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  • Page 1: User Manual

    User Manual MAN10xxx-01...

  • Page 3: User Manual Compuprint

    User Manual Compuprint 2056 Declare About Trademark Corporation names and product names are the registered trademarks or commodity names of the corporation. ＊ EPSON and ESC/PK2 are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corporation. ＊ IBM and IBM 2391 are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.
  • Page 4 User Manual Compuprint 2056 Important Safety Instructios Read all of these instructions carefully and thoroughly and save them for later reference. The unauthorized operation would lead to malfunction or accident. Manufacturers have no responsibilities for the problems which are led by unauthorized operations.
  • Page 5 User Manual Compuprint 2056 A. When the power cord or plug is damaged or frayed. B. If liquid has been spilled into the product. C. If the product has been exposed to rain or water. D. If the product does not operate normally when the operating instructions are followed.
  • Page 6 User Manual Compuprint 2056 Overview First thanks for purchasing this Compuprint printer. Your printer is a 24-pin 80-column dot matrix printer, offering a wide range of features and multiple functions. It can be widely used in tax, mail, telecom, police, hospital, insurance, finance, stock, customhouse, cabaret, aviation and transport etc.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    User Manual Compuprint 2056 Table of Contents 1.1 Unpacking and Checking ....................1 1.2 Removing the Protective Materials ..................1 1.3 Main Parts of the Printer ....................1 1.4 Choosing a Place for the Printer ..................2 1.5 Installing the Ribbon Cartridge ..................2 1.6 Connecting the Power Cord ....................
  • Page 8 User Manual Compuprint 2056 Table of Contents Chapter 4 Troubleshooting ....................43 4.1 Problems in Power Supply ....................43 4.2 Problems in Printing ......................43 4.3 Paper Handling ........................ 45 4.4 Alignment Adjust Mode ....................46 Chapter 5 Printer Maintenance and Technical Service ............ 48 5.1 Cleaning the Printer ......................

  • Page 9: Unpacking And Checking

    1. Open the packing box, take out the printer. 2. Save all the original packing materials, so that it can be used when transporting the printer. 1.3 Main Parts of the Printer Figure1-2 and figure1-3 show the main parts of COMPUPRINT 2056. Gap adjust lever Window Print head...

  • Page 10: Choosing A Place For The Printer

    User Manual 2056 Rear cover Paper guide slider Tractor Paper feed knob Power switch Serial interface Power supply inlet Parallel interface Ethernet interface USB interface USB interface Figure 1-3 Main parts of the printer (rear view) Note: Please take the specific interface as standard. 1.4 Choosing a Place for the Printer When selecting a place to set up your printer, choose a convenient location that provides the following:...
  • Page 11 User Manual 2056 Window Print head Figure 1-4 Open the window 3. Put the gap adjust lever to the highest position. 4. Slide the print head to the middle of the printer. (As shown in figure 1-4) Note: Never move the print head while the printer is on, or it may damage the printer.
  • Page 12 User Manual 2056 Ribbon knob Ribbon guide slice Ribbon nip Print head Figure 1-6 Install ribbon 7. Turn the ribbon knob in the direction of the arrow to remove any slack from the ribbon so it is easier to install. 8.

  • Page 13: Connecting The Power Cord

    User Manual 2056 1.6 Connecting the Power Cord 1. Make sure the printer’s power is turned off. (The pressed down side on the power switch with “O” mark denotes the printer is off.) 2. Make sure the voltage required by the printer matches that of your electrical outlet. 3.
  • Page 14 6. To end the self test, make sure the printer is not printing. Press LF/FF or LOAD/EJECT key to eject cut sheet; then turn off the printer. ASCII Self-test mode COMPUPRINT 2056 VX.X XXXXXXX/XX/XX SN: XXXXXXXXXXX !"#$%&’( )*+-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`ab !"#$%&'( )*+ /0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^ `abcd Figure 1-11 ASCII Self-test mode Note: If the self test did not print satisfactorily, see details in Chapter 4.

