SPRT SP-T8 User manual

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R
SPRT
SP-T8
Portable Thermal
Printer
User’s Manual

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Content
Content................................................................................. 2
Operating Precautions.......................................................... 7
Notes on Safety ............................................................ 7
Notes on Using ............................................................. 8
Notes on Handling......................................................... 9
Chapter 1 Outer Appearance ............................................. 10
1.1 Outer Appearance .............................................. 10
1.2 Standard Accessories......................................... 10
Chapter 2 Specifications.................................................. 10
Chapter 3 Operation ........................................................ 12
3.1 Using Preparation............................................... 12
3.1.1 Battery Installation.................................... 12
3.1.2 Paper Installation...................................... 12
3.2 Operation Instructions ........................................ 13
3.2.1 Printer On/Off.............................................. 13
3.2.2 Self-test....................................................... 13
3.2.3 Paper Feeding ............................................ 14
3.2.4 Paper Tearing.............................................. 14
3.2.5 Battery Using and Charging........................ 14
3.3 Communication Interface ...................................... 15
3.3.1 RS-232 Serial Interface............................... 15
3.3.2 IrDA Connection ....................................... 17
3.3.3 Bluetooth Connection ............................... 18

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3.4 Other Functions..................................................... 19
3.4.1 Sleeping Mode ............................................ 19
3.4.2 Paper End Alarming .................................... 19
3.4.3 Black Mark .................................................. 19
3.5 Indicators .............................................................. 20
Chapter 4 Printing Control Commands............................ 21
Summary..................................................................... 21
HT ............................................................................... 21
LF................................................................................ 22
FF................................................................................ 22
CR............................................................................... 23
CAN ............................................................................ 24
DLE EOT n.................................................................. 24
DLE ENQ n ................................................................. 28
DLE DC4 n m t............................................................ 30
ESC FF ....................................................................... 32
ESC SP n.................................................................... 32
ESC ! n........................................................................ 34
ESC $ nL nH ............................................................... 35
ESC % n ..................................................................... 37
ESC & y c1 c2 [x1 d1...d(y x1)]...[xk d1...d(y xk)] . 37
ESC m nL nH d1... dk ................................................. 41
ESC – n....................................................................... 44
ESC 2.......................................................................... 46
ESC 3 n....................................................................... 46
ESC = n ...................................................................... 47

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ESC ? n....................................................................... 48
ESC @........................................................................ 49
ESC D n1...nk NUL ..................................................... 49
ESC E n ...................................................................... 51
ESC G n...................................................................... 51
ESC J n....................................................................... 52
ESC L.......................................................................... 53
ESC M n...................................................................... 55
ESC S ......................................................................... 55
ESC T n ...................................................................... 56
ESC V n ...................................................................... 58
ESC W xL xH yL yH dxL dxH dyL dyH........................ 59
ESC \ nL nH ................................................................ 62
ESC a n....................................................................... 63
ESC c 0 n.................................................................... 64
ESC c 3 n.................................................................... 65
ESC c 4 n.................................................................... 67
ESC c 5 n.................................................................... 67
ESC d n....................................................................... 68
ESC p m t1 t2.............................................................. 69
ESC { n ....................................................................... 70
FS p n m ..................................................................... 71
FS q n [xL xH yL yH d1...dk]1...[xL xH yL yH d1...dk]n 73
GS FF ......................................................................... 79
GS ! n.......................................................................... 79
GS ＃n...................................................................... 81

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GS $ nL nH ................................................................. 82
GS ( A pL pH n m........................................................ 83
GS x y d1...d(x y 8) .............................................. 84
GS / m......................................................................... 86
GS :............................................................................. 88
GS B n ........................................................................ 89
GS H n ........................................................................ 90
GS I n.......................................................................... 91
GS L nL nH ................................................................. 93
GS P x y...................................................................... 94
GS V m GS V m n①② ................................................ 96
GS W nL nH................................................................ 97
GS \ nL nH .................................................................. 99
GS ^ r t m .................................................................. 100
GS a n....................................................................... 101
GS f n........................................................................ 105
GS h n....................................................................... 106
GS k m d1...dk NUL GS k m n d1...dn①②............. 106
GS r n.........................................................................112
GS v 0 m xL xH yL yH d1....dk ...................................113
GS w n .......................................................................116
FS ! n .........................................................................116
FS &...........................................................................118
FS – n ........................................................................119
FS . ........................................................................... 120
FS 2 c1 c2 d1...dk ..................................................... 120

