Brother HS-5300 manual

English: CS-5xxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) Please r ead this manua l tho r oughly be f o r e using the printe r . B r other Color Printer HS-5000/5300 User ’ s Guide K eep this manual in a co n venient place f or quick and easy r efe r ence at all times.[...]

USER’S GUIDE English: CS-5zxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) SHIPMENT OF THE PRINTER If for any reason you must ship your Printe r , carefully package the Printer t o a v oid any damage during trans it. It is recommended that you s a ve and us e the original packaging . The Printe r should also be adequate ly insured with the carrie r . W a r [...]

English: CS-5xxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) (For USA & CANA D A On l y) F or technic al and operational assistanc e , please c all: In USA 1-800-276-774 6 (outside Cali f o r nia) 714-859-9700 Ext . 32 9 ( within Cali f o r nia) In CANA D A 1-800-853-6660 514-685-6464 (within Montr eal) If y ou h a v e comments or s uggestions, please w [...]

USER’S GUIDE English: CS-5zxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) UD4653001 Printed in Japa n[...]

v English: CS-5xxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) Color Printer HS-5000/5300 User ’ s Guide (For USA & CANA D A On l y) For technical and operational assistance, please call: In USA 1-800-276-774 6 (outside California) 714-859-9700 Ext. 329 (within California) In CANADA 1-800-853-6660 514-685-6464 (within Montreal) If you have comments or [...]

USER’S GUIDE vi English: CS-5zxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) T rademarks The brother logo is a re gistered t rademark of Brother Indust ries, Ltd. Apple, the Apple Logo, and Macintosh are trademarks, regis tered in the United States and ot her countries, and TrueT ype is a trademark of Apple Computer , Inc. Hewlett P ackard is a registered [...]

vii English: CS-5xxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) T o Use the Print er Safel y Wa r n i n g After you have just used the printer , some inte rnal parts of the printer are extremely hot. Do not open the inside co ver unnecessarily and nev er touch the shaded parts (Quench Pla ten, Platen, and Print Head) shown in the following illustration. Hig[...]

USER’S GUIDE viii English: CS-5zxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) T ABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTI O N 1-1 ABOUT THE GU IDEBOOKS 1-1 F I ND I NG OUT HOW TO USE T HE PR I N T ER 1 - 1 A B OUT YO UR P RINTER 1-2 PR I N T ER OVE R V I EW 1 - 2 SYS T EM REQU I REMEN T S 1 - 3 FE A T URES 1 - 3 O P ER A TING AND S T O RAGE ENVIRONM ENT 1-4 P[...]

ix English: CS-5xxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) D A T A LED 4 - 2 MANUAL LED 4 - 2 ALARM LED 4 - 2 ONL I NE BU T TON 4 - 3 RESET BU T TON 4 - 3 FF/CONT BU T TON 4 - 3 SH I FT + T EST BU T T ON 4 - 4 SH I FT + CLEAN BU T TON 4 - 4 T EST PR I NT MODE 4 - 5 RESET AND HEX DUM P PR I NT MODE 4 - 6 O T HER CON T ROL FE A T URES 4 - 7 CHAPTER 5 OPTI[...]

USER’S GUIDE x English: CS-5zxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) REGUL A TIONS Federal Communications Commission Compliance Notice (For USA Only) 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[...]

xi English: CS-5xxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY (EUROPE) We, Brother International Europe Ltd., Brother House, 1 Tame Street, Guide Bridge, Audenshaw, Manchester M34 5JE, UK. declare that this product is in conformity with the following normative documents. Safety: EN 60950, EMC: EN 55022 Class B, EN 50082-1 followin[...]

USER’S GUIDE xii English: CS-5zxx User’s Guide, Preliminary (TOC) IMPORTANT (For U.K. only) If the power cord supplied with this printer is not suitable for your electrical outlet, remove the plug from the mains cord and fit an appropriate three pin plug. If the replacement plug is intended to take a fuse then fit the same fuse as the original.[...]

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1–1 English: CS User’s Guide, Chapter 1 Chapter 1 INT R ODUCTION ABOU T THE GUI DEBOOKS Finding Out H o w to Use the Printer Y ou h a ve t w o guidebooks for this printe r . R ead each guidebook in the foll o wing order: 1 . Read the Quick Se tup Guide to set up your pri nter and connect it to your compute r . It also con[...]

