Epson LQ-570/1070 manual

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    LQ-570/1070 Power cord Ribbon cartridge Printer Specifications Printing Printing method: Printing speed: 24-pin impact dot matrix Quellly Chemcten per Inch Cheratefdecondlllne Mgh-speed draft 10 225 DraR 10 210 / 12 252 I Letter quality 110 I 70 ! 12 184 Printing direction: Bidirectional logic-seeking for text and graphics. Unidirectional for graph[...]

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    LQ-570/1070 Electrical Rated voltage: AC 120 V (120 V model) Input voltage range: AC lcr3.5 to 132 V (120 V model) Rated cuwen t: 2.0 A (120 V model) Power cunsrrnption: (during self-test printing in draft mode, at 10 cpi) Approx. 33 W (120 V model) Ratedfrequency range: 50 to 60 Hz Inputfrequency range: 49.5 to 60.5 Hz Insulation resistance: 10 MR[...]

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    LQ-570/1070 The Control Panel ALT The indicator lights give you the current status of the printer. The While holding down this button, pressing certain other buttons buttons let you control many of the printer settings. results in the following: BUFFER CLEAR (PAUSE) clears the printer’s buffer and intitializes ~~,~~~~~’ Sfzji? ? (LOAD/EJECT) fe[...]

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    LQ-570/1070 Table 2 DlP switch 2 International character sets Dewtptlotl g- i 2-2 Page length (for contmuo~s ’ paper1 [ 2-3 ~Tearoff / I 2-4 Auto line feed ON OFF / I See Table 5 below 1 on Off on off Table 3 ~ntemational character sets cc4mtry I USA ! Franc8 Germany I 1-l jl-2 l-3 ; 14 I On IOn On Off ! On IOn Off ~ off j On / IOff On Off Umted [...]

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    LQ-570/1070 Connector pin assignments and a description of their respective interface signals are shown in the following table. Input buffer capacity The printer stores print data sent from your computer in its input buffer. Keep DIP switch 1-7 off to select an BKbyte buffer. Skip-over-perforation Turning DIP switch 1-8 on when you are using contin[...]

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    LQ-570/1070 Interface timing The figure below shows the timing for the parallel interface: 0.5 + (Min.) Interface Cards Y OU can use optional interface boards to supplement your printer’s built-in parallel interface. The Epson interfaces below are compatible with your printer: ! Model Numkr / Name 1 ’ C823051 c823071 I C823lOl 1 Serial Interf[...]

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    LQ-570/1070 Non-recommended Commands Information Reference List Epson recommends against using the following commands because some of these commands are not supported in existing printers and some are duplicates of other commands. Engineering Change Notices BEL BS DC1 DC3 CAN ESC # ESC< ESC = ESC > ESC? ESC A ESC K ESC L ESC Y Beeper Backspac[...]