Tally T2265plus User manual

User guide T2265+ T2280+ Matrix printer

User guide Table of contents
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Table of contents
Introduction 1
Printer features 1
Symbols used 1
About this manual 2
Printer at a glance 3
Printer in tractor mode 4
Printer in single-sheet mode 4
Paperway 5
Installation 7
Unpacking the printer 7
Placing your printer 8
Checking the printer voltage 9
Connecting the printer 9
Switching on the printer 10
Inserting the ribbon cassette 11
Installing the ribbon cassette the first time 11
Changing the ribbon cassette 17
Printer drivers 23
Installing a printer driver in Windows 95/98/ME 23
Installing a printer driver in Windows 2000/2003/XP 23
Installing a printer driver in Windows 7 25
Installing a printer driver in Windows Vista 26
Other operating systems 27
Changing printer settings 28
Form settings (Windows Windows 2000/XP/Vista/
Windows 7) 28
Loading optional firmware 29
Troubleshooting 29

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The control panel 31
The LC display 32
Online mode 33
Offline mode 33
Setup mode 34
Messages in the LC display 35
Key functions when turning on the printer 36
Paper handling 37
Changing the paper type 37
Changing the paper type in the setup menu 38
Loading paper 39
Fanfold paper 39
Single sheets 41
Paper transport 43
Moving the paper to the tear position 44
Removing paper 45
Settings 47
Setting the print head gap 47
Setting the tear position 48
Setting the first printing line (TOF) 49
Selecting character density and font 50
2T model 51
Introduction 51
Rear tractor paper path 51
Loading paper into the rear tractor 52
Paper guiding bracket 54
Selecting the rear tractor 54
The Menu 57
Programming via the control panel 57
Enabling access to menu mode 57
Calling up the menu 57
Menu configurations 58

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Menu handling 59
Save settings 59
Selecting the LC display language 60
Terminating Setup mode 61
Menu structure 62
Menu parameters 63
Printing out menu configurations (Print) 63
Loading menu configurations (Menu) 63
Reset to default values (Reset) 64
Quietmode (Quietm.) 64
64
Selecting font (Font) 65
Setting character density (CPI) 66
Setting line spacing (LPI) 66
Skiping perforation (Skip) 67
Selecting start signal for escape sequence (ESCChar) 67
Selecting emulation (Emulate) 68
Bidirectional printing (Bidir) 68
Settings for interfaces (I/O) 69
Serial interface (Serial) 69
Data transmssion rate (Baud) 69
Data format (Format) 70
Further Settings (Special) 71
Error handling (ErrMode) 71
Block end character (Blockend) 71
Signal feedback (Remote) 72
Transparence (Handthr) 72
Protocol (Protocol) 73
Signal Processing (DTR) 73
Selecting interface (Interf.) 74
Interface buffer (Buffer) 74
Ethernet interface (ETH-INT) 75
Setting IP address (IP Addr) 75
Setting Gateway address (Gateway) 75
Setting Subnet mask (Subnet) 76
IP address administration
(IP Get M) 77
Banner page (Banner) 77
Selecting character set (CG-Tab) 78
IBM character set (CharSet) 78

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National character set (Country) 79
Slashed zero (Sl.Zero) 79
Automatic carriage return (Auto-CR) 80
Automatic line feed (Auto-LF) 80
Menu lock (MenLock) 81
Language (Language) 81
Paper parameters (Paper) 82
Form length (Forml) 82
First printing position (FormAdj) 84
Printhead gap manually (Head) 85
View and tear position (AutoTear) 86
Line length (Width) 87
Barcode (Barcode) 87
Normal characters and barcode (Barmode) 88
Form feed mode (FFmode) 89
Setting and activating options (PapOpt) 90
Activation of tractors (AutoTra) 90
Activation of automatic sheet feeder (AutoASF) 91
Setting the left margin (LeftMrg) 91
Setting the right margin (RightMrg) 92
Allow a local copy (screen print) form a Coax or Coax/PDS
(FFaftLC) 92
Enable/Disable Paper Handling Features (Paphand) 93
Menu settings (example)
94
Advanced menu 97
Test functions 97
Printer self-test (Rolling ASCII) 98
Exiting Rolling ASCII test mode 99
Interface test
(Hex-Dump) 100
Printout in Hex-Dump 100
Terminating Hex-Dump 101
Advanced settings 102
Automatic paper motion sensor (PMS) 104
Form length (Forml) 105
Automatic gap adjustment (AGA) 105

