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Tally Dascom DT-210 User Manual

Manual is about: thermal receipt printer

Summary of DT-210

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 i important safety instructions (english) read the following instructions thoroughly before starting up your printer. • never carry out maintenance or repair work yourself. Always contact a qualified service technician. • keep this user guide in a place which is easily access...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 ii wichtige sicherheitshinweise (german) lesen sie bitte diese sicherheitshinweise durch, bevor s ie den drucker in betrieb nehmen.  führen sie wartungsarbeiten und reparaturen keinesfalls selbst aus, sondern verständigen sie immer einen qualifizierten servicetechniker.  be...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 iii consignes importantes de sécurité (french) lire attentivement les instructions suivantes avant de mettre l’imprimante en service.  ne jamais effectuer soi‐même les travaux d’entretien et de réparations. Contacter toujours un dépanneur qualifié.  placer l’imprimante sur ...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 iv indicazioni di sicurezza importanti (italian) prima di mettere in funzione la stampante, leggere attentamente le seguenti indicazioni.  non eseguire mai da sé gli interventi di manutenzione e riparazione, ma rivolgersi sempre a un tecnico di assistenza qualificato.  cons...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 v instrucciones de seguridad importantes (spanish) lea las siguientes instrucciones con esmero antes de poner la impresora en servicio.  nunca lleve a cabo trabajos de mantenimiento o reparación ud. Mismo, sino consulte a un técnico de servicio calificado.  guarde las prese...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 vi Правила по технике безопасности. (russian) Прочитайте, пожалуйста, инструкцию по технике безопасности перед включением в работу принтера.  Не выполняйте технические работы и ремонт техники самостоятельно, но сообщайте о неисправностях квалифицированным сервисным техникам....

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 vii instruções importantes sobre segurança (portuguese) leia as instruções de segurança antes de usar a impressora.  consulte sempre um técnico qualificado para executar uma reparação .  coloque a impressora sobre uma base sólida e nivelada, para que ela não sofra quedas. ...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 viii Önemli güvenlik talimatları (turkish) lütfen, yazıcıyı işletime geçirmeden önce bu güvenlik talimatlarını bütünüyle dikkatle okuyun.  bakım ve tamir çalışmalarını kesinlikle ve hiçbir surette kendi başınıza yapmayın; her zaman kalifiye bir uzman servis‐teknisyenine habe...

  • Page 10: Trademark Acknowledgements

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 ix trademark acknowledgements “ibm” is a trademark of international business machines corporation. “epson” is a trademark of epson america incorporated. “dec” is a trademark of digital equipment corporation. “centronics” is a trademark of centronics data computer corporation....

  • Page 11: Table Of Contents

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 table of contents 1 printer installation guide..................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 .............................................................................................................

  • Page 12: Unpacking The Printer

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 1 1 printer installation guide 1.1 unpacking the printer open the packaging, lift the printer out of the cardboard box and remove the remaining packaging material. Check the printer for any visible transport damage and missing items. If you find any transport damage or any ac...

  • Page 13: Placing The Printer

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 2 1.2 placing the printer place the printer on a solid, flat, stable surface; ensure that the printer is positioned in such a way that it cannot move, and that there is easy access to the control panel and roll paper holder. Also ensure that there is enough space for sufficie...

  • Page 14: Printer Components

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 3 1.3 printer components printer components and functions are shown as below: component function printer cover open the cover when loading roll paper. Control panel shows printer status. Power switch to power printer on or off. Cutter cover to protect the auto‐cutter and to c...

  • Page 15: Connecting The Interfaces

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 4 1.4 connecting the interfaces the usb, cash drawer, serial/parallel/ethernet/wi‐fi interface ports are located at the rear of the printer. Choose the interface which suits your system. Make sure the printer and the computer are switched off before connecting or disconnectin...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 5 connecting cash drawer interface connecting parallel interface (modular, option) connecting serial interface (modular, option) connecting ethernet interface (modular, option) connecting wlan interface (wi‐fi, modular, option).

  • Page 17: Connecting Power

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 6 1.5 connecting power checking the voltage of the power adapter before you connect the power adapter to the power socket check if the voltage is correct. If you connect the power adapter to power with incorrect voltage this may result in electrical damage to adapter and prin...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 7 1.6 adjusting paper near end sensor open the printer cover. You will see a black lever inside as shown below. The printer has a paper near‐end sensor that provides notice that the paper roll is nearly exhausted. When the paper is running low, the paper led is lit red. If yo...

