Panasonic KX-P1124 User manual

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Operating
.Instructions
Impact Dot Matrix Printer
Panasonic
Before operating this unit, pleaseread these instructions completely.

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1--------- FOR USE IN U.K. ------.....
I/I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T------------------------------------~,
The wires in this mains lead are coloured in accordance with the
following code:
Green and yellow: Earth
Blue: Neutral
Brown: Live
As the colours of the wires in the mains lead of this apparatus may not
correspond with the coloures markings identifying the terminals in your
plug, proceed as follows:
-The wire which is coloured green and yellow must be connected to the
terminal in the plug which is marked by the letter E or by the safety
earth symbol + or coloured green or green-and-yeITow.
-The wire which is coloured blue must be connected to the terminal
which is marked·with the letter N or coloured black.
-The wire which is coloured brown must be connected to the terminal
which is marked with the letter L or coloured red.
WARNING: This apparatus must be earthed.
. -This equipment is produced to B8800: 1977.
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~------FORyOURSAFETy--------~,
To ensure safe operation the three-pin plug supplied (Not available for
U.K.) must be inserted only into a standard three-pin power point which
is effectively earthed through the normal household wiring.
Extension cords used with the equipment must be three-core and be
correctly wired to provide connection to earth. Wrongly wired exten-
sion cords are a major cause of fatalities.
The fact that the equipment operates satisfactorily does not imply that
the power point is earthed and that the installation is completely safe.
For your safety, if in any doubt about the effective earthing of the
power point, consult a qualified electrician.
Any details given in these Operating Instructions are subject to change
without notice.

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WARNING
-Power source voltage of this unit is listed on the nameplate. Do not
·fail to plug into the right voltage.
-To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose this product to rain or
-any type of moisture.
The serial number of the unit may be found
on the label on the rear of
.the unit. For your convenience, note this number below, and retain
this book, along with your proof of purchase, to serve as a permanent
record of your purchase
in the event of a theft, or for future reference.
MODEL NO. KX-P1124 NAME OF DEALER
____ ~
SERIAL NO. ____ _ DATE OF PURCHASE
___ _
IBM and IBM-PC are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.
Proprinteris a trademark of International Business Machines
Corporation.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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Epson is atrademark of Seiko Epson Corporation.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction Page
1.1 ProductOverview. . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . 1-1
1.2 Specifications ........................................ 1-3
1.3 Names ofthe Parts
.................................... 1-6
The FrontView ofthe KX-P1124
........................ 1-6
TheTop View
of the KX-P1124 ......... .. ............... 1-7
The RightView
ofthe KX-P1124 ........................ 1-8
The RearView
ofthe KX-P1124 ........................ 1-8
2. Set up
2.1 Site Requirements .................................... 2-1
2.2 Unpacking and Inspection ....................... " ..... 2-1
2.3 Initial Setup .......................................... 2-2
Removing the Protective
Paper. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . .. 2-2
Removing the PrinterCovers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. 2-2
Mounting the Ribbon Cassette
.......................... 2-3
2.4 Power Up
............................................ 2-4
2.5 Adjusting the Printing Head Gap
........................ 2-4
2.6 Paper Installation. . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. 2-5
Single Sheets and Envelopes
.......................... 2-5
Continuous Fanfold Paperwith Pull-Tractor
.............. 2-7
Continuous Fanfold Paperwith Push-Tractor.
.. ........... 2-10
2.7 Aligning theTop
of Form. .. . . . . . . . . .. .... .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 2-13
2.8 SelfTest
............................ . ............... 2-14
2.9 Connecting to Computer. . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . . . . .. . . . .
.. 2-14
3. Operation
3.1 EZ SetOperator Panel ................................ 3-1
FUNCTION switch .................................... 3-1
ON LINE swMh ...................................... 3-2
FF switch
............................................ 3-2
LF switch
............................................ 3-3
ROW switch
.................. . ....................... 3-4
COLUMN switch
...................................... 3-5
SETswitch
.......................................... 3-5
3.2 Function mode
...................................... " 3-6
Settingthe Control Table
.............................. 3-7
MEMO LOAD
........................................ 3-11
3.3 Initial Setup mode .................................... 3-12
3.4 Detectors
............................................ 3-16
3.5 Initialization
.......................................... 3-17
3.6 HexDump
.. , .............. ................ .. .. ....... 3-18

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4. Software Introduction Page
4.1 Introduction...................................... 4-1
4.2 Control Codes. . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . ... 4-1
4.3 Entering Control Codes
through Commercial Software Packages
............ 4-2.