USER’S GUIDE 1–2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 ABOU T Y OUR PRINTER Printer Overvi e w Fig. 1-1 Front View Fig. 1-2 Rear View Sheet Feeder Control Panel Output Tray Manual Feed Slot Top Cover Second Sheet Feeder ( HS-5300 only) Power Inlet Parallel Interface Port MIO Slot Paper Guide Ink Reservoir Cover Head Gap Lever (inside) Power Bu[...]

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1–3 English: CS User’s Guide, Chapter 1 System Requirements Check the follo wing system requirements to s etup and operate the print er: IBM PC or compat ible with 80486 or higher mi croprocessor Parallel interf ace port (T o use ECP mode, please see p.7-8, Q & A.) 4 MB or more of memory (8 MB or more recommended) for[...]

USER’S GUIDE 1–4 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 OPER A TING AND S T OR A GE ENVI R ONMENT Please tak e note of the foll o wing information before using t he printe r . P o wer Supp l y Use the printer within the speci f ied p o wer rang e. A C p o wer: ±10% of the rated p o wer v ol tage in your distri ct Frequen c y: 50 Hz (22 0 V– [...]

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1–5 English: CS User’s Guide, Chapter 1 Do not place the printer where it is exposed to direct s unlight. Use a blind or a hea vy curtain to protect the pri nter from direct sunl ight when the printer i s una voidably s et up near a windo w . Do not place the printer near devices that contain magnets or generate magnetic [...]

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CHAPTER 2 PAPER HANDLING 2–1 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Chapter 2 P APER HANDLING P APER SPECIFIC A TIONS The printer can handle paper that has the foll o wing s peci f ications. Feeder P aper Size Capacity Manual Feed Paper: A4, Lette r , L e gal, Custom si ze, E n velope: DL, COM-10, C5, T ranspa r encies: A4, Letter (70-229 x 127-3[...]

USER’S GUIDE 2–2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Do not use ordinary trans parencies designed for phot ocopiers or lase r printers. Use Brother origi nal transparencies whi ch are designed for the HS-5000/ 5300 printers. Before printing on transparencies, the printer needs to adjust its temperature for transparencies. It may take around [...]

CHAPTER 2 PAPER HANDLING 2–3 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Printable Area The fi gure below s hows the physical printable area. Fig. 2-2 Printable Area The default s etting of the t op margi n is 12.7mm for paper and transparencies , and 25.4 mm for en velopes for op timum prin t quality . Howe ver, if a f ile yo u want t o print does no[...]

USER’S GUIDE 2–4 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 ABOUT B R O THER SPECIAL P APERS About B r other Specia l T ransparencies Be sure to use Brother special transparencies to a v oid jamming problems . The foll o wing transparencies are manu f actured especially for this printe r . Brother special transparencies (letter size) No. HSTRL Brot[...]

CHAPTER 2 PAPER HANDLING 2–5 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 SHEET FEEDER The printer has a sheet feeder that can feed plain pape r , e n velopes and transparencies . The HS-5300 has t w o s heet feeders, the second one can feed plain paper onl y . Adjust the head gap f or paper thi c kness. There are 3 positions for the head gap l e ver; [...]

USER’S GUIDE 2–6 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Loading P aper into the Feeder T o load paper into the feeder , follow these steps. 1. Pull the cover of the sheet feeder forw ard. 2. Load paper into the sheet feeder with the printing surface face up. ☛ Caution The feeder can hold up to 200 sheets of 80 g/ m 2 (20 lb .) plain paper . I[...]

CHAPTER 2 PAPER HANDLING 2–7 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 3. Move the paper gui de to the paper width. ( ➀ ) 4. Close the cov er of the sheet feeder . ( ➁ ) Fig. 2-5 Moving the Paper Guide and Closing the Feeder ✒ Note If the sheet feeder runs out of paper , the Alarm and Pa p e r LEDs blink to alert you to a paper empty error . Y[...]

USER’S GUIDE 2–8 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 MAN U AL FEED SL O T The sheet feeder also has a manual feed slot . Y ou can manually load paper sheet by sheet into this slot . Y ou do not need to remove paper from t he sheet feeder when using the manual feed s lot. Refer to “ P aper Source” in Chapter 3 for information about settin[...]

CHAPTER 2 PAPER HANDLING 2–9 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 OUTPUT TR A Y The printer ejects paper with the printed sur f ace f ace up into the output tray at the front of th e printe r . F oll o w these steps to set th e outpu t tray: 1 . Pull the tray ou t from the bo ttom of the p rinte r . 2 . Set the Output T ray wire referring to be[...]