  • Page 19: Installing Roll Paper

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 8 1.7 installing roll paper 1.7.1 installing 80mm roll paper 1. Press the cover open button to open the cover. 2. The correct installing direction of the roll paper. 3. Remove any used roll paper core, and load the new roll paper. 4. Pull out some paper over cutter cover as s...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 9 1.7.2 installing 58mm roll paper if you want to install 58mm roll paper, open the printer cover, you will see a roll paper guide on the right side of the paper holder. Please do not move the roll paper guide from right to left directly to avoid breaking the separator. 1. Ho...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 10 1.8 installing the accessory and optional kits interface cover adjust the relative positions between interface cover and printer as shown below, and push the interface cover as arrow shows below. Splash cover (optional kit) slip the fixed hooks on both sides of splash cove...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 11 1.9 installing the printer driver installing the windows driver (compatible with windows) switch off the printer before running the printer driver setup. Your printer cd‐rom comes with windows drivers. Go to the drivers folder and run the installer “driversetup.Exe”. 1.10....

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 12 3. Choose the desired port to use, after selecting the “port” option (usb001 for usb port, com1 for serial port and lpt1 for parallel port), click “next” to continue. 4. Click “finish” to finish the installation process successfully..

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 13 1.10.2 installation guide for ethernet and wi‐fi driver program 1. Install the printer driver as usb installation. 2. Click “start”→ “devices and printers”, right click on the dt‐230 printer driver, and then click “printer properties”. 3. Then you will see the screen as be...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 14 4. Select “standard tcp/ip port”, and click “new port”. 5. You will see the screen as below, click “next” to continue..

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 15 6. Complete the “printer name or ip address” and “port name”. 7. Click “next” to access the screen as below..

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 16 8. And then you will see the screen as below, click “next” to continue. 9. Click “finish” to complete the printer driver installation..

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 17 10. Click “start”→ “devices and printers”, right click on the dt‐230 printer driver, and then click “printer properties”. Then click “ports” → “configure port”, finish the setup parameter in the screen as below. Click “ok” to finish the setup..

  • Page 29: 2 Control Panel Operation

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 18 2 control panel operation led indicators and key power led power led turns on while printer is powered on. Error led error led turns on means error occurs. Paper led paper led turns on means paper near end or paper end. Feed key press feed key to feed paper. Self‐test turn...

  • Page 30: 3 Setting Dip Switches

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 19 3 setting dip switches you will see a metal plate on the bottom of the printer. Remove the metal plate with a screwdriver. You will find two dip switches on the main control board as shown below. Metal plate dip switch 1 & switch 2 there are two dip switch banks on the mai...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 20 •dip switches 2 sw function on off default 2‐1 reserved ‐ ‐ off 2‐2 internal bell control internal bell disable internal bell enable off 2‐3 auto cutter disable enable off 2‐4 busy condition receive buffer full offline or receive buffer full off 2‐5 off 2‐6 off 2‐7 print d...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 21 • table 1 – baud rate (bps) selection transmission speed 1‐6 1‐7 1‐8 default 2400 on off off 4800 on off on 9600 off on off 19200 off off off 38400 off on on 57600 off off on 115200 on on on 19200 • table 2 – print density selection 2‐5 2‐6 2‐7 print density (mono color) d...

  • Page 33: 4 Troubleshooting

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 22 4 troubleshooting your printer is extremely reliable, but occasionally problems may occur. This chapter provides information on some of the common problems you may encounter and how you may solve them. If you encounter problems that you can not resolve, contact your dealer...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 23 4.2 removing jammed paper printhead may be hot, please do not touch! Turn the printer off and press the cover open button. Remove jammed paper, reinstall the roll, and close the cover. If paper is caught in the cutter and you cannot open the printer cover, open the cutter ...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 24 4.3 cleaning thermal print head after printing, the thermal print head becomes very hot. Be careful not to touch it and to let it cool before you clean it. Do not damage the thermal print head by touching it with your fingers or any hard object. Turn off the printer, open ...

  • Page 36: 5 Specifications

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 25 5 specifications 5.1 printer specification print method direct thermal line printing resolution 203dpi, 8dots/mm print speed dt‐230: 260mm/s default; 240‐270mm/s adjustable via dip. Dt‐210: 220mm/s default; 210‐230mm/s adjustable via dip. Print width 72mm (576dots) interfa...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 26 paper type standard thermal paper (see p31‐ 5.4 paper specification) paper width 79.5±0.5mm/57.5±0.5mm paper thickness 0.056~0.1mm paper roll diameter max. Od ∮83mm min. Id ∮13mm paper load upward cover open and easy paper loading paper handling paper cut manual tear; auto...