4.4 Entering Control'Codes Directlyfrom the Keyboard. . .. 4-3
4.5 Entering Control Codes from Within a Program. . . . . .
.. 4-4
4.6 Entering Hexadecimal Code. . . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . .. . .
.. 4-4
4.7 Control Codes. . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . .. . . .
.. 4-4
4.8 Special Code for IBM
PC series. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . .. 4-6
5. KX-P1124 Features
5.1 Print Feature Control ............................. , 5-1
5.2 Down Line Load Characters. . . . . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . . .. 5-3
5.3 Bit Image (Graphics)
.............................. 5-14
6. Epson LQ-2500 Mode Commands.............. 6-1
7. IBM Proprinter X24 Mode Commands .......... 7-1
8. Interfacing ........................................ 8-1
9. Maintenance............................ . ......... 9-1
APPENDIX A Character Set Chart
........... . ...... : ... A-1
APPENDIX B Proportional Spacing Tables
.......... . ... B-1
APPENDIX C Structure of an IndexTable Entry ..........
C-1
APPENDIX D Down Line Load Character Matrix Blanks .. , 0-1
APPENDIX E Paper ..................................
E-1
APPENDIX F Printing Area ............................ F-1
Index.................................................. 1-1
Quick Reference
OPTIONS and SUPPLIES

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1m Introduction
• 1.1 Product Overview
This printer is a durable, highly reliable dot matrix printer. In addition, it
has a small footprint, making it ideal for a compact workstation.
This printer uses a 24 pin print head to form a
24x9 dot matrix
character in draft mode.
In letter quality mode, the matrix is 24x30.
Available are the complete Epson and IBM character sets as well as 13
international character sets.
In addition to Pica (10 characters per inch) and Elite (12 characters per
inch) printing, this printer can print in Micron mode of 15 characters per
inch, Compressed mode of 17 characters per inch and Elite compress-
ed mode of 20 characters per inch. Elite compressed mode yields a
total of 160 characters per line.
In addition to the five print pitches mentioned above, this printer has
proportional spacing thus, six basic printing pitches are available.
The printer has
an EZ Set Operator Panel through which the user can
select the most commonly used features and functions. The printeralso
has the MACRO memory function. This feature allows the printer to
easily save and recall a particular combinations of functions, even ifthe
power is turned off. Another of the printer's helpful features is the
QUIET mode which reduces printing noise.
As convenience features, the printer has MEMO LOAD, PERFORA-
TION CUT, and MICRO LINE FEED features. By using MEMO LOAD,
you can print a single sheet or envelope without removing or wasting
the continuous fanfold paper. PERFORATION CUT gives you the
ability to tearoff a form without wasting paper
and still printwithin 1/3" of
the top of the paper. By using MICRO LINE FEED you can easily feed
the paper to the exact printing
pOSition needed for preprinted forms.
Section 3 in this manual explains these functions.
The high speed printing is done at 192 characters per second (cps) in
Draft-Elite pitch.
In Draft-Pica pitch, the printing speed is 160 cps.
Processing speed is increased by bidirectional printing. That is, the
printer prints right-to-Ieft as well as in the normalleft-to-right manner. A
logic seeking technique is also used, giving the printer a look-ahead
capability which allows it to skip blank spaces at the beginning and end
of a line and the blank lines.
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A wide variety of printing styles allows the user to create unique
documents and drawings. By combining fonts, pitches and enhance-
ment modes such as double height, double width, underline, etc., you
can create more than 5,500 different print styles. Using bit-mapped
graphics, the printer can produce special effects ranging from company
logos to photo-like images.
User adjustable Pull/Push type tractor feed and friction feed are both
standard on this printer. This allows the printer to accommodate both
continuous fanfold and single sheet paper, and is very useful when
printing
on non-standard paper sizes such as mailing labels. In "push"
tractor mode, continuous forms can
be torn without the need to skip a
form when advancing to the next one.
In "pull" tractor mode,
continuous fanfold paper can be fed from beneath or from in front ofthe
printer.
The print head life is designed for 100 million characters. The seamless
fabric ribbon has an operating life of three million characters. The
ribbon cassette design makes changing the ribbon easy and clean.
This printer comes with a Centronics parallel interface. An RS-232C
serial interface is available as
an option. This interface supports the
XON/XOFF and DTR handshaking protocols at baud rates upto 19,200
bps.
The printer comes equipped with
an internal 6K buffer. An additional
32K buffer is available as an option which expands the total buffer size
to 38K. The entire buffer area
c~\O be used as a receiving buffer or a
portion can
be used as a download font area. The buffer area
assignment is selected by EZ
~et Operator panel operation.