  • Page 15: Connecting The Printer To Your Computer

    User Manual 2056 1.8 Connecting the Printer to Your Computer The printer configures with a parallel interface, two USB interfaces, a serial interface or an Ethernet interface. (Please take the specific interface as standard) Connect the printer to the computer with the correct cables. Before you begin, place the printer upright, as shown in figure 1-12.

  • Page 16: Connecting To The Usb Interface

    User Manual 2056 1.8.2 Connecting to the USB Interface 1. Plug the USB cable A end (flat shape) into the computer's USB interface. 2. Plug the USB cable B end (square shape) into the printer's USB interface (As shown in figure 1-14).

  • Page 17: Installing Printer Driver

    User Manual 2056 Ethernet interface Ethernet interface cable Figure 1-16 Connect to the Ethernet interface Note: The detailed instructions of network setting please refer to the User’s Manual. 1.9 Installing Printer Driver Please use the cable to connect computer with printer, then turn on the computer and the printer, put the driver CD into the CD-ROM.
  • Page 18 User Manual 2056 2) The installing steps of parallel interface for Windows 7 are as follows: 1. Click “Start” → “Device and Printers”. 2. Click “Add Printer”, then it pops up a window of “Add Printer Wizard”, click “Local printer” in the “Local or Network Printer”...
  • Page 19 User Manual 2056 (2) The installing steps with the USB cable: Note: 1. As the system of Windows 98/ME doesn’t have integrated USB driver control, please install USB driver before using USB interface printing. Then install USB printer driver. 2. If it has installed the USB driver, please install the USB printer driver directly as the following steps.

  • Page 20: Network Settings

    User Manual 2056 1.10 Network Settings Please use Compuprint network setting software NetFinder to set the IP address for Compuprint printers, which can be found in the CD or downloaded from web site: www.compuprint.com. Note: The network printing function needs the operation system of Windows 2000 or above.
  • Page 21 User Manual 2056 2. Search printer Click "Search" key in the main interface, the dialogue box appearing would begin searching automatically and displays the status, listing a printer in the main interface if found. The time is counting down in the progress bar (10s in total) and the search would finish as soon as the time is over.
  • Page 22 User Manual 2056 1) Correlative description for IP address settings In order to search and set printer’s IP address conveniently for the first time, the factory default setting is DHCP mode which assigns IP address dynamically. If there is no DHCP server in the connected LAN and printer is set to DHCP mode as well, then it would use the internal pre-set address (IP: 10.0.0.1, Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0) automatically.

  • Page 23: Installing Printer Network Driver

    User Manual 2056 3) Report printer’s IP address Report the printer’s IP address, which would be used in the section “Newly-install printer network driver” or “Upgrade-install printer network driver (setting driver’s network port)”. 1.10.3 Installing Printer Network Driver The ways of installing network driver are classified into Newly-install way and Upgrade- install way according to whether the PC is installed the printer driver or not.
  • Page 24 User Manual 2056 7) A window of “Additional Port Information Required” pops up, select “Custom” in the “Device Type”, then click “Settings”. 8) A window of “Port Settings” pops up. Affirm that “Port name” and “Printer name or IP address” are correct, “Protocol” is “RAW” and “Port Number” is “9100”, click “OK”. MAN10xxx-01...
  • Page 25 The concrete steps are shown below: 1) Click “Start” → “Settings” → Select “Printers”. 2) Right click COMPUPRINT 2056 driver, click “Properties” on the window popping up. 3) A window of “Properties” pops up; click “Ports” and “Add Ports”.
  • Page 26 User Manual 2056 4) A window of “Printer port” pops up, select “Standard TCP/IP Port”, click “New port”. 5) A window of “Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Next”. MAN10xxx-01...
  • Page 27 User Manual 2056 6) A window of “Add a port” pops up, import the IP address reported by the “Setting printer’s IP address” in the “Printer name or IP address” column. Take IP address “192.168.0.240” for example. “Port name” is created automatically after finishing filling in IP address.
  • Page 28 User Manual 2056 9) Return to “Additional Port Information Required”, click “Next”. 10) A window of “Completing the Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard” pops up, click “Finish”. 11) Return to “Printer Ports”, click “Close”. 12) Return to “Properties”, make sure the network port is selected, click “Apply”, and then click “Close”.
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  • Page 30: Chapter 2 Control Panel

    User Manual 2056 Chapter 2 Control Panel 2.1 Control Panel There are 5 keys and 3 LED indicators on the control panel. (Shown as figure2-1) Figure 2-1 Control 2.2 LED Description BLINK PAPER OUT Normal —— Paper out or malfunction ONLINE ——...