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FS S n1 n2 ................................................................ 122
FS W n ...................................................................... 124

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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 50mm, 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

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may reduce the print quality even damage the printer.
In the black mark detecting mode, the printer requires that
the ready-print black mark is accordant with the black mark
printing rules (details please refer to Chapter 5), otherwise
the black mark can not be detected correctly.
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.
Normal thermal paper can’t be kept too long, if you need to
keep the receipt for a long period, please choose long term
effective thermal paper.
The print paper should be keep away from high temperature

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environment and point-blank sunshine.
Chapter 1 Outer Appearance
1.1 Outer Appearance
1.2 Standard Accessories
Power Adaptor (1 unit)
Rechargeable battery (1 unit)
Thermal Paper (1 roll)
Leather Case (1 unit)
Chapter 2 Specifications
充电指示灯
走纸键
红外窗
电源键
状态指示灯
开门键
纸仓盖
Paper Case
Open Door Button
Status Indicator
Power Button
FEED Button
Charging Indicator
IrDA Window

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Model T8
Outline Dimension 153×120×80（L×W×H）
Weight 516g（paper roll excluded）
Printing Method Thermal
Printing Paper 80±0.5mm or 76±0.5mm x ≤60mm
Dot/line 576dots
Printing Speed 60mm /s (Average)；80mm/s (Max)
Paper Thickness 0.06～0.085mm
Black Mark Support
Reliability 100 Km
Character Set ASCII（8×8 / 12×12）
GB18030( 16×16 / 24×24)
Interface RS-232, IrDA , Bluetooth
Rechargeable Battery 2100mAh/7.4V
Power Adaptor 12V/2A
Battery Duration 800 receipts
Operation
Temperature/Humidity
－10℃～50 /20℃％～80％
Charging
Temperature/Humidity
5℃～35 /20℃％～80％
Storage
Temperature/Humidity
－20℃～60 /5℃％～95％

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Chapter 3 Operation
3.1 Using Preparation
3.1.1 Battery Installation
机器背面
电池
3.1.2 Paper Installation
能打开纸仓盖
推开门键,便
箭头
按箭头的方向
Battery
Bottom Case
Arrow
Under the direction of the arrow
to pull the Open Door key to
open the paper case.

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电源键
走纸键
3.2 Operation Instructions
3.2.1 Printer On/Off
The printer is powered on by pressing the power button about
1 second; and the status indicator is on with red color.
The printer is powered off by pressing the power button about
1 second; and all the indicators are off when the printer is
powered off.
Notice: If the power indication is on with green color, it means
the printer is in sleeping status.
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
FEED Button
Power Button

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while holding down the FEED button, the self-test begins.
The self-test prints the current printer status and settings.
The self-test automatically ends. 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
充电接口
Charging Port

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After the printer is used for a period of time, the power of
battery will be run out. When the battery is low, the power
indicator blinks with red color 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
printer, so the power charging begins, during the course of
power charging, the charging indicator is on, and will be off
when the charging is over.
Notice: it would better not turn on the printer during the
course of charging power, lest the charging time goes longer,
moreover, be sure not to use the printer to print when the
battery is charging.
3.3 Communication Interface
3.3.1 RS-232 Serial Interface
The standard accessories for T8 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
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interface.
The specification of serial interface of T8 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
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:

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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: reserved
3.3.2 IrDA Connection
The hardware of T8 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.
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 T8’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

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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 Connection
PDA, Laptop and other communication devices with
Bluetooth can drive T8-BT to print by the Bluetooth interface.
T8-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 T8 Bluetooth Printer, the initial
password is “1234”; users can change the printer name and
password by using Setting Tools.
Bluetooth Pairing:
The method for the pairing between T8-BT with the host
device is:
1. Turn on the printer;
2. Host device searches for the outer Bluetooth device;
3. If there are other Bluetooth devices, please select T8
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.
Binding of Address:

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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 Sleeping Mode
Sleeping: the printer will fall after at least 3 seconds without
usage into sleep, and the status indication becomes green;
also the printer can be awaken by sending command 0x00,
then send data, the time spacing is about 20ms.
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:

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Print position: as the following figure shows, the black mark
should be printed on the right of the word side.
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%)
3.5 Indicators
There are two indicators for T8 printer. They are status
indicator and charging indicator. Status indicator has two
colors: red and green. The following is the meaning of each
indicator denotes:
Status Indicator Charging status Status
Red LED blinking －Working
Solid GREEN(left) －Sleeping
－Solid
GREEN(right) Charging