USER’S GUIDE 2–10 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2[...]

CHAPTER 3 PRINTER DRIVER 3–1 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Chapter 3 PRINTER DRIVER The HS-5000/5300 printer dr i ver has three se ttings tabs from which you can select your printing settings for optimum print qualit y . The three tabs are for P ape r , Quality/Color an d Control/Mainten ance. Y ou can use this pri nter with all you r W [...]

USER’S GUIDE 3–2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 P APER This tab all o ws you to specify the paper s ize, type of print media, page ori entation, paper source, copy control, page order and scaling. Media Selection Select the media to pr int on in the P a per Size section. The p rinter change s the w ay it places dots depending on the sel[...]

CHAPTER 3 PRINTER DRIVER 3–3 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 P aper Source If your paper has dif ficulty feeding from the s heet feeder we recommend using the Manual paper f eed method. When using this method, you ha ve to load paper sheet by sheet. When Dual is sel ected (HS-5300 only), the print er feeds paper from Feeder 1 f irst and wh[...]

USER’S GUIDE 3–4 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Q U ALITY AND COLOR This tab all o ws you to set up print qualit y , media, color and document type you w ant to print. Quality Normal 300 x 300 dpi. Recommended mode for ordinary pri ntouts. Good print qu ality with reason able print sp eed . This mod e is the default setting . Fine 600 x[...]

CHAPTER 3 PRINTER DRIVER 3–5 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 Color Control Color Mat ching T o get an accurate color matched output between the monitor and printer , the color data should be adj usted for this pri nter before printing. When you are using a soft ware appli cation which has i ts o wn color matching engine, turn th is setting[...]

USER’S GUIDE 3–6 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 CONT R OL AND MAINTENANCE This tab all o ws you to control other pri nter menus such as, Mai ntenance, Color Adjustment and P o wer S a ve. Sh o w Printer Status The number of printed pa1axges and the s tatus of the print er w ould be sh o wn in this mode, when using the paralle l port. T [...]

CHAPTER 3 PRINTER DRIVER 3–7 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 2 P o wer Save M ode The printer go es into power save mode automatically when th e printer has no t recei ved any data or there has not been an y key operation for a specif ied time. There are two po wer sa ve modes: Mode 1 In this mode, the printer keeps the minimum temperature ([...]

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CHAPTER 4 CONTROL PANEL 4–1 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 Chapter 4 CONT R OL P ANEL LEDS AND BUT T ONS Alarm Manual Data Ready Power Filter Ink Paper FF/Cont Reset On Line Test Clean Shift Fig. 4-1 LEDs and Buttons on the Control Panel P o w e r L E D Th e P o w e r LED indicates whether the p rinter is turned ON or OF F . LED Printer s[...]

USER’S GUIDE 4–2 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 Data LED The Data LED indicates t he current status of t he print data process . LED Printer status Off ❍ The printer has no print dat a. Blinki ng ❍↔● The printer is recei ving data from the computer or the printer is proces sing data in memory . On ● Print data remains in the p[...]

CHAPTER 4 CONTROL PANEL 4–3 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 Online Button The Online button alternately turns the p rinter on-lin e and off-line. If you press thi s b utton during print ing, the printer i mmediately s tops printi ng and ejects the paper . Pressing this b utton again prints the rest of the print data. If you want t o cancel[...]

USER’S GUIDE 4–4 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 Shift + T est Button Set the printer to off-line by pushin g the Online Bu tton first. Pressing th e T est but ton while hol ding do wn the Shift button starts the test print. Check t he printed tes t page and if you f ind any printing problems , perform the print head cleaning as describe[...]

CHAPTER 4 CONTROL PANEL 4–5 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 T est Print Mode The printer h as the following test prin t modes. 1. Keep the Online button depressed until all fo ur LEDs light. Then, release the button. The printer enters test p rint mode. The Alarm LED blinks to indicate that the first choice, Print Config, is selected. See [...]

USER’S GUIDE 4–6 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 Reset and He x Dump print mode The printer has the foll owi ng Reset and He x Dump print modes. 1. Keep the FF/Cont button depressed until all fo ur LEDs light. Then, release the button. The printer enters th e reset/hex dump mo de. The Alarm LED blinks to indicate that the first choice, U[...]

CHAPTER 4 CONTROL PANEL 4–7 English: CS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 4 Other Contro l Features P ower Save Mode The printer go es into power save mode automatically when th e printer has no t recei ved any data or there has not been an y switch panel key operation for a specified time. There are two po wer sa ve modes. Mode 1 In this mode, the printe[...]