  • Page 31: Other Function Descriptions Of Control Panel

    User Manual 2056 Note: Print speed is divided into Normal print mode (letter mode or normal speed mode), the high speed mode and the super high speed mode. If Letter mode is set through online aptitude parameter setting or menu setup mode, press SPEED key on the control panel when offline, print speed will switch among letter mode, high speed mode and super high speed mode.

  • Page 32: In The Cut Sheet Mode

    User Manual 2056 2.4.2 In the Cut Sheet Mode LF/FF If the paper is at the print position in the offline mode, press the LF/FF key (less than 0.5 second), the printer would feed the paper one line based on the current line spacing setting. Alternatively, hold the LF/FF key down, the printer would eject the paper until the cut sheet is entirely ejected.

  • Page 33: Feed Paper To The Tear Position

    User Manual 2056 1. Turn on the printer. Pull the paper-select lever to tractor paper mode, press LOAD/EJECT key to load tractor paper. 2. Press ONLINE key to ensure the ONLINE LED blinks. Hold on pressing ONLINE key for about 3 seconds till the printer beeps once. The ONLINE LED and PAPER OUT LED blinks alternately.

  • Page 34: Paper Select Lever

    User Manual 2056 2.5 Paper Select Lever Paper select lever is to set the printing mode for cut sheet or tractor paper. For cut sheet, you need to pull the paper select lever to the position for cut sheet before loading. For tracor paper, pull the paper select lever to the position for tractor paper before loading.

  • Page 35: Chapter 3 How To Use The Printer

    User Manual 2056 Chapter 3 How to Use the Printer Here are the steps of using printer: 1. Install the printer as the description in chapter 1, connect the printer to your computer and install the driver correctly. 2. Load the correct type of paper. 3.
  • Page 36 User Manual 2056 2. Close the window, and pull paper select lever toward the cut sheet position. Figure 3-2 Adjust the paper select 3. Raise the printer rear cover to the proper position (shown as figure 3-3), then turn on the printer.

  • Page 37: Loading Tractor Papers

    User Manual 2056 5. Slide a piece of cut sheet down firmly between the right and left paper guides until it meets resistance. The printer loads the sheet automatically. (Shown as below) Figure 3-5 Install cut 6. Adjust the printing home position according to the steps of Chapter Micro-Adjust of the Printing Home Position and the Tear Position if necessary.
  • Page 38 User Manual 2056 2. Close the window, and set paper select lever toward the tractor paper position. Figure 3-7 Adjust the paper select lever 3. Pull up the right handle of the tractor to loosen the right tractor. (Shown as below) Right handle Right tractor cover Figure 3-8 Loosen the right tractor...
  • Page 39 User Manual 2056 Figure 3-10 Install the tractor paper on the tractors Note: Only when the printer is off and the jammed paper is removed, can the paper feed knob on the right side of the printer be used. Otherwise, the printer may be damaged and printing home position may be changed.

  • Page 40: Loading Multiply Papers

    User Manual 2056 3.1.3 Loading Multiply Papers The installing ways of multi-ply papers and tractor paper are the same. Just pay attention to the following tips: 1. Mus lift up the rear cover refer to the figure below, otherwise, it may cause paper jam during printing.

  • Page 41: Changing The Printer Settings

    User Manual 2056 Figure 3-12 Loading the envelope 3. Make sure the printout stays entirely within the printable area or the print head may be damaged (See the Appendix for specifications). It’s a good idea to print a test sample using a normal single sheet of paper before you print on the envelopes.

