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Sommario

• 8000 Printer

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• About your Ithaca 8000 Printer

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• Who Should Read This Guide?

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• What Is Included in This Guide?

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• Warranty Options

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• Technical and Sales support

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• On-line Technical Support

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• Telephone Technical Support

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• Return Materials Authorization and Return Policies

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• Service Programs

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• Sales Support

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• Contact Information

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• 8000 Specifications and Requirements

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• Ithaca 8000 Specifications and Requirements

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• Ithaca® 8000 Thermal Printer Models

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• Standard Features

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• Optional Features

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• General Specifications

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• Printing Specifications

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• Character Pitch

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• Character Generation

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• Physical Characteristics

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• Dimensions

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• Weight

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• Electrical Characteristics

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• Internal AC Powered

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• External Powered DC

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• Thermal Print Head

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• Linerless Label Receipt Paper

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• Buzzer

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• Cover Interlock

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• Display Pass Through

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• Communications Interface

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• Parallel Interface

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• RS-232 Serial Interface

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• USB Interface

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• Ethernet 10-Base-T adapter

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• 802.11b Wireless Interface

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• Cash Drawer

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• Interface Description

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• Cash Drawer Pin Assignments

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• Setup Procedures

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• Verifying the Configuration

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• Verify the Communications Interface Card

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• Changing Interface Cards

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• Removing the Old Interface Card

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• Cash Drawer Configuration

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• Configuring the Cash Drawer Interface

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• Installing Cables

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• Connecting power

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• Connecting Communications Cables

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• Verify the Firmware Configuration

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• Installing Paper

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• Installing Windows® Printer Drivers

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• Printer Driver Installation for WIN95, 98, Me

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• Printer Driver Installation for NT4.0, 2000

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• OPOS drivers Installation Instructions

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• To Install the USB drivers

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• 8000 Printer

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• How to Operate the Ithaca® 8000 Printer

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• * Button

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• FEED Button

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• Indicator Lights (LED)

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• Power Indicator (LED)

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• Error Indicator (LED)

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• Paper Indicator (LED)

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• Fault Indicators

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• Testing the Printer Overview

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• Using Self-Test, Configuration, and Hex Dump Mode

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• Hex-dump Mode

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• Level 0 Diagnostics

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• Boot Loader Mode

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• 8000 Printer

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• Configuration Mode Overview

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• Most Frequent Configuration Incompatibilities

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• How to Change Configuration Settings

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• Entering into Configuration Mode

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• Using Configuration Mode

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• Remote Configuration

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• Setting up for Color Paper

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• Custom Color

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• Programming Codes

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• Control Codes Overview

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• Nomenclature

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• Standard Emulation

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• IPCL Codes

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• EPOS Emulation

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• Axiohm

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• Ithaca® Microline Emulation

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• Application Development

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• Ithaca Control Codes and Commands

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• PcOS Printer Control Codes

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• Quick PcOS Reference Chart

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• Quick PcOS Reference Chart (Alphabetic)

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• Low Level Paper Motion Control

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• Horizontal Motion Control

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• Vertical Motion Control

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• Feed to Black Dot

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• Character Pitch

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• Character Font

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• Print Rotation Commands

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• Rotated Print Summary

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• Ithaca® 8000 Page Mode

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• Graphic Mode

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• Graphics Compression

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• User Store (Graphic Save)

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• User Macros

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• Bar Codes

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• Electronic Journal

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• Unicode and Downloaded Fonts

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• Unicode Encoding

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• Miscellaneous Control

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• Remote Power Control

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• Documented Extended Control commands

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• Printer Status

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• Inquire Commands

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• ESC/POSTM Codes

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• Differences between Epson TM T90 and Ithaca® 8000

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• Supported TM-T88 Commands

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• Undocumented TM-T88 Commands

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• Supported TM-T90 Commands

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• TM-T88 / TM-T90 and ESC/POSTM Command Descriptions

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• Print and Feed Commands

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• Line Spacing Commands

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• Character Commands

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• Panel Button Commands

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• Paper Sensor Commands

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• Print Position Commands

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• Bit-Image Commands

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• Status Commands

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• Printing Paper Command

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• Page Mode

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• Bar Code Commands

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• Mechanism Control Commands

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• Miscellaneous Commands

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• Macro Function Commands

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• User-defined Images and Graphics Commands

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• Ithaca® Specific Ithaca® 8000 Commands

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• Panel Button Commands

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• Paper Out/Low Sensor Commands

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• Ithaca® Citizen Emulation

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• Ithaca® Star Emulation

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• Ithaca® Axiohm Emulation

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• 8000 Color Graphics

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• Printing Graphics

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• Character Graphics

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• APA Graphics

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• Ithaca® 8000 Universal Color Graphics

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• Print File Graphics

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• Store Graphics in the printer:

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• How universal graphics is done

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• How to use IPCL commands in text strings

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• Cautions

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• Universal Color Command Descriptions

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• Ithaca® 8000 Coupon-Cut-Logo Feature

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• Unicode

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• Unicode – A Software Font Solution

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• About Unicode

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• Memory

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• TransAct‘s implementation of Unicode in the Ithaca® 8000

