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MICROLINE 320/390FB User Manual (English) MICROLINE 320/390FB User Manual (English)[...]
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E – 1 English Table of Contents Note to Customers ................................... E-2 Important Safety Instructions .................. E-3 Important Wiring Instructions ................. E-4 Installing Your Printer ............................. E-5 Preliminaries ............................................ E-6 Connecting to the Computer .....[...]
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E – 2 Note to Customers Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is complete, accurate and up-to-date. Oki assumes no responsibility for errors beyond its control. Oki also can not guarantee that changes in software and equipment made by other manufacturers and referred to in this book will not affect the applicabi[...]
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E – 3 Important Safety Instructions Your printer has been carefully designed to perform safely and reliably. However, as with all electrical equipment certain precautions should be allowed: ➢ Read all documentation supplied with and on the printer before commencing. ➢ Always disconnect the printer from the mains source before cleaning. ➢ Be[...]
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E – 4 Important Wiring Instructions The wires in the mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code: Green and Yellow Earth Blue Neutral Brown Live If the colours of the wires in the mains lead of this printer do not correspond with the markings of the terminals of your plug, proceed as follows: Green and Yellow must be connected t[...]
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E – 5 Installing Your Printer Prior to unpacking the printer, find a flat, sturdy surface to place it on, for example, a desk, printer stand, etc. Gently remove the printer from its carton. Make sure you have everything shown below: ➢ MICROLINE 320/390 FLATBED printer ➢ Sheet stacker ➢ Power cord ➢ Ribbon cartridge ➢ Printer Handbook No[...]
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E – 6 Preliminaries Before plugging in the printer, follow these steps to install your printer. 1. Hold both sides of the access cover and lift up. There is a shipping retainer to protect the printhead from jamming. Remove this shipping retainer and keep it with the other packing materials. (To transport the printer long distances, make sure to r[...]
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E – 7 2 . Next install the sheet stacker. Put the stud of one of the stacker’s legs into the hole at the end of the rear vent. Gently press the other leg until it slips into the other hole. 3 . Make sure the power switch is OFF. Plug the power cord into the back of the printer. Plug the other end into an earthed socket. 4. Turn the power switch[...]
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E – 8 5. Turn the power switch off. Important: Make sure the socket is earthed. Do not use an adapter because it will defeat the earthing. ![...]
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E – 9 Connecting to the Computer These instructions are for the standard centronics parallel interface. 1 . Make sure that both the printer and the computer are switched OFF. 2 . Plug the interface cable into the port on the back of your printer. Fasten the the cable using the wire clips that can be found on both sides of the connector port. 3 . [...]
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E – 10 Installing the Ribbon Cartridge 1 . Set the headgap lever to the “R” position. 2 . Open the access cover. 3 . Slide the print head gently towards the centre to give yourself some working room. There is a cut-out at the centre of the sheet guide for changing cartridges. Important: a) The printhead gets very hot during extended periods o[...]
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E – 11 5 . Insert the flat end of the cartridge into the upper part of the ribbon plate, then lower the front of the cartridge over the printhead until it snaps into place. 6 . Turn the take-up knob in the direction of the arrow icon to tighten the ribbon. 7 . To remove a ribbon, move the cartridge to the position indicated by two arrow icons at [...]
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E – 12 Important: Do not peel off the plastic film (ribbon mask) on the top of the cartridge. Do not stack the ribbon cartridge sideways, it will cause poor quality printing. Loading Paper Loading Continuous Paper 1 . Check that the POWER lamp is turned on. 2 . Check that the SEL lamp is turned off. If it is lit, push the SEL button once to turn [...]
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E – 13 3 . Push the paper lever to the continuous paper position. 4 . Adjust the headgap lever on the left side of the printer according to your paper thickness. At its lowest (position 1), the lever sets a thickness for one sheet of paper. It clicks through seven positions showing the number of sheets. The eighth position is for extra-thick pape[...]
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E – 14 Note: In the positions above 5, the printer slows down to maintain print quality with thicker multipart forms. Note: “R” position indicates ribbon cartridge replacement position. 5 . Hold both sides of the paper table and lift up gently. 6 . Open the lock levers on both pin tractors. This unlocks the pin tractor so that you can adjust [...]
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E – 15 7 . Open both of the pin-tractors covers. 8 . Lay down the continuous paper with printing face upwards on to the pin-tractors. Adjust the paper so that the first two pins of both pin tractors poke through the two sprocket holes of the paper. Make sure that the paper covers the pin tractors. Important:The space between the left edge of the [...]