  • Page 42: Current Setting

    User Manual 2056 Compuprint 2056 Current Setting VX.X XXX XXXX/XX/XX SN: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX SANS SER COURIER PRESTIGE SCRIPT OCR-B OCR-A FONT ORATOR ENG PITCH 12 CPI 15 CPI PROPORTIONAL 7.5 CPI CHI PITCH LINE SPACING 8 LPI 3 INCH 3.5 INCH...

  • Page 43: Online-Aptitude Parameter Settings

    4. Turn off and restart the printer, newly settings are in operation. 3.2.2 Online-aptitude Parameter Settings COMPUPRINT 2056 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:...
  • Page 44 “Control panel”, click “Hardware and Sound” to find “Devices and printers”, at last, open the window of “Devices and printers”. 4. Right click “COMPUPRINT 2056”, select “Properties”. 5. Click “Printer settings” in the Properties page and open the window of “Printer settings”.
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  • Page 46 User Manual 2056 6. The left side of each items is the parameter icon, the top right is the item name and the bottom right is the current setting. The current settings of the printer will be loaded automatically when opening each parameters settings window. If the printer isn’t online or uses the wrong port, the current settings will be blank, therefore, please make sure the printer is in ONLINE mode and the printer should connect the computer with the correct port.
  • Page 47 User Manual 2056 7. When setting the parameter, please click the parameter icon firstly to open the parameter setting window. In the parameter setting window, there are parameter items, item explanation and control buttons. After selecting the corresponding parameter, click “Set”, the printer will change the setting at the moment it receives the changed command.

  • Page 48: Printer Setting Description

    User Manual 2056 8. If you need to change multi-items, please refer to the upper steps to modify them one by one. 9. After finishing setting, click “OK” to exit the Properties window. 3.3 Printer Setting Description Terms Description Specify a kind of ASCII fonts to print when printer receives character printing FONT task.
  • Page 49 User Manual 2056 Terms Description EMULATION Specify printer's control commands. Choose the printing quality to normal or LQ, when setting to LQ, printer will print in the highest printing quality. PRT-QUALITY Note: Letter Quality is only valid when the printing speed is normal.
  • Page 50 User Manual 2056 3.4 Restore the Factory Default Settings 1. Hold on pressing the TEAR, LOAD/EJECT and LF/FF keys on the control panel at the same time while turning on the printer. The PAPER OUT and ONLINE LEDs on the control panel blink 3 times simultaneously and the printer beeps twice to confirm that printer’s settings have been reset.

  • Page 51: Chapter 4 Troubleshooting

    User Manual 2056 Chapter 4 Troubleshooting You may encounter some problems while operating your printer. Please refer to this chapter for solution. You can check the operation of your printer using the self test. See “Printer self-test function” on chapter Self-test. If the self test works properly, the problem probably lies in the computer, the software, or the interface cable.
  • Page 52 User Manual 2056 Phenomenon 2: The ONLINE LED and PAPER OUT LED blink, the printer beeps once. Solutions: The printer may be out of paper. Load paper in the printer. Phenomenon 3: The printer sounds like it is printing, but nothing is printed. Solutions: 1.

  • Page 53: Paper Handling

    User Manual 2056  Printed characters are not what you expected Phenomenon 1: The fonts or characters you sent with your software can not be printed out. Solutions: Check whether the driver is correctly installed for your printer. For instructions, see chapter Installing the Printer Driver.

  • Page 54: Alignment Adjust Mode

    User Manual 2056  Tractor paper does not feed properly Phenomenon 1: The tractor does not feed the paper. Solutions: 1. Check that the paper select lever is pulled forward to the tractor paper position. If not, move the lever to the correct position. 2.
  • Page 55 User Manual 2056 Alignment adjustment includes normal print mode adjustment and copy mode adjustment. Alignment test and adjusting procedure of normal mode adjustment: 1. Turn on the printer, and then install 80 columns tractor paper correctly. 2. In the online mode, press and hold on the LOAD/EJECT key and TEAR key until the PAPER OUT and ONLINE LEDs blink simultaneously, the printer enters the alignment adjust mode and print out the DPI alignment setting.