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CHAPTER 5 OPTIONS 5–1 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 5 Chapter 5 OPTIONS MODULAR I/O CARD This printer has a modular input/output (MIO) inter f ace slot on the rear panel. This slot all o ws you to ins tall a commercial MIO-compatible sharing/ net w ork card. F or more information about MIO cards, cons ult the dealer where you purchas ed th[...]

USER’S GUIDE 5–2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 5 MEMO R Y EX P ANSION Both of the the HS-5000 and HS -5300 h a ve 24Mbytes, 8Mbyt es on the board and 16Mbytes in the one of the memro y e xpansion slot s. There are 2 slot s for optional memory and the memory can be e xpanded up to a t otal of 72 Mbytes. Y ou need to install commercially a[...]

CHAPTER 5 OPTIONS 5–3 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 5 Installation of SIMMs When you install S IMMs, follo w these steps : 1. T urn off the printer and unpl ug the power cord from t he wall s ocket. ✒ Note Be sure to turn the p rinter off before installing o r removing the SIMMs. 2. Re move th e fi ve marked scre ws holding the main cont[...]

USER’S GUIDE 5–4 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 5 4. Install as many SIMMs as you need. • Set the SIMM into the slot at an angle. • Push the top of the SIMM gen tly towards the vertical until it clicks into place. ✒ Notes When installing SIMMs, be sure to in stall them in th e order slot 1 then slot 2 . When you install dif ferent c[...]

CHAPTER 5 OPTIONS 5–5 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 5 BR-SCRIPT 2 R OM BR-3000C The BR-Scri pt 2 R OM board provides a Post Scri pt L e vel 2 la nguage emulation. Installi ng this R OM board in your print er all o ws your print er to print Post Script data. W ith a BR-Script 2 R OM board installed, the auto matic emulation switching functi[...]

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CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–1 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 Chapter 6 MAINTENANCE REPL A CIN G THE MAI NTENANCE P APER CASSETTE The maintenance paper is us ed to wipe ink from the print head . This operati on will be done automatically as necessar y . When the maintenance paper runs out, the Alarm and Filter(Manual) LEDs blink once e v ery 5[...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 Replacing the maintenance paper cassett e 1. Remo ve the f irst sheet feeder from the printer . 2. Pull the maintenance paper cassette out of the printer . ( If you replace the maintenance paper and casse tte together , skip steps 3 - 9. ) Fig. 6-2 Remove the maintenance paper cassette ✒[...]

CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–3 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 4. Remove the geared wheel with the old maintenance p aper roll from th e cassette. 2 1 Figure 6-4 Remove the geared wheel 5. Pull the wheel out from the old mainteance paper roll. Figure 6-5 Pull the wheel out 6. Peel the seal from a new maintenance paper roll. Fig. 6-6Remove the t[...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–4 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 7. Insert the geared wheel int o the cardboard core center , ensuring that the cutouts in the cardboard core cent er locates onto t he pegs on the geared wheel. Fig. 6-7 Insert geared wheel into the cardboard core 8 Set the new maintenance paper roll with the wheel into th e cassette. 2 1 [...]

CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–5 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 9. Close the cassette. Fig. 6-9 Replace shaft into the maintenance cassette 10. T urn the paper roll shaft on the ri ght hand side of the cass ette and ensure t hat the maintena nce paper in side the cassette correctly moves in the d irection of the arrow as sho wn. Fig. 6-10 Turn t[...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–6 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 11. Insert the main tenance cassette into th e printer and p ush it into the p rinter until it clicks into place and the Alarm and Filter LEDs turn of f. Figure 6-11 Insert the Maintenance cassette ✒ Note The life of a maintenance cassette is 5 paper rolls. Replace the cassette with a ne[...]

CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–7 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 ADDING INK The e xpected ink life is 460 pages at 5% co verage on letter paper for each ink cartridge ( 3 blocks of ink ). The printer has ink reser v oirs for each color and each reser v oir can hold 10 blocks of ink . Y ou can see the amount of i nk remaining through the ink res e[...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–8 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 3. Hold the side of the ink holder and place the ink holder onto the top of the ink reservoir . Be sure to add the correct color ink cartridge to the correct reserv oir . The ink holders are k eyed to pre vent incorrect inserti on of the ink holder . Do not force the ink holder i nto the t[...]

CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–9 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 CLEANIN G THE PRINTER INTERI OR The foll o wing clean ing kit is su pplied with th e printe r . Fig. 6-15 Cleaning Kit Clean the printe r interior when the platen or rol lers are st ained by ink due to some problem such as a paper j am. Y ou will need to clean out the spilt in k and[...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–10 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 (3. Open the inside cover .) Fig. 6-17 Opening the inside cover 2 4. Dampen the cleaning sti ck or wipers with the IP A(Isoprop yl Alcohol, concentration is 90% or higher) or Denatured Alcohol. 5. Mov e the print head to the right by hand until you can see the part of the platen and rolle[...]

CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–11 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 6. W ipe up the spilt in k in the p rinter interior with a cleaning stick or wiper in the shaded area in the fi gure below . Fig. 6-19 Wiping up the ink 7. Remo ve any small pieces of paper remaining in the printer interior . Figure 6-20 Remove small pieces of paper[...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–12 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 8. T o clean the rollers, wipe them with a cleaning stick. The rollers can be freed from the printer for cleaning by pul ling the holders t ow ard you. Figure 6-21 Cleaning the rollers Wa r n i n g NEVER touch th e interior of the printer with out waiting 30 minu tes after power off befor[...]

CHAPTER 6 MAINTENANCE 6–13 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 RE- P A CKIN G THE PRINTER ! Caution When e ver you trans port the printe r , use t he packing materials which are provided with your print e r . Also, foll o w t he steps bel o w to re-pack t he printe r , or the printer may be damaged. Be f ore Re- P a c king the print er Before [...]

USER’S GUIDE 6–14 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 6 Re-pac king the printer 1. Pull the main tenance cassette ou t of the prin ter . Figure 6-23 Remove the maintenance cassette 2. T urn off the po wer button and unplug t he printer from the A C outlet . 3. W ait at least 3 0 minutes for the p rinter to coo l down. After that, pack the prin[...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–1 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Chapter 7 T R OUBLESHO O TING ALARM INDIC A TI ONS A T A GLANCE Operator Calls If a recoverable error occurs, the printer indicates an ‘operator call ’ by blinking the Alarm LED and any of the foll o wi ng LEDs. Clear the error as described bel o w and press the FF/Cont b ut[...]

USER’S GUIDE 7–2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Service Calls If an unrecoverable error occurs, the printer indicates the need for a service call by lighting all the LEDs and then the following combinatio n of LEDs alternately: Service Call Alarm Manual Data Ready P ower Main R OM error ● ❍ ❍❍❍ Main RAM error ❍ ● ❍❍❍[...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–3 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Print Quality P r o b lems ✒ Note Press the b ut tons gentl y . R elease the t w o b utt ons immediatel y after pressing t he T est b utton and th e D A T A LED will start to blink. If it does not, the b u ttons were held d o wn for too long and you will need to start the test[...]

USER’S GUIDE 7–4 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 P APER J AMS Before you can clear a paper jam erro r , you need t o f ind the location of the paper jam. Locate the posi tion referring to the foll o wing f igure . The bel o w f i gure is the route of madia going t hrough the printe r . Fig. 7-3 Route of paper in the printer After locatin[...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–5 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 ❏ Paper Jam in the Sheet F eeder If a paper jam has occurred inside the sheet feeder , open the feeder to pull the jammed paper upward out of the feeder; then close the sheet feeder . Also, open the top cover and check that a torn piece of paper is not left inside the printer [...]

USER’S GUIDE 7–6 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 ❏ Paper Jam at the O utput T ray Remov e all pri ntouts in t he output tray and pull the jammed paper out from t he printer gently . Do not pull the paper hard to a void tearing the jammed paper inside the p rinter . Fig. 7-7 Paper Jam at the Paper Output Tray If the jammed paper cannot [...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–7 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 ❏ Paper Jam inside the printer If a torn piece of paper remains inside the printer , first turn the printer of f and unplug the po wer cord from the po wer outlet. W ait for 30 minutes before attempting to remove the paper because some parts inside the printer are extremely ho[...]

USER’S GUIDE 7–8 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Q & A This sect ion contains ques tions and ans wers for usi ng your printe r . If you h a v e encountered a problem, f ind the ques tion relat ing to your problem and ta k e the steps recommended to correct the problem. Setting Up the Printe r Ha r d ware Question Recommendat ion The [...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–9 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Setting Up the Printe r for DOS Question Recommendation I cannot print from my application s oftware. Check if the DOS applicatio n software interface settings match that of your printe r: for example, i f you are using a parall el printer cabl e, you would most lik ely set your[...]

