Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product PP7000 Mustek
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Aura Series (PP7000 / PP7000-II) Thermal Printer User's Guide Rev.: A1 IMPORTANT!!!! Please read carefully before using this printer Before opening the Top Hood, make sure there is no paper jam or cutter jam trouble. (Read page 3-4, 3-5 and Warranty Limit in the user’s Manual.
Federal Communications Commission Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipm ent has been teste d and found to c omply with the l imits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Table Of Contents GETTING STARTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 -- 1 CONGRATULATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 -- 1 PRODUCT BRIEFING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 -- 1 UNPACKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
PRINT HEAD CLEANING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 -- 1 TROUBLE SHOOTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 -- 2 General problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 -- 2 Printing problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 -- 2 Paper jam problems .
I. GETTING ST ARTED A. CONGRATULATION You have made a very wise decision by purchasing the easy loading ; low noise ; high resolution ; light w eight ; high reliability thermal printer Aura (PP7000 & PP7000-II) series of Posiflex products. This series of printers has been elegantly designed for a Point-Of-Sale, kitchen & kiosk application.
reminder function to persons around. It can be used to drive a separately purchased kitchen bell for such reminder function in noisy environment. This printer also supports application in different countries of various kinds of power systems by changing the power cord to the power adaptor.
a Power adaptor + power cord (depend on country type ordered). b Power supply cable (when no power adaptor ordered) w0.0009 l30.0823 19 10.98 0 0 10.
Front View Rear View Parallel Connector Power Switch Serial Connector Power Connector Peripheral Connector Frame Ground Bottom View Screws Setup Window Window Plate Screw F.
G. OPERATING ENVIRONMENT • Place the printer on a sturdy, level surface. • Choose a place that is well ventilated and free of excessive dust, smoke or fume. • Do not put t he printer under direct sunlight or near a heater. • Ideal room temperature is from 5ºC to 40ºC.
H. USEFUL TIPS • Do not touch the areas around the print head and mot.
II. QUICK ST ART-UP A. LOADING PAPER 1. Desk top application 1. Slide the hood lock toward the front of the printer to release the hood. 2. Raise the released hood wide open manually. 3. Drop the thermal paper roll inside the printer in the orienta tion as shown in the picture.
2. When to replace paper Whenever the printer gives paper out signal or a red line appears on the thermal paper, it is the proper timing for replacing the paper.
window the switch positions both 1, and 2 to ON leaving the rest unchanged as factory default setting . 3. Peripheral connection The peripheral controller is a RJ11 jack near the serial connector.
sure that the type of power cord an d the voltage requirement of the power adaptor meet the lo cal power conditions. Now the printer is ready for power on. 6. Self test Press and hold down the feed button while turning the on / off switch on. The printer will then perform a self test.
moment, a font table will be printed in text m ode again. To exit the test printing, please turn the printer off and on again. C. SPECIAL ADJUSTMENTS 1. Paper near end senso r The near end sensor for paper roll in the printer is now able to have the printer work with paper rolls of several bobbin sizes.
extremely light bobbin, easily causing the paper roll to go off position when paper feeding with low rema ining paper. In this case, the paper near end sensor may function abnormally and it would be a good solution to set in the setup window to have the printer to send busy only when input buffer is full and not based on every off line signal.
III. MAINTENANCE GUIDES A. MAINTENANCE GUIDE LINES • Always turn off and disconnect power before opening the cover. • The areas around the print head and motor become very hot during and just after printing, do not touch them.
Before putting back the paper roll for printing, alcohol solvent must be dried completely. D. TROUBLE SHOOTING This section gives solutions to some printer problems you may have.
If there is no paper jam and the print head is not overheated, turn off the printer and wait for ha lf a minute then turn it back on. If the problem still remains, contact a qualified service person. Nothing can be printed with ERROR LED OFF – Try to run self test according to previous chapter to check if the printer itself works properly.
speed by adjusting an internal sw itch describe in last chapter o f the manual. 3. Paper Jam Problems Paper is jammed inside the printer – Turn off the printer and open the print hood by re leasing the hood lock. Remove the jammed paper and reinstall the paper roll.
it back to position when finish. The lock up of the print hood can then be released after this problem solved. Please use manual cutter as temporary alternative mea sure once the auto cutter malfunctioned.
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IV. SPECIFICA TIONS A. PRINTER ITEM SPECIFICATION Printing method Thermal sensitive line dot method Effective printing width 64 mm Thermal head configuration 512 dots / line PP7000 Text mode: 80 mm / sec Page mode: 150 mm / sec Printing speed PP7000-II High speed mode: 180 mm /sec.
C. POWER ADAPTOR ITEM REQUIREMENT INPUT VOLTAGE 100 V AC ~ 250 V AC INPUT FREQUENCY 50 ~ 60 HZ INPUT CURRENT 1.5 A MAX. @ 115 V AC OUTPUT VOLTAGE + 24 V DC OUTPUT POWER 60 W STATIC LOAD 0 A ~ 2.
V. TECHNICAL INFORMA TION A. INTERFACES 1. Peripheral interface The connector for peripheral control is a 6P6C RJ11 jack with the following pin assignment. The best recommended cash drawers to this connector are Posiflex CR3100, CR3200, CR4000 and CR4100.
B. SETUP WINDOW On bottom cover of the Aura ser ies thermal printer, there is screwed a metal plate for setup window. In this window, there is a 8 position DIP switch for printer setup. Please use proper tool to change the switch setting when necessary.
Switch position 4 defines the handshaking method in serial interface. When it is set to ON, the printer transmits an “XOFF” for busy and sends an “XON” for not bus y. When it is set to OFF, the printer signifies the busy status over hardware signals that can be detected by the host as “DSR” or “CTS”.
C. INTERNAL SWITCH There is an extra internal 4 position DIP switch in PP7000- II for more technical settings. To access these setup, please first turn off the printer power and disconnect every cable from the printer. Remove 4 screws from bottom of printer and rem ove the plastic bottom cover with the power switch pressed.
D. SOFTWARE COMMANDS The Aura thermal printer suppor ts all commands applicable to Epson printer TM-T88II. The only difference is the smoothening command in enlarged text fonts. Please visit our web site http://www.posiflex.com.tw , http://www.posiflextw.
ESC ‘p’ m n1 n2: Kitchen bell drive command (m = ‘0’, 0 ≦ n1 ≦ n2 ≦ 255) Hexadecimal codes are: 1B 70 m n1 n2 This command can be used to drive a kitchen bell purchased from Posiflex whe.
E. CHARACTER CODE PAGES Aura series printer supports a ll code pages and international character sets applicable to Epson printer TM-T88. They are: Page 0 (PC437: USA / Standard Europe) Page 1 (Kataka.
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