  • Page 56: Chapter 5 Printer Maintenance And Technical Service

    User Manual 2056 Chapter 5 Printer Maintenance and Technical Service 5.1 Cleaning the Printer Carriage shaft Figure 5-1 Cleaning the Cleaning periodically and the cleaning tool Periodical cleaning: Every 3 months or 300 working hours Cleaning tool: Dry cloth (Use soft cloth to clean metal parts) Cleaning carriage shaft There is a layer of oil covered on the carriage shaft which guarantees the carriage runs smoothly.

  • Page 57: Appendix A Specifications

    User Manual 2056 Appendix A Specifications A.1 General Specification Item Description Printing 24-pin Dot Matrix Impact Printer method Print direction Bidirectional logic seeking Printing width 80 columns (10cpi) / 203.2 mm ASCII Character 10 CPI Speed Letter 102 CPS Print speed Normal speed 150 CPS High speed...
  • Page 58 User Manual 2056 Item Description This printer can be configured with the following interfaces: Parallel Interface: Centronics (IEEE1284 NIBBLE) USB Interface 1: 2.0 Full-Speed USB Interface 2: 2.0 Full-Speed Interface Serial Interface: RS-232C Ethernet Interface: 10/100Base-T Please take the specific interface as standard. Input buffer 132 KB Model: PRKN2056...
  • Page 59 User Manual 2056 Item Description Compress Support graph and character compress printing. printing Special Pin Break Compensation; Pin Rotation Replacement; Automatic function Emulation Match; Online Aptitude Parameter Setting. Physical 384 (width) × 280 (depth) × 139 (height) mm dimensions Weight Approx.

  • Page 60: Interface Specifications

    User Manual 2056 A.2 Interface Specifications Your printer can be equipped with a parallel interface, two USB interfaces, a serial interface or an Ethernet interface. The printer switches automatically to the appropriate interface when it receives data. A.2.1 Parallel Interface The parallel interface has the following characteristics: 8-bit Data format:...

  • Page 61: Ethernet Interface

    User Manual 2056 Serial pin assignments The following table lists the serial connector pin assignments and describes their respective interface signals. Signal Direction Description — Frame Ground (FG) Printer’s chassis ground Transmitted Data Printer has transmitted serial data (TXD/SD) Received Data Printer has received serial data (RXD/RD) —...

  • Page 62: Printable Area

    User Manual 2056 A.3 Printable Area Note: 1. To assure the print quality, please make sure the print contents are within the printable area. 2. If the print contents exceed the printable area, the print head may be damaged. Cut Sheet: ≥...

  • Page 63: Appendix B Commands Summary

    User Manual 2056 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 64 User Manual 2056 Command Description Classify FS & Set Chinese character mode FS · Cancel Chinese character mode FS SO Select Double Width Mode (Chinese) FS DC4 Cancel Double Width Mode Select/Cancel quadruple-size mode for Chinese FS W character FS J Select lengthways printing FS K Select transverse printing...
  • Page 65 User Manual 2056 Classify Command Description ESC k Select Font Style ESC X Select ASCII character width and height ESC P Select 10CPI Mode ESC M Select 12CPI Mode ESC g Select 15CPI Mode ESC p Select/Cancel Proportional Mode ESC x Select Print Quality ESC 4 Select Italic Mode...
  • Page 66 User Manual 2056 Command Description Classify ESC C Set Form Length in Lines ESC C NUL Set Form Length in Inches ESC ( C Set Form Length in Defined Unit ESC ( c Define Form Format ESC N n Select Skip-Over-Perforation ESC O Cancel Skip-Over-Perforation ESC l...
  • Page 68 COMPUPRINT s.r.l. Via Cottolengo, 77 10072 Caselle T.se (TO) ITALY SPECIFICATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE. This manual refers to various company and products by their trade names. In most of the cases, these designations are claimed as trademarks or registered tramarkers by their respective companies.

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