USER’S GUIDE 7–10 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 P aper Handling Question Recommendation The printer does not l oad paper . Check to see if the “Paper Empty” message appears on your computer screen or t he Alarm and Pape r LEDs are blinking on the printer control panel. If so, the s heet feeder may be out of paper or not properly in[...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–11 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Printing Question Recommendation The printer pr ints unexpectedly or it prints g arbage. Reset t he printer by pressi ng the Reset button after turning the p rinter off-line. Make sure your applicat ion softw are is correctl y set up to use this p rinter and check the printer d[...]

USER’S GUIDE 7–12 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Print Quality Question Recommendation Printouts are too dark or light . Y ou can adjust the bright ness in C ustom set ting of your printer dri ver . Refer to the printer dri ver HELP . The printouts are not solid. After set ting the print er of fline by pushing the Online Button once, e [...]

CHAPTER 7 TROUBLESHOOTING 7–13 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Printouts are stained with i nk. Y ou may ha ve used t his printer i n an en vironment that is out of the specified range. R efer to “Operating and Storage En vironment” in C hapter 1. Y ou may hav e fed crumpled paper , curled paper or folded paper . Y ou need to replace t[...]

USER’S GUIDE 8–14 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Appendix PRINTER SPECIFIC A TIONS Printing Print Method Piezo Electronic Hot Melt Ink Jet Head nozzle 512 nozzles (128 nozzles / color) Resolut ion 300 and 600 dots/ inch Print Quality Fine / No rmal mode Print Speed Up to 4 pages /minute (when loading l ette r -size paper from [...]

INDEX 9-1 English: HS3 User’s Guide,INDEX Electrical and Mechanical Po wer Source U.S.A. and Canada: A C 110 to 120 V , 60 Hz Europe and Australi a: A C 220 to 240 V , 50 Hz Po wer Consumpti on Printing: 170W or les s Stand-by/P ower S a ve 1: 100W or les s Po wer Sa ve 2: 20 W or less (without optiona l card / R OM / SIMM installed ) W arming up[...]

USER’S GUIDE 8–16 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 P ARALLEL INTER F A CE SPECIFI C A TIONS Inter f ace Connector Printer S ide : Amphenol FC N-685J036-L/X or equ i v al ent An IEEE-1284 compliant shiel ded cable should be used t o enable all the function s of the bi-direction al interface. Pin Ass ignment Pin No. Signal Directio n Pin No[...]

INDEX 9-1 English: HS3 User’s Guide,INDEX RESIDENT FONTS Intelli f ont Compatible F onts: Mic r o soft ® W indows ® 3.1 / 95 / 98 T rue T ype™ Compat ible F onts: Alaska, Extrabold Antique Oakland, Oblique, B old Brougham, Oblique, B old, BoldOblique Cl e vel and Condensed Connecticut Guatemal a Antique, Italic, Bold , BoldItalic Letter Gothi[...]

USER’S GUIDE 8–18 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 SYMBOL SETS/CHAR A CTER SETS ISO14 JIS ASC II ISO57 Chinese ISO11 Swedis h HP Spanish ISO17 Spanish ISO10 Swedis h ISO16 Portugues e Roman 8 ISO Latin 1 (ECMA-94) ISO84 Portugues e ISO85 Spanish PC-8 PC-8 D/N PC-8 T urkish PC-850 PC-852 ISO60 Norw e gian 1 ISO61 Norw e gian 2 ISO25 French[...]

INDEX 9-1 English: HS3 User’s Guide,INDEX Chapter 9 INDEX —A— Alarm LED, 4–2, 7–1 —B— BR-Scri pt 2 R OM Board, 5-5 —C— character set, 8–5 Clean button, 4–4,7-3 cleaning kit, 6–9 Cleaning the printer, 6–9 Color Adjustment, 3–7 Color Matching, 1–3, 3–5 Control Panel, 1–2, 4–1 Custom S etting, 3-5, 7-12 —D— Data[...]

USER’S GUIDE 9-2 English: HS3 User’s Guide, Chapter 7 —P— Page Order, 3–3 paper empty, 7–1 Guide, 1–2 jam, 7–1, 7–4 release lever, 7–5 size, 2–1 thickness, 2–5 parallel interface, 8-3 pin assignment, 8–3 port, 1–2 Power Button, 1–2 Power Inlet, 1–2 Power LED, 4–1 Power Save Mode, 1–3, 3–7, 4–7 ppm, 1–3 prin[...]