER on, to enter data dump mode. This mode prints printable test in ASCII format, which can be used for debugging. This mode will stay till you switch OFF the printer. BI_D VERTICAL LINE ADJUSTMENT PROCEDURE This BI_D adjustment is useful to make the vertical line alignment.

  • Page 23: Software Utilities

    CHAPTER 4 SOFTWARE UTILITIES: Your LQ540 Printer comes with the following utilities. The CD contains the relevant files and install programmes. User Manual Printer Drivers for • Windows 3.11 • Windows 9X • Windows 2K, XP, ME • Windows NT 4.0 •...

  • Page 24: Technical Specifications

    CHAPTER 5 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ∗ Printer specifications ∗ Interface specifications ∗ Initialisation PRINTER SPECIFICATIONS Printing method: 24-pin impact dot matrix. Printing speed: Quality Characters / inch Characters / second (CPI) (CPS) Draft High speed draft Letter Quality Printing direction Bi-directional logic-seeking for text and graphics Line spacing 1/6 &...
  • Page 25 Character fonts: Font Available sizes (CPI) Draft 10,12,15,17,20 Roman 10,12,15,17,20 Script 10,12,15,17,20 Other FONTS Prestige 10,12,15,17,20 Courier 10,12,15,17,20 Sans serif 10,12,15,17,20 Characters: 96 standard ASCII character set (including italic characters) 14 International character set 1 Legal character set EPSON Extended graphics character set Paper Paper feed methods: Friction (top) and built -in push feed (rear) tractor with paper tension unit.

  • Page 26: Paper Thickness

    Print Margins: Paper type Top Margin Bottom Margin L/R Margin Cut sheets 25.4 mm 19 mm Fanfold 8.0 mm 8 mm 13 mm Paperweight: Single sheet 14 to 24 lb Continuous 14 to 22 lb Multi-part forms 12 to 24 lb. X N Paper thickness: Single sheet 0.065 to 0.22mm...
  • Page 27 Printer physical details: Height 112 mm Width 400 mm Depth 280 mm Weight approx.3.5 kg (Net) ELECTRICAL: Operating voltage: 150 to 270 VACS Power consumption: Mode Max. Wattage Self test (10 CPI) 50 W Idle mode 15 W Frequency: 48 to 52 Hz CISPR 22 CLASS B Noise <...

  • Page 28: Interface Specifications

    INTERFACE SPECIFICATIONS: Parallel Interface: Connector pin assignments and a description of their respective interface signals are shown below: Signal Direction Description STROBE STROBE pulse to read data. Pulse width must be more than 0.5 µS at the receiving terminal. DATA 0 These signals represent information of the 1 and 8...
  • Page 29 SLCT Pulled up to 5 Volts through 1.3 K ohm resistance. AUTO When this signal is LOW FEEDLOW, the paper is automatically fed 1 line after printing. Not used Logic ground level CHASSIS Printers chassis ground, GND which is isolated from the logic ground. Not used 19 - 30 -- Twisted-pair return signal...
  • Page 30 • Return denotes the twisted-pair return, to be connected at signal ground level. For the interface wiring, be sure to use a twisted-pair cable for each signal and to complete the connection in the return side. These cables should be shielded and connected to the chassis of the host computer and the printer. •...

  • Page 31: Command Summary

    CHAPTER 6 COMMAND SUMMARY The Command Summary is available in "COMSUM.TXT". Type "edit comsum.txt" at the prompt to view it. To take a printout, type "copy comsum.txt > prn" at the prompt. The command summary contains all the commands used by the printer. If a command has no parameters, it is merely listed.

  • Page 32: Horizontal Motion

    ESC + n Select n/360 inch line spacing ESC J n Perform n/180 inch line feed Tab vertically ESC B nn Set vertical tabs max 16 tabs, n=0-255, last n=0 ESC bc nn Set vertical tabs in channels. ESC / n Select vertical tab channel (n=0-7) Horizontal motion...
  • Page 33 Dec 128 Hex 80- Underline ESC P Select 10 CPI ESC M Select 12 CPI ESC g Select 15 CPI ESC p 1/0 Proportional mode on/off Select condensed mode ESC SI Select condensed mode Cancel condensed mode Select double -width (1ine) ESC SO Select double -width (1 line) Cancel double -width (1 line)

  • Page 34: Character Sets

    Character sets ESC t n Select character table n = 0 Italics character table n = 1 EPSON extended n = 2 Remaps down loaded characters 0 - 127 to 128 – 255 ESC 4 Select 1italic mode ESC 5 Cancel italic mode ESC R n International character set...
  • Page 35 ESC Y Select High-speed Double- Density graphic mode ESC Z Select Quadruple-density Graphics mode ESC * m n1, n2 Select Graphics mode [ See Below] ESC ?S m Reassign graphics mode S=K1L1r1Z m = 0-6 as below Option Pins Horiz.density (dots/in) Single-density Double-density...

  • Page 36: Language Selection

    CHAPTER 7 LANGUAGE SELECTION ENABLING / DISABLING LANGUAGE Escape Command for Language selection. The escape command recommended for selecting language, is as given below. To select language one needs to send Esc ‘t’ 3 where 3 is the parameter defining Bilingual character set in which one can print English &...

  • Page 37: Character Set Selection

    Escape Commands for Indian Language Printing & character set selection. The escape commands recommended for selecting any one optional language, are as given below. Eg. To select optional (Tamil) language one need to send Esc ‘n’ ‘l’ 3, where 3 is the parameter defining the Tamil language.

  • Page 38: Service Information

    CHAPTER 8 Service Information For any kind of service, please feel free to approach the following WeP Offices & authorised service centre across the country OR call toll free service call centre. Bangalore Corporate Office Bangalore RO/WePCare 40/1A, Basappa Complex...
  • Page 39 DELHI Factory 1, MYSORE 310-311, International Trade tower 312, Hebbal Industrial area Nehru Place, New Delhi. 110 019 Mysore - 570 016 Ph: 91 11 26280364 / 26472399 Ph. +91 821 2402025/26/252 Fax: 91 11 2648336 Fax +91 821 2402024/16 Factory 2, EDM SECUNDERABAD HUBLI S.No.

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