  • Page 38: 5.2   Interfaces

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 27 5.2 interfaces power supply interface, usb interface and cash drawer interface are standard interfaces for the printer. Serial interface, parallel interface, ethernet interface and wi‐fi interface are optional interfaces for the printer. The interface pin assignment is lis...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 28 5.2.3 serial interface serial interface pin assignment serial interface compatible with rs‐232 standard, with 25 pin (d hole type) socket. Pin no. Description pin 1 frame ground pin 2 txd pin 3 rxd pin 4 rts pin 5 unconnected pin 6 dsr pin 7 signal ground pin 8~19 unconnec...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 29 5 h data 3 6 h data 4 7 h data 5 8 h data 6 9 h data 7 (the highest bit) 10 p ack signal; printer response signal, indicates that the printer has received a data byte. 11 p busy signal; the printer is busy; high level indicates that the printer can’t receive data. 12 p pe ...

  • Page 41: 5.3  Power Adapter

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 30 5.2.5 ethernet interface ethernet interface pin assignment pin. No. Name description 1 tx+ tranceive data+ 2 tx‐ tranceive data‐ 3 rx+ receive data+ 4 n/c not connected 5 n/c not connected 6 rx‐ receive data‐ 7 n/c not connected 8 n/c not connected ethernet interface conne...

  • Page 42: 5.4  Paper Specification

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 31 5.4 paper specification paper type specified thermal paper form roll paper roll paper diameter 83 mm {3.27"} maximum min. Core diameter 13mm take‐up roll paper width 80 + 0.5/‐1.0 mm size paper width 79.5 ± 0.5 mm caution • paper must not be pasted to the roll paper spool....

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 32 printing and cutting positions approx. 15 approx. 29 printable area paper feed direction last line of a previous receipt center of the print dotline auto-cutter blade position manual-cutter position unit: mm (all the numeric values are typical..

  • Page 44: 6 Character Code Pages

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 33 6 character code pages common to all pages (international character set: usa).

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 34 international character sets.

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 35 [user‐defined page].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 36 [pc437: usa, standard europe].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 37 [pc850: multilingual].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 38 [pc852: latin2].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 39 [pc858: euro].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 40 [pc860: portuguese].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 41 [pc863: canadian‐french].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 42 [pc865: nordic].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 43 [pc866: cyrillic #2].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 44 [ku42: thai].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 45 [tis11: thai].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 46 [tis18: thai].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 47 [pc720: arabic].

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 48 7 printing control command sets ∙ be compatible with esc/pos command set ∙ support nv image and page mode printing list of commands command name ht horizontal tab lf print and line feed ff print and return to standard mode (in page mode) cr print and carriage return can ca...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 49 command name esc a select justification esc c 3 select paper sensor(s) to output paper‐end signals esc c 4 select paper sensor(s) to stop printing esc c 5 enable/disable panel buttons esc d print and feed n lines esc p generate pulse esc t select character code table esc {...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 50 command name gs ( k set up and print symbol pdf417: set the number of columns in the data region. Pdf417: set the number of rows. Pdf417: set the width of the module. Pdf417: set the row height. Pdf417: set the error correction level. Pdf417: select the options. Pdf417: st...

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    Tally dascom dt-210/230 51 the commands listed below in the first column are defined as “obsolete commands” in the esc/pos command system. This printer supports both upward‐compatible commands and obsolete commands. However, the upward‐compatible commands are recommended to use. Obsolete command upw...

  • Page 63: Fcc Statement

    Tally dascom dt-210/230 52 fcc statement 1. This device complies with part 15 of the fcc rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: a）this device may not cause harmful interference. B）this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired...

  • Page 64: Dascom Representatives

    53 dascom representatives germany dascom europe gmbh heuweg 3 d‐89079 ulm deutschland tel.: +49 (0) 731 2075 0 fax: +49 (0) 731 2075 100 www.Dascom.Com singapore (asia pacific) dascom ap pte ltd 21 bukit batok crescent #29‐81, wcega tower singapore 658065 phone: +65 6760 8833 fax: +65 6760 1066 www....