Atari 822 User manual

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Every effort has been made to ensure that this manual accurately documents the operation of the ATARI 822 Thermal Printer.
However, due to the ongoing improvement and update of the computer software, ATARI Inc. cannot guarantee the accuracy of
printed material after the date of publication, nor can AT ARI accept responsibility for errors or omissions. Revised manuals and up-
date sheets will be published as needed and may be purchased by writing to:
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ATARI SOFTWARE SUPPORT GROUP
P.O. Box 427
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
©1980
AT ARI, INC.

THERMAL
PRINTER
INTRODUCTION Please read this manual carefully and thoroughly before operating your
ATARI ®822™ Thermal Printer.
UNPACKING
SETTING UP
YOUR PRINTER
CAUTION
Do not operate your AT ARI 822 Thermal Printer in
an explosive atmosphere or in the presence of flam-
mable gasses or fumes. Operation of any electrical in-
strumen t in such an environment may be hazardous.
Your ATARI 822 Thermal Printer is a high performance serial printer with 37
character-per-second printing. It prints a full 96 upper and lower case ASCII
character set with bidirectional look-ahead printing. After printing one line
from left to right, the microprocessor looks ahead, examines the length of the
next line and begins printing at the end oft hat line, from right to left. The Ther-
mal Printer prints large legible characters in a 5 x 7 dot matrix with a 10
character-per-inch format . The ATARI 822 Thermal Printer is built for
mechanical simplicity and reliability .
Your ATARI 822 Thermal Printer provides hardcopy printout for the ATARI
400™and ATARI BOO ™ Personal Computer Systems. You may use your ATARI
822 Thermal Printer with many combinations of hardware and software . Ap-
plication programs provide an option to print out results whenever appropriate.
ATARI BASIC and ATARI ASSEMBLER EDITOR cartridges both include printer
commands, as does the AT ARI DISK OPERATING SYSTEM (DOS), which re-
quires a minimum of 16K RAM. The DOS .Qiskette and the AT ARI 810™Disk
Drive or the ATARI 815™Dual Disk Drive (double density) may be used with
the AT ARI BOO Personal Computer System, or the ATARI 400 Personal Com-
puter System, if it has been upgraded to 16K of RAM.
Your AT ARI 822 Thermal Printer is packaged as follows:
•
Thermal Printer
• One roll of white Thermal Paper (installed in printer)
• One pair of Spring-Loaded Paper Bearings (installed in printer)
• I/0 Data Cord
• Instruction Manual
• Power Adapter
Save your original packing materials and reuse them if necessary to ship your
printer or store it for long periods of time.
Perform the following steps to set up your AT ARI 822 Thermal Printer and con-
nect it to the computer. See detailed diagrams for proper connections .
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INSTALLING
PAPER
AT ARI 400™or 800™PERSONAL COMPUTER SYSTEM
AT ARI 822 THERMAL PRINTER
l{i i ~- J
OFF/ ON ~-~--- 1/0
POWER
' CONNECTOR
I 1/0 DATA CORD
AC ADAPTER
CAUT IO N
TO PREVENT DAMAGE TO THE PRINTER ELEC-
TRONICS,
ALWAYS CONNECT THE AC POWER
ADAPTER TO THE AT ARI 822 PRINTER BEFORE
YOU
CONNECT THE ADAPTER TO THE WALL
OUTLET.
1. Make sure the printer is turned OFF before connecting it.
2. Plug
one end of the 1/0 Data Cord into the serial I/0 PERIPHERAL port on
your ATARI 400TM or BOO™ Personal Computer System. If an ATARI
Disk Drive or other AT ARI peripheral device is already connected to
your computer console, connect the I/0 Data Cord to one of the I/0
CONNECTORS on your AT ARI peripheral device.
3. Connect the other end of the 1/0 Data Cord to one of the I/0 CONNECTORS
on your AT ARI 822 Thermal Printer.
4. Plug the AT ARI AC Power Adapter into the POWER IN jack on your AT ARI
822
Thermal Printer.
5. Plug the AC Power Adapter into a wall outlet (110-117 VAC).
1. Lift the rear cover. If the unit is lifted slightly, the rear cover may be rotated
back 180° and used as a support to tilt the unit slightly towards you.
2. To remove the end of the last roll, turn the manual paper knob counter-
clock wise until the end of the used roll is free.
3. Remove
the two spring-loaded bearings from the ends oft he roll and discard
the old core.
4. Since
the first few inches ofthe roll may be coated with adhesive, cut offthe
first six inches.
5. Set
the new roll of thermal paper against the opened cover with the loose
end facing up, towards you.
6. Fold about
1
h inch of the paper down, away from you.
7. Feed the paper down below the roller with one hand and turn the paper
knob clockwise with the other hand until the paper reaches the top ofthe
print head.
8. Manually guide the paper between the clear tear strip and the metal platen.
9. Insert the paper bearings into the core with the "square" ends out, roll up
the slack, and press the ends of the shaft into the deeper ofthe two slots pro
vided on either side.
10. Close the rear cover; turn power ON before printing.

TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS
SPRING-LOADED
PAPER BEARING
FOLD
UNDER
OPERATING
POSITION
PAPER RAMP
CAUTION
Store thermal paper in a cool dry place.
ATARI 822 Thermal Printer
• high resolution, 5 x 7 dot-matrix serial printer
• 40 characters-per- line
• 10 characters-per-inch
• upper and lower case alphanumeric characters
• built-in microprocessor
• bidirectional look-ahead printing
• full line buffering
• direct serial interface to AT ARI 400™and AT ARI BOO™Personal Computer
Systems
• AC transformer, UL approved
• physical dimensions
weight: less than 6 pounds
height: 2 W'
depth: 9 lh"
width: 7 lh"
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Printing Speed
• approximately 37 CPS (characters-per-second)
1/0 Data Cord
• ATARI Part No. CA014122 (3-foot)
Reorder Numbers
• 4 7/16 inch white thermal paper, two rolls, 80 feet each, ATARI
Part No. C016345
•
one pair, spring-loaded paper bearings, ATARI Part No. C016005
• I/0
Data Cord (5-foot), AT ARI Part No. CA015900-01, Model
No. CX81

PRINTER
COMMANDS
Each piece of software, whether cartridge, cassette, or diskette based, will have
its own commands for activating the printer. Consult the appropriate software
manual for complete printer commands .
BASIC - When you are familiar with AT ARI BASIC Computing Language you
will know how to use the commands PRINT and LIST. To PRINT on the
printer instead of the screen, replace PRINT with LPRINT in your BASIC
source programs. To LIST on the printer, use LIST "P: or L. "P: instead of
LIST. (No closing quotation marks needed.) Here's an example: Type this BASIC
Program into your computer:
TYPE THIS:
1.~ ::1 [='h : I~H "THE PPI~lT C:Of'l!'lmm CC!rlES OUT HE
PE~ ,, mmm
~ ~ (1 u=·p HH "THE LPF: HH C:Of'lf'lH~m C:CtrlES OUT
HEF:E." lm!Jm
When you RLI~~ this program each PRINT statement will appear on the
screen as shown below.
TYPE THIS:
PUr · ~
PUSH
nn
SCREEN DISPLAY
Your printer will print only the u=·p I rH lines like this:
~ ~F L ~RINT COMMqNQ COMES OUT HERE.
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To see your program again:
TYPE THIS:
u::;r
PUSH
mmm
SCREEN DISPLAY
To get a printout of your program:
TYPE THIS:
PUSH
SAMPLE PRINTOUT
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The ATARI BASIC REFERENCE MANUAL contains a complete description of
all AT ARI BASIC Language commands.
AT AIU DISK OPERATING SYSTEM (DOS)- The Disk Operating System
(DOS) Reference Manual will provide you with complete instructions on using
the DOS software to access the printer and other peripheral components.

