Epson WorkForce 60 User manual

PRINTER INTERFACE TYPE 60
OPERATOR’S MANUAL

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ABOUT THE PRINTER INTERFACE 1
What this Printer Interface Can Do 1
Sharing the Printer with Two Computers 1
Working with the Printer and the Fax Machine at the Same Time 2
Operating the Printer 3
CONVENTIONS 3
ABOUT THIS MANUAL 4
OPERATION PANEL
BUTTONS 5
INDICATORS 6
DISPLAY 6
INSTALLATION
INSTALLING THE INTERFACE KIT 7
CONNECTION TO THE COMPUTER 7
TESTING THE PRINTER 8
Printing a Test Page 8
Printing the Status Sheet and Font Samples 9
OPTIONAL KITS 10
Memory Expansion Board 10
Optional Font and Emulation Mode Cards 11
Optional Font Cartridges 12
CONNECTING THE PRINTER TO TWO COMPUTERS 13
Multi-user Modes 13
Configuring the Serial and Parallel Channels 13
BASIC OPERATIONS
TURNING THE PRINTER ON LINE AND OFF LINE 14
FORM FEED 14
RESETTING THE PRINTER 15
SELECTING THE CASSETTE FOR COMPUTER PRINTING 15

SELECTING THE EMULATION MODE
OVERVIEW 16
HP LASERJET III EMULATION MODE 16
EPSON LQ AND FX EMULATION MODES 17
CHANGING THE EMULATION MODE 17
Using the MODE ASSIGN Feature 17
Using an Emulation Control Language 18
ADJUSTING THE PRINTER SETTINGS
INTRODUCTION 21
Selectype Mode (Printer Setup Mode - Function 35) 21
Level 1 Features 21
Level 2 Features 22
Using Selectype Mode 23
The Display 23
Buttons 23
Sample Selectype Procedure 24
SELECTYPE LEVEL 1 FEATURES 26
How to Enter Selectype Level 1 26
INPUT 27
PAGE SIZE 27
COPIES 27
ORIENT.28
FONT 28
STATUS SHEET 28
FONT SAMPLE 28
SUB CONFIG. 28
SYSTEM CONFIG. 29
FULL PRINT 29
MEMORY LEFT 30
T-OFFSET and L-OFFSET 30
SAVE MACRO 31
LOAD MACRO 32
POWERON MACRO 33
DELETE MACRO 33
SELECTYPE LEVEL 2 FEATURES 34
How to Enter Selectype Level 2 34
TEST PRINT 34
MODEASSIGN 34
I/F CONFIG. (Interface Configuration) 35
Parallel Channel 35
Serial Channel 36
RX-BUFFER SIZE (Receive Buffer Size) 37
CH (Channel) 38

CH TIMEOUT (Channel Timeout) 40
AUTO CONT (Auto Continue) 41
P-CONFIG SAVE (Power-up Configuration) 41
FACTORY RESET 42
VERSION 42
PAGE COUNTER 43
STANDBY 43
SOLVING PROBLEMS
STATUS AND ERROR MESSAGES 44
PRINTING PROBLEMS 48
PROBLEMS WITH GRAPHICS 50
PROBLEMS WITH SELECTYPE MODE 51
PROBLEMS WITH OPTIONAL CARDS AND CARTRIDGES 52
DATA DUMP MODE 53
RESETTING THE PRINTER 54
APPENDIX A. SPECIFICATIONS
TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS A-1
APPENDIX B. HP EMULATION MODE
HP EMULATION MODE VS HP LASERJET III B-1
PrintableArea B-1
Character Clipping B-2
Paper Handling B-2
Resident Fonts B-2
Downloaded Fonts B-2
Symbol Sets B-3
OPERATING AS A LASERJET IIISi B-4
USING SELECTYPE MODE TO ADJUST THE HP EMULATION MODE B-5
ORIENT (Page Orientation) B-5
FONT B-5
SUB CONFIG. B-7
AVAILABLE FONTS AND SYMBOL SETS B-8
Resident Bitmap Fonts B-8
Resident Scalable Fonts B-9
Symbol Sets B-9
HP EMULATION COMMAND SUMMARY B-21