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• Ithaca 8000 Extended Printer Control

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• Communications

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• Protocol and Print Buffers

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• USB

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• USB Support

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• TCP/IP

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• Print Server Features Standard Ethernet Connection

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• Supported Protocols

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• User Interface/Configuration

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• Other

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• Parallel Port

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• Parallel Port Protocol

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• Printer Buffer Size

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• Parallel Port Inquire and IEEE 1284

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• Parallel Port Plug and Play

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• Serial Port

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• Serial Port Protocol

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• Print Buffer Flow

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• Printer Buffer Size

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• Serial Mode Plug and Play

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• Using DSR

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• Serial Device Identification

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• Serial Port Inquire

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• Display Pass Through

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• Remote Power Control

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• Remote Printer Reset

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• Reset in Serial Mode

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• Reset in Parallel Mode

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• Miscellaneous Communication Features

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• Power-cycle Recovery

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• Data Pass-through

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• Multi-drop Configuration

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• Off-line Active

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• Recovery from Mechanical Errors

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• Programmer‘s Notes

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• Applications and Linerless paper

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• Appendix A: Code Page Definition Table

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• Appendix B - ASCII Code Table

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• Appendix C: Ordering Supplies

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• Index

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• Figure 1 Receipt Printing, Tear off Position

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• Figure 2 Cash Drawer Pin Definitions

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• Figure 3 Cash Drawer Selection

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• Figure 4 3-pin mini DIN plug

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• Figure 5 Page Mode entry Orientations

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• Figure 6 Code 39 full 128 character encoding

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• Figure 7 Expanded Function coding

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• Figure 8 Code 128 encoding values

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• Figure 9 Example of Character Graphics

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• Figure 10 Example Commands for a Sample Receipt

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• Figure 11 Sample Receipt

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• Figure 12 Receipt with graphics

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• Figure 13 Typical POS System

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• Figure 14 Host to Printer Link

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• Figure 15 Printer Communications Buffer Flow

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• Figure 16 Parallel-port Data Timing

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• Figure 17 Parallel Port ACK Timing Options

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• Figure 18 Serial Port Flow Control Using DTR

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• Figure 19 XON/XOFF Serial Port Flow Control

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• Table 1 Possible Character Pitches

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• Table 2 Requested CPI and Resulting CPI

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• Table 3 Cell Size for Small, Medium and Large Fonts

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• Table 4 Standard Power Input Requirements

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• Table 5 Power Input Requirements with the 24-volt DC Power

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• Table 6 Parallel Interface Pin-outs

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• Table 7 Serial Interface Pin-outs

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• Table 8 Cash Drawer Pin Assignment

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• Table 9 Serial interface pin out

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• Table 10 Parallel interface pin out

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• Table 11 Error Blink Codes

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• Table 12 Character Pitch

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• Table 13 Inter-character Spacing

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• Table 14 Language Table ID‘s

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• Table 15 Code Page Definition Table

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• Table 16 Euro Character Substitution Matrix

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• Table 17 OCR MA-3

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• Table 18 Paper Sensor Commands

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• Table 19 Paper Sensor Commands

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• Table 20 Supported TM-T90 Commands

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• Table 21 Undocumented TM-T90 Commands

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• Table 22 Supported EPOS Commands

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• Table 23 Select Character Font Table

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• Table 24 International Character Sets

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• Table 25 Character Code Pages

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• Table 26 Character Code Table

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• Table 27 Print Modes

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• Table 28 Rotation Modes

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• Table 29 Paper Sensor Commands

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• Table 30 Paper Sensor Commands

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• Table 31 Print Density Selection

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• Table 32 Automatic Status Back (ASB) Values for <n>

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• Table 33 Automatic Status Back (ASB) First Byte (Printer Information)

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• Table 34 Automatic Status Back (ASB) Second Byte (Error Information)

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• Table 35 Automatic Status Back (ASB) Third Byte (Paper Sensor Information)

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• Table 36 Automatic Status Back (ASB) Fourth Byte (Paper Sensor Information)

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• Table 37 Paper Sensor Status (<n> = 1, 49)

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• Table 38 Drawer Kick-out Connector Status (<n> = 2, 50)

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• Table 39 Values for the Status Function, <n>

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• Table 40 Printer Status (<n> = 1)

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• Table 41 Off line Status (<n> = 2)

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• Table 42 Error Status (<n> = 3)

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• Table 43 Paper Roll Sensor Status (<n> = 4)

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• Table 44 Peripheral Status (<n> = 0, 48)

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• Table 45 Paper Status

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• Table 46 Bar Code System Based on <m>

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• Table 47 Printing Position of HRI Characters

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• Table 48 Font for Human Readable Interpretation (HRI) Characters

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• Table 49 Horizontal size of the bar code

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• Table 50 Printer ID

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• Table 51 Type ID (<n> = 2 or 50)

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• Table 52 Peripheral Device Bit Definitions

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• Table 53 Macro Control Bit Definitions

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• Table 54 User-defined Bit-image Resolutions

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• Table 55 Parallel-port Timing

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