Epson LQ-680 Bedienungsanleitung

24-Pin Dot

Matrix Printer

User's Guide

Printed in Japan

00.XX-XX

24-Pin Dot

Matrix Printer

4013016-01

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Control Panel Buttons and Lights

ear Off/Bin button (LQ-680)

●Advances continuous paper to the tear-off position.

●Feeds continuous paper backward from the tear-off

position to the top-of-form position.

●Selects a cut-sheet feeder bin.

●Turns on the card mode to print on postcards and envelopes.

ear Off/Bin lights (LQ-680)

●f f when continuous paper is in the tear-off position.

●o n when bin 1 of the optional cut-sheet feeder is selected.

●n o when bin 2 of the optional cut-sheet feeder is selected.

●n n when the printer is in the card mode.

Pause button

Stops printing temporarily, and

resumes printing when pressed

again. When pressed for three

seconds, turns on the *micro adjust

mode. To turn off, press again.

Pause light

●On when the printer is paused.

●Flashes when the printer is in the

*micro adjust mode.

●Flashes when the print head has

overheated.

Font button

Selects the font.

Condensed button

urns on and off the condensed mode.

Reset

hen you press both the Font and Condensed buttons

simultaneously, the printer clears its buffer and return to

its default settings.

Paper Out light

●On when no paper is loaded

in the selected paper source

or paper is not loaded

correctly.

●Flashes when paper has not

been fully ejected or a

paper jam has occurred.

Paper Source button & lights (LQ-680Pro)

Select a paper source. See Chapter 2.

ear Off/Special Paper button (LQ-680Pro)

●Advances continuous paper to the

tear-off position.

●Feeds continuous paper backward

from the tear-off position to the

top-of-form position.

●Turns on the card mode or envelope

mode.

ear Off/Special Paper lights (LQ-680Pro)

●f f when continuous paper is in the

tear-off position.

●o n when the printer is in the card

mode.

●n o when the printer is in the envelope

mode.

*Micro Adjust mode

When you hold down the Pause button for three

seconds, the printer enters the micro adjust mode.

In this mode, you can press the LF/FFDand

Load/EjectUbuttons to adjust the top-of-form or

tear-off position. See Chapter 2.

LF/FF button

●Feeds paper line by line when pressing shortly.

●Ejects a single sheet or advances continuous

paper to the next top-of-form position when held

down.

Load/Eject button

●Loads a single sheet of paper.

●Ejects a single sheet of paper if a sheet is loaded.

●Loads continuous paper from the standby

position.

●Feeds continuous paper backward to the

standby position.

LQ-680

LQ-680Pro

n= On

f= Flashing

o= Off

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system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,

recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SEIKO EPSON

CORPORATION. The information contained herein is designed only for use with this EPSON

printer. EPSON is not responsible for any use of this information as applied to other printers.

Neither SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION nor its affiliates shall be liable to the purchaser of

this product or third parties for damages, losses, costs, or expenses incurred by the purchaser

or third parties as a result of: accident, misuse, or abuse of this product or unauthorized

modifications, repairs, or alterations to this product, or (excluding the U.S.) failure to strictly

comply with SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION’s operating and maintenance instructions.

SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION shall not be liable for any damages or problems arising from

the use of any options or any consumable products other than those designated as Original

EPSON Products or EPSON Approved Products by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

EPSON and EPSON ESC/P are registered trademarks of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION.

Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

General Notice: Other product names used herein are for identification purposes only and may be

trademarks of their respective owners. EPSON disclaims any and all rights in those marks.

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FCC Compliance Statement For United States Users

This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital

device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable

protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment

generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in

accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio or television

reception. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular

installation. If this equipment does cause interference to radio and television reception, which

can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to

correct the interference by one or more of the following measures.

❑Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna

❑Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver

❑Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the

receiver is connected

❑Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

WARNING

The connection of a non-shielded equipment interface cable to this equipment will invalidate

the FCC Certification of this device and may cause interference levels which exceed the limits

established by the FCC for this equipment. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain and

use a shielded equipment interface cable with this device. If this equipment has more than

one interface connector, do not leave cables connected to unused interfaces.

Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user’s

authority to operate the equipment.

For Canadian Users

This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.

Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.

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DECLARATION of CONFORMITY

According to 47CFR, Part 2 and 15 for Class B Personal Computers and Peripherals;

and/or CPU Boards and Power Supplies used with Class B Personal Computers:

Declare under sole responsibility that the product identified

herein, complies with 47CFR Part 2 and 15 of the FCC rules as a

Class B digital device. Each product marketed, is identical to the

representative unit tested and found to be compliant with the

standards. Records maintained continue to reflect the equipment

being produced can be expected to be within the variation

accepted, due to quantity production and testing on a statistical

basis as required by 47CFR §2.909 Operation is subject to the

following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful

interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference

received, including interference that may cause undesired

operation.

