Star Manufacturing LC-4522 - Manual

2 Printer Setup Unpacking the printer Check to make sure that the carton contains each of the items shown in the following illustration. If anything is missing, contact the store where you bought the printer and ask them to supply the missing part. Note that it is a good idea to keep the original bo...

General guide 3 General guide The following illustrations show the major components of your printer.

4 Printer Setup Opening the front cover o Lift up on the front cover and swing it open until it stops. o To close the front cover, simply lower it back into place. Caution! The tear assist edge is rather sharp. Take care to avoid injuring your hands. Note: You can completely remove the front cover f...

Removing the protective m aterials 5 o Open the front cover. o Remove a pieces of packing material from inside the printer as shown in the illustration. A piece of cardboard is inserted into the printer to protect components during shipping. Be sure to remove it before using t he printer. o Open the...

6 Printer Setup Installing the platen knob The platen knob is packed into a recess in the packaging material. o Install the knob on the shaft located inside the large hole on the left side of the printer. Make sure that the two splines of the platen shaft inside the printer fit into the slots inside...

8 Printer Setup o While guiding the ribbon between the print head and print head shield, press down the ribbon fabric by pen. o By hand, move the printer head left and right making sure that the ribbon fabric comes into correct position. o Replace the front cover of the printer. Important! Printing ...

Installing the paper guide 9 o Open the front cover of the printer. o By hand, move the cartridge holder to the left side where there is a cutout in the top guide to allow easy installation and removal of the ribbon cassette. o Using your thumb and forefinger to squeeze the two tabs on the ribbon ca...

10 Printer Setup Standing up the paper guide o You can move the paper guide so that it is at angle as shown in the illustrations below.

Connecting to a power outlet and turning power on and off 11 Connecting to a power outlet and turning power on and off o Plug the power cord of the printer into a standard power outlet whose voltage matches the power rating noted on the label affixed to the bottom of your printer. Caution! If the vo...

12 Printer Setup Loading fanfold paper This section tells you how to load fanfold paper. Note that you can also use cut-sheet paper. For details on using other types of paper, see “Paper Handling” on page 41 of this manual. o Remove the paper guide from the printer. o Make sure printer power is turn...

Loading fanfold paper 15 o Install the paper guide so that it is lay down as the illustrati o n . In this position, the paper guide keeps the printed paper separate from the unprinted paper. Then slide the right and left paper guides apart so they do not interfere with the fanfold paper feeding. o T...

16 Printer Setup Printi ng on fanfold paper When printing on fanfold paper, take care not to print too close to the perforations that separate each sheet. The following shows the recommended print area for fanfold paper, cut-sheet paper and label paper.

Parking fanfold paper 17 Parking fanfold paper It is not necessary to remove fanfold paper currently loaded in the printer in order to print on cut-sheet paper. Instead, simply use the following procedure to park the fanfold paper. o Tear off the paper at a perforation so there is no more than half ...

18 Printer Setup Using the tear-off function The following procedure makes it easy to tear off fanfold paper. o Check to make sure that the printer is on -line. o Press the FORM FEED button to perform the long tear-off operation, or press the LINE FEED button to perform the short tear-off operation....

20 Control Panel Operations Chapter 2: Control Panel Operations The control panel gives you push -b utton control over the printer’s operations. It includes indicator lights, which tell you the current status of the printer at a glance. This chapter describes control panel functions that can be perf...

Selecting a font 21 Selecting a Print Quality o Make sure the printer is off-line ( ON LINE indicator is not lit). o Press PRINT MODE to change the printing quality selection. An indicator lights to the left of the name of the q u a l i t y that is currently selected. Note: The print quality setting...

22 Control Panel Operations Entering the Multi-part Mode When the printer is in the Multi -part Mode, the print head prints with greater impact. It should be noted, however, that printing in the Multi-part Mode also reduces the life of the print head. Because of this, you should use the Multi-part M...

Line feed 23 Line feed o Make sure the printer is off-line ( ON LINE indicator is not lit). o Press LINE FEED once to feed paper one line. Holding down LINE FEED continually feeds paper, one line at a time, until you release the button. Paper eject (cut-sheet paper) o Make sure the printer is off-li...

24 Control Panel Operations Setting the top of form position The current position of paper loaded in the printer is automatically set as the top of the page whenever you turn power on. You can also use the following procedure at any time to specify a different position as the top of the page. o Make...

Changing the auto load position 25 Important! Though the Quiet Print Mode prints more quietly, it also causes printing to take considerably longer than normal printing. o Make sure the printer is on -line ( ON LINE indicator is lit). o Press PRINT MODE , to toggle between the Quiet Print Mode and no...

26 Control Panel Operations Note: The auto load position you set remains in effect until you turn the printer off. If you want to save the auto load position in memory, press LINE FEED instead o f SET/EJECT/PARK while holding down ON LINE in the above step. Saving a macro Normally, any settings you ...

Initializing the printer 27 Important! Be sure to stop the print job before taking the printer off line. Otherwise, the print job will resume from where you interrupted it when you put the printer back on-line. o Use ON LINE to take the printer off line ( ON LINE indicator is not lit). o Hold down P...

28 Using the EDS Mode Chapter 3: Using the EDS Mode The letters “EDS” stand for “Electronic DIP Switches.” Just like the small DIP switches that are used by many computers, printers, and other devices, the EDS mode lets you configure the printer so that it matches your system and software needs. Thi...

