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TM-U590 series
Specification
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1. GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS .............................................................................................................1
1.1 Printing Specifications....................................................................................................................1
1.2 Character Specifications................................................................................................................1
1.3 Ribbon............................................................................................................................................3
1.4 Paper Feed and Paper Specification .............................................................................................3
1.5 Printable Area ................................................................................................................................6
1.6 Internal Buffer ................................................................................................................................8
1.7 Electrical Characteristics................................................................................................................8
1.8 EMI and Safety Standards Applied ................................................................................................8
1.9 Reliability........................................................................................................................................9
1.10 Environmental Conditions............................................................................................................9
1.11 Installation..................................................................................................................................10
2. CONFIGURATION .............................................................................................................................11
2.1 Interface.......................................................................................................................................11
2.1.1 RS-232 serial interface........................................................................................................11
2.1.2 IEEE 1284 Bidirectional Parallel Interface(Parallel Interface Specifications) ......................16
2.1.3 RS-485 Serial Interface .......................................................................................................23
2.2 Connectors...................................................................................................................................28
2.2.1 Interface Connectors ...........................................................................................................28
2.2.2 Power Supply Connector .....................................................................................................28
2.2.3 Drawer Kick-out Connector (Modular Connector) ...............................................................29
2.2.4 Customer Display Connector (Available only for serial interface model).............................31
3. FUNCTIONS.......................................................................................................................................32
3.1 Command List..............................................................................................................................32
3.2 Character Code Tables................................................................................................................35
3.2.1 Page 0 (PC437: USA, Standard Europe) (International Character Set: U.S.A.) .................35
3.2.2 Page 1 (Katakana)...............................................................................................................36
3.2.3 Page 2 (PC850: Multilingual)...............................................................................................37
3.2.4 Page 3 (PC860: Portuguese) ..............................................................................................38
3.2.5 Page 4 (PC863: Canadian-French) .....................................................................................39
3.2.6 Page 5 (PC865: Nordic) ......................................................................................................40
3.2.7 Page 6 (Hiragana) (Available on Japanese supporting model) ...........................................41
3.2.8 Page 7 (One-pass printing Kanji characters) (Available on Japanese model) .................42
3.2.9 Page 8 (One-pass printing Kanji characters) (Available on Japanese model) .................43
3.2.10 Page19 (PC858: Euro) ......................................................................................................44
3.2.11 Page 20 (Thai Character Code 42) ...................................................................................45
3.2.12 Page 21 (Thai Character Code 11) ...................................................................................46
3.2.13 Page 22 (Thai Character Code 13) ...................................................................................47
3.2.14 Page 23 (Thai Character Code 14) ...................................................................................48
3.2.15 Page 24 (Thai Character Code 16) ...................................................................................49
3.2.16 Page 25 (Thai Character Code 17) ...................................................................................50
3.2.17 Page 26 (Thai Character Code 18) ...................................................................................51
3.2.18 Page 255 (Space Page) ....................................................................................................52
3.2.19 International Character Set................................................................................................53
3.3 Switches and Buttons ..................................................................................................................54
3.3.1 Power Button .......................................................................................................................54
3.3.2 Panel Buttons ......................................................................................................................54
3.3.3 DIP Switches .......................................................................................................................55
3.4 Panel LED Indicators ...................................................................................................................58
3.5 Self-test........................................................................................................................................60
3.6 Hexadecimal Dumping.................................................................................................................60
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