Epson C31C391A8791 - TM U230P Two-color Dot-matrix Printer, Developer'S Manual

Page 1: ...EPSON OPOS ADK MANUAL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT GUIDE POSPrinter TM U230 Version 2 61 Feb 2008 ...

Page 2: ...onsible for any consequences resulting from the use of any information in this documentation Trademarks Microsoft Windows Windows Vista Visual Basic and Visual C are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries EPSON and ESC POS are registered trademarks of SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION Other product and company names used herein are for identi...

Page 3: ...3 1 Property Set Values and Default Values 7 3 1 1 Capability Set Values 7 3 1 2 List Properties 9 3 1 3 Width and Height Properties 10 3 1 4 Common Property Strings 10 3 2 Methods 11 3 3 Escape Sequences 12 3 4 Power Condition Reports 13 3 5 Synchronous Processing 13 3 6 Printing Positions 13 3 7 Electronic Logo Function NVRAM 13 3 8 Printable Bitmap Types and Sizes 13 3 9 Automatic Recovery Func...

Page 4: ...ernet TM U230 TM U230P TM U230U TM U230E TM U230M TM U230PM TM U230MU TM U230ME Before reading the manual see the following explanation about the characteristic of the TM U230 models Station Receipt Serial impact dot matrix Delayed Cut function 2 Color Printing Throughout the manual the various model names will be referred to as TM U230 Compatibility mode The compatibility mode for upward compatib...

Page 5: ... Fixed at OFF 5 OFF Settable 5 ON Settable 6 OFF Settable 6 OFF Fixed at OFF 7 OFF Settable 7 OFF Fixed at OFF 8 OFF Settable 8 OFF Settable It is possible to change the settings of DIP SW1 1 and 2 but it is recommended to leave them OFF Set DIP SW1 3 Handshake to DTR DSR Set DIP SW1 4 Bit length to 8 bits Set DIP SW1 5 to DIP SW1 8 accordance with the port information The described set values are...

Page 6: ...nd DIP SW2 8 Internal buzzer to match the environment of use When parallel I F is used with Windows 2000 Windows XP or Windows Vista please set Busy Condition of DIP SW1 8 to ON Buffer full Make other settings in accordance with the settings described above 3 USB Port DIP SW1 DIP SW2 No Setting No Setting 1 OFF Recommended 1 OFF Fixed at OFF 2 OFF Recommended 2 ON Fixed at ON 3 OFF Fixed at OFF 3 ...

Page 7: ...ed at OFF 7 OFF Fixed at OFF 8 OFF Recommended 8 OFF Settable It is possible to change the settings of DIP SW1 1 2 and 8 but it is recommended to leave them OFF Set DIP SW2 5 PAPER OUT LED blinking pattern and DIP SW2 8 Internal buzzer to match the environment of use Make other settings in accordance with the settings described above 2 3 Port Information 1 Port information when serial port is used...

Page 8: ...n that can be set with the SetupPOS utility is as follows Item Setting range Output buffer length byte 32 to 1024 Output interval time ms 0 to 9999 The default settings are as shown in the following table 3 Port information when using USB port The port information that can be set with the SetupPOS utility is as follows Item Setting range Output interval time ms 0 to 9999 The default setting is as ...

Page 9: ...tion is about the settings for TM U230 2 4 1 Usable Device Specific Settings For the TM U230 the following device specific settings are settable by the SetupPOS utility For the detail please refer to the Section 2 of EPSON OPOS ADK MANUAL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT GUIDE POSPrinter TM Series Tab Settings Disable panel buttons Assume print complete when data output finishes Homogenize Error Codes Igno...

Page 10: ...lt values 3 1 1 Capability Set Values The following values are the Capability set values Capability Name Set Value CapTransaction TRUE CapCoverSensor TRUE CapConcurrentRecSlp FALSE CapConcurrentJrnSlp FALSE CapConcurrentJrnRec FALSE CapConcurrentPageMode FALSE CapCharacterSet PTR_CCS_ASCII 1 CapMapCharacterSet FALSE CapJrnUnderline FALSE CapJrnNearEndSensor FALSE CapJrnItalic FALSE CapJrnEmptySens...

Page 11: ...ideDhigh TRUE CapRecDwide TRUE CapRecDhigh TRUE CapRecColor PTR_COLOR_PRIMARY PTR_COLOR_CUSTOM1 CapRecCartridgeSensor 0 CapRecBold TRUE CapRecBitmap TRUE CapRecBarCode FALSE CapRec2Color TRUE CapRecPresent TRUE CapSlpUnderline FALSE CapSlpRotate180 FALSE CapSlpRight90 FALSE CapSlpNearEndSensor FALSE CapSlpLeft90 FALSE CapSlpItalic FALSE CapSlpEmptySensor FALSE CapSlpDwideDhigh FALSE CapSlpDwide FA...

Page 12: ...al character model PTR_CCS_KANJI is set 3 1 2 List Properties The List Properties are explained in the following List Property Settings CharacterSetList 254 255 437 850 858 860 863 865 998 1 JrnLineCharsList RecLineCharsList 33 40 SlpLineCharsList RecBarCodeRotationList RecBitmapRotationList 0 180 SlpBarCodeRotationList SlpBitmapRotationList FontTypefaceList 1 If Multilingual character model 936 o...

Page 13: ...ines 0 RecSidewaysMaxChars 0 RecLinesToPaperCut 8 1 SlpSidewaysMaxLines X SlpSidewaysMaxChars X SlpMaxLines X X No settings 1 It can be changed by the settings of the RecLineSpacing or the character height When the RecLineSpacing is 0 the RecLinesToPaperCut is 1 3 1 4 Common Property Strings The Device information properties are described below I F DeviceName DeviceDescription TM U230 EPSON TM U23...

Page 14: ...wing explanation is about supported unsupported Methods and the detailed information Method Supported Unsupported PrintNormal O PrintTwoNormal X PrintImmediate O PrintBarCode X PrintBitmap O PrintMemoryBitmap O CutPaper O 1 100 One point remains uncut MarkFeed X ChangePrintSide X ValidateData O TransactionPrint O SetLogo O SetBitmap O RotatePrint O EndRemoval X BeginRemoval X EndInsertion X BeginI...

Page 15: ...unsupported Escape Sequences Escape Sequence Receipt P 0 100 fP 0 100 sP X sL X B O tL O bL O R X lF 0 9999 uF 0 approx 50cm rF Maximum inch 2 E 0 65535 fT X bC O bC O uC 1 iC X iC X rC 1 2 rvC X rvC X sC X fC X tbC X tbC X tpC X tpC X 1C O 2C O 3C O 4C O hC 1 2 vC 1 2 cA O rA O lA O N O O Supported X Unsupported Numbers Settable range ...

Page 16: ...rinting Position O O Supported X Unsupported When the printing position settings are supported it is possible to specify the horizontal printing position of the text or bitmap to the left center or the right side of the paper 3 7 Electronic Logo Function NVRAM The TM U230 models do not support the Electronic Logo Function 3 8 Printable Bitmap Types and Sizes The TM U230 models support the followin...

Page 17: ...he operations differ by the firmware versions See the section 2 2 1 References of Firmware Versions of this manual 3 11 Delayed Cut Function The TM U230 models are equipped with a delayed cut function This function is used to delay cutting position of the receipt when the present printing location coincides with the receipt cutter Once the function is set delayed cutting is done automatically The ...

Page 18: ...Version 2 61 Feb 2008 APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT GUIDE POSPrinter TM U230 15 Section 4 Warnings This section describes precautions in use of the TM U230 There is no specific warning ...