Selecting a bank 29 Selecting a bank o While in the EDS Mode, use the control panel’s BANK button to select a bank. When the BANK indicator flashes it indicates the current bank s elected. Lit Indicator Selected Bank A A A+C B C C C+E D E E E+G F G G Selecting a switch o While in the EDS Mode, use t...

30 Using the EDS Mode Printing the current switch settings o In the EDS Mode, press the control panel’s PRINT button to print out the current switch settings. Asterisks on the printout show whether a switch is turned on or off. Exiting the EDS Mode o Press the control panels EXIT button to exit the ...

EDS Mode Settings 31 EDS Mode Settings The following details all of the settings you can program in the EDS Mode. You can print out a detailed overview of all the settings by performing a test of the printer. (EDS-1) BANK A Switch 1: Reserved Switch 2: RAM Usage Specifies whether RAM should be used ...

disabled (ON), the computer must send both a line feed code and a carriage return code at the end of each line. Most applications do this automatically. 32 Using the EDS Mode Note the following check points when trying to figure out which setting to use here: 3 If you find that your ou tput is doubl...

Switch 7: Not Used EDS Mode Settings 33 BANK C Switches 1,2: Multi -Part Mode Specifies whether the printer’s Multi -Part Mode is enabled (ON, OFF) or disabled (OFF, ON). When the Multi-Part Mode is enabled, the impact of the print head is increased, but head life is decreased. Enable the Multi -Par...

EDS Mode Settings 34 BANK D Switch 1: Character Table Selects IBM-Graphic character table (ON) or Italic character table (OFF). Switch 2: Character Set When IBM-Graphics character table is selected, code area from 80H to 9FH are used as the control code (OFF). Switch 3: Zero Style Specifies whether ...

Using the EDS Mode 35 (EDS-2) BANK A Switches 1,2,3,4: Page Length (Friction Mode) Turn these switches on or off to form the pattern that matches the Page Length settin g you want to use. ON, ON, ON, ON :3.0 inch OFF,ON, ON, ON :8.5 inch ON, ON, ON, OFF :3.5 inch OFF,ON, ON, OFF :10.5 inch ON, ON, O...

ON, OFF,OFF,OFF :8.0 inch OFF,OFF,OFF,OFF :11.0 inch 36 Using the EDS Mode Switch 5: Top Margin Selects 1/6-inch (ON) or 1 -inch (OFF) spacing as the top margin when execute Paper auto-loading feature. Switches 6,7: Not Used BANK C Switch 1: CR Centering at top of page Specifies whether the printer ...

Using the EDS Mode 37 Switch 5: Buzzer Specifies whether the beep command of buzzer is enabled (ON) or disabled . Switch 6: Print direction command Specifies whether the print direction command <ESC>”U ”n is enabled (OFF) or disabled. Switch 7: Not Used BANK D Switches 1, 2, 3, 4: Internationa...

Using the EDS Mode 39 OFF,ON, OFF,OFF,ON :#3031 Hebrew OFF,ON, OFF,OFF,OFF :#3041 Maltese OFF,OFF,ON, ON, ON :#3840 IBM-Russian OFF,OFF,ON, ON, OFF :#3841 Gost OFF,OFF,ON, OFF,ON :#3843 Polish OFF,OFF,ON, OFF,OFF :#3844 CS2 OFF,OFF,OFF,ON, ON :#3845 Hungarian OFF,OFF,OFF,ON, OFF :#3846 Turkish OFF,O...

40 Setting up for printing with MS -DOS Chapter 4: Using the Printer with MS -DOS This chapter contains information about how to use the printer with applications software running under MS-DOS. In this chapter, you will learn about: o How to set up for printing with MS-D O S Setting up for printing ...

Paper Handling 41 Chapter 5: Paper Handling Your printer is designed to print on a variety of paper types. This chapter tells you everything you need to know about paper, and how to set the printer up for manual paper feed. In this chapter, you will learn about: o Selecting the best type of paper o ...

Paper Handling 42 Fanfold Paper Width (push feed): 4 ″ to 1 6.5″ / 101.6 to 419mm Width (pull feed): 4 ″ to 1 6.0″ / 101.6 to 406mm Thickness: 0.00276 ″ to 0.00433 ″ / 0.07 to 0.11mm (1-p ly) 0.01378 ″ / 0.35mm max. (total thickness of multi-ply, non -carbon) Weight: 14 to 22 lbs / 52 to 82g/m 2 / 4...

Adjusting for paper thickness 43 Adjusting for paper thickness Paper comes in different weights, normally expressed as gsm (grams per square meter) or lbs (pounds). Some forms paper also have multiple pages that make them quite thick. Use the following procedure to change the gap between the print h...

44 Paper Handling The following table provides a general guide for setting the adjustment lever. Experiment with different settings until you find the one that gives you the print quality you want. Important! Continuous use of the wrong adjustment lever setting can drastically reduce print head life...

Clearing paper jams 45 For any paper size other than A3 landscape (horizontal), align the paper guide with scale 0 (zero). For A3 landscape paper, align the paper guide with the s mark. o Adjust the right paper guide so there is enough space to insert the paper. o Insert a sheet of paper into the pa...