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Paper handling (Paphand) 106
Increasing the printhead gap (Head up) 106
Paper width (Pagewid) 107
Left-hand area (Leftzon) 107
Right-hand area (Rightzo) 108
Physical left margin (Physlm) 108
Bidirectional parallel interface (CX-bid) 109
Line wrap (Wrap) 109
Beep at paper end (Sound) 110
Deactivate single sheet feeder (Single) 110
Settings for paper with dark back (Pap.back) 111
Setting for printing copy paper (HvyForm) 111
Automatic paper width detection (APW) 112
Automatic detection of the top paper margin (AED) 113
Serial number (SerialN) 114
Asset number (AssetN) 114
Graphic Print Speed (GrSpeed) 115
Troubleshooting 117
General print problems 118
The display remains dark 118
The display is lit, but the printer does not print 118
Problems with the paper feed 119
Paper jam (fanfold paper) 119
Paper jam (single sheets) 120
Paper does not move to tear off position 120
Problems with the print quality 121
Print is too pale 121
Smudged print 121
Prints undefined characters 121
The first line is not completely printed out at the top 121
Dots within characters are missing 121
Error messages via the display 122
Additional display messages 125

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Care and maintenance 127
Replacing the fuse 127
Cleaning the housing 128
Cleaning the interior 128
Cleaning the platen 129
Ribbon 129
Cleaning the upper friction 130
Carriage shafts 130
Specifications 131
Printer specifications 131
Interface specifications 135
Paper specifications 136
Character sets 139
MTPL standard character set 140
MTPL, international substitution characters 141
OCR-A character set 142
OCR-B character set 143
Available character sets and fonts 144
Emulations 147
General 147
Escape sequences 147
What are escape sequences? 148
MTPL sequences 148
Control codes 148
The $$ procedure 148
Example: 148
How are escape sequences used? 149
MTPL 149
Example in BASIC 149
Example in Pascal 149
Printout 149
List of available control codes 150

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Barcode 160
List of available barcodes 160
US Postnet barcode 161
Royal Mail Customer barcode 161
KIX barcode 162
USPS Intelligent Mail barcode 162
LC printing 163
List of additional control codes 164
Interfaces 165
Parallel interface 166
Connector assignment 166
Ethernet interface 167
Hardware 167
Supported operating systems 167
Supported protocols 167
Designation of IP address 167
Configuration 167
Status 167
Management 167
Setup 167
Physical printer port in Ethernet with TCP/IP 168
Example of a printer connected to a computer in an
Ethernet 168
Example of several devices in an Ethernet 168
Optional serial interface V.24/RS232C 169
Connector assignment 169
Interface cable (serial interface) 170
Input signals 170
Output signals 170
Protocols 171
Memory mode XON/XOFF 171
Memory mode Robust XON/XOFF 171
Extended menu functions with the ENQ/STX and
ETX/ACK protocols selected 171
ENQ/STX protocol 172
ETX/ACK protocol 172

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Options and accessories 173
Options 173
Automatic cut sheet feeder, front (ASF-F) 173
Automatic cut sheet feeder, rear (ASF-R) 173
Autocut facility 173
Tractor 2, front 173
Face down insertion 173
Printer pedestal 173
Paper basket 174
Cable cover 174
ESD brush 174
Interface modules 174
Optional firmware 174
Accessories 175
Ribbon cassettes 175
Programming manuals 175
Index 177