SPRT SP-T5 User manual

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R
SPRT
SP-T5
Portable Dot Matrix
Printer
User’s Manual

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Content
Content................................................................................. 2
Operating Precautions.......................................................... 5
Notes on Safety ............................................................ 5
Notes on Using ............................................................. 6
Notes on Handling......................................................... 7
Chapter 1 Outer Appearance and Accessories.................. 8
1.1 Outer Appearance................................................... 8
1.2 Standard Accessories ............................................. 8
Chapter 2 General Specifications ...................................... 8
Chapter 3 Operation........................................................... 10
3.1 Using Preparation ................................................. 10
3.1.1 Battery Installation ...................................... 10
3.1.2 Paper Installation ........................................ 10
3.2 Operation Specification ..........................................11
3.2.1 Printer On/Off...............................................11
3.2.2 Self-test....................................................... 12
3.2.3 Paper Feeding ............................................ 12
3.2.4 Paper Tearing.............................................. 12
3.2.5 Battery Using and Charging........................ 12
3.3 Printer Interface Connection ................................. 13
3.3.1 RS-232 Serial Interface............................... 13
3.3.2 IrDA Interface .............................................. 15

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3.3.3 （Bluetooth）Interface............................... 16
3.4 Other Functions..................................................... 17
3.4.1 Stand-by & Turn Off Automatically Mode..... 17
3.4.2 Paper End Alarming .................................... 18
3.4.3 Black Mark .................................................. 18
3.5 Indicators and Buzzer ........................................... 19
3.6 Printer setting........................................................ 20
Chapter 4 Printing Control Command ................................ 20
4.1 Summary............................................................... 20
4.1 Basic Control Commands ..................................... 22
4.1.1 ESC @........................................................ 22
4.1.2 NULL........................................................... 23
4.1.3 FF ............................................................... 23
4.1.4 LF................................................................ 24
4.1.5 CR............................................................... 24
4.1.6 ESC J n....................................................... 25
4.1.7 ESC d n....................................................... 25
4.1.8 HT ............................................................... 26
4.1.9 Print Unicode Character.............................. 26
4.2 Character Setting Commands............................... 26
4.2.1 ESC ! n........................................................ 26
4.2.2 GS ! n.......................................................... 28
4.2.3 ESC - n ....................................................... 28
4.2.4 ESC E n ...................................................... 29
4.2.5 ESC G n...................................................... 29
4.2.6 GS B n ........................................................ 29

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4.2.7 ESC V n ...................................................... 30
4.3 Print setting commands......................................... 30
4.3.1 ESC $ nL nH ............................................... 30
4.3.2 ESC D n1 n2…nk NULL.............................. 31
4.3.3 ESC \ nL nH ................................................ 32
4.3.4 ESC 2 ......................................................... 33
4.3.5 ESC 3 n....................................................... 33
4.3.6 ESC SP n.................................................... 34
4.3.7 GS L nL nH ................................................. 34
4.3.8 ESC a n....................................................... 35
4.4 Graphic/Image print commands ............................ 35
4.4.1 ESC * m n1 n2 [d]k ..................................... 35
4.4.2 GS * x y d[].................................................. 36
4.4.3 GS / n.......................................................... 37
4.4.4 GS P n ........................................................ 37
4.5 Curve print commands .......................................... 38
4.5.1 GS ‘............................................................. 38
4.5.2 GS “ ............................................................ 39
4.5.3 ESC ‘........................................................... 40
4.6 User-defined character commands ....................... 41
4.6.1 ESC % n ..................................................... 41
4.6.2 ESC & y c1 c2 [x1 d1...d(y *x1)]...[xk d1...d(y *
xk)] ....................................................................... 41
4.6.3 ESC ? ......................................................... 44
Chapter 5 Appendix............................................................ 45
Character Set.............................................................. 45

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Operating Precautions
This section presents important information intended to
ensure safe and effective use of the printer. Please read the
following carefully.
Notes on Safety
Be sure to use the specified battery and power source
provided by our company. Connection to an improper power
source may cause fire, explosion or damage to the printer.
Don’t put the battery into the fire or water, don’t disassemble
or modify the battery, don’t be short circuit, otherwise may
result in injury or fire even explosion.
If the printer would not be used for a long time, be sure to
take off the battery, otherwise the battery may leak liquid
which is corrosive, if improper operation causes battery leak,
and the liquid is spattered on the skin or clothes, please wash
it with water, if spattered in the eyes, please rinse them with
water thoroughly and see a doctor.
Please do not open the paper case cover when it is printing
or just when printing is over, do not touch the print head with
hand or body, overheat may cause scald.

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Notes on Using
Be sure not to print continuously over 1 meter, otherwise may
cause damage to the print head.
Water or other liquid should not spill into the printer, also the
printer should not be appeared in the rain, or else may cause
printer damage.
Please do not open the paper case cover when it is printing,
otherwise the printer may work improperly.
If print with serial interface, should not unplug the interface
cable in the course of printing, or else some printing data may
be lost.
When print in Ir or IrDA mode, be sure the Ir window of the
host equipment face rightly the Ir window of the printer, the
distance should be within the range of 80mm, and the angle
should be within the range of 30o.
When print with Bluetooth interface, the communication
distance should be within 10 meters, otherwise the printer
doesn’t print or prints rubbish codes.
Too high（45℃）or too low（5℃）temperature and too high
(85％)or too low (20％) relative humidity both effect the print
quality.
The print paper in poor quality or stored for too long time also
may reduce the print quality even damage the printer.

