IBM Personal Color Printer

* 200 characters/second.
* Uses all-black ribbon or 4-color (cyan,magenta,yellow,black) ribbon.
* Single sheets or continuous paper.

- Forms Mode button. When 'forms mode' is activated, the Line Feed button
  moves the paper up 0.176mm (1/144 inch) and Form Feed moves the paper
  down 0.176mm. When not activated, Line Feed moves the paper one line and
  Form Feed moves the length of one page.

- Initialize button. Sets top-of-page to current position.

- Test Mode button. For best result set DIP-sw 9 and 10 to Off. Press Test
  Mode button. After 3 seconds the printer starts printing a test pattern,
  changing color every 1 inch. Press Test Mode button again to stop.

- Fault LED. Glows when printer is out of paper. Flashes continually if
  the power-on self test detected a problem.

- DIP switches (inside, behind the front panel buttons)

  1:  On= charset 2, Off= charset 1.
  2:  On= 8 lines/inch, Off= 6 lines/inch.
  3:  On= perforation skip 1 inch, Off= no perforation skip.
  4:  On= auto LF on CR, Off= no auto LF.
  5:  On= 13.2 inch print line, Off= 8 inch print line.
  6:  On= 12 inch page length, Off= 11 inch page length.
  7:  On= auto ribbon band shift (use with all-black ribbon),
      Off= no auto ribbon band shift (use with color ribbon).
  8 : On= alarm speaker on, Off= alarm speaker off.
  9/10: On/On= NLQ 10 char/inch.
        On/Off= text quality 10 char/inch.
        Off/On= data processing quality 10 char/inch.
        Off/Off= Test mode. 1 inch page length, 1 inch perforation skip,
                 data processing quality 12 char/inch.


- Ribbon Color Knob Adjustment. If the top or bottom of the characters
  prints with a different color, adjust the ribbon with the 'ribbon
  color knob', located where the ribbon makes a turn, on the right side
  inside the printer.


/Tomas Andersson 1995-04-05