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ActionPrinter 2250
PC 850 (Multilingual)
PC 860 (Portuguese)
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Interface specifications
Your printer is equipped with an 8-bit parallel interface.
Specifications and pin assignments
The built-in parallel interface has the following characteristics:
Data format:
8-bit parallel
Synchronization:
STROBE pulse
Handshake timing:
BUSY and ACKNLG signals
Signal level:
TTL compatible
Connector:
36-pin 57-30360 Amphenol connector or
equivalent
Default settings
The table below shows the default settings that take effect when the printer is
initialized.
Item
Top-of-form position
Page Length
Default setting
Current paper position or setting in the default-
setting mode.
Single sheets: 65 lines for A4-size paper,
61 lines for letter-size paper, 22 inches for
manual insertion
Continuous paper: Subject to control panel
setting in the default-setting mode
Left and right margins
Canceled
Line spacing
1/6-inch
line
spacing
Horizontal tab positions
Every eight characters
Font selection Last font selected on control panel
Special printing effects
Canceled [except condensed printing)
Download character set
Hardware initialization: cleared
Software initialization deselected only
In
addition, hardware initialization clears the data buffer.
Character Tables
You can select these character tables with the default-setting mode or by using a
software command.
All tables except the italic character
table are the same as the PC 437
table for hex
codes 00 through 7F, so only the PC 437 and italic tables are shown completely. The
rest of the tables show only the characters for hex codes 80 through FF.
PC 437 (USA, standard Europe)
PC 863 (Canadian-French) PC 865 (Nordic)
The
table
below shows the international character sets you can select with the
default-setting mode and the ESC R software command. For example, when you
select “Italic-France” in the default-setting mode, the characters of the “France”
column on the table below are used in the italic character table.
The fit eight character sets can be selected with both the default setting mode and
the ESC R comman
d.
The last five sets are available only by using the ESC R
command. The value of n is used for the ESC R command.
9-Pin Printers
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