Star Micronics NB-15 Printer User Manual


 
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l-l. Check to make sure you have all six items: 1) Printer,
2) Mute cover, 3) Paper guide, 4) Platen knob, 5) Ribbon cartridge,
and 6) User’s manual.
You should also have a parallel interface board to connect
your computer to the printer. Also available are a parallel inter-
face board with extra buffer memory and a serial interface
board, both optional. (More on the interfaces later.)
l Removing the printer cover
The printer’s cover is important for two reasons - it keeps
dust and dirt away from the printer’s delicate mechanism, and it
absorbs nearly all of the printer’s operating sounds. Don’t take
off the cover unless you have to change the ribbon or make an
adjustment.
Removing the printer cover is easy. Lift up the back of the
cover to disengage the three tabs at the front then lift it off the
rest of the way. To replace the cover, just slide the tabs in at the
front and lower it into place. Figure 1-2 shows the proper posi-
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