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EXTECH DATA SYSTEMS
MSP/MPP II/III COMPACT PORTABLE PRINTER
USER'S MANUAL
VERSION: 2.0
DATE: August 1995
Extech Data Systems (A Division of Extech Instruments Corporation) 335 Bear Hill Road Waltham MA 02154
Part Number: 7A060023
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About this Manual Objective This User's Manual supplies the necessary information for installing and operating Extech MPP/MSP compact portable printer series. Contents Chapter 1: This chapter starts with the visual overview of your MSP/MPP printer series. Power, data, ribbon, paper and installation procedures are covered and supported with helpful diagrams. At the end of this chapter you are ready for the initial power-up and printer self-test. Chapter 2: This chapter
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NOTE: FCC Part 15 Class B This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, t
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Contents 1.0 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL POWER-UP 1.1 MODEL NUMBER 1.2 UNPACKING YOUR PRINTER 1.3 FRONT PANEL LED INDICATORS 1.4 MEMBRANE SWITCH PANEL 1.5 DATA CONNECTOR 1.6 POWER INPUT 1.6.1 AC POWER ADAPTER 1.6.2 DC POWER CONNECTION (OPTIONAL) 1.6.3 INSTALLING BATTERY 1.7 INSTALLING PAPER AND RIBBON 1.7.2 INSTALLING PAPER 1.7.2 INSTALLING RIBBON 1.8 INITIAL POWER-UP AND SELF-TEST 2.0 OPERAT
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3.0 OPERATING YOUR COMPACT PRINTER PART II 3.1 MSP - RS232C SERIAL INTERFACE 3.1.1 MSP SERIES - SERIAL COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL 3.1.2 MSP SERIES - SERIAL BUSY PROTOCOL 3.1.3 MSP SERIES - XON/XOFF PROTOCOL 3.1.4 MSP SERIES - RS232C CONNECTIONS 3.1.5 MSP SERIES - OPTIONAL RJ11 - RS232C CONNECTOR 3.1.6 MSP SERIES - RS232C TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 3.2 MPP SERIES - 8 BIT PARALLEL INTERFACE 3.2.1 MPP SERIES - PARALLEL INTE
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Chapter 1 Installation and Initial Power-Up 1.0 INSTALLATION AND INITIAL POWER-UP Thank you for selecting the Extech compact portable printer. The MPP/MSP printer series feature compact reliable, plain paper dot matrix printers capable of printing 24 through 42 columns and dot addressable graphics. Packaged in rugged Cycolac enclosure, it is designed for use as a table top or portable battery operated printer. These printers are available in two types of interfaces, either serial RS2
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Chapter 1 Installation and Initial Power-Up 1.2 UNPACKING YOUR PRINTER When you remove the printer from its shipping box, make sure it is in good condition. The package also includes an AC power adapter, rechargeable battery pack, paper roll, a warranty registration card. If any of the components are missing, contact Extech or your distributor for assistance. Keep the packing material so you can repack the printer for storage or shipment. If there is any visible damage to the pri
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Chapter 1 Installation and Initial Power-Up 1.4 MEMBRANE SWITCH PANEL Four membrane switches are provided on the left side of the MSP/MPP printers for various operator controls. The switches are labeled , , and . The functions performed by these switches are summarized below. or The or switch is used to turn printer power on. The green LED is illuminated, if printer is selected. The switch is u
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Chapter 1 Installation and Initial Power-Up PART # DESCRIPTION 152117 MSP/MPP II 110 VAC IN / 9VDC 1A Out 152220 MSP/MPP II 220 VAC IN / 9VDC 1A Out 153117 MSP/MPP III 110 VAC IN / 9VDC 2A Out 153220 MSP/MPP III 220 VAC IN / 9VDC 2A Out 151129 DC CAR ADAPTER 1.6.2 DC POWER CONNECTION (OPTIONAL) For DC powered units, a two conductor power plug is provided. Refer to Table 1.0 to connect power to your DC unit. No internal fuse is provided with DC units. It is s
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Chapter 1 Installation and Initial Power-Up Tear and discard any paper remaining in the printer tray. Remove any paper remaining in the printer mechanism, using the switch. Do not REVERSE pull paper out of the printer mechanism - this will damage the printer mechanism Feed the new roll of paper into the printer paper slot using the switch. 1.7.2 INSTALLING RIBBON Remove the back cover (section 1.1 and figure 1.3). Remove the worn ribbon by pressing w