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E – 16 Note: The arrow icon ( ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼ ) on the scale and also the centre of the diamond shaped hole indicate the centre of the first printed character. 10. Slide the right pin-tractor to tighten the paper. Press the right lock lever down. (Lock position.) Close the pin tractor cover. ! Pin tractor cover Lock lever Scale Lock lever Pin[...]
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E – 17 11. Close the table. The extension guide is not necessary when using continuous paper. Push it clockwise so that it folds under the sheet stacker. 12. When you close the table, the ALARM lamp comes on, do not worry, it is just telling you that there is no paper loaded. Press the FORM FEED button. Your paper will be loaded automatically. Th[...]
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E – 18 Loading Cut Sheet paper 1 . Check that the power is on. 2 . Check that the SEL lamp is off (printer off-line). If it is on push the SEL button to turn it off. 3 . Pull the paper lever to the forwards position, (cut sheet paper position). 4 . Position the headgap lever to the appropriate setting for your paper thickness. Note: You can not p[...]
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E – 19 Note: Unless you alter the standard margin setting using the MENU MODE, the paper guide must be placed correctly against the arrow icon: too big a left margin may cause printing on the platen and not the paper, resulting in a loss of data. 6. The sheet will be loaded automatically. The ALARM lamp goes off and the SEL lamp comes on, you are[...]
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E – 20 Setting the Top of Form Your printer can adjust the top of form (the first line of the printing surface) by increments of 1 / 144 inch. This allows you to set a desired top of form very precisely. 1. To advance the paper, keep pressing the TOF/ QUIET button and press the FORM FEED button. 2. To reverse, keep pressing the TOF/QUIET button a[...]
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E – 21 3 . Release the two buttons at the desired top of form position. Press the TOF/QUIET button again to fix the setting. It remains in the printer’s memory and will not change until the printer is reset. Note 1: The reverse process is limited in order to avoid paper jams. Note 2: You can also preset the top of form by hand. Make sure the SE[...]
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E – 22 2 . Also, keep the printer 60 cm or more from the wall in order to store paper. These storage requirements are necessary to avoid jammmg. Running a Self Test Now that you have installed the ribbon and paper, you are ready to run one of two types of self test. The default paper setting is 269.24mm. When using paper of smaller width, change [...]
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E – 23 Printing Demo Patterns 1 . First load the printer with the correct paper. 2 . Switch off the power to the printer. 3 . Choose the demo pattern you want to produce and associated button, from the following table. 4 . Keep pressing the button and turn on the power. The self test will start almost immediately. 5 . In self test mode, the print[...]
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E – 24 Changing Menu Settings To change the menu settings follow these steps: 1. Make sure that the printer is on line. 2 . Press the MODE/Exit button to put the printer in Menu Mode. 3 . Press the TOF/QUIET/Print button to print a list of menu settings. 4 . Press the LINE FEED/Group button to select the menu group. 5 . Press the FORM FEED/Item b[...]
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E – 25 If you want to return the printer to the factory default settings, turn the power on while holding down the MODE/Exit and SEL buttons, all menu settings will then return to the factory default. An example of a menu printout: ML320FB ML390FB[...]
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E – 26 Specifications Print method Impact dot matrix Printhead 24 pin (ML390FB) 9 pin (ML320FB) Print speed Utility 270 cps at 12 cpi (ML390FB) 250 cps at 12 cpi (ML320FB) Letter quality 90 cps at 12 cpi (ML390FB) 62.5 cps at 12 cpi (ML320FB) Characters per line at 10 cpi 106 at 12 cpi 127 at 15 cpi 159 at 17.1 cpi 181 at 20 cpi 212 Reliability M[...]
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E – 27 Electrical characteristics Voltage 230V AC(+6%-14%). 240V AC(±10%). Frequency 50/60Hz ±2%. Data interface Centronics parallel standard. RS232C serial optional. Dimensions Depth 343mm. Width 465mm. Height 200mm. Weight 12kg. Continuous paper Wid th 76.2mm to 304.8mm. Length 76.2mm to 355.6mm. Single part Weight 12 t o 34lb. Thickness 0.05[...]
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E – 28 Cut sheets Wid th 90mm to 304.8mm. Length 70mm to 420mm. Single part Weight 12 t o 41lb. Thickness 0.051mm to 0.196mm. Multipart* Weight Paper: 10 to 12lb. Carbon: 9lb. Number of copies Original plus 4 copies. Thickness 0.36mm max. * Note: All parts must be glued at the top. Envelopes (individual) Weight 24lb. max. Thickness 0.406mm max. D[...]