Tally T2265 SprintPro User manual

Reference manual Matrix printer
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T2280
SprintPro
T2265
SprintPro
PRINT
MANUAL

Table of contents
Printer at a glance 1
Installation 4
Unpacking the printer 4
Placing your printer 5
Connecting the printer 7
Switching on the printer 9
The control panel 10
The LC display 11
Online mode 12
Offline mode 13
Setup mode 14
Messages in the LC display 15
Key functions when turning on the printer 16
Changing the ribbon cassette (black ribbon) 17
Changing the ribbon cassette (multicolour version) 25
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Paper handling 33
Changing the paper type 33
Loading paper 35
Fanfold paper 35
Single sheets 38
Paper transport 41
Moving the paper to the tear position 42
Settings 44
Setting the tear position 44
Setting the first printing line (TOF) 46
Setting the print head gap 49
Selecting character density and font 51
2T model 53
Introduction 53
Rear tractor paper path 54
Loading paper into the rear tractor 55
Paper guiding bracket 58
Selecting the rear tractor 59
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The Menu 61
Programming via the control panel 61
Calling up the menu 62
Enabling access to menu mode 62
Menu configurations 63
Menu handling 66
Save settings 66
Selecting the LC display language 67
Terminating Setup mode 69
Menu structure 70
Menu description table 71
Functions and Adjustments 85
Test functions87
Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII) 88
Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode 90
Interface test (Hex-Dump) 91
Printout in Hex-Dump 91
Terminating Hex-Dump 93
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Mechanical adjustments to the printer 94
Automatic paper motion sensor (PMS function) 95
Setting the Form length (Formlen function) 97
Automatic Gap Adjustment (AGA function) 99
Paper handling (Paphand function) 100
Increasing the printhead gap (Head up) 101
Paper width (Pagewid) 102
Left-hand area (Leftzon) 103
Right-hand area (Rightzo) 104
Physical left margin (Physlm) 105
Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid) 106
Line wrap (Wrap) 107
Beep at paper end (Sound) 108
Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single) 109
Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back) 110
Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm) 111
Loading optional firmware or character generator 112
Loading the operating system for the first time 113
Troubleshooting 113
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Troubleshooting 114
Problems with the print quality 119
Error messages via the display 121
Additional display messages 124
Care and maintenance 125
Replacing the fuse 126
Cleaning the housing 127
Cleaning the interior 127
Platen 128
Ribbon 129
Upper friction 129
Carriage shafts 129
Emulations 130
General 130
Escape sequences 130
What are escape sequences? 131
How are escape sequences used? 133
List of available control codes 136
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Barcode 158
List of available barcodes 158
US Postnet-Barcode 160
LC printing 161
List of additional control codes 162
Configuring the printer for your computer 164
Character sets 166
General information 166
MTPL standard character set167
MTPL international substitution characters 168
OCRA character set 169
OCRB character set 170
Available character sets and fonts 171
Interfaces 179
Parallel interface 180
Serial interface V.24/RS232C 182
Physical printer port in Ethernet with TCP/IP191
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Specifications 192
Printer specifications 192
Interface specifications 197
Paper specifications 198
Options and Accessories 201
Options 201
Accessories 204
Index
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Printer at a glance
Top cover
Soundproofing cover Control panel
Power switch
Front cover
View from the front
Bottom cover
Rückansicht
View from the rear
Power cord connector
Interface connectors
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Printer in tractor mode
Tractors
Printer in single-sheet mode
Paper guide
Rear cover
Paper support
Single sheet feeder
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