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Be sure to use up the electricity of the battery before charge it,
as it can ensure the using life of the battery.
Notes on Handling
The printer should be placed in such an environment that the
temperature is between -20℃and 60℃, and the relative
humidity is between 5% and 95%.
If the printer will be stored for a long time, pleas be sure to
take out the battery, otherwise may damage the battery and
printer.
When the Li battery is stored over 3 months,it shoud be taken
out to charge one time, in order to avoid the battery damage.

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Chapter 1 Outer Appearance and
Accessories
1.1 Outer Appearance
1.2 Standard Accessories
Power Adaptor 1 unit
Rechargeable Li-ion Battery 1 unit
Testing Paper 1 roll
Environmental Case 1 unit
Shoulder Strap 1 unit
Interface Cable 1 unit
Chapter 2 General Specifications
Model SP-T5

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Physical Specification
Outer Dimension 112×98×46（L×W×H）
Weight 340g（Paper roll excluded）
Paper Diameter ≤60mm
Printing Specification
Printing Method Impact Dot Matrix
Paper Width 58±0.5mm
Dot/line 240dots
Printing Speed >5.5mm /s
Paper Thickness 0.06～0.085mm
Black Mark Checking Available
Reliability 50 km
Built-in Character Set English: ASCII（6×12 / 8×16）
Chinese: GB18030 (16×16 / 12×12)
Interface Specification
Wire RS-232
Wireless IrDA / Bluetooth（V1.1 Class 2）
Power Specification
Battery 1500mAh/7.4V
Power Adaptor 12V/2A
Battery Duration 32m continuous printing (12.5%
density)
Environment Specification
Operation
Temperature/Humidity
-10℃～50℃/20％～80％
Charging 5℃～35℃/20％～80％

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Temperature/Humidity
Storage
Temperature/Humidity
-20℃～60℃/5％～95％
Chapter 3 Operation
3.1 Using Preparation
3.1.1 Battery Installation
3.1.2 Paper Installation

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3.2 Operation Specification
3.2.1 Printer On/Off
The printer is powered on by pressing the power button for
about 1 second; the power indicator is on with blue color
when the printer is on. If press the power button for about 1
second again, the printer will be turned off, all the indicators
are off when the printer is off.

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3.2.2 Self-test
The self-test checks the printer’s current settings, status and
whether the printer has any problems. Turn on the power
while holding down the FEED button, the self-test begins.
The printer is ready to receive data as soon as it completes
the self-test.
3.2.3 Paper Feeding
When the printer works normally, hold down【FEED】button,
the paper feeding begins, and stops when hold down【FEED】
button again.
3.2.4 Paper Tearing
After each receipts is finished printing, it needs to tear off the
paper along the tear bar. Please don’t use too much strength.
Otherwise the paper will be pulled out from the paper case.
3.2.5 Battery Using and Charging
When the battery is low, the power indicator blinks and the
buzzer rings 3 times; if the printer is in sleeping mode, the
printer will cut off power after the buzzer rings 3 times. In this
case, you must charge the battery by using the adaptor.
The charging method is as following: turn off the printer,
connect the adapter to the power socket with 220V, 50HZ,
then plug the power charging cable to the power socket of the

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printer, so the power charging begins, during the course of
power charging, the charging indicator goes red, and turns to
blue when the charging is over. It takes about 3 hours to
charge the battery. When the charging indicator is purple, it
means battery uninstalled or battery not contacted well. If
powered on the printer by the external power supply and
without the battery, the charging indicator is blue.
Notice: it would better not turn on the printer during the
course of charging power, lest the charging time goes longer.
3.3 Printer Interface Connection
3.3.1 RS-232 Serial Interface
The standard accessories for T5 printer include: DB-9 serial
interface cable (one end is D model standard serial interface
socket, connected to host computer, the other end is PS/2
socket, connected to printer).
When connect the serial interface, if it works normally, then
the printer stops to received data from Bluetooth, or IrDA
interface.
The specification of serial interface of T5 as below:
Data Transfer: Serial
Synchro Mode: asynchronous
Handshaking: Hardware RST/CTS or Xon/Xoff optional
Signal Level: RS-232
Baud Rate:1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400,
57600，115200bps optional

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Data Bit: 7 bit, 8 bit optional
Parity: Odd, Even, None optional
Stop Bit: 1 bit
The ex-factory default setting is:
Baud rate: 9600bps
Handshaking: hardware
Data Bit: 8 bit
Parity: none
User can change the settings by using the Setting Tool.
Definition for the PS/2 socket:
1.TXD: send data
2.DTR: ready signal
3.RXD: receive data
4.RTS: when the signal is “MARK”, means printer is busy,
can’t receive data; when the signal is “SPACE”, means the
printer is ready to receive data.
5.GND: ground
6.NC: no connection
Notice: The pin of NC is kept for our other usage, developers

