POSIFLEX Posiflex Thermal Printer - Manuals

1 - 1 I. GETTING STARTED A. CONGRATULATION You have made a very wise decision by purchasing the easy loading; low noise; high resolution; light weight; high reliability thermal printer Aura (PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB) series of Posiflex products. This series of printers has been elegantly designe...

1 - 2 The Aura PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB supports a guillotine type auto cutter for paper partial cut and a manual cut mechanism. The Aura series also supports user’s company’s LOGO downloading for superior performance. It even supports some enhancement capability for reminder function to persons...

1 - 3 Length of the interface cable depends on whether the order includes the power adaptor. When power adaptor is included, the interface cable is 6 ft long for stand alone application. When the power adaptor is not included in the order, the interface cable is a shorter one for integrated applicat...

1 - 4 E. MAIN PARTS ON THE EXTERIOR Front View Bottom View Bottom Cover Power LED Error LED Paper Out LED FEED Switch Top Hood Top Cover Hood Release Power Switch Cutter Cover Power Switch Screws Window PlateScrew Setup Window

1 - 6 • Since the paper roll is highly thermal sensitive, please keep them in a dark place that is 20º and 65% RH when not installed in the printer. • Use a grounded AC power outlet. • Use only the power cord and power adaptor furnished with the printer. • Do not use a power outlet of a circuit shar...

2 - 1 II. QUICK START-UP A. LOADING PAPER 1. Desk top application 1. Slide the hood lock toward the front of the printer to release the hood. 2. Raise the released hood wide open manually. 3. Drop the thermal paper roll inside the printer in the orientation as shown in the picture. 4. Close the hood...

2 - 2 2. When to replace paper Whenever the printer gives paper out signal or a red line appears on the thermal paper, it is the proper timing for replacing the paper. Do not wait till the print engine is dragging the paper roll at the very end. Remove the leftover and replace a new paper roll as il...

2 - 3 please adjust in setup window the switch positions both 1, and 2 to ON leaving the rest unchanged as factory default setting . 3. USB connection The USB cable used to connect the USB interface printer PP-7000IIUSB to the USB port of a host has a type A USB connector at one end that is a more o...

2 - 7 the Posiflex USB interface thermal printer will operate the same way as if a RS232 serial printer connected on the COM port specified. Please note that it is allowed to apply more than one Posiflex USB printer in one setup because each Posiflex USB printer may carry different internal ID. The ...

2 - 8 5. Power connection The power connector is a 3 pin jack between the peripheral connector and the parallel connector for PP-7000II and is at the rightmost for PP-7000IIUSB. Either a Posiflex supplied power adaptor or a printer power cable from a Posiflex POS system can be connected to this conn...

2 - 9 The header is printed in text mode and the rest part of this slip is printed in page mode. If FEED button is pressed at this moment, a font table will be printed in text mode again. To exit the test printing, please turn the printer off and on again. C. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENTS 1. Paper near end se...

2 - 10 release the fixing screw to adjust the position of sensor head. The acceptable paper roll bobbin outer diameter is between 18 and 22mm. This adjustment allows sensor activation on paper roll overall diameter between 21 and 23.6 mm unless for too light bobbins. Remember, for smaller roll diame...

2 - 11 accessory of the printer. If the user uses narrower paper roll and requires more spacer plates, it can be purchased from Posiflex. 4. Paper cutting The paper advance after a protective cut is now set to 12 mm. In case the user uses direct cut instead of protective cut to have something like a...

3 - 1 III. MAINTENANCE GUIDES A. MAINTENANCE GUIDE LINES • Always turn off and disconnect power before opening the cover. • The areas around the print head and motor become very hot during and just after printing, do not touch them. • When handling the interior of the thermal printer, please pay att...

3 - 2 Before putting back the paper roll for printing, alcohol solvent must be dried completely. D. TROUBLE SHOOTING This section gives solutions to some printer problems you may have. 1. General Problems No LED lights up on control panel when switched on – Make sure that the power supply cables are...

3 - 4 3. Paper Jam Problems Paper is jammed inside the printer – Turn off the printer and open the print hood by releasing the hood lock. Remove the jammed paper and reinstall the paper roll. Close the hood properly and firmly. Then turn on the printer for operation. If the auto cutter is jammed, th...

3 - 5 5. Advanced Analysis Tool This printer supports Hexadecimal Dump for experienced user to view exactly what data is received by the printer. This can be useful in finding software problems. To start the dump mode: Turn off printer; Open print hood; Hold down FEED button while turning printer on...

4 - 1 IV. SPECIFICATIONS A. PRINTER ITEM SPECIFICATION Printing method Thermal sensitive line dot method Effective printing width 64 mm Thermal head configuration 512 dots / line Printing speed 180 mm /sec. Paper feed method Friction auto-feed Paper load method Drop and use Auto-cutter capability Pa...

4 - 2 C. POWER ADAPTOR ITEM REQUIREMENT INPUT VOLTAGE 100 V AC ~ 240 V AC INPUT FREQUENCY 50 ~ 60 HZ INPUT CURRENT 1.8 A MAX. @ 115 V AC OUTPUT VOLTAGE + 24 V DC OUTPUT POWER 60 W STATIC LOAD 0 A ~ 2.5 A OUTPUT REGULATION + / - 5 % MTBF 30,000 HRS EMI STANDARDS VDE – B, FCC – B, VCCI – B

5 - 1 V. TECHNICAL INFORMATION A. INTERFACES 1. Peripheral interface The connector for peripheral control is a 6P6C RJ11 jack with the following pin assignment. The best recommended cash drawers to this connector are Posiflex CR3100, CR3200, CR4000 and CR4100. Using the cable 20863018001 (CCBLA-180-...

5 - 2 B. SETUP WINDOW On bottom cover of the Aura series thermal printer, there is screwed a metal plate for setup window. In this window, there is a 8 position DIP switch for printer setup. Please use proper tool to change the switch setting when necessary. The switch position counting starts from ...

5 - 4 Switch Position 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Serial interface w/ auto cutter OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF Parallel interface w/ auto cutter ON ON OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF C. INTERNAL SWITCH There is an extra internal 4 position DIP switch in PP- 7000II for more technical settings. To access these setup, ...

5 - 5 D. SOFTWARE COMMANDS The Aura thermal printer supports all commands applicable to Epson printer TM-T88II. The only difference is the smoothening command in enlarged text fonts. Please visit our web site http://www.posiflex.com or http://www.posiflex.com.tw for detail description of the support...

5 - 7 E. CHARACTER CODE PAGES Aura PP-7000II & PP-7000IIUSB series support all code pages and international character sets applicable to Epson printer TM-T88. There are three models for character sets application as standard model (PP-7000II), European model (PP-7080II) and Arabian model (PP-70A...