For software compatibility, this printer has two command sets: Epson
LQ-2500 and IBM proprinter
X24. Either set can be selected from the
EZ Set Operator panel. Refer to Section 3.3 in this manual.
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• 1.2 Specifications
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Frequency: Refer to the nameplate located on the rear of
Power requirements: }
Current: the printer
Interface:
Printfonts:
Software emulation:
Charactersets:
Dot configuration:
Centronics parallel, RS-232C serial (option)
Draft (Picaand Elite)
LetterQuality (Courier, Prestige, Boid PS,
Script, Sans Serif)
Epson
lQ-2500, IBM ProprinterX24
96 ASCII characters,
96 italicASCII characters,
32 International characters-13 countries,
32 Italic International characters-13 countries,
158 IBM special characters-sets 1 & 2
1/127inch (0.2 mm) dotdiameter
, Draft(Pica)
LQ
Dot alignment (Ver.xHor.) 24x9 24x30
Dotpitch (Hor.) 1/120" (0.21 mm) 1/360" (0.07 mm)
(Ver.) 1/180" (0.14
mm) 1/180" (0.14 mm)
Maximum
number of
characters per line
(cpl):
Pica [10 characters
per inch (cpi))
Elite (12 cpi)
Micron (15 cpi)
Compressed (17 cpi)
Elite compressed (20 cpi)
Pica elongated (5 cpi)
Elite elongated (6 cpi)
Micron elongated (7.5 cpi)
Compressed elongated (8.5cpi)
Elite compressed elongated (10 cpi)
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96cpl
120cpl
137cpl
160cpl
40cpl
4Bcpl
60cpl
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Printing speed
[characters per
second (cps)]:
Printing direction:
Line feed time:
Paperfeed:
Paper used:
Copies:
Paperthickness:
Introduction
Draft-Elite
Draft-Pica
LQ-Elite
LQ-Pica
Text printing: Bidirectional
BitImageprinting: Unidirectional
(user can select bidirectional)
192cps
160cps
63 cps
53 cps
Approx. 100 msec[with 1/6 inch (4.2 mm) line
feeding]
Pull/Push (user selectable)-Tractorfeed (with
continuousfanfold paper)
Friction feed (with single sheet)
Continuous fanfold paper:
Width:·
4~1 0 inches (1 02~254 mm)
Thickness (paperweight in Ibs/gms. per
square meter):
in pull mode:
14-22/53~83
in push mode: 16~24/61 ~90
Singlesheet:
Width:
4~11.7 inches (1 02~297 mm)
Height:
5-14.3 inches (127~363 mm)
Thickness:
14~24 Ibs/53-90 gms. per
squaremeter
Original and 3 non carbon copies
Total thickness
of sheets must be lessthan
0.013 inch (0.32 mm)
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•Introduction
Operating
environment: 50°F (10°C) to 95°F (35°C) temperature,
30-80% humidity
(Please allow the printerto stabilize at room
temperature within the operating temperature
range before operation)
Storage environment:
-4°F (-20°C) to 140°F(60°C) temperature,
10-90% humidity
Head Life: Approximately 100million characters in draft
mode
Ribbon: Cassette seamless fabric ribbon
Inkcolor: Black
Dimensions:
Weight:
Life: Approx. 3 million characters in draft
mode
16.9
(W)x 14.1 (D)x5.6 (H) in.
(430x359x 143 mm)
Approx. 18.7Ibs. (8.5 kg)
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1.3 Names ofthe Parts
The FrontView of the KX-P1124
ON LINE indicatorlight
EZ Set Operatorpanel
Control Table
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POWERIPAPER OUT indicatorlight
ONLINE
LF (Line Feed) switch
FUNCTION switch
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The Right View of the KX-P1124 •
The Rear View of the KX-P1124
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2. Set up
2.1 Site Requirements
This printer can be installed in any normal office environment. No
special wiring or cooling is required. However, a minimum of 4"
(10 cm) clearance on all sides is necessary to insure proper ventilation.
The printer should
be placed on a flat ho rizontal surface away from a
heater or other heat source. The printer should not
be used in an
excessively humid or dusty environment. The following lists the
operating reqUirements of the printe r.
Line Voltage:
Frequency:
Temperature:
Humidity:
} Refer
to the nameplate located on
the rear ofthe printer.
50-95
QF
(10-35 °C)
30-80%
2.2 Unpacking and Inspection
Having opened the shipping carton, carefully remove its contents.
