Epson ActionPrinter 4500 User manual

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EPSON®
Product Update Notice
This booklet describes the new features of your printer that have
been added since the User’s Manual was printed.
Print Speed
Your printer now prints at the following speeds.
Quality
Draft
Letter
Characters/inch Characters/second/line
10
160
12
192
10
53
12
64
Loading Single Sheets of Paper
The printer now automatically loads single sheets of paper. Follow
these steps whenever you load a single sheet of paper:
1. Turn on the printer.
2. Insert a sheet of paper in the paper guide until it meets
resistance. After about two seconds, the printer loads the paper
automatically and is set on line so that it can accept data from
your computer.
When loading a single sheet of paper, you do not press LOAD/EJECT
or ON LINE.
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Note: If the platen turns without loading the paper, press ON LINE
to take the printer off line. Then remove the paper and reinsert it
more firmly.
Follow the above steps to load a single sheet of paper when you
perform the self test (described in Chapter 1 of your User’s Manual),
when using single sheets (described in Chapter 21, and when you switch
from continuous paper to single sheets (described in Chapter 2).
Using SelecType
The printer now has ten built-in fonts: draft, Epson Roman, Epson
Sans Serif, Epson Courier, Epson Prestige, Epson Script, OCR-A,
OCR-B, Epson Orator, and Epson Orator-S.
Eight of the fonts are selectable from the SelecType feature of the
front panel.
no DRAFT
-0 ROMAN
0 - SANS SERIF
- - COURIER
0 ti PRESTIGE
iii 0 SCRIPT
I u OCR-B
ti I ORATOR
Y ti OTHER
Y BLINKING
I
FONT
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When you press the FONT button, the printer scrolls through eight of
the ten built-in fonts. The indicator lights show the selected font.
m indicates the light is off.
m indicates the light is on.
\ I /
m indicates the light is blinking.
You use the software command ESC k to select the other two built-in
fonts:
ESCk6
OCR-A
ESCk8 Epson Orator-S
When you select one of these two fonts, the indicator lights show the
OTHER pattern. The software commands are described in Chapter 9
of your User’s Manual.
The SelecType feature is described in Chapter 3 of your User’s
Manual. Chapter 3 shows samples of the draft, Epson Roman, and
Epson Sans Serif fonts. The Multi-Font Module section of Chapter 5
shows samples of the Epson Courier, Epson Prestige, Epson Script,
OCR-B, OCR-A, Epson Orator, and Epson Orator-S fonts. These
fonts are now built-in and do not require the Multi-Font Module.
Therefore, ignore any references to the Multi-Font Module.
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The DIP Switch Tables
The tables below show the settings for each DIP switch.
DIP switch 1
Description ON OFF
International character set/
Graphics character sets
See tables 1 and 2
Page length
See table 3
Condensed mode on/off Condensed Normal
Character table 1 Graphics 1 italics
Cut sheet feeder mode on/off
I
On
I
Off
DIP switch 2
SW Description
ON OFF
2-1 Not used - -
2-2 Tear-off mode
On Off
2-3 1 -inch skip over perforation On Off
2-4 Auto line feed
On
Off
2-5 Input buffer capacity
8 KB
1 KB*
2-6 Graphics print direction Bidirect. Unidirect.
2-7 Character spacing See table 4
2-8
*Required for use of user-defined (downloaded) characters
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Table 1 International character sets
Table 2 Graphics character sets
Graphics character set
Epson Extended Graphics
PC 437 (United States)
PC 850 (Multilingual)
PC 860 (Portugal)
PC 863 (Canada-French)
SW l-l SW 1-2 SW 1-3 SW 1-7
ON ON ON
ON
ON ON OFF ON
ON
OFF ON
ON
ON
OFF OFF ON
PC 865 (Norway)
1 OFF 1 ON 1 ON 1 ON 1
Table 3 Page length selection
12 inches
8.5 inches
ON OFF
OFF ON
11.7 inches ON ON
Table 4 Character spacing
Character spacing
1 SW 2-7 1 SW 2-8
10cpi
12cpi
OFF OFF
ON OFF
15 cpi
1 OFF 1 ON
Proportional
1 ON 1 ON
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Graphics Character Sets
Epson Extended Graphics Character Sets
PC 437 (United States)
PC 850 (Multilingual)
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PC 860 (Portugal)
PC 863 (Canada-French)
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PC 865 (Norway)
Application Notes
The Application Notes booklet for this printer is no longer available.
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