We:

Located at:

EPSON AMERICA, INC.

MS 6-43

3840 Kilroy Airport Way

Long Beach, CA 90806-2469

Telephone: (562)290-5254

Trade Name: EPSON

Type of Product: Dot Matrix Printer

Model: P220A/P220B

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Contents

Getting to Know Your Printer

Important Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Print Head Caution Symbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

ENERGY STAR Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

For United Kingdom Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Use of options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Warnings, Cautions, and Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 1 Setting Up the Printer

Unpacking the Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Choosing a Place for the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Assembling the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Attaching the paper guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Plugging in the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5

Connecting the Printer to Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Installing or Replacing the Ribbon Cartridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8

Installing the Printer Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-12

Installing the printer software in Windows 98, 95, 2000, or NT 4.0

1-13

Installing the printer software in Windows 3.1 or NT 3.5x 1-14

For DOS programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-16

Chapter 2 Paper Handling

Selecting a Paper Source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Paper source and paper types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Setting the paper release lever (LQ-680) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Setting the Paper Source button (LQ-680Pro) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-5

Adjusting the Paper Thickness Lever. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-6

Using Continuous Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

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Positioning your continuous paper supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-8

Loading continuous paper with the tractor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9

Using the tear-off function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14

Removing continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Using Continuous Multipart Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Using Overlapping Multipart Forms

(LQ-680Pro). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-18

Using Labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-19

Using Single Sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-20

Using Single-Sheet Multipart Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-23

Using Envelopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24

Using Postcards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Switching Between Continuous Paper and Single Sheets . . . . . 2-26

Switching to single sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-26

Switching to continuous paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

Using Micro Adjust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

Adjusting the loading position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

Adjusting the tear-off position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

Adjusting the printing position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

Chapter 3 Using the Printer Software

About Your Printer Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Using the Printer Driver With Windows 98 or 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications 3-3

Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu . . . . . . . 3-5

Changing the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5

Using the Printer Driver With Windows 3.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-6

Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications 3-6

Accessing the printer driver from the Control Panel. . . . . 3-8

Changing the Printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8

Using the Printer Driver With Windows 2000 and NT 4.0 . . . . 3-9

Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications 3-9

Accessing the printer driver from the Start menu . . . . . . . 3-11

Changing the printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

Using the Printer Driver With Windows NT 3.5x . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-13

Accessing the printer driver from Windows applications 3-13

Accessing the printer driver from the Control Panel. . . . . 3-15

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Changing the Printer driver settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-16

Printer Driver Settings Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-17

Using the EPSON Remote! Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Installing EPSON Remote! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Accessing EPSON Remote! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-19

Using the EPSON Status Monitor 3 Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20

Setting up EPSON Status Monitor 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-20

Accessing EPSON Status Monitor 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-22

Chapter 4 Changing Printer Settings From the Printer’s Control

Panel

Selecting a Built-In Font and Pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

About Your Printer’s Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

Changing default settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Chapter 5 Troubleshooting

Using the Error Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Power supply problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Single-sheet paper loading or feeding problems. . . . . . . . . 5-6

Continuous paper loading or feeding problems . . . . . . . . . 5-8

Printing position problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Printing or printout quality problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11

Clearing Paper Jams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16

Aligning Vertical Lines in Your Printout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17

Printing a Self Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18

Printing a Hex Dump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19

Appendix A Enhancing Your Printer With Options

Cut-Sheet Feeders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-2

Installing the cut-sheet feeder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-3

Loading paper from the cut-sheet feeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-6

Switching between the tractor and the cut-sheet feeder. . . A-13

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Loading paper manually from the paper guide . . . . . . . . . A-14

Roll Paper Holder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15

Installing the roll paper holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-15

Loading a roll of paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-17

Removing roll paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-18

Optional interface cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-19

Installing an interface card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-20

Appendix B Cleaning and Transporting the Printer

Cleaning the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-2

Transporting the Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-3

Appendix C Specifications

Printer Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2

Mechanical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-2

Electronic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-4

Electrical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6

Environmental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6

Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-6

Printable area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-11

Safety approvals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-14

CE marking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-14

Command Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-15

EPSON ESC/P2 control codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-15

IBM 2390 Plus emulation control codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-16

Appendix D Customer Support Information

Contacting Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-2

For Users in North America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-3

For Users in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. D-4

For Users in Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-6

For Users in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-7

For Users in Malaysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D-8

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