Inspect the printer
and accessories for damage. Report damage or
shortages to the store
from which the unit was purchased. You may
have already seen the area inside the manual's front cover where you
should record important information regarding the printer.
Please
keep all the packing materials so that they may be used should
you wish to transport the printer in the future. They are specifically
designed
to protect your printer during shipment.
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2.3 Initial Setup
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Removing the Printer Covers
To remove the top cover and the smoked plastic cover, lift them in the
directions as shown.
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Smoked plasticcover
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Mounting the Ribbon Cassette
(1) Make sure the printer is off. Gently slide the print head carriage
toward the center of the unit. Move the head gap lever toward the
lower position (+).
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(2) Prior to installing the cassette, remove any slack in the ribbon by
rotating the knob on the cassette counterclockwise.
(3) Position the cassette over the print head and lower it in place as
shown CD. Visually insure that the ribbon slips between the nose
cover and the nose of the print head. Gently, but firmly, press down
on the cassette until the two wing tabs snap into place @.
Wing lab
Head nose
(4) Set the head gap lever to the proper position. Refer to Section 2.5
on the next page.
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2.4 Power Up
The power switch is located on the right side of the printer toward the .,
front. It is used to turn the AC power ON or OFF. When the power is
supplied to the printer, the power indicator light
on the front panel will
light.
The following procedures should be followed when turning the printer
on:
1. Be sure the ribbon is installed correctly.
2. Turn the power switch off and plug the power cord into an outlet of
the proper rating.
3. Turn the power on.
2.5 Adjusting the Printing Head Gap
The distance between the print head and platen can be adjusted to
compensate for the thickness of the paper.
The 6-position head gap lever moves the print head closer to
or farther
away from the platen approximately 0.0028 inch (0.07 mm) perstep. To
avoid the possibility of print head or ribbon damage, the head gap lever
should normally be set to the upperposition
(-) when printing on single
sheet paper. For thick paper or multi-part forms, move the levertoward
the lower position
(+). Maximum paper thickness is 0.013 inch (0.32
mm).
If
an ink smear occurs when loading paper or during printing, move the
lever toward the lower position
(+) until the smear no longer appears.
Head gaplever
l!.' 1sheet
~'} 3 non-carbon
~. multi layersheets
A
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2.6 Paper Installation
The paper feed mechanism uses friction for single sheet paper and
tractors for continuous fanfold paper. Alternating between the two is
accomplished by using the lever
on the left side of the printer labeled
"F" (friction), "T Pull" (pull tractor), and "T Push" (push tractor). In
friction mode the paper is held by pinch rollers which press the paper
against the platen. Push tractors allow continuous forms to
be torn off
without wasting a sheet between printouts.
Pu!! tractors provide better
control for labels
and multipart forms.
Single Sheets
To install a single sheet of paper, follow these procedures.
(1) Turn the power switch ON. A one second beep will sound.
(2) Make sure that the head gap lever position is appropriate to the
type of paper being used. Refer to Section 2.5
on page 2-4.
(3) Verify that the paper feed selector is in the "F" position.
(4) Make surethe top cover is positioned in the rear position by sliding
the cover toward the rear of the printer until
you feel some
resistance.
Paperfeed selector
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(5) Open the paper door and begin inserting the paper by using the
marks. The printer will print between 0 and 80 on the scale. The
side on which you wish to print should be face up. .,
(6) Continue to guide the paper into the printer until you feel
resistance.
(7) Press the FUNCTION switch and the ON LINE indicator light will
blink.
(8) Press the ON LINE switch (MEMO LOAD) to load paper to the first
print line.
(9) Ifrequired, align the paper bysetting the paper feed selector to the
"T PULL" position. This releases the pinch rollers so you can
position the paper as required. Set the selector back to "F".
(10) To reposition the first print line, use the LF switch as the MICRO
LINE FEED function. (See Section 3.1 for more details.)
(11) Press the ON LINE switch to enable printing. (ON LINE indicator
light should be IiI.)
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Continuous Fanfold Paperwith Pull-Tractor
The following steps describe how to load continuous paper with
pull-tractor.
(1) Turn the power switch ON. A one second beep will sound.
(2) Make sure that the head gap lever position is appropriate to the
type of paper being used. Refer to Section 2.5
on page 2-4.
(3) Remove the top cover and smoked plastic cover.
(4) Pull up the tractors by pinching both tractor position shift levers
and rotating the tractors upward (see the following figure). As you
lift, release the rear levers, continue lifting until tractors snap into
place.
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