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please don’t use this pin if making connecting line, otherwise
the printer might be not used normally or damaged.
When prints large quantities of data, the handshaking need to
be used. When using Bluetooth and IrCOMM, developers
need not to consider handshaking. When use Raw-Ir can not
use hardware control.
When the printer was controlled by hardware, follow below
method to connect the host and the printer:
Printer Host
RXD TXD
RTS CTS
GND GND
When the printer was controlled by software, follow below
method to connect the host and the printer：
Printer Host
RXD TXD
TXD RXD
GND GND
3.3.2 IrDA Interface
The hardware of T5 with infrared port printer is compatible
with IrDA1.1. IrCOMM protocol is one of the sub-protocol of
IrDA and widely used in portable devices. RAW-Ir data
transmission mode can be connected to the devices with raw
infrared port for printing, while IrCOMM mode can be
connected to the devices with IrCOMM protocol for printing.

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RAW-Ir can work under 9600bps, 19200bps, 38400bps,
57600bps, 115200bps, the baud rate of RAW-Ir is same to
that of serial interface.
Notice:
1) To use the T5’s infrared port, a computer or Personal
Digital Assistant (PDA) with IR port is required.
2) Position a PDA conforming to the specifications in point
not more than 50 centimeter away from the printer’s infrared
port. Make sure the two ports are in front of each other with
an angle of not more than 30° on the four side.
3.3.3 （Bluetooth）Interface
PDA, Laptop and other communication devices with
Bluetooth can drive T5-BT to print by the Bluetooth interface.
T5-BT is compatible with Bluetooth 2.0 protocol. Power grade
is CLASS 2; effective communication distance is 10 meters.
The name of the printer is T5 Bluetooth Printer, the initial
password is “1234”; users can change the printer name and
password by using Setting Tools.
3.3.3.1 Bluetooth Pairing:
The method for the pairing between T5-BT with the host
device is:
1. Turn on the printer;
2. Host device searches for the outer Bluetooth device;

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3. If there are other Bluetooth devices, please select T5
Bluetooth Printer;
4. Put in password “1234”
5. Pairing finished.
Notice: If the printer name has been changed, please be sure
not turn on more than one printer, otherwise it will be difficult
to justify which printer been paired.
3.3.3.2 Binding of Address
Binding: once the printer remembers the device’s address, it
only can connect with the device and can’t connect with
others. So in this case, if the printer needs to connect with
other device, user can delete the remembered address.
No binding: in this case, the printer can be searched or paired
by any other device. So when the printer needs to connect
with a fixed device, it would be better bind address.
3.4 Other Functions
3.4.1 Stand-by & Turn Off Automatically Mode
In order to save the power and prolong the using time, T5
adopts advanced stand-by and awakening automatically
technology.
Stand-by mode: the printer will fall into stand-by mode after at
least 5 seconds without usage and all the buttons untouched,
so that it can save the consumption as much as possible. It
can restore to normal working mode by receiving data or
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The printer also can be set to turn off automatically mode by
T5 Setting Tools. In turn off automatically mode, the printer
will power off if without data sent in within 5 minutes.
3.4.2 Paper End Alarming
When the paper is run out, the buzzer of the printer will ring 2
times, informs the user to load paper.
3.4.3 Black Mark
If user uses ready printing black mark to localize the receipt,
please be sure to abide by the following black mark ready
printing regulation when print the black mark, otherwise the
black mark can’t be recognized by the printer. The black
mark ready printing regulation:
Print position: as the following figure shows, the default black
mark is at the edge of left side. (You can change to right side
by using T5 Setting Tools.
Width range: ≥18mm
Height range: 4mm≤height≤6mm
Reflectivity to infrared ray: <10% (the reflectivity of the other
parts of the paper black mark width to infrared ray >65%)

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3.5 Indicators and Buzzer
There are three indicators for T5 printer, they are【POWER】,
【MODE】and 【FEED】, the 【POWER】and 【MODE】
indicators are blue, the 【FEED】indicator is red.
Indicator Status Buzzer
Solid blue (right) Normal working
mode
Beep once when
power on/off
Solid blue (right) Stand-by mode －
Blue blinking
(right)
Battery low
power －
Red blinking (left) Out of paper Beep once every two
seconds

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Solid blue
(middle) Charging finish －
Solid red(middle) Charging －
Solid
purple(middle) Battery error
3.6 Printer setting
Users can set the printer by using the〈T5 Setting Tools〉
software provided by us. The settings include: serial baud
rate, data format, black mark, language, font, density,
RAW-IR baud rate(only for T5-Ra), IrDA device name (oly for
T5-Ir), Bluetooth device name and password etc. Regard to
the setting method please refer to the ”HELP” in〈T5 Setting
Tools〉
Chapter 4 Printing Control Command
4.1 Summary
T5 offers ESC/POS print command set, FS Chinese print
commands. Each command is described in following format:
Section Commands Description
Printer printing commands
4.1.1 ESC @ Initialize printer
4.1.2 NULL Awaken printer
4.1.3 FF Print and feed paper to black