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.0 OPERATING YOUR COMPACT PRINTER PART 1 The MSP/MPP compact portable printer series is comprised of a microcomputer-based printer controller card, a printer mechanism module, a rechargeable battery pack and a high impact cycolac enclosure. 2.1 PRINTER CONTROLLER The MSP Serial printers use the Extech Part Number EX075 circuit board while the MPP Parallel printers use the Extech EX076 circuit board. A powerful INTEL micro-controller on
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.2.1 PRINTER PAPER SPECIFICATION The MSP/MPP printers use 2.25" wide, .0027" thick and 1.12" diameter rolls of common calculator paper. Three types of paper may be used in the printer, Single ply roll, Two ply pressure sensitive roll, Label stock Custom Kiss-cut with perforation. Below is the specification for each type of the paper. PAPER TYPE PART # WIDTH THICKNESS LENGTH Single Ply 757058 (5 rolls) 2.25"/57.5 mm .0027" / .08
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.3.3 POWER-UP VIA DATA INTERFACE The MSP/MPP printer can be powered-up by transmitting a single character or activating or
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.4 CONTROL CHARACTERS The printer has a set of commands which provide control of printer functions. The printer also provides response commands informing the user of the printer status. In this section, the recognized control characters and the corresponding printer actions are summarized. CHAR. CON H/D CONTROL ACTION EOT ^D End Of Text 04/04 printer sends an EOT character when buffer is empty. This is used to tell the host that print
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer CHAR. CON H/D CONTROL ACTION T AUXOFF ^U 15/ Printer to Host: printer is off 21 transmitted to host before power down CANCEL Cancel and reset printer ^X 18/ If received, 2K print buffer is reset 24 and printer placed in initial power-up default settings. ESC 1B/ Escape ^[ 27 Escape character precedes graphics and printer operating modes. Refer to escape command section. EXTEND Extended print 1C/ ^\ 28 All characters following
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.6 CHARACTER SIZE Four character sizes can be selected through the communication interface, by sending control characters to the printer. Character Size Dot matrix size Normal 5x7 Expanded (Double Wide) 10x7 Extended (Double Height) 5x14 Large (double wide and 10x14 double height) 2.6.1 NORMAL CHARACTER The Normal characters are formed using a 5x7 dot matrix. The printer defaults to 5x7 matrix Normal character size upon ini
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.7 DOT ADDRESSABLE GRAPHICS The MSP/MPP Compact Printers can print special symbols, graphs and characters if operated in the Dot Addressable Graphics mode. During the Dot Addressable Graphics mode of operation, the printer prints one dot line at a time. Each horizontal dot line is made out of (1x6) dot cells, and the total number of dot cells per line is the same as the maximum number of columns on the printer. For example, a mode
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 2.8 OPERATING MSP/MPP PRINTER IN MS-DOS ENVIRONMENT To insure proper operation of the Extech MPP/MSP printers in DOS environment the following are required. FOR MPP SERIES - Parallel Printer 1- Use DOS print command to print, or Write Direct to printer port. 2- Set the printer port for infinite retry using the dos MODE command. MODE LPT1:,,P FOR MSP SERIES - Serial Printer 1- Use DOS print command to print, or Write Direc
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Chapter 2 Operating Your Compact Printer 3.0 OPERATING YOUR COMPACT PRINTER PART 2 This chapter describes the input connections, operation, and electrical characteristics for all MSP/MPP printers. - The operating features of the MSP Serial printers are covered in section 3.1. - The operating features of the MPP Parallel printers are covered in section 3.2. 3.1 MSP SERIES: SERIAL COMMUNICATION SPEED AND PARITY The proper Baud Rate and protocol settings are required to comm
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3.1.1 MSP SERIES - SERIAL COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL Two communication protocols are supported by the MSP printer series - SERIAL BUSY PROTOCOL and XON/XOFF PROTOCOL. 3.1.2 MSP SERIES - SERIAL BUSY PROTOCOL In this mode, Pins 4 (RTS - From Host ) and 5 (CTS - From Printer) are used to control data flow to and from the printer. This protocol is available for serial RS232C version printers. The signal from the Host (pin #4) is used to enable the printer, the p