PLOTTING
GRAPHIC
DESIGNS
Drawing plots and graphics in BASIC requires a thorough knowledge of the
BASIC Programming Language. Refer to the AT ARI BASIC Reference Manual
for further details. The following program demonstrates the graphic capability
of the ATARI 822 Thermal Printer. A minimum of 24K RAM is necessary to
operate this program.
TYPE THIS:
10 DIM 8$(40),($(128),0~(21)
20 FOR X=1 TO 40:8$(X~X)=CHR$(0):NEXT X:
F:Ef'l CLEHR OUTPUT ~::Tf=;: I t~(3
3(1 D$=" POLHFWLOTT I t·iGONTHE800"
40 FOF: :=<=1 TO 105: F:EHD P: C$( ;,:;,;,:; )=CHF:$( H)
: t·~E>::T ;:.:; : REr1 LOHD 8 I ~~HR'T' CODE
50 OPEN #1 .. 8 .. ~3 .. "P: II
60 ? #1:? #1:? #1;" INTRODUCING THE
PTHR I < F: ) :::22": 'r- #1 .. " THERr·lAL PF: I tHEF:"
?(t
·;:· # 1: ·-;:· # 1; " f'lode· 8 Gr·apn i c ·::. sc r·
: ::(1 H=HDF:( 8$ ): C=I~H< H. ...-25E: ): 8=H-Cl256
8~3 POKE 772 .. 8: POKE 773 .. C: F:EM SETUP DCB
1 t1(1 F'Ot<E 77€1 .. 80: POKE 778 .. 76
110 GF:APH I CS 8+ 1 E:: COL OF: 1
120 I~:1=PEEK( 560 )+PEEK( 561 /*256
130 MEMST=PEEI<( I0+4 )+PEEl</ I0+5 )%256
14€1 FOF: :=<:= 1 TO 5: F:EHD U1 .. U2, P:X: .. PY
150 t30SUB 1000: NE:=<T ;:-:;
50~3 DEG : FUN=600:ST=10
510 T=O: GOSUB FUN: PLOT ;x;,',.'
530 T=T+ST:GOSUB FUN:DR~TO :X:,'T'
550 IF T< 3E:0 THEt~ GOTO 530
555 IF F:=O THH~ FUN=7€10: R=1: ST=3: GOTO 51
(1
5t:~3 Z=U~::F:( HDF:( C$) .. HDR( 8$ )+4 .. f1Ef1ST): REM C·
ALL
ASSEMBLEF: F:OUT I t~E
57~3 FCt~: >=:=1 TCI 5: ·? #1: NE:=<T :=<
5:::~) ~::TOP
{
t::~)(1
E:~35
t:1(1
X=COS(T)tCOS(T)*COS(T)
'r'=SI W T )~~S I W T )tS It·~( T )
:=<=:>=::t~:ll!h 15~3: 'r'=Y::;::~30+85: RETURN
700 ;x:=COS< T )::I::CCIS( 4::n )
?€15 'r'=S IN( T \tCOS( 4:=n )
710 X=X%00+158: Y='r':\=:~30+85: F:ETUF:t~
1 €1(10 I 4=f'1EMST +P'r'l40+P:X::U3=0
1005 FOR Z=U 1 TO U2: I ~'=57344+( ASC/ [1$( Z ) )
-32 )::~:8: I 3= I 4+U3: FOR U=~3 TO 7: POKE I 3+1_1:*4
O .. PEEI<( I2+U ): NE:>c:T U: U3=U3+1: t~Dn Z
1€110 F:ETUF:N
2000 DATA 104 .. 2€18,1 .. ~3E: .. 201 .. 3 .. 144 .. 1 .. ~36 .. 10
~ 170,104-.202 .. 149 .. 2t13 .. 20~: .. 2~d3 .. 165 .. 2t.33, 133
, 211 .. 165,204 .. 133 .. 212 .. 16~3 .. 40 ~ 133
2~310 DATH 210 .. 168 .. 128 .. 133 .. 208 .. 165 .. 211 .. 13
3,203 .. 165 .. 212 .. 133 .. 204,160 .. 24 .. 162 .. 0 .. 168 .. 1
2E:,133,207, 161,203, 133 .. 20::: .. 24 .. 1€;5
202€1 DATA 203 .. 105 .. 40 .. 133 .. 203,144,2,230 .. 2
04 .. 24 .. 165 .. 208 .. 37 .. 208 .. 240 .. 2 .. 168 .. 128 .. 70 .. 20
?,5,207 .. 133,207,144,224 .. 1?S,145
2030 DATA 205 .. 208 .. 215 .. 168 .. 128 .. 141 .. 3 .. 3 .. 32
.. :::~3,228 .. 70 .. 209 .. 208 .. 191 .. 230 .. 211 .. 1~38 .. 210 .. 2
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TYPE THIS:
PU~·l
PRINTOUT
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SCREEN DISPLAY
INTRODUC ING THE qTqRI (R) 822
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